Form 11. Unit 5. Inventions and Lifestyle. The Topical Test.

Read the text and choose the correct word for the sentence.

DIGITAL CAMERAS WORKING AS COMPUTERS

A lot of us have already noticed the existence of          [digital, electric] cameras. These are cameras that have an electronic             [masterpiece, image] sensor (sensitive to light - something like a miniature         [scanner, printer]) instead of film. The         [picture, audio] created on this sensor is “scanned” after pressing the release          [keyboard, button] and saved into the camera’s        [memory, CD]. Then all you have to do is to                             [download it from a computer, upload it into a computer] and print it - and here comes a photo.

Read the text and choose the correct word for the sentence.

DIGITAL CAMERAS WORKING AS COMPUTERS

The advantage of such               [photographing, picturing] is that you can go on clicking and taking pictures as long as the          [film's, camera’s] memory allows you to. Then you empty the memory into            [a computer, an image] and you can continue shooting. Before you actually       [scan, print] your pictures you can choose those you like best and        [erase, upload] the rest.

Read the text and choose the correct word for the sentence.

DIGITAL CAMERAS WORKING AS COMPUTERS

That is surely grand! There were people, however, who wanted more. And as digital         [cameras, films] are in fact little computers that consist of similar            [pictures, components] to an “ordinary” PC, it was not difficult. Clever tech-heads soon turned a digital camera into                   [a mini-smartphone, a mini-computer] on which you could even play computer games. You only have to look for the right programs on the          [Internet, computer], load them into your digital camera and start up the camera in the necessary mode.