Английский язык. Методические указания и контрольная работа №2 по английскому языку для студентов 1 курса заочного отделения всех специальностей. Бидагаева Ц.Д. - 4 стр.

5. The meeting was attended by thousands of people.              5. Passengers _______ cross the line on a railway station
                                                                 platform.

                                                                 VI. a) Прочтите текст и ответьте на вопрос:
IV. Перефразируйте, употребив пассивную форму
сказуемого (исполнителя действия можно не указывать,             What are the reasons of the ever growing use of computers and
если в этом нет необходимости) и переведите новые                demand in them in the world today?
предложения.
                                                                               COMPUTERS CONCERN YOU
 Модель:
 We test each piece of      Each piece of equipment              1. When Charles Babbage, a professor of mathematics at
 equipment very carefully    is tested very carefully.              Cambridge University, invented the first calculating
                            Каждый образец оборудования             machine in 1812 he could hardly have imagined the
                            испытывают очень тщательно.
                                                                    situation we find ourselves in today.
                                                                 2. Nearly everything we do in the modern world is helped, or
1. Charles Babbage invented the first calculating machine in        even controlled, by computers, the complicated descendants
   1812.                                                            of his simple machine. Computers are being used more and
2. Computers control even everything in modern life.                more extensively in the world today, for the simple reason
3. Today we are using computers more and more extensively in        that they are far more efficient than human beings. They
   the world.                                                       have much better memories and can store huge amounts of
4. The English borrowed just very few Slav words, one of the        information, and they can do calculations in a fraction of
   most popular ones being «robot» among them.                      the time taken by а human mathematician. No man alive can
5. In Capek’s play robots destroy the society exploiting them.      do 500,000 sums in one second, but an advanced computer
                                                                    can. In fact, computers can do many of the things we do, but
V. Перепишите следующие предложения и вставьте                      faster and better. They can pay wages, reserve seats on
пропущенные, модальные глаголы: can, cannot, may,                   planes, control machines in factories, work out tomorrow's
must, must not.                                                     weather, and even play chess, write poetry, or compose
                                                                    music.
1. Computers______ do many things: they_____ store huge          3. Robot геаllу means a workman, not a mechanical monster.
amounts of information, do calculations, control machines and       It is one of the very few Slav words (in this case Czech)
compose music.                                                      borrowed in the English language. It comes from the old
2. People _______do 500,000 sums in one second.                     Slav word robu, which means a servant. In modern Slav, the
3. ____ I watch TV now? - Now, you can't. Dad is sleeping.          word robotnik means «workman» and is linked to the
4. You____ cross the street at traffic lights.                      Russian word for work, robota.