Некоммерческое акционерное общество

АЛМАТИНСКИЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ ЭНЕРГЕТИКИ И СВЯЗИ

Кафедра Иностранные языки

  

 

АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК

Методические указания для перевода технических текстов

для студентов специальностей

5В070300 – Информационные системы

5В070400 – Вычислительная техника и программное обеспечение

 

 

Алматы, 2011

СОСТАВИТЕЛЬ: С.А. Есенжолова., Д.А. Билдебаева. Английский язык. Методические указания для перевода технических текстов для студентов   специальностей 5В070300 – Информационные системы, 5В070400 – Вычислительная техника и программное обеспечение – Алматы: АУЭС, 2011. – 28с.

 

       Данные методические указания предназначены для студентов всех форм обучеия для развития перевода технических текстов по специальности 5В070300 – Информационные системы, 5В070400 – Вычислительная техника и программное обеспечение. В методической разработке содержатся аутентичные тексты и аудиотексты английской научно-технической литературы из разных источников.

 

       Рецензент:  ст. преподаватель     К.Е. Молдабаева

  

Печатается по плану издания некоммерческого акционерного общества «Алматинский университет энергетики и связи» на 2011г.

 

                          © НАО «Алматинский университет энергетики и связи», 2011г.    

Сводный план 2011г., поз. 298

 

Unit I  INFORMATION - DEPENDENT SOCIETY

 

I.1 Ознакомьтесь с терминами текста 1

computer literacy -  компьютерная грамотность

problem-solving device - устройство, обеспечивающее решение задачи

be aware of - понимать, сознавать

opportunity - возможность

basics основы

application - применение; использование

to restate  - пересмотреть, переосмыслить

significant - значительный

achievements - достижения

computing - вычисление; счет; работа на компьютере

to embrace - охватывать

dimension  - измерение

instruction - команда, инструкция, указание

to direct the operation - направлять работу

to process  - обрабатывать

subscription magazine - журнал по подлиске

data processing system система обработки данных

store manager - директор магазина

to have much in common -  иметь много общего

 

I.2 Прочтите текст и скажите, как вы понимаете термины «Информационное общество» и «Компьютерная грамот­ность»

 

Text 1 COMPUTER LITERACY

         Informed citizens of our information - dependent society should be computer - literate, which means that they should be able to use computers as everyday problem-solving devices. They should be aware of the potential of

computers to influence the quality of life.

         There was a time when only priviliged people had an oppor­tunity to learn the basics, called the three R's: reading, writing, and arithmetics. Now, as we are quickly becoming an informa­tion-becoming society, it is time to restate this right as the right to learn reading, writing and computing. There is little doubt that computers and their many applications are among the most sig­nificant technical achievements of the century. They bring with them both economic and social changes. "Computing" is a con­cept that embraces not only the old third R, arithmetics, but also a new idea -  computer literacy.

         In an information society a person who is computer-literate need not be an expert on the design of computers. He needn't even know much about how to prepare programs which are the instructions that direct the operations of computers. All of us are already on the way to becoming computer-literate. Just think of your everyday life. If you receive a subscription magazine in the post-office, it is probably addressed to you by a computer. If you buy something with a bank credit card or pay a bill by check, computers help you process the information. When you check out at the counter of your store, a computer assists the checkout clerk and the store manager. When you visit your doc­tor, your schedules and bills and special services, such as labo­ratory tests, are prepared by computer. Many actions that you have taken or observed have much in common. Each relates to some aspect of a data processing system.

 

I.3 Просмотрите текст 1 еще раз. Ответьте на вопросы,  используя

информацию текста.

1)     What does "a computer-literate person" mean?

2)     Are  you aware of the potential of computers to influence your life?

3)     What do the people mean by "the basics"?

4)     What is the role of computers in our society?

5)     What is "computing'?

6)     What is a program?

7)     Prove that we all are on the way to becoming  computer-literate.

8)     Give examples of using computers in ev­eryday life.

 

I.4 Прочтите, переведите и запомните следующие выраже­ния:

         An information-dependent society; a computer-literate cit­izen; an everyday problem-solving device; to be aware; to in­fluence the quality of life; to have an opportunity; to learn the basics; to learn computing; the most significant technical achievements; to embrace computer literacy; to prepare pro­grams; to direct the operations of a computer; to be on the way of becoming computer-literate; to process information; to have much in common; a data processing system.

 

I.5 Вспомните образование и случаи употребления The Past Simple Tense.

       a) Назовите три формы следующих неправильных глаго­лов:

     То be; to have; to mean; to learn; to become; to bring; to know; to think; to buy; to pay; to take; to do; to begin; to give; to make; to keep; to get; to read; to show.

     б) Преобразуйте следующие предложения в Past Simple.

     Many people have an opportunity to use computers. There is no doubt that computers solve problems very quickly. Instructions direct the operation of a computer. Computers bring with them both economic and social changes. Computing embraces not only arithmetics, but also computer literacy.       It is well known that computers prepare laboratory tests. Those persons are computer literate and think of buying a new computer. They receive a subscription magazine once amonth. My mother is ill and visits her doctor every other day. Experts know much about how to prepare programs.

 

I.6 Ознакомьтесь с терминами текста 2

intricate - сложный, запутанный

electronic circuit - электронная цепь, схема

to operate switches - приводить в дей­ствие переключатели

to store numbers  - запоминать числа

to manipulate - управлять; обращаться; преобразовывать

to input / to feed in - вводить (информацию)

to turn on = to switch on – включать

to turn off = to switch off – выключать

to process data - обрабатывать данные

to supply - подавать, вводить, снабжать, обес­печивать

addition – сложение

subtraction – вычитание

division – деление

multiplication – умножение

exponentiation - возведение в степень

user – пользователь

input device - устройство ввода

disk drive - дисковое запоминающее уст­ройство, дисковод

tape drive - запоминающее устройство на магнитной ленте

cathode-ray tube - электроннолучевая трубка

to make decisions - принимать решения

instantaneously - мгновенно, немедлен­но

 

    I.7 Прочтите текст 2 и скажите, что такое компьютер и каковы его основные функции.

 

Text 2 WHAT IS A COMPUTER?

         A computer is a machine with an intricate network of elec­tronic circuits that operate switches or magnetize tiny metal cores. The switches, like the cores, are capable of being in one or two possible states, that is, on or off; magnetized or demag­netized. The machine is capable of storing and manipulating numbers, letters, and characters (symbols).

         The basic idea of a computer is that we can make the ma­chine do what we want by inputting signals that turn certain switches on and turn others off, or magnetize or do not magne­tize the cores.

