Automation

Контрольная работа №1

Для студентов заочной формы обучения

По дисциплине «Основы научно-технического перевода»,

Направление 150400 «Металлургия»

(3 семестр)

Вариант 10

Задание 1. Поставьте глагол в нужную видовременную форму страдательного залога в зависимости от обстоятельств:

1. The most important metal on the Earth, iron, (utilize) by primitive men since the ancient times. 2. Twenty tons of scrap just (transport) to the shop for re-melting. 3. Copper, iron, molybdenum, tantalum, platinum (prepare) in powder from the oxides. 4. Dense homogeneous mass (form) when the particles of powdered materials adhered together. 5. Mixing powders of a metal and a non-metal (use) to make the finished article refractory, heat-resistant, hard-wearing, etc.

Задание 2. Выберите необходимую форму глагола в действительном или в страдательном залоге в зависимости от предложенной ситуации:

1. The investigation, however, (illustrates/is illustrated) two basic approaches to the problem. 2. The serious error (affected/was affected) the measurements. 3. They (have used/have been used) the temperature controlled system. 4. Iron content in steel (accounts/is accounted) for 99.9 per cent. 5. The achievements (earned/were earned) the scientist great popularity among his contemporaries.

Задание 3. Замените действительный залог страдательным:

1. The teacher taught us difficult rules of grammar at the last lesson. 2. Workers are building a new office at present. 3. Doctor Brown will give her some advice. 4. The organizing committee has just sent him an invitation to the conference. 5. Fleming discovered penicillin.

Задание 4. Переведите следующие предложения на русский язык:

1. All the customers’ requirements must be met. 2. No nation was ever ruined by trade. (B. Franklin) 3. Friendship is not bought at a fair. 4. Corrosion resistant properties of steel were much talked about at the last session of metallurgists in Chicago. 5. Bad news should be broken gently and good news all at once.

Задание 5. Переведите рассказ на русский язык, обращая особое внимание на глаголы с предлогами:

Automation

Automation is often referred to as a new subject and its various aspects have not yet all been paid adequate attention to. Thus, for example, its commercial aspects have been only recently fully appreciated. Many problems arising from the impact of automation on national and world economy have not even been dealt with. It is, therefore, of paramount importance that general public should be informed both of its technological and social aspects.

There is hardly any aspect of human life that would not be affected by the changes that automation will bring about. Unfortunately, there is relatively little factual material available for analyzing the consequences of automation. Indeed, most economists are not yet fully aware of the problems that might arise in the process of automation. The effect of these developments on the trend of prices, capital investments, balance of payments has not yet been fully appreciated. These subjects should be adequately dealt with in foreseeable future