Компьютерная техника. Еремина Н.В. - 25 стр.

are now able to find out details of car ownership and driving licences in a fraction of
the time it takes by traditional methods. In police work speed is often essential, so
computers are ideal for helping us catch criminals.
       Many people associate computers with the world of science and maths, but
they are also a great help to scholars in other subjects, in history, literature and so on.
It's now possible for a scholar to find a book or article he needs very quickly, which,
when a million or more new books are published each year, is quite an advantage.
There's a system, controlled by computer, of giving books a code number, reducing
them in size by putting them on microfiche, and then storing 3,000 or more in a
container no bigger than a washing machine. You tell the computer which subject
you're interested in and it produces any microfiche you need in, seconds. It's rather
like going to an expert who has read all the works on your subject and can remember
where to find the correct information, which few human experts can! There are also
systems being developed to translate articles from foreign magazines by computer,
and to make up the many lists of information that are needed in a modern library. So
computers can help us to deal with the knowledge explosion in many ways.

      4.4 Exercises

      4.4.1 The article can be divided into three parts. Where would you divide
it? What is each part about? Title each of the three paragraphs


      4.4.2 Try to guess the meaning of the words given in italics in the text


      4.4.3 Translate the sentences marked with an asterisk




      4.5 Home exercises (to be done in writing)
       4.5.1 Translate the following sentences into Russian. Pay special attention
to rather than “а не; вместо того, чтобы”.
      1 I prefer this techniques rather than that commonly used before. 2. Most
researchers prefer the procedure we followed rather than the one used earlier in similar
studies. 3. They made this experiment with a view to determine the area of contact rather
than the rate of these exchanges. 4. The experiments were planned to check the
hypothesis rather than to demonstrate the results obtained. 5. Experiments of this kind are
highly reliable rather than. just very simple and elegant. 6. We will use the newly
developed procedure rather than the conventional one. 7. Only one explanation other than
given originally by other authors has been put forward to explain, this phenomenon. 8. We