State their tense and voice.

1. Invented by Babbage in 1842 and called by its inventor "analytical engine" this

machine became the first home computer.

2. Founded by Hollerith, the Tabulating Machine Company changed its name and

became known all over the world as the International Business Machine Corporation (IBM).

3. The Automatic Controlled Sequence Calculator resulted from Howard Aiken work was 40 feet long by 10 feet high.

4. It had about the same computing power as a low-priced solar-powered calculator

that a schoolchild might use today.

5. The problem concerned complicated processes taking place on the computer market.

6. The production process influenced by the general economic situation is being closely inspected.

7. The formation of the Internet Education Centres in St. Petersburg followed by other regions proved to be highly successful.

8. Given a special program the machine can translate from Chinese into English and vice versa.

9. The idea of machine-aided calculus having survived numerous ups and downs over the years of its life has only now become a world-wide reality.

10.Having been changed to conform to new ideas, the equations could be applied to problem solving.

11.Having been asked to translate into Chinese "out of sight - out of mind", the machine replied by a row of Chinese hieroglyphs.

12.With job changes occurring regularly, employees leaving and employees being hired, the problem of information securing becomes especially topical for companies.

13.The Internet providing a new method of doing business must be capable of providing the reliability for the user.

TEXT 2

WORD-STUDY

Exercise 1. Check the transcription in the dictionary and read the words listed

Below.

Nouns irony, assertion, multimedia, fiber, contemporary, wire, community, hypertext

Verbs to decommission, to consume, to associate

Exercise 2. Read and translate the words and collocations.

Pivotal period, to stress the fact, apart from the fact, research proposal, funding authorities, the span of time, be it text or graphics, vehicle for online advertising, multimedia facilities, to fuel imagination.

Exercise 3. Match the synonyms.

Verbs

1) attribute

2) highlight

3) master

4) reveal

5) stress

6) deliver

a) emphasize

b) discover

c) transmit

d) show

e) promise

f) ascribe

g) improve

h) provide

Adjectives

1. enormous

2. private

3. contemporary

4. powerful

5. previous

a) constant

b) personal

c) interactive

d) tremendous

e) modern

f) important

g) preceding

Exercise 4. Make nouns from the following adjectives according to the model and translate them.

Adjective+-ness

white, loud, clear, enormous, useful, attractive, exact, busy, user-friendly.

Exercise 5. Be attentive and remember the meaning of the underlined terms and

Words.

1. High-speed and long-distance networks connecting other networks to the Internet became major links and were termed "backbones".

2. A computer providing other computers on a Network with valuable data was called a "host".

3. WWW is an information space on the Internet unified by a common addressing

system and containing a mix of text, sound, graphic and animation files which can

have links between each other even if they are on different servers.

4. Browser is a program created for searching, navigating and displaying the computer material through the Web.

5. Data with links between separate elements that allowed users to move through information non-sequentially was termed as hypertext.

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