Exercise 2. Translate the passages into Russian, paying attention to Passive forms, Paticiples and Infinitive constructions. Give two or more variants of translation if possible.

1. Computers are the backbone of modern life. To know how to input, process, store and output data and information is urgent for anyone to find a good job. Significant progress has been made in making the computer easier to use by everyone. The effect of the computer on society is held to be in every area, including government, business, science, arts and education.

 

1. People have always been extremely important to the functioning of a computer system. In the past, when computers were not so commonplace in business, many people were able to ignore them. Today, however, it is much more difficult for them to avoid becoming part of a computer system.

 

1. Hardware is known to be the actual computer equipment; it has no capabilities of its own. The equipment must be used with software, the instructions that tell the computer what to do. Systems software written by people comprises the general instructions that tell the computer how to operate; applications software comprises the specific business-task-related instructions that help a user get his or her job done. Procedures are represented by documentation such as users’ manuals, which tell users how to proceed.

 

1. Throughout the working day vast quantity of fuel and many man-hours are wasted in the traffic jams that occur all over the country because roads have long ago ceased to be able to carry all the traffic put on them. Besides the influence of inadequate road system on the cost of living and on the price of manufactured goods is enormous. There have been many attempts to count the cost of poor roads, and the fact is that the totals are astronomical.

 

 

STEP II.

Word-formation: prefixes, denoting number and quantity.

	equi- - равный macro-, micro- - очень маленький macro-, mega- - очень большой mono- - один multi- - много semi- - половина, частично bi- - два over- слишком, пере-		tri- - три quad- - четыре penta- - пять hex- - шесть   sept(tem)- - семь oct- - восемь dec- - десять
Monthly - раз в месяц grow - расти circle – круг strategy – стратегия		bi monthly – два раза в месяц over grow - перерасти semi circle - полукруг macro strategy - крупномасштабная, глобальная стратегия

 

 

Exercise 1. Translate the following pairs of words into Russian paying attention to prefixes.

Skilled – semiskilled; angle – septangle; camera – bicameral; lingual – trilingual; complex – multicomplex; electronics – microelectronics; detached – semidetached; centennial – bicentennial; come – overcome; economics – macroeconomics; player – multiplayer; come – overcome; syllable – monosyllable; metre – hexameter.

Exercise 2.   Find the words with prefixes denoting number or quantity and translate the sentences into Russian.

1. The octal and hexadecimal systems are number systems used as a form of shorthand in reading groups of four binary digits.

2. Workers who enter a semiskilled occupation do not have to undergo a long period of training.

3. Your chances to find a good job increase if you are bilingual or trilingual.

4. A megabyte equals approximately one billion bytes.

5. The decimal system is a number system with a base of 10.

6. In the USA congressional elections are a biennial affair; they are held every two years.

7. I think that the multiplexor is not working because somebody has disconnected it by mistake.

8. The two countries have signed a bilateral agreement to encourage economic cooperation with each other.

9. Assuming each firm behaves optimally, implying that one brand for each of the three original producers constitutes an equilibrium in pure strategies, we can derive the upper and lower limits for their outcome.

10. The US legislature is bicameral; it consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate.

11. The introduction of semiconductor technology revolutionized the computer industry.

 

 

  STEP 3