Role of Automation in Technology

Automation playing an important role in great advances in technology is a well known fact. Automation, properly coordina­ted with other phases of technology, can substantially contri­bute to high productive efficiency. Mechanization of production operations and their automation is one of the most important problems.

If there were no computers, there would be no advanced au­tomation, computer science is an exciting field of study and research. Computer science being a broad discipline, it coveres logic design, the theory of computation, numerical analysis, programming and computer application.

There are different kinds of computers. Some do only one job. These are special-purpose computers. But there are some computers that can do many different jobs. They are called gene­ral-purpose computers. These are the "big brains" that solve the most difficult problems of science. They answer questions about rockets and planes bridges and ships long before these things are even built.

Today there are computers small enough to be carried In one's pocket or about the size of a typewriter. These new compu­ters are called personal computers. Computers are the most effi­cient servants man has ever had and there is no limit for their application in improving our lives and saving time for leisure.

Computers are capable of doing extremely complicated work in all branches of learning. They can solve the most complicated mathematical problems or put thousands of unrelated facts in or­der. As computers work accurately and at high speeds, they save research workers years of bard work. This whole process, by which machines сan be used to work for us, is called automation. Automation will have important social consequences.

Упр. 5. Ответьте письменно на вопросы по содержанию текста.

1. What are different kinds of computers?

2. Why do computers save research workers years of hard work?

КОНТРОЛЬНАЯ РАБОТА № 4

Вариант II

Упр. 1. Спишите и письменно переведите на русский язык предложения с зависимыми и независимыми причастными оборотами.

1. Having discussed the chemical reaction we proceeded to the experiment.

2. The chemical reaction having been discussed, we proceeded to the experiment.

3. The experiment being made in our laboratory snows the action of catalysts.

4. Ultrasonics have many advantages over other methods, one of them being great penetrating power of ultrasonic waves.

5. The field of application of electronics having considerably grown, we can perform now many industrial processes with unheard-of accuracy.

Упр. 2. Спишите и письменно переведите на русский язык предложения обращая внимание на перевод герундиальных оборотов в различных функциях.

1. Its having many advantages over other methods makes ultrasonics indispensable for modem industry.

2. Because of its being applied in different branches of modern industry electronics is growing in importance from day to day.

3. The experiments carried out with ultrasonics resulted in its being widely used in modern industry.

Упр. 3. Спишите и письменно переведите на русский язык предложения, обращая внимание на перевод форм cocлагательного наклонения.

1. They suggested that he should begin the tests immediately.

2. It is important that these new devices be used in our experiment.

3. Without radioelectronics we shouldn't have cybernetics, cosmonautics and nuclear physics.

4. Had they all the necessary materials, they would complete this device in time.

5. Provided you had known about semiconductors more, you would have understood the arrangement of this device.

Уnp. 4. Прочтите и переведите текст устно на русский язык. Выпишите в словарь незнакомые слова с транскрипцией и переводом. К собеседованию подготовьте чтение и перевод всего текста.

Спишите и письменно переведите 2-й, 3-й, 4-й абзацы текста.

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