Вариант б

1. Перепишите и переведите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на специфику перевода герундия. Укажите форму и функцию герундия в каждом случае. Обратите внимание, что в одном предложении может быть два герундия.

Образец: We succeeded in building of flexible systems. – Нам удалось создать гибкие системы. Building – the Active Simple Gerund, функция – предложное дополнение.

1. We were all for starting the production of new hardware at once.

2. Anti-virus vendors will have to continue extending their products to address more types of security problems, as well as to better detect the rapidly increasing number of viruses.

3. ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) contributed to the cold war by helping to complete calculations for the first hydrogen bomb.

4. The aim of using a new device is reducing the IC (Integrated Circuit) size.

5. Computers were appreciated for their having completely changed many fields of human activity.

6. The purpose of the new method of operation is determining stability of system.

7. Rendering refers to the techniques used to make realistic images.

8. It was only materials shortage that prevented ENIAC from being finished in time to make contribution to World War II.

9. Stage two involved planning the experiment, conducting it, data taking and data evaluation. Stage three related to drawing the conclusions and making recommendations.

10. Some interfaces allow plug-and-play, the possibility of connecting new hardware of the computer without having to adjust or configure the system to take the new hardware into account: the interface program recognizes the hardware automatically.

2. Перепишите и переведите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на специфику перевода инфинитива. Укажите форму и функцию инфинитива в каждом случае. Обратите внимание, что в одном предложении может быть два инфинитива.

Образец: Antivirus or anti-virus software is software used to prevent, detect and remove malware. – Антивирусное программное обеспечение – программное обеспечение, используемое для предотвращения, обнаружения и удаления вредоносных программ. To prevent, detect, remove – the Simple Active Infinitive, функция – обстоятельство

1. To use the Internet to conduct a real business has become every businessperson's need.

2. The progress of electronics to have resulted in the invention of electronic computers was a breakthrough of the second part of the 20th century.

3. A multi-tasking operating system allows more than one program to be running at a time, from the point of view of human time scales.

4. As you may have already guessed when it comes to Internet security, it is best to have more than one system of protection in place.

5. A procedural language expresses the procedure to be followed to solve a problem.

6. When output is available, output interfaces must be designed to reverse the process and to adopt the output to the external environment.

7. A lot of companies are now trying to develop voice applications for web access.

8. He must have been looking for a job of systems analyst for 2 years already.

3. Выпишите сначала 3 предложения, в состав которых входит сложное подлежащее, а затем 3 предложения со сложным дополнением. В каждом случае подчеркните слова, составляющие инфинитивный оборот, и определите форму инфинитива. Предложения переведите.

1. This type of programs seems to be promising.

2. The Web is stated to have created a standard that everybody could follow.

3. We thought the new applications programmer to have been working for our competitor before.

4. Though it is difficult to predict what the next major class of viruses will be or when it will hit, the place it hits is likely to be the Internet.

5. People involved in business know several cases of on-line fraud and computer based espionage to have been committed.

6. IBM was unable to dominate personal computers as it had the mainframe market, since IBM had exclusive rights neither to the central processing chip that was the "brains" of the personal computer nor to the disk operating system (DOS) software that made the hardware perform its basic functions.

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