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Ex. 16. Express the idea in the Present, Past and Future Indefinite.
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1. The library to have a database of over 21 million book titles.
2. The program to be available over the Internet as free software.
3. I to have copies of these files on my laptop.
4. Computer games to be a popular Christmas present for children.
5. The software to be too difficult for the average user.
6. This video game to have 15 levels.
7. Robots to have many different uses in modern industry.
8. Computer security specialists to be in great demand.
9. The programmer to have a contract to work for a major American computer firm.
10. Sometimes the phone lines to be so busy that it to be impossible to get connected to the Internet.
Ex. 17. Put general questions and special questions to the underlined words.
1. Our University will have a large computer centre next year.
2. We have more than 10,000 résumés on our database.
3. They had an agreement never to talk about work at home.
4. The PC has two USB ports.
5. The printers have an automatic paper feed.
6. They had a system crash last night.
7. My friend has a fine collection of old records.
8. You will have just 30 seconds to answer the question.
9. The CD-ROMs have a memory capacity of 680 megabytes.
10. A chip has several hundred thousand electronic components (transistors, resistors, etc.).
Ex. 18. Use the verbs to be, to have in the required tense form.
1. Computer programs to be the sets of instructions that tell a computer what to do. [Present]
2. Microsoft, Inc. to have branch offices in more than 60 countries around the world. [Present]
3. A new information service soon to be available to library users. [Future]
4. The Mark I computer to be the first machine, which solved mathematical problems at a high speed. [Past]
5. Online databases to be available to anyone who to have access to the Internet. [Present]
6. ENIAC to be the first digital computer built in the 1940s. It to be enormous. It to be as big as a locomotive. It to have more than 18,000 glass vacuum tubes inside and its weight to be equal to the weight of six elephants. [Past]
7. GRIDPad computer to be a portable computer that to have an electronic pen instead of a keyboard. [Present]
8. Since next week, all our computers to have unlimited access to the Internet. [Future]
9. The first programmer in the world to be Lord Byron’s daughter. [Past]
10. The central processing unit, keyboard, mouse, printer and monitor to be parts of computer hardware. [Present]
11. The system to have the ability to run more than one program at the same time. [Present]
12. The first programs to be very hard to write and understand. They to be extremely long strings of zeros and ones. [Past]
13. BASIC to be a programming language for solving mathematical and business problems. [Present]
14. Electrons in the atom to have the negative charge. [Present]
15. Next year, the number of homes with either cable or satellite television to be over ten million. [Future]
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Ex. 19. Read and translate the sentences, paying attention to the construction there + to be.
1. There are two buttons and a scroll wheel on the top of the mouse.
2. There was not much difference in price between the two notebooks.
3. Computer experts consider that there will be about 900 million Internet users worldwide by the end of 2010.
4. At the beginning of the 1970s, there were two types of computers available. There were room-sized mainframes, which cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. There were also smaller, cheaper, mass-produced minicomputers, which cost tens of thousands of dollars.
5. There will be a live chat forum on web design (=creation of websites) at 9 p.m.
6. There was not enough memory available on the hard disk to install the program.
7. There are several devices, which help to enter information into the computer.
8. There will be a discount of 7 percent on this computer if you buy it before January 31.
9. There is a special switch on the computer keyboard that regulates the work with Russian and Latin alphabets.
10. There were two versions of the game available, a long one and a short one.
Ex. 20. Fill in the gaps with the verb to be in the required tense form.
1. There ___ two fundamentally different types of computers: analogue and digital.
2. I turned the volume right up, but there ___ still no sound.
3. Before loading the program, make sure that there ___ enough memory available.
4. How many keys ___ there on the first computer keyboard?
5. There ___ 256 different ways of combining 0 and 1 bits in a byte.
6. ___ there any room for a computer on your desk? Yes, there ___ a lot of room.
7. There ___ an answering machine in our office but it broke down.
8. On this Web site, there ___ the useful information on how to find a job abroad.
9. There ___ no point [смысл] reading the instructions because they ___ completely useless.
10. There ___ 3,000 switches in the Mark I computer to control its operation.
Ex. 21. INFINITIVE OF PURPOSE. Read and translate the sentences.
Model: The library's statistical section uses its terminal to access various statistical databases. – Статистический отдел библиотеки использует свой терминал, чтобы получить доступ к различным статистическим базам данных.
1. Click on the X in the top right-hand corner to close the window.
2. To open a new file, double-click on the icon.
3. Infra-red sensors are used in TV to switch it on/off and to change programs.
4. You need to type the password on this line to view the information in the file.
5. Click the left mouse button twice to highlight the word.
6. Use the mouse to drag the icon to a new position.
7. Press Ctrl + S to save the document.
8. To fax the document, drag it to the fax machine icon.
9. Various test programs are used to detect faults in the computer system.
10. I will run a test program to see why the server keeps crashing.
11. Which switch do I press to turn off the unit?
12. To start printing out the document, click on the printer icon with the left mouse.
13. Customers can visit our website to see the list of books available as well as to order them.
14. A lot of people use the Internet to communicate with friends by e-mail, to read news, to search for all kinds of information, to shop, to pay bills, and to play video games.
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15. Use the mouse wheel to scroll the text down.
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