Computers today. Гурьянова В.И. - 16 стр.

in harmful and dangerous conditions. Computer-aided design (CAD) is used in
industry as part of the process of planning how to make such things as cars, air-
craft, buildings, etc.
       3. These sentences are wrong. Make any necessary corrections to them.
       1. Man created the machine to fulfil his own requirements and it can
think both logically and figuratively.
       2. Moreover, it can have feelings, desires and emotions.
       3. The mechanical and electronic components of a computer are known as
software.
       4. The internal operations are performed outside the computer.
       5. When programs need to be stored temporarily, they are loaded onto
secondary storage devices.
       6. A computer is a machine used for a limited number of purposes.
       7. It has always been cheap to have a computer.
       8. Computers can hardly replace man in performing boring tasks and
functions.
       4. Translate into Russian the paragraph describing the three main
stages in computer operation.


                           The computer characteristics
       Computers are electronic machines that process information. They are ca-
pable of communicating with the user, of performing arithmetic operations, and
of making decisions. However, they are incapable of thinking. They accept data
and instructions as input, and after processing the information, they output the
results. When talking about computers, both hardware and software need to be
considered. The former refers to the actual machinery, whereas the latter refers
to the programs that control and coordinate the activities of the hardware.
       Computers are machines designed to process specially prepared pieces of
information, which are termed data. Handling or manipulating the information
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