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Ex. 17. Give English equivalents to the italicized words. Consult the box if necessary.
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| 1. We spent an hour or two, болтая to our friends over the phone. 2. The monitor купленный a few days ago has broken down. 3. People intentionally создающие viruses are computer experts often называемые hackers. 4. Computers, if properly запрограммированы, won't make computational errors. 5. Ships are equipped with radar sets помогающим them to orient at sea. 6. One day, people will communicate by videophones установленными in every flat. 7. If изменят a little, the problem will be easy to solve. 8. I am not sure that it is possible to restore all the files from the повреждённого hard drive. 9. Haжимая one of the arrow keys, we can move the cursor on the screen up, down, right or left. 10. The slide-rule изобретённая by W. Oughtred in 1630 is still being used. 11. We found it cheaper to modify существующее equipment rather than to buy new. 12. This device radically differs both in design and in operation from the device разработанного five years ago. | to buy to call to change to chat to create to damage to develop to exist to help to install to invent to perform to press to program |
Ex. 18. Participle I or Participle II? Replace the infinitives by the required participles.
1. A supercomputer is a powerful computer to use for solving very complicated tasks.
2. A video phone has a device to allow us to see a room and the face of the to speak person.
3. My kids spend hours, to chat on the phone to their friends.
4. Users on one computer can access information to store in another via the Internet.
5. If you want to protect your system from viruses, don't open email attachments [файловые дополнения] from strangers and take care when to download files from the Web.
6. An expert with a to train eye will spot the difference between two versions of software immediately.
7. The CPU is a device to execute instructions to give to it in machine language.
8. When you are to move the mouse across a flat surface, the ball to locate on the bottom side of the mouse turns two rollers to direct the mouse's vertical and horizontal movements.
9. You can highlight the to require sentence, to use the arrow keys.
10. When to enter, data is translated into electronic signals that a computer can process.
Ex. 19. INFINITIVE as an attribute. Translate the phrases according to the model.
Model: the problem to be discussed at the seminar – пpoблeмa, которая бyдeт oбcyждаться на семинаре; проблема, которую нужно обсудить на семинаре.
(A)
1. data to be entered into the spreadsheet;
2. the article to be published in the journal next month;
3. the sophisticated equipment to be installed in the lab;
4. computers to be used for statistical data processing;
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5. functions to be performed by a control unit;
6. various components of the CPU to be connected by the bus;
7. the speed of processing to depend on the power of the computer;
8. the results of the experiment to be processed;
9. computers to perform thousands of calculations per second;
10. the documents to be Xeroxed immediately.
(B)
1. передовая технология, которую необходимо внедрять в производство;
2. информация, которую нужно найти в Интернете;
3. работа, которая должна быть выполнена в срок;
4. сложные задачи, которые будут решены при помощи суперкомпьютеров;
5. устройство, которое будет представлено на выставке;
6. номера телефонов, которые нужно внести в базу данных;
7. программист, который должен написать приложение;
8. студент, который должен подготовить доклад;
9. оборудование, которое будет использоваться для записи клипа;
10. антивирусная программа, которую нужно обновить.
Ex. 20. Translate the sentences. Pay attention to Infinitives as attributes.
1. Programs and data to be processed must be loaded into the main memory.
2. In every subject, there are elements to be understood, but there are also some fundamental principles to be memorized.
3. In 1977, Tandy Corporation became the first major electronics firm to produce a PC.
4. Each printer model, as a rule, comes with its own driver software to be installed with the PC’s operating system software.
5. The first automatic copier to use ordinary paper, the Xerox 914, was so popular that Fortune magazine later called it “the most successful product ever marketed in America”.
6. The Colossus was the first computer to be used by British cryptographers for breaking secret German military codes.
7. The scanner to be bought must be checked beforehand.
8. Menu is a list of options displayed on a screen from which the operator selects an action to be carried out.
9. The research to be done at our Institute requires sophisticated electronic equipment and several skilled experts to operate it.
10. Internet is a great place to find and hear hit songs or recorded interviews as well as to watch movies.
Ex. 21. Choose the required Infinitive to complete each sentence.
| 1. The WWW developed by British physicist Timothy Berners-Lee in the 1980s is a system of information resources ____ primarily through the Internet. 2. The program is a set of instructions that mayalso include data ___. 3. JAVA is an object-oriented programming language designed specifically for programs ___ on the Internet. 4. The film ___ soon in this cinema attracts attention of many spectators. 5. For the experiment, we need several electrical devices ___ in series. 6. The instructions ___ into the computer must first be translated into the machine code. 7. The operating system ___ on new office computers is the latest development of the Microsoft company. 8. The system of automatic ticket selling ___ on the railway was developed in Japan. | a) to be entered b) to be installed c) to be accessed d) to be shown e) to be connected f) to be introduced g) to be processed h) to be used |
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