         The basic job of computers is processing of information. For this reason computers can be defined as devices which accept information in the form of instructions, called a program, and characters, called data, perform mathematical and / or logical operations on the information, and then supply results of these operations. The program, or part of it, which tells the comput­ers what to do and the data, which provide the information needed to solve the problem, are kept inside the computer in a place called memory.

         It is considered that computers have many remarkable pow­ers. However most computers, whether large or small, have three basic capabilities.

         First, computers have circuits for performing arithmetic op­erations, such as: addition, subtraction, division, multiplication and exponentiation.

         Second, computers have a means of communicating with the user. After all, if we couldn't feed information in and get results back, these machines wouldn't be of much use. Some of the most common methods of inputting information are to use ter­minals, diskettes, disks and magnetic tapes. The computer's input device (a disk drive or tape drive) reads the information into the computer. For outputting information two common devices used are: a printer, printing the new information on paper, and a cathode-ray-tube display, which shows the results on a TV-like screen.

         Third, computers have circuits which can make decisions. The kinds of decisions which computer circuits can make are not of the type: "Who would win the war between two coun­tries?" or "Who is the richest person in the world?" Unfortu­nately, the computer can only decide three things, namely: Is one number less than another? Are two numbers equal? and, Is one number greater than another?

         A computer can solve a series of problems and make thou­sands of logical decisions without becoming tired. It can find the solution to a problem in a fraction of the time it takes a human being to do the job. A computer can replace people in dull, routine tasks, but it works according to the instructions given to it. There are times when a computer seems to operate like a mechanical 'brain', but its achievements are limited by the minds of human beings. A computer cannot do anything unless a person tells it what to do and gives it the necessary information; but because electric pulses can move at the speed of light, a computer can carry out great numbers of arithmetic-logical operations almost instan­taneously. A person can do the same, but in many cases that person would be dead long before the job was finished.

 

I.8 Переведите текст. Ответьте на вопросы, используя ин­формацию текста.

   1) What is a computer?

   2) What are the two possible states of the switches?

   3) What are the main functions of a computer?

   4) In what way can we make the computer do what we want?

   5) What is the basic task of a computer?

   6)  In what form does a computer accept information?

   7) What is a program?

   8) What are data?

   9) What is memory?

   10) What three basic capabilities have computers?

   11) What are the ways of inputting informa­tion into the computer?

   12) What is the function of an input device?

   13) What devices are used for outputting information?

   14) What decisions can the computer make?

   15) What are the computer's achievements limited by?

 

I.9 Найдите в тексте 2 английские эквиваленты следующих словосочетаний:

         Сложная сеть электронных цепей; управлять (приво­дить в действие) переключателями; возможные состояния; хранить (запоминать) числа; обрабатывать символы; по­средством ввода сигналов; включать; выключать; размаг­ничивать сердечники; обработка информации; информа­ция в виде команд; символы, называемые данными; выполнять математические операции; выдавать результа­ты; обеспечивать необходимую информацию; иметь заме­чательные возможности; основные свойства; сложение, вычитание, деление, умножение; возведение в степень; средства для общения с пользователем; устройство ввода; дисковод; считывать информацию; вывод информации; катодно - лучевая трубка; принимать решения; выполнять тысячи логических операций; без устали; находить решение задачи; значительно меньший промежуток времени; человек; нудная рутинная работа; в соответствии с введен­ной программой; вырабатывать свои суждения; возможно­сти ограничены программой, заложенной в него челове­ком; дать требуемую информацию; электрические импульсы; со скоростью света; мгновенно производить огромное количество математических операций; человеку может не хватить всей жизни, чтобы закончить работу.

 

I.10 Составьте пары или группы близких по значению слов из перечня,

приведенного ниже

Например: A. to perform, to exercise, to carry out;

                  B. a man, a person, a human being;

         Verbs: to turn on, to provide, to type, to accept, to help, to learn, to observe, to call, to tell, to keep, to feed, to solve, to relate, to switch off, to communicate, to receive, to supply, to switch on, to assist, to print, to study, to input, to turn off, to decide, to store, to say, to name, to watch.

     Nouns: work, machine, fundamentals, display, application, capabilities, job, storage, screen, state, basics, use, concept, specialist, journal, character, memory, idea, expert, magazine, position, symbol, command, data, solution, device, instruction, powers, information, decision.

      Adjectives: basic, tiny, common, small, main, significant, routine, general, remarkable, uninterested, intricate, important, wonderful, complex, little.

     Adverbs: rapidly, probably, instantaneously, in a moment, quickly, perhaps.

 

I.11 Выполните письменный перевод текста 3 по вариантам

 

Text 3 APPLICATION OF COMPUTERS

A)   At present a great deal of the work force of most coun­tries is engaged in

creating, processing, storing, communicat­ing and just working with information. Computers have become commonplace in homes, offices, stores, schools, research insti­tutes, plants.

     The use of computers in business, industry and communi­cation services is widespread today. Computer-controlled robots are able to improve the quality of manufactured products and to increase the productivity of industry. Computers can control the work of power stations, plants and docks. They help in mak­ing different decisions and in management of economy.

     The work of banks depends upon computer terminals for millions of daily operations. Without these terminals, records of deposits and withdrawals would be difficult to maintain, and it would be impossible to make inquiries about the current sta­tus of customer accounts.

     Computers form a part of many military systems including communication and fire control. They are applied for automatic piloting and automatic navigation. Space exploration depends on computers for guidance, on-board environment and re­search.

     B) Computers find application in astronomy and upper at­mosphere research. Weather forecasting, library information services can benefit from computers too.

     It is interesting to note that computers are widely used in medicine. They became valuable medical diagnostic tools. Computers are used for optical scanning and image processing, ranging from pattern recognition to image processing. Techni­cians can operate computer tomography scanners which com­bine x-rays with computer technology to give sectional views of the body of patients. The views then can be combined into a single image shown on the screen.

     It should be noticed that learning on a computer can be fun. Students spend more time with computer-aided instruction per­forming the assigned task, as compared with conventional class­room.

      At last air traffic control is impossible without computer ap­plication. It fully depends upon computer-generated informa­tion.

     Many other uses of computers that we cannot imagine at present will become commonplace in the transition from an industrial to post industrial, or information society.

Notes  

to maintain records - вести учет

deposits and withdrawal - вклады и изъятие (выемка)

guidance - наведение (на цель); управление; руковод­ство

on-board environment - бортовое окружение pattern recognition - распознавание образов

 

         TESTS

            a) Выберите вариант, который лучше всего выражает глав­ную идею текста 2

   1) Computers are devices that accept information in the form of instructions.

