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The robot that’s facing the future
How can we apply the new technology of robotics to old problems? That’s now an option on offer to engineering students at the University of Central Lancashire, and already this novel subject is inspiring revolutionary ideas.
In the heart of the hi-tech north-west’s aerospace industry, students are imagining new possibilities. Imagine being able to be in two places at the same time. Or having another version of yourself doing all the jobs you’re not keen to do.
These ideas are, thanks to new and surprisingly inexpensive technologies, finally becoming possible, and that’s part of the thinking behind ‘Makiis’.
An acronym for Makroskopic Intelligent Interaction System, Makiis is a popular name for boys in Greece – and also is a prototype ‘telepresence’ robot which allows people to interact with others anywhere in the world. We think Makiis is one of the world’s first robots that can provide enhanced human-like interaction and presence at a distance.
The fantastic thing about Makiis is that it instantaneously allows people to transport their ‘presence’ to another location. But Makiis is different to other telepresence robots; it is more than just ‘Skype on wheels’ because it also hears where sounds come from and turns to face them automatically, exactly as a human would do.
Makiis is one example of how modern technology is being used to break down traditional barriers to learning.
B. Какие из этих утверждений не упоминаются в тексте.
1. The engineering students at the University of Central Lancashire are working at the problem of robotics.
2. Robot is a machine which has a specific program.
3. New possibilities in the sphere of robotics are becoming possible.
4. Makiis is an acronym.
5. The task of Makiis is to perform scientific research, particularly in the handling of radioactive or other hazardous materials.
6. Makiis is to break down traditional barriers to learning.
7. Robots have already taken human form, but they do not have minds of their own.
Part IV
The Finite Forms of the Verb
Личные формы глагола
ACTIVE VOICE
АКТИВНЫЙ ЗАЛОГ
1. Определите, какие из данных форм являются сказуемыми.
a) To ronk, with ronking, ronked, has ronked, ronks, ronking, having been ronked, have been ronked, is ronking, with ronking, being ronked, was ronked.
b) Were ronking, will ronk, to be ronked, ronking, ronked, am ronking, will have ronked, is being ronked, to be ronked.
c) On transporting, to have transporting, has been transported, transported, to transport, having transported, transports, are transported, to be transporting.
d) Discussed, to discuss, will have discussed, were discussed, having been discussed, discussing, to have been discussed, are discussing, to have discussed, discuss, by discussing.
e) Will be asking, to be asked, being asked, asked, shall ask, to ask, asks, having asked, will have been asked, asking, are asked, have asked, from asking, was being asked, to be asked.
2. Выделите сказуемые в активной форме.
a) X was 1ed, X am 2ing, Xs were 3ed, X am being 4ed, X is being 5ed, X will be 6ing, X is 7ed, Xs are 8ing, X am 9ed, Xs were 10ing, Xs are 11ed, X is 12ing, X will be 13ed, X was being 14ed, X was 15ing, Xs were being 16ed, Xs are being 17ed.
b) Xs have 1ed, X has been 2ed, Xs have been 3ing, X has 4ed, X had been 5ed, X has been 6ing, X had 7ed, X will have been 8ed, X will have been 9ing, X will have 10ed, Xs have been 11ed.
c) X was 1ed, X am 2ing, Xs were 3ed, Xs have 4ed, X am being 5ed, X will be 6ing, Xs have been 7ed, X has been 8ing, X is 9ed, Xs are 10ing, Xs are 11ed, Xs have been 12ing, X had 13ed, X is being 14ed, X had been 15ed, X will have 16ed, X has been 17ed, Xs were 18ing, X am 19ed, X is 20ing, X will be 21ed, X was being 22ed, X has 23ed, X will have been 24ed, X was 25ing, Xs were being 26ed, Xs are being 27ed, X will have been 28ing.
