Computers today. Гурьянова В.И. - 4 стр.

                     Part II. Practise reading the texts.
                            Follow the instructions

      1. Look at the headings of all the texts below and decide whether all
of them cover the same topic. According to the headings, is it possible to
classify the texts into some basic subtopics? Comment on the point.
      2. Judging by the headings, can you work out roughly what each text
may be about?

                                       Text 1

      1. Read the text below carefully. Is there anything in the text that you
find particularly interesting or new? Tell the rest of the class about it.
      2. These expressions appear in the text. What ideas do you think the
author puts across through them?
       Opened up a new era
       These human computers
       The decisive step to a full-blown computing machine
       The so called Church-Turing thesis
       It comes from the Latin version
      3. Note down all the words and expressions in the text which have a
specific technical or scientific meaning connected with computers and com-
putations.
      4. Which paragraphs of the text can the words below be included
into? Using them, write 2-3 sentences to expand the main topics of those
paragraphs:

      abacus, sliding rule, the greatest common divisor, two numbers,

      Euclid’s algorithm.


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