Письменно переведите 4 абзац текста.

Образуйте новые слова по образцу.

Образец: technology - technological (технологический)

1) medicine -

2) mechanic –

3) person -

Заполните таблицу, используя информацию из текста.

Item	In the past	Nowadays
1. to make telephone calls
2. to enter the price of products
3. to do bank transactions
4. to create documents
5. to get information
6. to diagnose medical
conditions
7. to connect people
8. to go shopping

5. Выпишите глаголы, которые употребляются в страдательном залоге из 4 абзаца текста.

Переведите предложения.

1) We used to play that game when we were young.

2) Where did people use to buy their food before the supermarket was built?

ВАРИАНТ 5

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Technology in our lives

Technology plays a role in all aspects of our lives - the way we work, the way we live at home. The speed of technological change in the past 100 years has been incredible.

The early telephones were large, and they did not even have dials or buttons. You picked up a receiver and talked to an operator who made a call for you. Nowadays, cellular telephones fit in our pockets, and we can use them to make phone calls from anywhere to anywhere. In grocery stores, cashiers used to punch keys on cash registers to enter the price of each item. These days, scanners read bar codes on products packaging, and the prices are recorded by computerized cash register. In the past we made a trip to the bank to deposit or withdraw money. Now we can use ATMs (automated teller machines). And many people do their bank transactions at home on line.

Modern technology has dramatically improved our lives. Personal computers enable us to create documents, store information, and analyze data - at work or at home. The Internet allows us to send and receive e-mail messages, connects us to the World Wide Web, and allows us to go shopping online from our homes. Miniature cameras that patients can swallow permit doctors to diagnose medical conditions without surgery. «Smart homes» operated by computers turn lights on and off as people enter or leave the rooms and enable the homeowners to «call their houses» to turn on the heat or air conditioning.

Many people feel, however, that technology has its price. With automated supermarket checkout lines, ATMs and online banking, and Internet shopping, we can meet our daily needs without having contact with other people. Life with technology can be very lonely! Also, many people are concerned about privacy. Technology makes it possible for companies or the government to monitor our use of the Internet. Our credit card numbers, bank account information, medical information, and other personal data are all stored on computers. Protecting that information will be an important issue in the years ahead. Bliss.

(From «Side by Side», by Steven J. Molinsky, Bill)

Письменно переведите 4 абзац текста.

Образуйте новые слова по образцу.

Образец: technology - technological (технологический)

1. technics -

2. physics –

3. digit -

Заполните таблицу, используя информацию из текста.

Item	In the past	Nowadays
1. to make telephone calls
2. to enter the price of products
3. to do bank transactions
4. to create documents
5. to get information
6. to diagnose medical
conditions
7. to connect people
8. to go shopping

Раскройте скобки, употребляя глаголы в Present, Past или Future Simple Passive.

1. My question (to answer) yesterday. 2. Hockey (to play) in winter.

Переведите предложения.

1) I used to think he was unfriendly but now I realise he is a very nice person.

2) There used to be a dancehall here, but they knocked it down.

ВАРИАНТ 6

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Technology in our lives

Technology plays a role in all aspects of our lives - the way we work, the way we live at home. The speed of technological change in the past 100 years has been incredible.

(From «Side by Side», by Steven J. Molinsky, Bill)

Письменно переведите 4 абзац текста.

Образуйте новые слова по образцу.

Образец: technology - technological (технологический)

1) structure -

2) nature –

3) electronics -

Заполните таблицу, используя информацию из текста.

Item	In the past	Nowadays
1. to make telephone calls
2. to enter the price of products
3. to do bank transactions
4. to create documents
5. to get information
6. to diagnose medical
conditions
7. to connect people
8. to go shopping

Раскройте скобки, употребляя глаголы в Present, Past или Future Simple Passive.

1. Mushrooms (to gather) in autumn.

2. Many houses (to burn) during the Great Fire of London.

Переведите предложения.

1) Did you use to live in London?

2) This building is now a furniture shop. It used to be a cinema.

ВАРИАНТ 7

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How to Be a Successful Inventor

Well, you need good timing for a start. You can have a great idea which the public simply does not want...yet. Take the Italian priest, Giovanni Caselli, who invented the first fax machine using an enormous pendulum in the 1860s. Despite the excellent quality of the reproductions, his invention quickly died a commercial death. It was not until the 1980s that the fax became an essential piece of equipment in every office. Too late for Signor Caselli.

Money also helps. The Frenchman Denis Papin (1647-1712) had the idea for a steam engine almost a hundred years before the better-remembered Scotsman James Watt was even born... but he never had enough money to build one.

You also need to be patient (it took scientists nearly eighty years to develop a light bulb which actually worked). But not too patient. In the 1870s, Elisha Gray, a professional inventor from Chicago, developed plans for a telephone. Gray saw it as no more than «a beautiful toy», however. When he finally sent details of his invention to the Patent Office on February 14^th 1876, it was too late; almost identical designs had arrived just two hours earlier. and the young man who sent them, Alexander Graham Bell, will always be remembered as the inventor of the telephone.

You also need good commercial sense. Willy Higinbotham was a scientist doing nuclear research in the Brookhaven National Laboratoty in Upton, USA. In 1958 the public were invited to the Laboratory to see their work; but both parents and children were less interested in the complicated equipment and diagrams than in a tiny 120cm. screen with a white dot which could be hit back and forth over a «net» using a button and a knob. Soon hundreds of people were ignoring the other exhibits to play the first ever computer game -made from a simple laboratory instrument called an «oscilloscope». Higinbotham, however never made a cent from his invention: he thought people were only interested in the game because the other exhibits were so boring!

(From «Cutting Edge» by S. Cunningham,

Longman, 1998)

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