III. Перепишите предложения, выбрав подходящие по смыслу видовременные формы глагола. Переведите предложения на русский язык. Укажите время и залог выбранных форм глаголов.

Example: Their new house hasn’t been finished/ hasn’t finished yet. - Their new house hasn’t been finished yet. (Present Perfect, Passive Voice) – Их новый дом еще не закончен.

1. The flat is consisted/ consists of a living room, my parents’ room and my room.

2. The writing-table and two chairs were placed/placed near the window.

3. The kitchen serves/ will be served us as a dining room.

4. The guests were being offered/was offering the drinks.

IV. Перепишите предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на определительные и дополнительные придаточные предложения.

Example: Lomonosov was one of those rare minds whose scientific ideas were scores of years ahead of their time. – Ломоносов был одним из тех редких умов, научные идеи которого на десятилетия опережали его время.

1. Don’t cook the meat that I put in the freezer- it’s for the dog.

2. The computers, which have been on sales for months, proved to be unreliable.

3. Buy vanilla ice cream. It’s the only flavour that he likes.

4. She has now moved back to the house on Long Island in which she was born.

V. Прочитайте текст. Постарайтесь понять его содержание. Выполните задания после текста. The evolution of computers

1. A computer is an electronic device used to process information. It is this function of the computer that placed it at the center of our transition from the industrial period of our society to the information age. Today, we encounter computers in almost every aspect of society. Computers are highly visible in such professions as education, science, medicine, and business, but they also can be found behind-the-scenes at the grocery store, in our automobiles, microwave ovens, and VCRs.

2. Computers have evolved through several generations. Each new generation is based on technological innovations and new methods of processing data.

The first generation began with the development of the earliest large mainframe computers. These room-sized computers, such as the UNI VAC 1, were based on electromechanical devices and vacuum-tube technology.

3. Computers based on the transistor, which was invented in the late 1950s, mark the beginning of the second generation of computers. Transistors brought about the development of smaller, faster, and more efficient computers.

The third generation of computers used integrated circuits which opened the door for the creation of even smaller and faster computers. These smaller computers were known as minicomputers and were the first to incorporate operating systems which automated many of the computer's operational tasks, tasks that had been formerly handled by humans.

4. The fourth generation of computers is characterized by large-scale integration of computer circuitry and small microprocessors. Microcomputers (also called personal computers or PCs) were based on these microprocessors and they put computing power into the hands of individual users. In the future, computers that utilize artificial intelligence technologies will be able to make decisions based on accumulated evidence.

5. Although the technological innovations that mark the different generations in the evolution of the computer are generally concerned with the central processing capabilities of the computer, a computer system is actually an integrated set of computing components. A computer system requires input devices (keyboard, mouse, scanners, etc.) to get information into the computer and output devices (monitor, printer, etc.) to get information out of the computer. These physical components of the computer are known as hardware. The set of instructions or programs that are created by programmers to control the computer's response to user input are known as software.

Notes:

electronic device	электронное устройство
to process	обрабатывать
issue	вопрос
visible	видимый
evolve	развиваться
vacuum tube	электровакуумная лампа
invent	изобретать
incorporate	объединять, включать
circuitry	схемы
large scale integration	высокая степень интеграции
artificial intelligence	искусственный интеллект