Методические указания по теме "Моя специальность" для студентов 2 курса отделения "Прикладная информатика (в экономике)". Терехова Г.В. - 15 стр.

1. Electronic equipment does not produce physical fatigue, as some mechanical
   equipment does.
2. The early machines eliminated a great deal of laborious routine work.
3. Computers did not displace skilled work.
4. In the automated office there is no need for a small number of semi – skilled
   workers.
5. Automation encourages the trend towards the centralization of administrative and
   clerical functions.

3.9 Make up the plan of the text

3.10 Retell the text according to the plan

                    4 Section IV Texts “News track”

4.1 Text 1. Show me the money. Read the text. Find the sentence
with the main idea
     Infrastructure companies, including those in networking, telecommunications,
Internet service, and PC manufacturing, rack up average revenue of $ 308,708 per
employee, a University of Texas study finds. By contrast, commerce companies
average $ 211,401 per worker. Though the largest number of jobs and about one –
third of the revenue in the entire U.S. economy is in the commerce sector, the Internet
engineers are the kings – for now. The cause: Networking and hardware companies
are growing faster because traditional business are spending billions to get online, as
well as keep up with the demands of super – high – speed Net access and Internet
backbones.

4.2 Find the antonyms
except                       obstacle
unemployee                   expenses
lose                         spend money
slow                         surpass

4.3 Text 2. European online Explosion. Read the text making
notes like this
Things, I knew already …
Things I didn’t know…
Things I don’t understand …


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