Английский язык: Методические указания и контрольные задания для студентов специальностей «Прикладная информатика в экономике» и «Управление и информатика в технических системах»

numbers that are fed into the (computer, countries) and the operating instruction. The digital computer differs from the analogue computer in that it deals with numbers and not physical quantities.

2. Ответьте на вопросы к тексту:

♦  How many types of computers do you know? What are they?

♦  What are their advantages and disadvantages, comparing one to another?

♦  What are the basic sections of digital computers?

♦  What is a device that simulates the behaviour of another system in all its states?

♦  What differs the analogue computer?

♦  What computer is still used in many countries?

♦  Has the evolution of the adding machine culminated in electronic digital computers?

♦  When does the operator control the sequence of operations?

♦  What does the operator supply?

♦  What are the basic sections of digital computers?

3. Соотнесите следующие ключевые слова с соответствующим переводом:

4. Найдите в тексте предложения, содержащие нижеследующие слова:

♦  a decimal system

♦  operative discrete signals

♦  a calculating machine

♦  automatic devices

♦  a sequence of operations

♦  electronic signals

♦  external sources

5. Закончите предложения:

♦  An analogue computer is ...

♦  The devices known as analogue computers are ...

♦  The digital computer differs from the ...

♦  The simplest digital computer is ...

♦  The evolution of the adding machine has ...

♦  Не supplies the ...

♦  The first man-made digital computer was ...

♦  A very simple and widely used ... of numbers.

♦  ... the operator controls the sequence of operations.

♦  ... is used ... the sequence of operations.

6. Определите истинность или ложность следующих предложений:

♦  A digital computer is a device that simulates the behavior of another system, often a physical system, in all its states.

♦  A very complex widely used analogue computer is the slide-rule on which distances are equivalent to logarithms of numbers.

♦  The digital computer doesn't differ from the analogue computer.

♦  The second man-made digital computer was probably the abacus , which is still used in many regions.

♦  A very simple and widely used analogue computer isn't the slide-rule on which distances are equivalent to logarithms of number.

♦  The simplest digital computer isn't the human hand.

♦  The evolution of the adding machine has culminated in electronic digital computers in which electronic signals are not used as the operative discrete signals.

♦  When an ordinary desk calculating machine is used, the operator can't controls the sequence of operations.

♦  The human operators are replaced by automatic devices.

7. Переведите с русского языка на английский:

♦  Цифровой компьютер отличается от аналогового ком­пьютера тем, что он работает только с числами.

♦  Оператор управляет последовательностью действий, выполняемых компьютером; он вносит данные в ком­пьютер и делает запись полученных результатов.

♦  Аналоговый компьютер — устройство, которое мо­делирует поведение другой системы.

♦  Первый искусственный цифровой компьютер был ве­роятно «абака», который все еще используется во многих странах.

♦  Развитие счетной машины завершилось развитием электронных цифровых компьютеров.

♦  Память: запоминает числа и инструкции.

♦  Вывод: предоставляет результат вычислений в при­емлемой форме.

♦  Калькулятор: выполняет математические действия.

8.   Преобразуйте следующие предложения в вопросительную и отрицательную форму.

♦  An analog computer is a device.

♦  The digital computer differs from the analogue computer.

♦  The first man -made digital computer was probably the abacus.

♦  The human operators are replaced by automatic devices.

♦  Store memorizes numbers and instructions.

9.  Образуйте множественное число следующих существительных:

a computer, a system, a state, a distance, a number, а device, a circuit, a quantity, a hand, a country, a signal, an operator, an instruction, a source, an operation, a result, a table, speed.

10. Обсудите преимущества и недостатки аналогово­го и цифрового компьютеров, используя активную лек­сику к тексту.

11. Подготовьте сообщение о последних моделях ком­пьютера.

ВАРИАНТ 2

1. Перепишите и письменно переведите текст на русский язык:

Government to Rescue П?

Internet and computer growth in Russia has been the envy of every European and North American country during the past few years. But growth in all IT areas is expected to slow by a considerable amount. Cell-phone growth in Moscow and St. Petersburg is limited to subscribers exchanging models, while