Задание 1. Укажите номера предложений, в которых окончание «-s» является показателем: a) множественного числа имени существительного; b) притяжательного падежа имени существительного; c) глагола в 3-м лице ед.числа Present Simple. 1. The main task facing our people now is to build up the country’s economy. 2. She never listens to the advice which I give her. 3. Some books may never be published in paper form, but may only be made available as part of public databases.
Задание 2. Укажите номера предложений, в которых указательные местоимения this, these, that, those выступают как заместители ранее упомянутых существительных. Назовите эти существительные.
1. An important matter is that of raising the effectiveness of external economic relations 2. For the last generation, Silicon Valley and Tokyo have been working to design computers that are ever easier to use. 3. These control systems are more efficient than those described in that journal.
Задание 3. Укажите номера предложений, в которых встречаются сравнительные конструкции, имеющие значение: a) такой же, … как; b) не такой, … как; с) чем; d) чем … тем. 1. The world is in the midst of an electronic revolution at least as significant as the industrial revolution of the 19th century. 2. Clipboard PCs are not much bigger than an actual clipboard. 3. The bigger the mass, the bigger the weight of the body. 4. This is not such an interesting book as his last one. Задание 4. Read the text. Then read the titles. Which of the following titles is the best? 1. Portable Computers. 2. Desktop Computers. 3. Clipboard Computers. 4. Mainframe Computers.
Задание 5. Read the text again. Choose the best sentence from the list below to complete each gap. 1. For the last generation, Silicon Valley and Tokyo have been working to design computers that are ever easier to use. There is one thing, however, that has prevented the machines from becoming their user friendliest: you still have to input data with a keyboard, and that can require you to do a lot of typing and to memorize a lot of elaborate commands. 2. Enter the clipboard computer, a technology that has been in development for the last 20 years but took hold in the mass market only this year. Clipboard PCs –which, as their name suggests, are not much bigger than an actual clipboard — replace the keyboard with a liquid crystal display (LCD) screen and an electronic stylus. 1 ____. 3. There are two technologies at work in a clipboard PC: one allows raw data to get into the computer and the other allows the computer to figure out what that data means. The first technology relies principally on hardware and varies depending on the particular computer. In one system, marketed under the name GRID Pad, the computer’s LCD screen is covered by a sheet of glass with a transparent conductive coating. Voltages are sent across the glass in horizontal and vertical lines forming a fine grid; at any point on the grid, the voltage is slightly different. When the stylus — which is essentially a voltmeter — touches the screen, it informs the computer of the voltage at that point. 2 ____. The position of the stylus is monitored several hundred times a second, so as the stylus moves across the glass, whole strings of pixels are activated. 4. Making that writing comprehensible to the computer, however, requires the help of some powerful software. When the stylus is being used, the computer is programmed to look for moments when the tip does not touch the screen for a third of a second or more. 3____. The pixel positions of this fresh character are then passed on to the computer’s pattern recognition software, which instantly identifies the letter or number written. 5. The software does this by first cleaning up the character — smoothing out crooked lines and removing errant dots. 4 ____. When the computer finds the closest match, it encodes the character in memory and displays it on the screen as if it had been typed. 5 ____. To move to the next page, you flick the stylus at the bottom of the screen as if you’re flicking the page of a book.
a) The computer uses this information to determine where the stylus is and causes a liquid crystal pixel to appear at those coordinates. b) The remaining lines and curves are then compared with a series of templates in the computer’s memory that represent hundreds of thousands of different versions of every letter in the English alphabet and all ten numerals. c) Users input data by printing individual letters directly on the screen. d) To delete a word, you simply draw a line through it. e) Every time this happens the software assumes that one letter or number has been written.
Задание 6. Choose the best answer to these questions according to the text. How big is a clipboard PC? a) It is smaller than an actual clipboard. b) It is not much bigger than an actual desktop computer. c) It is not much bigger than an actual clipboard. 1. How does the computer know when one letter or number is complete? a) The software decides that one character or number is complete if the tip of the stylus is not in contact with the screen for more than half a second. b) The computer is programmed to look for moments when the tip does not touch the screen for a third of a second or more. c) The computer gives a user one second for each letter or number. 2. How can you delete a word after you have written it? a) You must clean the screen with a special piece of cloth. b) You must write a word ‘delete’ on the screen. c) You draw a line through it. 3. How can you change the page? a) You must write ‘next page’ on the screen. b) You must draw a line at the top of the screen. c) You must flick the stylus at the bottom of the screen. 5. Does a clipboard computer have a keyboard? a) On a clipboard, an electronic pen replaces the traditional keyboard. b) A clipboard computer uses a keyboard instead of a stylus. c) Every clipboard computer has a keyboard and a stylus.