   2) The switches are usualy in one of two states: magne­tized or demagnetized.

   3) Computers are remarkable devices serving for process­ing and storage the

information and for solving problems.

 

         б) Вставьте необходимые слова вместо пропусков

         Information is given into the computer in the form of

a) ideas; b) characters; c) rules

   The basic function of a computer is      information.

a) to switch; b) to keep; c) to process

   The data needed for solving problems are kept in the

a) memory; b) input device; c) output device

   Inputting information into the computer is realized by
means of___ .

a) a printer; b) letters; c) diskettes

   A computer can carry out arithmetic-logical operations

a) quickly; b) instantaneously; c) during some minutes

   Computers have become   in homes, offices, research

institutes.

a) commonwealth; b) commonplace; c) common room

   Space___ uses computers widely.

a) information; b) production; c) exploration

   Computers are used for image     .

a) processing; b) operating; c) producing

    Computers help in_ of economy.

a) environment; b) management; c) government.

__ Air traffic control depends on computer- ______ informa­tion.
a) generated; b) instructed; c) combined

        

         с) Подберите к терминам,  данным в левой колонке, опре­деления, представленные справа.

Computer        a) a machine by which information is received from the computer;

Data                 b) a device capable of storing and manipulating numbers, letters    and charac­ters;

      Input device   c) an electronic machine that processes

data under the control of a stored pro­gram;

Memory         d) a disk drive reading the information into the computer;

 

Output device  e) information given in the form of char-

acters.

 

Unit II DEVELOPMENT OF MICROELECTRONICS

 

II.1 Ознакомтесь с терминами текста 1

applied physics - прикладная физика

generation - создание, формирование, вы­работка

scientific research - научные исследо­вания

due to the efforts - благодаря усилиям

manipulation - управление; обработка; преобразование

to replace vacuum tubes - заменять электронные лампы

a piece of semiconductor - полупровод­никовый кристалл

reduced weight - уменьшенный вес

power consumption - потребление (расход) электроэнергии

to carry out - выполнять; осуществлять

solid body - твердое тело; кристалл; полупроводник

to respond - отвечать; реагировать

at a rate - со скоростью

integrated circuit - интегральная схема

batch processing - пакетная обработка

to assemble - собирать; монтировать

to lower manufacturing -  снизить производительность

to increase reliability - увеличить на­дежность

 

II.2 Прочтите текст и скажите, что изучает электроника и какие открытия способствовали ее развитию.

 

Text 1 DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRONICS

Electronics is a field of engineering and applied physics deal­ing with the design and application of electronic circuits. The operation of circuits depends on the flow of electrons for gen­eration, transmission, reception and storage of information.

Today it is difficult to imagine our life without electronics. It surrounds us everywhere. Electronic devices are widely used in scientific research and industrial designing; they control the work of plants and power stations, calculate the trajectories of space-ships and help the people discover new phenomena of nature. Automatization of production processes and studies on living organisms became possible due to electronics.

The invention of vacuum tubes at the beginning of the 20th century was the starting point of the rapid growth of modern electronics. Vacuum tubes assisted in manipulation of signals. The development of a large variety of tubes designed for spe­cialized functions made possible the progress in radio commu­nication technology before the World War II and in the creation of early computers during and shortly after the war.

The transistor invented by American scientists Shockley, J.Bardeen and Brattain in 1948 completely replaced the vacuum tube. The transistor, a small piece of a semiconductor with three electrodes, had great advantages over the best vacuum tubes. It provided the same functions as the vacuum tube but at reduced weight, cost, power consumption, and with high reli­ability. With the invention of the transistor all essential circuit functions could be carried out inside solid bodies.     The aim of creating electronic circuits with entirely solid-state components had finally been realized. Early transistors could respond at a rate of a few million times a second. This was fast enough to serve in radio circuits, but far below the speed needed for high-speed computers or for microwave communication systems.

The progress in semiconductor technology led to the devel­opment of the integrated circuit (1С), which was discovered due to the efforts of John Kilby in 1958. There appeared a new field of science — integrated electronics. The essence of it is batch processing. Instead of making, testing and assembling discrete components on a chip one at a time, large groupings of these components together with their interconnections were made all at a time. 1С greatly reduced the size of devices, lowered man­ufacturing costs and at the same time they provided high speed and increased reliability.

 

II.3    Просмотрите текст еще раз. Ответьте на вопросы, ис­пользуя информацию текста.

1) What is electronics?

2) Can you imagine modern life with­out electronics?

3) Where are electronic devices used?

4) What was the beginning of electronics development?

5) What made the progress in radio communication technology possible?

6) What is the transistor?

7) When was the transistor invented?

8)           What aim was realized with the invention of the transistor?

9)           When were integrated circuits discovered?

10)   What advan­tages did the transistors have over the vacuum tubes?

 

II.4    Догадайтесь о значении следующих интернациональных слов и словосочетаний:

Electronics; electrons; physics; information; microelectron­ics; industrial design; to calculate trajectories; phenomena of nature; automatization of production processes; organisms; vac­uum tubes; specialized functions; progress in radio communi­cation technology; transistor; electrode; components; communication system; technology; discrete components; chip

 

II.5 Найдите в тексте английские эквиваленты следующих
словосочетаний:

     Прикладная физика; передача и прием информации; по­ток электронов; трудно представить; научные исследования; промышленное проектирование; вычислять траекторию кос­мических кораблей; обнаруживать явления природы; благо­даря электронике; отправная точка; способствовать управ­лению сигналами; быстрый рост; разнообразие ламп; создание первых компьютеров; полностью заменил; полу­проводниковый кристалл; уменьшить вес; сократить сто­имость; потребление электроэнергии; высокая надеж­ность; твердотельные компоненты; довольно быстро... но гораздо ниже; высокоскоростной компьютер; микроволно­вые системы связи; полупроводниковая технология; об­ласть науки; интегральная схема; пакетная обработка; сборка дискретных компонентов на кристалле; снизить производственные затраты; обеспечить высокую скорость

 

II.6 Переведите следующие «цепочки существительных».

   Запомните, что переводить ряд существительных, несвязанных предлогами, следует, как правило, с конца.

Power consumption; power consumption change; signals manipulation; transistor invention; circuit functions; commu­nication systems, data processing system; integrated circuits development; science field; process control; automatization pro­cesses control; circuit components; size reduction; electronics development; communication means; problem solution; space exploration; pattern recognition; customers accounts; air traf­fic control.

