Методические указания по теме "Моя специальность" для студентов 2 курса отделения "Прикладная информатика (в экономике)". Терехова Г.В. - 4 стр.

1.4 Find the synonyms
1)institution                                1)well prepared
2)to master                                  2)establishment
3)well equipped                              3)to fulfil
4)to undertake                               4)to obtain
5)to assure                                  5)to be connected with
6)rapid                                      6)to be convinced of
7)profitable way                             7)quick
8)computer processing of information          8)useful
9)avaible                                     9)informatics
10)to deal with                              10)accessible

1.5 Read the text and translate it
                                    My specialty

     One of the largest higher educational establishments in our town is the Orenburg
State University. I’m the second – year student of the faculty of Informatics. This
faculty was organized in 1998. It trains highly – qualified hardware engineers;
software engineers and applied Informatics specialists. I’ll be the specialist the last
speciality. We are in great demand nowadays.
      The rapid technological progress of our time offers mankind wonderful
prospects for a richer life – but only on condition that we make the social and
political changes that advancing technology demands. Automation offers oppotunities
for immensely increasing the material wealth of mankind.
      If automation can take over our manual work, so also computers can relieve us
of much of our mental work. They can relieve the scholar or scientist of weary hours
spent on searching for references and leave him more time for real research. In the
factory they can plan the production process far more skillfully than a human
manager. In agriculture, given information about soil quality, available manpower
and machinery, market conditions and the like, a computer can plan the usage of the
land in the most profitable way.
      Computers will soon be able to undertake the far more difficult task of planning
a whole economy for maximum efficiency and minimum wastage – provided the
economy is one that is based on planning for the good of man, it rather than on
competition for the benefit of a privileged few. This planning of a complete economy
has not yet been achieved in practice, but development work in Russia and the whole
world has gone far enough to assure us that it will be done within a few years. I like
my future profession.
      One can be the daytime, the evening – time and the extra – mural students.
      The whole process of studying deals with the mastering of new progressive
technology in industry and economy.
      The students study strength of materials mathematics, physics, a foreign
language ( English, German, French), philosophy. The main subject is computer

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