XXI. Answer the following questions.

1. Why operative doesn’t get job satisfaction?

2. Why robot is much better than human operative?

3. What advantages do robots have?

4. What things can humans do that robots can't?

XXII. Suggest your conception of the ideal robot.

XXIII. Translate passage 1 into Russian.

XXIV. Read the text once again and name the advantages of Makiis.

The Robot that’s Facing the Future

1. How can we apply the new technology of robotics to old problems? That’s now an option on offer to engineering students at the University of Central Lancashire, and already this novel subject is inspiring revolutionary ideas.

2. In the heart of the hi-tech north-west’s aerospace industry, students are imagining new possibilities. Imagine being able to be in two places at the same time. Or having another version of yourself doing all the jobs you’re not keen to do.

3. These ideas are, thanks to new and surprisingly inexpensive technologies, finally becoming possible, and that’s part of the thinking behind ‘Makiis’.

4. An acronym for Makroskopic Intelligent Interaction System, Makiis is a popular name for boys in Greece – and also is a prototype ‘telepresence’ robot which allows people to interact with others anywhere in the world. We think Makiis is one of the world’s first robots that can provide enhanced human-like interaction and presence at a distance.

5. The fantastic thing about Makiis is that it instantaneously allows people to transport their ‘presence’ to another location. But Makiis is different to other telepresence robots; it is more than just ‘Skype on wheels’ because it also hears where sounds come from and turns to face them automatically, exactly as a human would do.

6. Makiis is one example of how modern technology is being used to break down traditional barriers to learning.

XXV. Which of the statements below are not mentioned in the text say which of the statements below are not true.

1. The engineering students at the University of Central Lancashire are working at the problem of robotics.

2. Robot is a machine which has a specific program.

3. New possibilities in the sphere of robotics are becoming possible.

4. Makiis is an acronym.

5. The task of Makiis is to perform scientific research, particularly in the handling of radioactive or other hazardous materials.

6. Makiis is to break down traditional barriers to learning.

7. Robots have already taken human form, but they do not have minds of their own.

XXVI. Translate passage 2 of the text.

The Finite Forms of the Verb

Личные формы глагола

Active Voice

Активный залог

I. Define the predicates in the active form.

X – подлежащее; 1,2.3… - глагол

1. X was 1ed, X am 2ing, Xs were 3ed, X am being 4ed, X is being 5ed, X will be 6ing, X is 7ed, Xs are 8ing, X am 9ed, Xs were 10ing, Xs are 11ed, X is 12ing, X will be 13ed, X was being 14ed, X was 15ing, Xs were being 16ed, Xs are being 17ed.

2. Xs have 1ed, X has been 2ed, Xs have been 3ing, X has 4ed, X had been 5ed, X has been 6ing, X had 7ed, X will have been 8ed, X will have been 9ing, X will have 10ed, Xs have been 11ed.

3. X was 1ed, X am 2ing, Xs were 3ed, Xs have 4ed, X am being 5ed, X will be 6ing, Xs have been 7ed, X has been 8ing, X is 9ed, Xs are 10ing, Xs are 11ed, Xs have been 12ing, X had 13ed, X is being 14ed, X had been 15ed, X will have 16ed, X has been 17ed, Xs were 18ing, X am 19ed, X is 20ing, X will be 21ed, X was being 22ed, X has 23ed, X will have been 24ed, X was 25ing, Xs were being 26ed, Xs are being 27ed, X will have been 28ing.