 

II.7 Ознакомьтесь с терминами текста 2.

performance - рабочая характеристика; па­раметры; производительность;

to predict - прогнозировать

capability - способность; возможность

branch of science - область науки

to embrace - охватывать

film technique - пленочная технология

invisible to unaided eye - невидимый невооруженному глазу

to react - реагировать

speed of response - скорость реакции (отклика)

advantage / disadvantage - достоинство, пре­имущество / недостаток

benefit - выгода, польза; помогать, приносить пользу

to result from - возникать, происходить в результате

packing density - плотность упаковки

small-scale integrated circuit -малая интегральная схе­ма (МИС)

medium-scale 1С - средняя интегральная схема (СИС)

large-scale 1С - большая интегральная схема (БИС)

very-large-scale 1С - сверхбольшая интегральная схема (СБИС)

fineline - прецизионный; с элементами уменьшенных размеров

transmission line - линия передачи

waveguide - волновод

to emerge - появляться, возникать

to displace - перемещать, смещать

mode - вид, метод, способ; режим работы

pattern - шаблон, образец; образ, изображение

power - мощность, энергия, питание; произво­дительность, быстродействие; способность, возмож­ность

 

II.8 Прочтите текст 2 и скажите, как вы понимаете терми­ны «микроэлектроника» и «микроминиатюризация». Переведите текст.

 

Text 2  MICROELECTRONICS AND MICROMINIATURIZATION

The intensive effort of electronics to increase the reliability and performance of its products while reducing their size and cost led to the results that hardly anyone could predict. The evolution of electronic technology is sometimes called a revo­lution: a quantitative change in technology gave rise to qualita­tive change in human capabilities. There appeared a new branch of science - microelectronics.

Microelectronics embraces electronics connected with the realization of electronic circuits, systems and subsystems from very small electronic devices. A microelectronic technology reduced transistors and other circuit elements to dimensions almost invisible to unaided eye. The point of this extraordinary miniaturization is to make circuits long-lasting, low in cost, and capable of performing electronic functions at extremely high speed. It is known that the speed of response depends on the size of transistor: the smaller the transistor, the faster it is. The smaller the computer, the faster it can work.

One more advantage of microelectronics is that smaller de­vices consume less power. In space satellites and spaceships this is a very important factor.

Another benefit resulting from microelectronics is the reduc­tion of distances between circuit components. Packing density increased with the appearance of small-scale integrated circuit, medium-scale 1С, large-scale 1С and very-large-scale 1С. The change in scale was pleasured by the number of transistors on a chip. There appeared a new type of integrated circuits, micro­wave integrated circuit. The evolution of microwave 1С began with the development of planar transmission lines. Then new 1С components in a fine line transmission line appeared. Other more exotic techniques, such as dielectric waveguide integrat­ed circuits emerged. Microelectronic technique is continuing to displace other modes. Circuit patterns are being formed with radiation having wavelength shorter than those of light.

Electronics has extended man's intellectual power. Micro­electronics extends that power still further.

 

II.9    Просмотрите текст еще раз и ответьте на вопросы, используя   информацию текста.

   1) What would you say about electronics?

2) Why is the de­velopment of electronics called a revolution?

3) What is micro­electronics?

4) What techniques does microelectronics use?

5)           What is the benefit of reducing the size of circuit elements?

6)     What do you understand by the term of microminiaturiza­
tion?

7)     What does the speed of the signal response depend on?

8)     What advantages of microelectronics do you know?

9)     What scales of integration are known to you?

10) How are microelec­ronics techniques developing?

 

II.10 Найдите в тексте английские эквиваленты следующих словосочетаний:

Интенсивные усилия; увеличить надежность; увеличить параметры; уменьшить размер и стоимость; вряд ли кто-нибудь мог прогнозировать; количественные и качествен­ные изменения; область науки; пленочная технология; полупроводниковый метод; сокращать элементы схемы; суть миниатюризации в том, что; создать схемы с долгим сроком службы; чрезвычайно высокая скорость реакции; чем меньше, тем быстрее; преимущество; расходовать энергию; польза; уменьшение расстояния между элемен­тами схемы; большая интегральная схема; микроволновая интегральная схема; волновод; линия передач; смещать; изображение схем; расширять возможности человека

 

II.11   Переведите следующие слова. Обратите внимание на то, что префиксы

dis-, in-, un-y поп-, ir- придают сло­вам отрицательное значение.

dis-: disadvantage; disconnect; disappear, disclose; discom­fort; discontinue; discount; discredit; discriminate; disintegrate.

in-: invisible; inaccurate; inactive; incapable; incompact; insignificant; inhuman; informal; ineffective; indifferent; inde­cisive; inconsumable; incorrect.

un-: uncontrollable; unbelievable; unable; unchanged; un­comfortable; uncommunicative; undisciplined; unexpected; unfavorable; unforgettable; unkind.

поп-: non-effective; non-aggressive; noncomparable; non-computable; nonconstant; noncontrollable; nondigital; nondi-mensional; nonprogrammable; nonusable.

     ir-: irregular; irrelative; irresponsive; irrational; irreplaceable; irrecognizable.

 

II.12 Вспомните образование страдательного залога - to be (в нужном времени) + 3-я форма глагола.

А. Найдите пять случаев употребления страдательного залога в тексте 1 и четыре случая  в тексте 2. Переведите предложения.

Б. Преобразуйте следующие предложения действительно­го залога в страдательный по образцу:

People widely use electronic devices-Electronic devices are widely used by people.

Electronic devices control the work of power stations. They calculate the trajectories of spaceships. People dis­cover new phenomena of nature due to electronic devices. Scientists designed a variety of tubes for specialized functions. American scientists invented the transistor in 1948. Integrated circuits greatly reduced the size of devices. New types of integrated circuits increased packing density. Electronics has extended man's intellectual power. 9. Scientists are looking
for new ways for the improvement of integrated circuits technology. Jack Kilby developed the concept of integrating device and built the first 1
С in 1958.

 

II.13 Прочтите текст (по вариантам) и озаглавьте его. Вы полните письменный перевод текста по вариантам.

* * *

1. It is well known that the quick development of electron­ics began with the invention of transistors. They replaced elec­tronic tubes due to their numerous advantages. One of the main advantages of the transistors in comparison with the vacuum tube is absence of filament power loss. One of the principal causes of damages in electronic circuitry is high temperature. The heat causes breakdown of tubes and other circuit elements that are very sensitive to this influence. The transistor, on the other hand, does not heat its surroundings.

