I. Перепишите следующие предложения. Определите по грамматическим признакам, какой частью речи являются слова, оформленные окончанием -s; и какую функцию это окончание выполняет, т.Е. Служит ли оно:

а) показателем 3-го лица единственного числа в Present Indefinite;

б) признаком множественного числа имени существительного;

в) показателем притяжательного падежа имени существительного.

Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. That old counting machine weighs almost 2 tons.

2. Most of our hardware is old (out-of-date).

3. The computer's weight and size are very important.

II. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их, обращая внимание на особенности перевода на русский язык определений, выраженных именами существительными.

1. Several Moscow University programmers work at this problem.

2. This processing hardware has its advantages and disadvantages.

3. This computer system differs greatly.

III. Перепишите следующие предложения, содержащие разные формы сравнения, и переведите их на русский язык.

1. This microcomputer is smaller than that one.

2. The more he knows about the main principles of the work of this antiviral program, the better he can adjust it.

3. It is one of the most complicated things in programming.

IV. Перепишите и переведите предложения на русский язык, обращая внимание на перевод неопределенных и отрицательных местоимений.

1. Almost any modern company has computer network.

2. There are some computers with new software in our lab.

3. There was no computer in that institute.

V. Перепишите следующие предложения, определите в них видо-временные формы глаголов и укажите их инфинитив; переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. They introduced this software than 20 years ago.

2. This hardware will be an example of a new computer technology.

3. The computer’s ability of counting was great.

VI. Прочтите, перепишите и переведите.

special-purpose – специализированный used to - привыкли

Computer

A computer is a counting machine. It can do arithmetic problems faster than any person. Computers find the answer to a very difficult problem in a few seconds.

You give your computer some information and it remembers it. It keeps the information in its ‘memory’ until you need it. There are different kinds of computers. Some can do only one job. There are special-purpose computers. Each specific problem requires a specific computer. One kind of computer helps us build a spaceship, another kind helps us navigate it. A special-purpose computer has only one purpose and can not do anything else.

But there are some computers that can do many different jobs. They are called the general-purpose computers. There are the big “brains” that solve the most difficult problems of science. We used to think of a computer as a large machine that took up the whole room. But today computers become smaller and smaller. Though these computers are called microcomputers or minicomputers, they are still true computers.