Computer in Use. Маркушевская Л.П - 57 стр.

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that people drive are designed on a computer screen and tested in computer graphics
simulations. Before doctors perform surgery, they use computer graphics in looking
at X-ray images of the patient. Photographs are used to be stored on film. Now
photos can be taken with digital cameras and sent as attachments to e-mail messages.
You are most likely reading this text on a computer monitor. Today, almost all the
things built and used in the world were originally designed with computer graphics.
TEXT 5
WORD-STUDY
Exercise 1. Check the transcription in the dictionary and read the words listed
below:
a)
Nouns
physician, unemployment, inventory, abundance, poverty, guidance, opportunity
Verbs
outlaw, deny
Adjectives
sensitive, intrinsic, unscrupulous
b) Pay special attention to the pronunciation of such words as:
robotization, realization, memorize, utilize, specialize, computerize, minimize,
maximize.
Exercise 2. Read and translate the collocations below.
Unscrupulous charlatan, to maximize the benefits and minimize the harms, to be
faced with decisions, to give a guidance, intrinsic power, to outlaw the
interconnection computers.
Exercise 3.
a) Match the synonyms.
Verbs
1 2
1. reduce
2. deny
3. protect
4. store
5. expect
6. prevent
a) refuse
b) keep
c) carry
d) respond
e) stop
f) defend
g) decrease
h) hope