Another advantage of the transistor is its long life. The life of the average transistor is more than ten thousand operating hours. Because of its long lifetime and raggedness, the transis­tor is very reliable and has much better efficiency in professional equipment.

2. As we know, transistors replaced electronic tubes due to their numerous advantages. One of the advantages of the tran­sistor is its small dimensions. Because of their small size, the absence of heating and other properties, transistors make it pos­sible to produce compact, small-dimensioned electronic devices which consume very little power.

In conclusion it is important to note that transistors revolu­tionized many fields of technology. They are successfully used for direct transformation of heat energy by means of thermal elements. They are also used to convert radiant energy into elec­tricity with the help of photocells or solar batteries. Light sources and lasers are built on the basis of transistors. They find wide application in computers, automatic devices, aviation, commu­nication, etc.

Notes  

Filament power loss — отсутствие энергии на нити нака­ла

 

TESTS

Вставьте необходимые слова вместо пропусков.

     1) Transistors have many _____over vacuum tubes.

a) patterns; b) advantages; c) scales

    2) They ______very little power.

a) consume; b) generate; c) embrace

    3) An integrated circuit is a group of elements connected together by some circuit_______technique.

   a) processing; b) assembly; c) manipulation

   4) The transistor consists of a small piece of a         ______with three electrodes.

a) diode; b) conductor; c) semiconductor.

    5) Modern______began in the early 20th century with the invention of   electronic tubes.

a) miniaturization; b) electronics; c) microelectronics

     6) John Fleming was the of the first two-electrode vacuum tube.

a) generator; b) receiver; c) inventor

     7) One of the transistor advantages was lower power _____in comparison with vacuum tubes.

a) consumption; b) reception; c) transmission.

    8) Microelectronics greatly extended man's intellectual

a) subsystems; b) capabilities; c) dimensions

Раскройте скобки и выберите глагол в требуемом зало­ге: действительном или страдательном.

Electronic devices (help; are helped) people discover new phenomena of nature. The transistor (replaced; was replaced) by vacuum tubes thanks to its numerous advantages. Due to transistors all circuit functions (carried out; were carried out) inside semiconductors. Electronic devices (use; are used) in scientific research. Before the invention of the transistor its function (performed; was performed) by vacuum tubes. The reliability of electronic systems (connect; is connected) with the number of descrete components.  Semiconductor integrated circuits (helped; were helped) to increase reliability of devices. New types of integrated circuits (have developed; have been developed) lately.

 

Unit III HISTORY OF COMPUTERS

 

III.1 Ознакомьтесь с терминами текста 1

calculating device – вычислительно устройство

multiple – кратный

abacus – счеты

slide rule - логарифмическая линейка

logarithm table - логарифмическая таб­лица

calculus - исчисление; математический ана­лиз

general - purpose - общего назначения, универсальный

to cut out the human being altogether - полностью исклю­чить человека

to manipulate [ms'nipjuleit] - обрабатывать, преобразо­вывать; управлять

data processing ['deits pre'sesin] -  обработка данных (ин­формации)

tabulate the census - занести данные по переписи (на­селения) в таблицу

means of coding - средства кодиро­вания (шифровки)

to punch the holes - пробивать отвер­стия

punched card – перфокарта

to perform - выполнять, производить (дей­ствие); осуществлять;

unit of data  - единица информации

keyboard terminals — терминал (вывод) с клавишным управлением

 

III.2 Прочтите текст и скажите, о каких первых вычислительных приборах рассказывается в нем

 

Text 1 THE FIRST CALCULATING DEVICES

    Let us take a look at the history of computers that we know today. The very first calculating device used was the ten fingers of a man's hands. This, in fact, is why today we still count in tens and multiples of tens.

    Then the abacus was invented. People went on using some form of abacus well into the 16th century, and it is still being used in some parts of the world because it can be understood with­out knowing how to read.

During the 17th and I8lh centuries many people tried to find easy ways of calculating. J.Napier, a Scotsman, invented a me­chanical way of multiplying and dividing, which is now the modern slide rale works. Henry Briggs used Napier's ideas to  produce logarithm tables which all mathematicians use today.

    Calculus, another branch of mathematics, was independently invented by both Sir Isaak Newton, an Englishman, and Leib­nitz, a German mathematician. The first real calculating ma­chine appeared in 1820 as the result of several people's experi­ments.

    In 1830 Charles Babbage, a gifted English mathematician, proposed to build a general-purpose problem-solving machine that he called "the analytical engine". This machine which Babbage showed at the Paris Exhibition in 1855, was an attempt to cut out the human being altogether, except for providing the machine with the necessary facts about the problem to be solved. He never finished this work, but many of his ideas were the ba­sis for building today's computers.

By the early part of the twentieth century electromechani­cal machines had been developed and were used for business data processing. Dr. Herman Hollerith, a young statistician from the US Census Bureau successfully tabulated the 1890 census. Hollerith invented a means of coding the data by punching holes into cards. He built one machine to punch the holes and others — to tabulate the collected data. Later Hollerith left the Census Bureau and established his own tabulating machine company. Through a series of merges the company eventually became the IBM Corporation.

   Until the middle of the twentieth century machines designed to manipulate punched card data were widely used for business data processing. These early electromechanical data processors were called unit record machines because each punched card contained a unit of data.

     In the mid—1940s electronic computers were developed to perform calculations for military and scientific purposes. By the end of the 1960s commercial models of these computers were widely used for both scientific computation and business data processing. Initially these computers accepted their input data from punched cards. By the late 1970s punched cards had been almost universally replaced by keyboard terminals. Since that . time advances in science have led to the proliferation of com­puters throughout our society, and the past is but the prologue that gives us a glimpse of the nature.

 

III.3 Просмотрите текст еще раз.  Ответьте на вопросы, ис­пользуя информацию текста.

1) What was the very first calculating device?

2) What is the abacus?

3) What is the modern slide rule?

4) Who gave the ideas for producing logarithm tables?

5) How did Newton and Leib­nitz contribute to the problem of calculation?

6) When did the first calculating machine appear?

7) What was the main idea of Ch.Babbage's machine?

8) How did electromechanical ma­chines appear and what were they used for?

9) What means of coding the data did Hollerith devise?

10) How were those elec­tromechanical machines called and why?

11) What kind of com­puters appeared later?

12) What new had the computers of 1970s?

