Computer in Use. Маркушевская Л.П - 30 стр.

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c) Translate the words in brackets using the given English adjectives and adverbs:
most, less, more, many, the smallest, worse, fewer, the fastest, few, the worst.
1. This microcomputer weighs a little (больше) than a watch.
2. (Большинство) of companies are ready to buy this device.
3. The machine translation is so long (хуже) than the human translation.
4. Previous designs were (менее) successful than this one.
5. The attention of the visitors at the exhibition was attracted to the new model of
(самого маленького) computer.
6. The Government Commission rejected (самые худшие) projects.
7. Due to machines the analysis of complex data takes no (меньше) than 3 minutes.
8. The Internet is (быстрее всего) growing social phenomenon on the planet.
9. (Многие) wanted to have their own computer to play with at home.
10. There are (немного) computers of high speed in the world.
Exercise 2. a) Summarize your knowledge on “the … the” Construction.
1. The more up-to-date computers a Research Institute uses, the more progressive it
is believed to be.
2. The more we study human brain, the better we realize that no computer can be
equal to it.
3. The younger a child is, the less time he/she should work with a computer.
4. The longer you study a subject, the more interested in it you become.
b) Finish the sentences given below.
1. The harder you work, …
2. The more we have, …
3. The less you know about a problem, …
4.
The longer we live, …
Exercise 3. Summarize your knowledge on the meaning of "as". Translate the
sentences paying special attention to different meanings of "as".
1. As
we know the first personal computer of new type appeared in 1972.
2. As
the manufacturing technology had improved, mechanical calculators could be
produced.
3. Software and peripherals were compatible with all versions and with earlier
models as
well.
4. At that time Babbage worked as
a professor of mathematics at Cambridge.
5. Peripheral equipment is slow as
compared with computers.
6. As
for the first personal computer Altair, it appeared in 1975.
7. In 1976 Steve Jobs as well as Stephen Wozniak began assembling a
microcomputer.
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