3. Найдите в каждом ряду формы, имеющие значение:
a) делал, делает и установите сходства и различия этих форм:
1. X was 1ing, X 2, Xs have 3ed, X 4s, X was being 5ed, Xs have been 6ed;
2. Xs have 7ed, X is being 8ed, X 9ed, X will be 10ing, X had been 11ed;
3. X will have 12ed, Xs are 13ing, Xs were being 14ed, X will 15;
4. X has 16ed, Xs are 17ed, X 18es, Xs are 19ing, X will have 20ed;
5. Xs were being 21ed, X will 22, X had been 23ed, Xs are 24ing;
6. X was 25ed, X will have been 26ed, X will be 27ed, X was 28ing.
b) сделал, сделает:
1. X was 1ing, Xs 2, Xs have 3d, Xs 4s, X was being 5ed, Xs have been 6ed;
2. X have 7ed, X is being 8ed, X 9ed, X will be 10ing, X had been 11ed;
3. X will have 12ed, Xs are 13ing, Xs were being 14ed, X will 15;
4. X has 16ed, Xs are 17ed, X 18es, Xs are 19ing, X will have 20ed;
5. Xs were being 21ed, X will 22, X had been 23ed, Xs are 24ing;
6. X was 25ed, X will have been 26ed, X will be 27ed, X has 28ed.
4. а) Найдите структуры с глаголом to have и дайте их русские эквиваленты.
1 had translated, 2 will have translated, 3 was translating, 4as been translating, 5 am translating, 6s have translated, 7s are translating, 8s have been translating, 9 is translating, 10s were translating, 11 will have been translating, 12 has translated, 13 translates, 14 will translate.
b) Найдите структуры с глаголом to be и дайте их русские эквиваленты.
1 had received, 2s have been receiving, 3s are receiving, 4 will have received, 5 is receiving, 6 was receiving, 7 receives, 8 will be receiving, 9s were receiving, 10 has been receiving, 11 am receiving, 12s have received, 13s have been receiving, 14 is receiving, 15s were receiving, 16 will have been receiving, 17 has received.
5. Дайте русские эквиваленты речевых отрезков.
1. the discovery is leading to; 2. the discovery is critical; 3. the improvement has a reason; 4. the improvement requires; 5. we have studied the emission properties of gas plasma; 6. the concept predicts; 7. the improvement has influenced; 8. the density determines; 9. the laser has provided; 10. the devices performed.
6. В каждом предложении найдите глаголы-сказуемые и дайте их русские эквиваленты.
a) 1. We are still learning how to exploit the potential of integrated circuits.
2. Small and reliable sensing and control devices are the essential elements in complex systems.
3. This allows computers to provide multiple independent output channels.
4. The invention of the transistor triggered the rapid growth of the electronics industry.
5. Experiments lead to new theories.
6. Electrical activity takes place constantly everywhere in the universe.
7. Google Glass is the most hotly anticipated new arrival in "wearable computing" – which experts predict will become pervasive.
8. The semiconductor industry exploits the ‘whole periodic table’ to manufacture its components.
9. Integrated electronics will move not only towards more functions per slice, but towards new types of functions.
10. The Higgs boson gives all elementary particles mass, allowing for the existence of matter.
b) 1. Electronics has extended man’s intellectual potential.
2. The most striking characteristics of the microelectronics industry has been a rapid decline in cost.
3. In recent years active research has been going on in one of the fields of space industrialization – space material study and production of new materials of better quality.
4. Moore’s law has yielded fast, smart computers, with pretty graphics and worldwide connections.
5. A microelectronic technology has shrunk transistors and other circuit elements to dimensions almost invisible to unaided eye.
6. Researchers have found a way to hide messages in the data sent by voice-over-internet phone systems.
7. Scientists in Japan have found a deposit of highly concentrated rare earth minerals, crucial for the manufacturing of electronics.
8. Apple has introduced two-step authentication for iCloud and other services to beef up security against possibly hacking attacks.
9. Tweeters have been organising their thoughts using hashtags for years.
10. In the past 50 years we have moved from "mainframe" computers that needed their own rooms to ones that fit in a pocket; any smartphone nowadays has as much raw computing power as a top-of-the-line laptop from 10 years ago.
c) 1. The attempts to miniaturize electronic components are largely successful.
2. Several research groups have recently reported progress in this field.
3. The advances in DNA-based circuits offer a new, powerful platform to potentially realize researcher’s long-held biocomputing dreams.
4. His collaborators are working on a microchip modeled after neurons.
5. His team is trying to create an alternative to the architecture common to nearly every computer constructed since its invention.
6. He emphasizes that cognitive-computing architectures will not replace conventional computers but complement them.
7. Even before the invention of the transistor the electronics industry had studied the properties of thin films of metallic and insulating materials.
8. Electricity provides light, heat, and mechanical power.
9. A device that counts photons individually will help to greatly extend the range of networks that send encrypted quantum communications.
10. A new scheme for a quantum communications link will allow a sender to relax in the knowledge that only a recipient in exactly the right location can read their message.
7. A. Просмотрите текст и определите его основную идею.
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