 

III.4 Найдите в тексте английские эквиваленты следующих словосочетаний:

    Вычислительное устройство; легкий способ вычисления; поэтому (вот почему); кратное десяти; изобрести механи­ческий способ умножения и деления; логарифмическая линейка; составить таблицы логарифмов; математический анализ; изобрести независимо (друг от друга); в результа­те; полностью исключить человека; кроме (за исключени­ем); обработка деловой информации; средство кодирова­ния информации; перфокарты; пробивать отверстия; оформить собранные данные в таблицу; работать с данны­ми на перфокарте; устройство, записывающее информа­цию блоками; единица информации; выполнять вычисле­ния; для научных целей; клавишный терминал

 

III.5  Вспомните значение следующих глаголов и подберите к ним производные.         Например:  to calculate ,  calculating,  calculator,  calculation.

    To compute, to invent, to know, to multiply, to divide, to depend, to solve, to provide, to process, to code, to punch, to collect, to design, to store, to contribute, to use, to manipulate, to assemble, to connect, to consume, to rely, to divide, to mul­tiply, to inform, to instruct, to discover, to operate.

 

III.6 Переведите словосочетания, содержащие:

   А. Причастие I - Participle I

      Computers using vacuum tubes; the machine calculating mathematical problems; the computer keeping instructions in its memory; binary code storing data and instructions; the vac­uum tube controlling and amplifying -electronic signals; com­puters performing computations in milliseconds; electronic . pulses moving at the speed of light; students coding the infor­mation by using a binary code; devices printing the information; keyboard terminals replacing vacuum tubes.

     Б. Причастие II - Participle II

     The given information; the name given to the machine; the coded data; the device used in World War II; the invention named ENIAC; the machine called EDVAC; instructions kept in the memory; the engine designed for storing data; data stored in a binary code; vacuum tubes invented by J. Neumann; the general-purpose machine proposed by Ch. Babbage; the ma­chine provided with the necessary facts.

 

III.7 Ознакомьтесь с терминами текста 2

analog computer - аналоговый ком­пьютер

digital computer - цифровой компь­ютер

to aim guns - наводить орудия на цель

to figure out – вычислять

at a fast rate - с высокой скоростью

memory / storage - запоминающее ус­тройство

to store data and instructions - запоминать информацию и команды

stored program computer - компьютер с занесенной в память программой

binary code - двоичный код

condition - режим, состояние, условие

vacuum tube - электронная (вакуумная) трубка (лампа)

to amplify – усиливать

to perform computations - выпол­нять вычисления

 

III.8   Прочтите текст 2 и скажите, что вы узнали о первых циф­ровых и

аналоговых компьютерах.  Переведите текст

 

Text 2  THE FIRST COMPUTERS

      In 1930 the first analog computer was built by American named Vannevar Bush. This device was used in World War  II to help aim guns.

      Many technical developments of electronic digital comput­ers took place in the 1940s and 1950s. Mark I, the name given to the first digital computer, was completed in 1944. The man responsible for this invention was Professor Howard Aiken. This was the first machine that could figure out long lists of mathe­matical problems at a very fast rate.

     In 1946 two engineers at the University of Pennsilvania, J.Eckert and J.Maushly, built their digital computer with vacu­um tubes. They named their new invention ENIAC (the Elec­tronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator).

      Another important achievement in developing computers came in 1947, when John von Neumann developed the idea of keeping instructions for the computer inside the computer's memory. The contribution of John von Neumann was particu­larly significant. As contrasted with Babbage's analytical engine, which was designed to store only data, von Neumann's ma­chine, called the Electronic Discrete Variable Computer, or EDVAC, was able to store both data and instructions. He also contributed to the idea of storing data and instructions in a bi­nary code that uses only ones and zeros. This simplified com­puter design. Thus computers use two conditions, high voltage, and low voltage, to translate the symbols by which we commu­nicate into unique combinations of electrical pulses. Wfe refer to these combinations as codes.

     Neumann's stored program computer as well as other ma­chines of that time were made possible by the invention of the vacuum tube that could control and amplify electronic signals. Early computers, using vacuum tubes, could perform compu­tations in thousandths of seconds, called milliseconds, instead of seconds required by mechanical devices.

 

III.9 Просмотрите текст еще раз и ответьте на вопросы, ис­пользуя информацию текста.

1) When was the first analog computer built?

2) Where and how was that computer used?

3) When did the first digital computers appear?

4) Who was the inventor of the first digital computer?  

5) What could that device do? What is ENIAC?

6) Decode the word.

7) What was J.Neumann's contribution into the development of computers?

8) What were the advantages of EDVAC in comparison with ENIAC?

9) What does binary coda mean?

10) Due to what invention could the first digital com­puters be built?

 

III.10 Найдите в тексте 2 английские эквиваленты следующих словосочетаний:

     Цифровые компьютеры; технические усовершенствова­ния; совершенствование компьютеров; ответственный за изобретение; математические задачи; электронные трубки; важное достижение; запоминающее устройство; значи­тельный вклад; двоичный код; высокое напряжение; низ­кое напряжение; электрические импульсы; тысячная доля секунды.

     Происходить; завершать; вычислять; хранить команды внутри компьютера; запоминать информацию; запоминать команды; содействовать; использовать единицу и ноль; упрощать дизайн; усиливать сигналы; выполнять вычис­ления.

 

III.11 Составьте пары близких по значению слов из перечня,
представленного ниже.

         Verbs: to name, to complete, to calculate, to develop, to keep, to interprete, to communicate, to fulfill, to apply, to trans­late, to improve, to build, to call, to store, to communicate, to figure out, to perform, to use, to finish, to construct, to con­nect.

     Nouns: speed, aim, storage, information, machine, signifi­cance, computation, data, device, rate, calculation, purpose, memory, importance.

 

Unit IV DATA PROCESSING AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS

 

IV.1 Ознакомьтесь с терминами текста 1

data processing - обработка информа­ции (данных)

to convert - преобразовывать; переводить (в др. единицы)

to accomplish - завершать, заканчивать; осу­ществлять, выполнять.

to house - помещать, размещать

to improve - улучшать, совершенствовать

to control - управлять, регулировать; управ­ление, регулирование

to store - хранить, запоминать, заносить (разме­щать) в памяти

storage - запоминающее устройство, память; хранение

resource - ресурс; средство; возможность

facility - устройство; средство

facilities - приспособления; возможности

equipment - оборудование; аппаратура; приборы; устройства

available - доступный; имеющийся (в нали­чии); возможный

display - дисплей; устройство (визуального) отображения; показ

manner - способ, образ (действий)

sequence - последовательность, порядок (сле­дования)

sucessively – последовательно

to enter - входить; вводить (данные); заносить, записывать

comprehensive groupings -  полные, обширные, универ­сальные образования

meaningful - имеющий смысл; значащий (о данных)

item - элемент; составная часть

record - запись, регистрация; записывать, ре­гистрировать

file - файл; заносить (хранить) в файл

set - набор; множество; совокупность; серия; группа; система

data base - база данных

related  - смежный; взаимосвязанный; относя­щийся (к ч.-л.)

data storage hierarchy - иерархия (последова­тельность) запоминания информации (данных)

 

IV. 2 Прочтите текст и скажите, как вы понимаете термины «обработка информации» и «иерархия запоминания ин­формации».

 

Text 1 DATA PROCESSING AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS

     The necessary data are processed by a computer to become useful information. In fact this is the definition of data process­ing. Data are a collection of facts — unorganized but able to be-organized into useful information. Processing is a series of ac­tions or operations that convert inputs into outputs. When we*1 speak of data processing, the input is data, and the output is useful information. So, we can define data processing as a se­ries of actions or operations that converts data into useful in­formation.

