Computer Engineering (English for Special Purposes). Андриенко А.С. - 37 стр.

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2. Share your own opinion on the following problems:
a) What is learning power?
b) What qualities are necessary in order to become
educated? What modern conditions exist which make it
possible for a person to become educated and cultured?
Can you think of other factors? What is the role of a
teacher in this process? Why is the greatest teaching
sometimes only of partial value? Do you agree that a
student cannot be lifted beyond the limits of his ability?
c) Why is one's pre-university level of knowledge important?
Were you a student of the preparatory department of the
university? Did you take preparatory courses in
English/Russian history of science?
d) Do you agree that learning power is the primary need
among universities?
e) What is more important for good education - learning
power or good teaching? Why? What do you thing about
will to learn? Is it great enough?
A will to Learn
a) No human activity, be it work or study, can be performed
without will power. You may do everything possible to carry out what
you've planned, to finish what you've started, to complete what you've
aimed at. It seems so easy, yet how many things are left unfinished -
books that we haven't read to the end, academic subjects that we
haven't studied thoroughly, promises that we haven't kept, things that
have been left undone, not thought over, goals that haven't been
reached. There are a lot of people who tend to justify (находить
оправдание) this by thinking: "This is insignificant, it isn't worth the
trouble, so why worry?" Some say: "I’ll set myself a goal and I'll reach it
by all means”. But if you do not accustom yourself to carrying out the
small things and bear your aim in mind from the moment of its
conception (зарождение) to its complete realization, you'll never
achieve any great goal.
There are a lot of legends about absent-minded scientists, how
they forget to put on their coats and some such things. But is it a
matter of absent mindedness or just deep concentration on other
things? It was not the apple that had fallen on Newton's head that
gave rise to the law of gravity but his great concentration on the
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systems are connected
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— for example, by phone lines, microwave
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transmission
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, or satellite — is an element of the total computer
system.
Software is the term used to describe the instructions that tell
the hardware how to perform a task. Without software instructions
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,
the hardware doesn’t know what to do. People, however, are the most
important component of the computer system: they create
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the
computer software instructions and respond
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to the procedures that
those instructions present.
The basic job of the computer is the processing of information.
Computers accept information in the form of instruction called a
program and characters
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called data
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to perform mathematical and
logical operations, and then give the results. The data is raw
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material
while information is organized, processed, refined
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and useful for
decision
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making. Computer is used to convert
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data into
information. Computer is also used to store information in the digital
form.
Vocabulary:
1. device — устройство
2. intelligence — разум
3. to refer to as — называть что-либо
4. hardware — оборудование
5. procedures — процедуры, операции
6. manner — манера, способ
7. various — различные
8. to connect — соединять
9. microwave — микроволновая
10. transmission — передача
11. instruction — команда
12. to create — создавать
13. to respond — отвечать
14. characters — символы
15. data — данные
16. raw — необработанный, сырой
17. to refine — очищать
18. decision — решение
19. to convert — превращать, преобразовывать
1. Are the following statements true or false?
1) Computer is made of electronic components so it is referred to as
electronic device.
2) Computer has no intelligence until software is loaded.

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