Automation

Контрольная работа №1

Для студентов заочной формы обучения

По дисциплине «Основы научно-технического перевода»,

Направление 150400 «Металлургия»

(3 семестр)

Вариант 8

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

1. Silver (find) about 6000 years ago. 2. Special techniques just (advise) for solving the problem of metal shortage. 3. The process (use) widely because it was relatively easy to implement. 4. The walls of the blast furnace (subject) to high temperatures, that’s why they (line) with refractory brick. 5. Each employee must (see) as a source of ideas, not just a pair of hands.

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

1. In addition to differences in their physical properties the two materials (differ/are differed) in their technology. 2. When at rest the body (will subject/will be subjected) to normal pressure only. 3. No satisfactory explanation of this observation (has offered/has been offered). 4. Tests (scheduled/were scheduled) to start in late 2012. 5. The laboratory assistants (have reinforced/ have been reinforced) the construction.

Задание 3. Замените действительный залог страдательным:

1. The North Sea and the English Channel separate Great Britain from the European continent. 2. Students will translate a long text at the next lesson. 3. The research workers brought many devices to their laboratory last week. 4. I have forgiven him for his unbelievable lie. 5. Julius Caesar called England Albion because of the white cliffs.

Задание 4. Переведите следующие предложения на русский язык:

1. We were woken up by a loud noise during the night. 2. Is this workshop cleaned every day? 3. A mystery is something that can’t be explained. 4. What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. 5. The number of degrees of freedom is reduced by the number of imposed constraints.

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