      We use the term data processing system to include the resourc­es that are used to accomplish the processing of data. There are four types of resources: people, materials, facilities, and equip­ment. People provide input to computers, operate them, and use their output. Materials, such as boxes of paper and printer rib­bons, are consumed in great quantity. Facilities are required to house the computer equipment, people and materials. The need for converting facts into useful information is not a phenomenon of modern life. Throughout history, and even prehistory, people have found it necessary to sort data into forms that were easier to understand. For example, the ancient Egyp­tians recorded the ebb and flow of the Nile River and used this information to predict yearly crop yields.*Today computers con­vert data about land and water into recommendations to farm­ers on crop planting. Mechanical aids to computation were de­veloped and improved upon in Europe, Asia, and America throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centu­ries. Modern computers are marvels of an electronics technol­ogy that continues to produce smaller, cheaper, and more pow­erful components.

     Basic data processing operations

     Five basic operations are characteristic of all data process­ing systems: inputting, storing, processing, outputting, and con­trolling. They are defined as follows.

      Inputting is the process of entering data, which are collected facts, into a data processing system. Storing is saving data or information so that they are available for initial or for additional processing. Processing represents performing arithmetic or log­ical operations on data in order to convert them into useful in­formation. Outputting is the process of producing useful infor­mation, such as a printed report or visual display.

         Controlling is directing the manner and sequence in which all of the above operations are performed.

    Data storage hierarchy

    It is known that data, once entered, are organized and stored in successively more comprehensive groupings. Generally, these groupings are called a data storage hierarchy. The general group­ings of any data storage hierarchy are as follows.

   1) Characters, which are all written language symbols: let­ters, numbers, and special symbols. 2) Data elements, which are meaningful collections of related characters. Data elements are also called data items or fields. 3) Records, which are collections of related data elements. 4) Files, which are collections of re­lated records. A set of related files is called a data base or a data bank.

 

IV. 3 Просмотрите текст еще раз. Ответьте на вопросы, ис­пользуя информацию текста 1.

1) What is processing?

2) What is data processing?

3) What does the term of data processing system mean?

4) What basic operations does a data processing system include?

5) What is inputting / storing / outputting information?

6) What do you understand by resources?

7) How did ancient Egyptians convert facts into useful information?

8) When were mechanical aids for computation developed?

9) What does data storage hierarchy mean?

10) What are the general groupings of any data storage hierarchy?

 

IV.4 Найдите в тексте английские эквиваленты следующих словосочетаний:

         Системы обработки информации; определение (терми­на) обработки данных; совокупность фактов; последова­тельность действий; преобразование входных данных в полезную информацию; включать ресурсы; завершить об­работку данных; обеспечивать ввод информации в компь­ютер; ленты принтера; расходовать в большом количестве; размещать компьютерное оборудование; нуждаться (тре­бовать) в приспособлениях; явление современной жизни; на протяжении доисторического периода; превращать ин­формацию в выражения; регистрировать отливы и прили­вы; прогнозировать урожай зерновых культур; механические средства вычисления; ввод данных; хранение данных; первоначальная обработка данных; дополнительная обра­ботка; выдача полезной информации; напечатанное сооб­щение; зрительное отображение; последовательность запо­минания информации; записанные символы языка; элементы информации; база данных; набор взаимосвязан­ных файлов.

 

IV. 5 Переведите следующие цепочки существительных:

     Data resource; storage resource; network resource; security resource; system resource.

     Communication facilities; data base facilities; display facil­ities; management facilities.

     Distance control; device control; keyboard control; position control; program control.

     Computer storage; laser storage; file storage; disk storage; data storage hierarchy.

     Character sequence; instruction sequence; message se­quence; pulse sequence.

     Batch file; catalog file; data file; help file; input file; output file; menu file; user file.

     Command input; data input; disk input; file input; keyboard input; program input.

 

IV. 6 Подберите к терминам, данным в левой колонке, опре­деления,

представленные справа

 

Computer

a) the set of instructions that direct the operations of computers;

Computer literacy

b) a part of a computer, entering data into the device;

A program

c) facts unorganized but able to be organized;

Data

d) the output of a data processing system;

Data processing      

e) possessing sufficient knowledge of how computers work and what they can do to use them as problem-solving tools;

Data processing

f)  a series of operations that results in the conversion of data system into useful information;

Input

g) an electronic device performing calculations on numerical data;

Output

h) an electronic device accepting the data processing results from the computer and displaying them;

Useful information

i)  a set of related files;

Data bank

j)  the resources required to accomplish the processing of data.These resources are personnel, material, facilities and equip­ment.

 

IV.7 Проанализируйте неличные формы глагола и правиль­но переведите

предложения.

     Data are processed to become useful information. We use the term data processing to include the resources applied for processing of information. Resources required for accom­plishing the processing of data are called data processing sys­tem. Processing is a series of operations converting inputs into outputs. Facilities are required to house the computer equip­ment. Egyptians used the information to predict crop yields. Information to be put into the computer for processing should be coded into ones and zeroes. Processing is operations on data to convert them into useful information. The first machines designed to manipulate punched card data were widely used for business data processing. Hollerith built one machine to punch the holes and the other to tabulate the collected data.

