Готові завдання з Іноземної мови за професійним спрямуванням (Пустовойченко) для 2 курсу, 1 семестр
Практична робота 1-2
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Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert) (1885-1930) — English writer
WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS
Walkman — a trademark used for a pocketsize audio-cassette player, radio, or combined unit with lightweight earphones
health hazards — a danger of catching a disease
industrial stack — a group of chimneys arranged together
leukemia — a type of cancer in which the blood contains too many white blood cells, causing weakness and sometimes death
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EXERCISES
Answer the questions according to the text.
What are scientists and researchers eager to do?
Scientists, researchers, engineers and designers are eager to emulate the material achievements and living standards of the industrially advanced countries
What things make our life more exciting?
remote control unit, a video recorder, a camera or a Walkman. PC, an answer-phone, a fax machine and a photocopier.
What are the advantages of the microwave?
Its greatest advantage is a huge reduction of time needed to prepare a dis
4. Why are the PCs being widely used on nearly all spheres of everyday life? They can pay wages, reserve seats on planes, control sputniks in space, work out tomorrow's weather, play chess and compose music. They even help police fight crime, saving the detective from checking the information, identifying the fingerprints or making a photorobot
5. What is a VR?
virtual reality. This amazing thing allows us to experience another dimensions.
6. What problems do people face as the technologies advance?
problem of air pollution, wasted lands and health hazards
7. How can G. B. Shaw's saying be applied to technical progress?
George Bernard Shaw used to say that maximum of opportunities is always combined with maximum of temptation.
