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с Английским не спамить, фигню не писать, либо в бан) Задание 1
Put the verbs in brackets in the correct form of Past Simple:
1. Ch. Babbage and Lady Lovelace, Lord Byron’s daughter, (to work
out) a coded program. Lady Lovelace (to be) a brilliant
mathematician. She (to believe) and fully (to understand) the
potentialities of the Analytical Engine. She (to take) an active part in
Babbage’s experiments. So it is fair to say that she (to be) the
world’s first computer programmer.
2. About seventy years (to pass) before the production of the first
digital computer, similar to Babbage’s Analytical Engine. 4
3. The use of transistors instead of vacuum tubes (to make) these
computers smailer, more powerful and more reliable
Задание 2
Change the following sentences into interrogative and negative forms:
1. The student made an interesting report on the problems of storage
capacity.
2. He studied five programming languages.
3. At his last lecture the professor spoke about the invention of
computers.
4. Early computers used magnetic cores in their main memory.
5. Two major developments occurred in the late 1940’s: the
construction of programmable electronic computers and the
invention of the transistor.