 

IV.8  Ознакомьтесь с терминами текста 2.

manual - ручной, выполняемый вручную

to take advantage of smth - воспользоваться ч.-л.

capability - способность; возможность; характеристика

accuracy - точность; правильность; четкость (изображения)

correctly - правильно; верно

to eliminate - устранять; удалять; отменять; ликвидировать

to make errors - допускать ошибки (погрешно­сти)

error-prone - подверженный ошибкам

to remain vulnerable - оставаться уяз­вимым, чувствительным

invalid data - неверные, неправильные, недо­пустимые данные

communications networks - сети передачи данных; сети связи

travel - перемещение; прохождение; путь; ход

instant response - мгновенный ответ (реакция)

to respond - отвечать; реагировать

access - доступ; обращение; обращаться, иметь доступ

capacity of storage - объем (емкость) памяти

to retrieve - извлекать, выбирать (данные); вос­станавливать (файл)

value - значение; величина; значимость; цен­ность; оценка; оценивать

objective - цель; требование; целевая фун­кция

cost-effective - экономичный; экономи­чески оправданный

challenge  -  трудность; препятствие; представ­лять трудность

 

IV.9 Прочтите текст и скажите, каковы основные достоин­ства компьютеров

Переведите текст

 

 

Text 2 ADVANTAGES OF COMPUTER DATA PROCESSING

     Computer-oriented data processing systems or just computer data processing systems are not designed to imitate manual sys­tems. They should combine the capabilities of both humans and computers. Computer data processing system can be designed to take advantage of four capabilities of computers.

 a) Accuracy. Once data have been entered correctly into the computer component of a data processing system, the need for further manipulation by humans is eliminated, and the possi­bility of error is reduced. Computers, when properly pro­grammed, are also unlikely to make computational errors. Of course, computer systems remain vulnerable to the entry by humans of invalid data.

b) Ease of communications. Data, once entered, can be trans­mitted wherever needed by communications networks. These may be either earth or satellite-based systems. A travel reserva­tions system is an example of a data communications network. Reservation clerks throughout the world may make an enquiry about transportation or lodgings and receive an almost instant response. Another example is an office communications system that provides executives with access to a reservoir of date, called a corporate data base, from their personal microcomputer work stations.

c) Capacity of storage. Computers are able to store vast amounts of information, to organize it, and to retrieve it in ways that are far beyond the capabilities of humans. The amount of data that can be stored on devices such as magnetic discs is con­stantly increasing. All the while, the cost per character of data stored is decreasing.

d)  Speed. The speed, at which computer data processing sys­tems can respond, adds to their value. For example, the travel reservations system mentioned above would not be useful if cli­ents had to wait more than a few seconds for a response. The response required might be a fraction of a second.

     Thus, an important objective in the design of computer data processing systems is to allow computers to do what they do best and to free humans from routine, error-prone tasks. The most cost - effective computer data processing system is the one that does the job effectively and at the least cost. By using comput­ers in a cost-effective manner, we will be better able to respond to the challenges and opportunities of our post-industrial, in­formation - dependent society.

IV.10  Ответьте на вопросы, используя информацию текста.

1)  What capabilities should data-processing systems combine when designed?

2) What are the main advantages of comput­ers?

3) What do you know of computers accuracy?

4) What is the function of communication networks?

5) Give examples of a data communication network.

6) What do you understand by capacity storage?

7) What other values of computer data pro­cessing systems do you know?

8) What is an important objec­tive in the design of computer data processing systems?

9) What is the most effective computer data processing system?

10)  What is the best way of responding to the challenges and opportuni­ties of our post-industrial society?

 

IV.11 Найдите в тексте английские эквиваленты следующих словосочетаний:

         Система обработки информации компьютером; систе­ма ориентирования на обработку данных компьютером; сочетать возможности человека и машины; ограничивать управление; вряд ли допустят ошибку; оставаться уязви­мым; недопустимые данные; легкость осуществления свя­зи; сеть передачи информации; системы, основанные на использовании спутников; служащие по резервированию жилья; получить мгновенный ответ; наводить справки; хранилище данных; корпоративная база данных; объем памяти; запоминать огромное количество информации; извлекать информацию; добавить значимости; упомяну­тый выше; доля секунды; подверженный ошибкам; эконо­мически оправданный

 

TESTS

    a)  Подберите вместо пропусков подходящее по смыслу слово

1)  Computer data_ system frees humans from routine error - prone tasks.

a) counting; b) computing: c),processing

2) Computers can store vast amount of information to organize it and it.

a) to travel; b) to retrieve; c) to respond

3)                                                        The  entered  data  can be  transmitted  by     networks.

a) communications; b) conversions; c) procession

4) The possibility of_ is reduced if data were correctly put into the data processing system, a)      character; b) access; c) error

5) Computer data processing systems can          at a frac­tion of a second.

a) receive; b) respond; c) retrieve

6) Computer systems are vulnerable to the entry of      data.

a), invalid; b) invariable; c) invisible

7) As soon as data were entered into the system correctly, the human       is limited.

a) computation; b) information; c) manipulation

8) The amount of data stored on magnetic discs is constantly         .

a) decreasing; b) increasing; c) eliminating

   

    b) Согласуйте слова в левой колонке с их интерпретацией, предложенной справа.

1) Inputting             a) saving information for further processing;

2) Character             b) the process of producing useful information;

3) Database             c) meaningful collections of related characters;

4)   Data elements     d) the most common input device;

5)   Controlling           e) the part of the computer that receives and stores data for processing;

6)   Outputting            f) directing the sequence of the operations performed;

7)   Memory               g) written language symbol;

8)   Record                h) a collection of related data elements

9)   Keyboard             i)  a set of related facts;

10)       Storing     j)  the process of entering collected into a data processing    system;

 

 

Содержание 

Unit I. Information-Dependent Society………………………………………...

Computer Literacy. What is a Computer? Application of Comput­ers. (Общество, зависимое от информации. Компьютерная грамотность. Что такое компьютер? Использование компь­ютеров.) Грамматика: Past Simple. Задания. Тесты

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Unit 2. Development of Microelectronics……………………………………

Development of Electronics. Microelectronics and Micromi­niaturization (Развитие микроэлектроники. Развитие электроники. Микроэлектроника и микроминиатюризация).

Грамматика: страдательный залог. Задания. Тесты

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Unit 3. History of Computers…………………………………………………...

The First Calculating Devices. The First Computers. Some First Computer Models. Four Generations of Computers. (История создания компьютеров. Первые компьютеры. Первые модели компьютеров. Четыре поколения компьютеров). Грамматика: неличные формы глагола в функции опре­деления. Задания. Тесты

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Unit 4, Data Processing Concepts……………………………………………...

Data Processing and Data Processing Systems. Advantages of Computer Data Processing. (Понятие обработки данных. Обработка информации и системы обработки информации. Преимущества обработки информации с помощью компь­ютера).                                               Грамматика: модальные глаголы. Задания. Тесты

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