Internet and Modern Life

ВАРИАНТ 2

Задание 1. Составь мини диалог

Прочитай фразы. Подбери к каждой фразе подходящую ответную реплику. Каждый правильный ответ оценивается в 1 балл. Максимальное количество 4 балла.

 - (1)

- Hi, George, nice to meet you too. This heavy bag is full of books and I'm carrying them to the University library.

- (2)

- It's a fine day today. It takes me about 20 minutes to get there and I'm always in time.

- (3)

- Why don't you go by metro?

- (4)

(a) - Well, on foot. Why not take a bus?

(b) - It's not very convenient for me as there's ho station near my place.

(c) - Oh, it takes me three quarters to get here by bus. And buses start getting on my nerves.

(d)- Hi, John, glad to see you. Where are you going with such a heavy bag? Are you leaving for anywhere?   

Задание 2. Составь предложения из предложенных слов. Каждое предложение оценивается в 1 балл. Максимальное количество 4 балла.

1. Kate's, is, a, doctor, father, good.

 2. He, interesting, give, you, an, book, can.

 3. Has, at, she, o'clock, dinner, usually, two.

 4. She, does, what, evening, do, the, in?

Задание 3. Выбери подходящее по смыслу слово. Каждый правильный ответ оценивается в 1 балл. Максимальное количество 5 баллов.

 The (1)____of seeing "live" shows in the living room was immediately attractive — and the (2)______are still being measured. (3)_____ was developed at a time when Americans were becoming more affluent and more mobile. Traditional family ways were weakening. Watching TV soon became a social (4)____. Millions of people set up their activities and lifestyles around TV's(5) _______ schedule. In fact, in the average American household, the television is watched 7 hours a day.

Effects, TV, program, idea, ritual.

Задание 4. Напишите своему другу по переписке email сообщение (5-10 предложений) c описанием своего рабочего дня. Каждое правильное предложение оценивается в 1 балл. Максимальное количество баллов - 10.

 

Задание 5. Подбери к слову перевод. Каждое соответствие оценивается в 1 балл. Максимальное количество 8 балло8

1. air                                         a)   трава

2. crones                                   b)  заморозок

3. desertification                      c)   холм

 

 

 4. effluent                                 e)   крона

5. frost                                      f)   воздух

6. grass                                     g)   опустынивание

7. hill                                        h)   изморось

Задание 6. Установи соответствие между пословицей и переводом. Каждый правильный ответ оценивается в 1 балл. Максимальное количество 4 балла.

1.  It is never too late to learn.                          a) Без труда не вытащишь и рыбку из пруда.
2.  Jack of all trades and master of none.         b) Утро вечера мудренее.
3.  No pain, no gain.                                         с) Не умеешь, не берись.
4. An hour in the morning is worth                  d) Учиться никогда не поздно.

two in the evening.

Задание 7. Закончите следующие предложения, употребив каждый глагол дважды: один раз в Present Simple, а другой - в Present Continuous. Каждый правильный ответ оценивается в 1 балл. Максимальное количество 4 балла.

Expect

a. I ______ an important phone call from America. Could you tell me when it comes?

b. I _____ you're hungry after so much hard work. Shall I get you something?

Appear

c. He _________ to understand what you say to him, but when you ask him a question, he isn't so sure.

d. Roy Pond _________ at Her Majesty's Theatre in the role of King Lear.

    Задание 8. Напишите три формы глаголов. Каждый правильный ответ оценивается в 1 балл. Максимальное количество 9 балла.

Put, sing, dance, feed, read, wear, wait, run, rise.

Задание 9. Закончи предложение. Правильный ответ оценивается в 1 балл.

British Prime Minister lives in ……………………..
a) White hall                    b) Houses of Parliament

c) 10 Downing street        d) the Westminster Palace

 

Задание 10. Прочитайте текст, ответьте на вопросы. Используйте краткие ответы. Каждый правильный ответ оценивается в 1 балл. Максимальное количество 3 балла.

Internet and Modern Life

The Internet has already entered our ordinary life. Everybody knows that the Internet is a global computer network, which embraces hundreds of millions of users all over the world and helps us to communicate with each other.

The history of Internet began in the United States in 1969. It was a military experiment, designed to help to survive during a nuclear war, when everything around might be polluted by radiation and it would be dangerous to get out for any living being to get some information to anywhere. Information sent over the Internet takes the shortest and safest path available from one computer to another. Because of this, any two computers on the net will be able to stay in touch with each other as long as there is a single route between them. This technology was called packet switching.

Invention of modems, special devices allowing your computer to send the information through the telephone line, has opened doors to the Internet for millions of people.

Most of the Internet host computers are in the United States of America. It is clear that the accurate number of users can be counted fairly approximately, nobody knows exactly how many people use the Internet today, because there are hundreds of millions of users and their number is growing.

Nowadays the most popular Internet service is e-mail. Most of the people use the network only for sending and receiving e-mail messages. They can do it either they are at home or in the internet clubs or at work. Other popular services are available on the Internet too. It is reading news, available on some dedicated news servers, telnet, FTP servers, etc.

In many countries, the Internet could provide businessmen with a reliable, alternative to the expensive and unreliable telecommunications systems its own system of communications. Commercial users can communicate cheaply over the Internet with the rest of the world. When they send e-mail messages, they only have to pay for phone calls to their local service providers, not for international calls around the world, when you pay a good deal of money.

But saving money is only the first step and not the last one. There is a commercial use of this network and it is drastically increasing. Now you can work through the internet, gambling and playing through the net.

However, there are some problems. The most important problem is security. When you send an e-mail, your message can travel through many different networks and computers. The data is constantly being directed towards its destination by special computers called routers. Because of this, it is possible to get into any of the computers along the route, intercept and even change the data being sent over the Internet. But there are many encoding programs available. Not with-standing, these programs are not perfect and can easily be cracked.

Another big and serious problem of the net is control. Yes, there is no effective control in the Internet, because a huge amount of information circulating through the net. It is like a tremendous library and market together. In the future, the situation might change, but now we have what we have. It could be expressed in two words— an anarchist's dream.

Questions:

 1. When did the history of Internet begin?

2. Where are most of the Internet host computers?
 3. What is the most important problem of the Internet?