Чтобы правильно выполнить контрольную работу №1 необходимо усвоить следующие темы:
Раздел 1 Лингвистические особенности англоязычных информационных технологий | |
Терминология. Терминологические сочетания. | |
Сокращения. Устойчивые и фразеологические сочетания. Неологизмы. | |
Словари | |
Раздел 2. Особенности использования англоязычных информационных технологий | |
Англоязычная литература в сфере информационных технологий. | |
Периодические издания и техническая документация. | |
Презентации проектов.
Особенности перевода в сфере профессиональной коммуникации.
Техника и методика выполнения перевода .
Программные средства перевода .
Особенности перевода рефератов и аннотаций.
Виды и структура профессиональных тестов.
Контрольная работа №1
ВАРИАНТ 1.
Задание 1. Прочтите и переведите текст с английского языка на русский (устно). Составьте и запишите 7-8 вопросов к тексту на английском языке.
Text 1. COMPUTER LITERACY
Informed citizens of our information-dependent society should be computer literate, which means that they should be able to use computers as everyday problem-solving devices. They should be aware of the potential of computers to influence the quality of our life.
There was a time when only privileged people had an opportunity to learn the basics, called the three R’s: reading, writing, and arithmetics. Now, as we are quickly becoming an information-becoming society, it is time to restate this right as the right to learn reading, writing and computing. There is little doubt that computers and their many applications are among the most significant achievements of the century. They bring with them both economic and social changes. “Computing” is a concept that embraces not only the old third R, arithmetics, but also a new idea – computer literacy.
In an information society a person who is computer-literate need not to be an expert on the design of computers. He needn’t even know much about how to prepare programs which are the instructions that direct the operations of computers. All of us are already on the way to becoming computer-literate. Just think of everyday life. If you receive a subscription magazine in the post-office, it is probably addressed to you by a computer. If you buy something with a bank credit card or pay a bill by check, computers help you process the information. When you check out at the counter of your store, a computer assists the check out clerk and the store manager. When you visit your doctor, your schedules and bills and special services, such as laboratory tests, are prepared by computer. Many actions that you have taken or observed have much in common. Each relates to some aspects of a data processing system.
Задание 2.
а) Прочтите и переведите текст на русский язык письменно.
In 1952, a major computing company took a decision to get out of the business of making mainframe computers. They believed that there was only a market for four mainframes in the whole world. That company was IBM. The following year they reversed their decision.
In 1980, IBM decided that there was a market for 250,000 PCs, so they set up a special team to develop the first IBM PC. It went on sale in 1981 and set a world-wide standard for IBM-compatibility which, over the next ten years, was only seriously challenged by one other company, Apple Computers. Since then, over seventy million PCs made by IBM and other manufacturers have been sold. Over this period, PCs have become commodity items. Since IBM made the design non-proprietary, anyone can make them.
The history of the multi-billion dollar PC industry has been one of mistakes. Xerox Corporation funded the initial research on personal computers in their Palo Alto laboratory in California. However, the company failed to capitalize on this work, and the ideas that they put together went into the operating system developed for Apple's computers. This was a graphical interface: using a mouse, the user clicks on icons which represent the function to be performed.
б)
The first IBM PC was developed using existing available electrical components. With IBM's badge on the box it became the standard machine for large corporations to purchase. When IBM were looking for an operating system, they went initially to Digital Research, who were market leaders in command-based operating systems (these are operating systems in which the users type in commands to perform a function). When the collaboration between IBM and Digital Research failed, IBM turned to Bill Gates, then 25 years old, to write their operating system. Bill Gates founded Microsoft on the basis of the development of MS/DOS, the initial operating system for the IBM PC.
The widespread availability of computers has in all probability changed the world for ever. The microchip technology which made the PC possible has put chips not only into computers, but also into washing-machines and cars. Some books may never be published in paper form, but may only be made available as part of public databases. Networks of computers are already being used to make information available on a worldwide scale.
с) Ответьте на вопросы:
1. How many mainframes did IBM think it was possible to sell in 1952?
2. How many PCs have now been sold?
3. Who paid for the initial research into PCs?
4. Which company later used the results of this research to develop their operating system?
Задание 3. Выберите правильный перевод предложений, содержащих неличные формы глагола ( Infinitive , Gerund , Participle I , Participle II ).
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