Английский язык. Методические указания и контрольная работа №2 по английскому языку для студентов 1 курса заочного отделения всех специальностей. Бидагаева Ц.Д. - 5 стр.

4. Robot came into general use in English only after 1923,                d) 1890
   following the great succеss of a play by a Czech author Karl
   Capek (1890-1938). Capek's play was called R.U.R. which             VII. Перeпишите и письменно переведите на русский
   stood for Rossum’s Universal Robots. It was about mechanical        яэык 2, 4 абзацы.
   automatons that did the work of men, and were efficient but
   soulless. In the play, society exploited them, сame to depend
   utterly on them, and was destroyed by them when they
   revolted. Since then, the term robot has come to mean a
   mechanical man, often in recognizable human form, as well
   as a non-human-looking machine that does work formerly
   only handled by men.
5. Since the early days of Capek’s play robot must have found its
   way into the dictionaries of every modern language but in its
   own original language there is no sense of a mechanical man,
   just of an ordinary worker.

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1. The ascendant of modem computers is ...
      a) a robot
      b) the first calculating machine
      c) a mechanical monster

2. «Robot» is one of the few words borrowed from ...
      a) English
      b) Czech
     c) Russian

3. It was not until... that the word «robot» began to be widely used
in modern languages.
      a) 1812
      b) 1938
      c) 1923