2. Прочитайте и переведите текст по специальности. My future speciality

I study at the University. My future speciality is the computer technology. Among different devices of calculation computers stand out as prior.

Personal Computers or simply PCs are a common feature of our life. Initially the computer was designed as a tool to manipulate numbers and thus solve arithmetic problems. At present it is applicable for a great variety of tasks.

Nowadays computers are considered to be complicated machines for doing arithmetic and logic. The computer is an important and powerful tool for collecting, recording, analyzing and distributing tremendous masses of information.

Today it would be difficult to find any task that calls for the processing of large amount of information that is not performed by a computer. In science computers digest and analyse masses of measurements. In commerce they record and process inventories, purchases, bills, payrolls, bank deposits and the like and keep track on ongoing business transactions. In industry they monitor and control manufacturing processes. In government they keep statistics and analyse economic information.

Advanced automation is impossible without computers. Computer science is a relatively new and exciting field of study and research. It is a board discipline covering logic design, the theory of computation, numeral analyses, programming and computer application.

All the students improve their knowledge of computer in the computing center of the University. Many students take part in the research work at the department of the faculty.

Those who graduate from our departments work as engineers and teachers. I am a second-year student and I am eager to master my speciality as it is very important and necessary nowadays.

3. Повторите слова вслух, обращая внимание на произношение:

future	[fju:]
feature	[f:]
prior	[prai]
calculation	[kælkjulein]
arithmetic	[ærimetk]
logic	[lik]
important	[imp:tnt]
analyze	[ænlaiz]
record	[rik:d]
distribute	[distribju:t]
process	[prses]
digest	[diest]
measure	[me]
automation	[:tmein]
discipline	[disiplin]
knowledge	[nli]
design	[dizain]
excite	[ksait]

4. Прочитайте вслух за диктором. Обратите внимание на ударение и произношение существительных и образованных от них глаголов.

record (n)	[rek:d]
record (v)	[rik:d]
process (n)	[prouss]
process (v)	[prses]
import (n)	[imp:t]
import (v)	[imp:t]
digest (n)	[daist]
digest (v)	[diest]
control (n)	[kntroul]
control (v)	[kntroul]
export (n)	[eksp:t]
export (v)	[eksp:t]

5. Послушайте следующие выражения, повторите их за диктором и переведите их на русский язык:

Computer technology, common feature, complicated machines, powerful tool, tremendous mass, a large amount of information, masses of measurements, business transactions, manufacturing process, economic information, advanced automation, logic design, new and exciting field, numeral analysis (numeral analyses), programming application, research work.

6. Прочитайте и переведите глаголы с предлогами (послелогами) на русский язык:

to stand out …

to call for …

performed by …

to keep track on …

to take part in …

to graduate from …

7. Отреагируйте на высказывание словами «That’s right» или «That’s wrong», исходя из содержания текста:

1. Initially the computer was designed as a tool to manipulate numbers.

2. Advanced automation is possible without computers.

3. In industry the computers digest and analyze masses of information.

4. In government the computers keep statistics and analyse economic information.

5. Few students take part in the research work of our University.

8. Ответьте на следующие вопросы:

1. What is your future speciality?

2. What kind of device was computer initially?

3. What is computer nowadays?

4. The computer is a powerful tool for tremendous masses of information, isn’t it?

5. Where is the computer used?

6. What are computer’s function in commerce?

in industry?

in science?

in government?

7. Where do university students improve their knowledge of computing?

9. Переведите и опишите следующие термины:

Robot is a programmable multi – function device; robots are stand alone hybrid computer systems which perform physical and computational activities. Robots use analog sensors (датчик) for recognizing objects in the real world and digital computers for their direction. Robots can be designed similar to human form, although most industrial robots don’t resemble people at all. They have one or more arms and joints designed for specific activities.

Robotics is the art and science of the creation and use of robots.

Numerical control is the machine - tool control. It is used in manufacturing to automate operations, like milling (фрезеровка) turning (токарная обработка) punching (пробивка отверстий) and drilling (сверление). NC devices are machines which operate automatically by following instructions in a NC program.

Management system is the structure and function of the leadership and control of an organization.

The management system is people interacting with people and machines. Together they set the objectives (цель) for the organization, outline the strategy and tactics and develop the plans, schedules (график) and necessary controls to run the organization. AMS is automated management system. Frame is a single block of a data; a frame is a group of data which makes up a single full picture screen in graphics.