Вариант 2

1. Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык следующие предложения. Помните, что объектный и субъектный инфинитивные обороты соответствуют придаточным предложениям (см. образец выполнения 1).

1. Sequoyah’s desire to preserve words and events for later generations has caused him to be remembered among the important inventors.

2. This article is expected to be published next month.

3. A few oil fields are said to be in that region.

2. Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык следующие предложения. Обратите внимание на перевод зависимого и независимого (самостоятельного) причастных оборотов (см. образец выполнения 2).

1. A precipitant which seems to be extremely slightly soluable may fail to be dissolved completely.

2. Thermistors to be used at high frequencies of input power and temperature fluctuations are considered to be high-speed thermistors.

3. Coming to the building site they found the work in full swing.

3. Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык следующие сложные предложения. Обратите внимание на то, как переводятся условные предложения (см. образец выполнения 3).

1. A redistribution of charges would take place if two charged conductors were connected by a wire.

2. If one knows the frequency of the ware, one is able to determine its length.

3. If we had used this new method last year we would have obtained better results.

4. Прочтите и устно переведите с 1-й по 5-й абзацы текста. Перепишите и письменно переведите 1, 2, 3 и 4-й абзацы.

COMPUTER NOWADAYS

1. When faced with some new possibly bewildering technological change most people react in one of two ways. They either recoil from anything new, claiming that it is unnecessary, or too complicated or that it somehow makes life less than human. Or they learn to adopt to the new invention, and eventually wonder how they could possibly have existed without it. Take computers as an example.

2. For many of us, they still represent a control to our freedom, and give us a frightening sense of a future in which all decisions will be taken by machines. This may be because they seem mysterious, and difficult to understand. Ask most people what they can use a home computer for, and you usually get vague answers about how «they’ll give you information!»

3. In fact, even those of us who are familiar with computers, and use them in our daily work, have very little idea of their work. But it does not take long to learn how to create a business programme, even if things occasionally go wrong for no apparent reason.

4. Presumably much the same happened when the telephone and the television became widespread. What seems to alarm most people is the speed of technological change, rather than change itself.

5. And the objections that are made to new technology may well have a point to them, since change is not always an improvement. As we discover during power cuts, there is a lot to be said for the oil lamp, the coal fire, and forms of entertainment, such as books or board games, that do not have to be plugged to work.

5. Прочтите 5-й абзац текста и ответьте письменно на следующий вопрос:

Is change always an improvement?