Кафедра иностранных языков. Итоговый контроль

1. Кафедра иностранных языков Дисциплина: Иностранный язык Преподаватель: Чистюхина Юлия Вадимовна

Итоговый контроль
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2. Билет 1

1. What is an application program? What application
programs can you say? What kind of programs do you choose
to perform the following tasks:
to create, edit and save documents;
to make a phone book, inventory list, a personal file;
to store and calculate volumes of financial data for banks;
2. Make up your own sentences - instructions
Simple instruction
Using sequence words (последовательные слова)
Emphasizing two instructions
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3. Билет 2

1. What is spreadsheet in an application programm? What is
database? What are the perfect tools for creating drawings? What
are desktop publishing programs used to?
2. Say all tense forms. What tense are they? Translate the
sentences into Russian.
a) I stayed at this job until March 2004.
b) Chat and Instant Messaging technologies allow you to have
real-time conversations online, by typing messages at the
keyboard.
c) In 2006 hackers stole the credit card details of almost 20,000
AT&T online customers.
d) Since 2012, I’ve been a computer operator for Promoprint.
e) When my mom came I was surfing the net.
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4. Билет 3

1. What is multimedia? How is it used in business? How are
multimedia technologies used in education?
2. Say all tense forms. What tense are they? Translate the
sentences into Russian.
a) She’s added a sound track.
b) Soon, engineers will have built different types of android.
c) Since 2012, I’ve been a computer operator for
Promoprint.
d) He’s organizing the paintings into themes now.
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5. Билет 4

1. Introduce yourself as a professional. Describe your real or dream job.
What’s your name? What’s your education? Where do you work or do you
plan to work? Why? What do you do? What are the duties of this
profession? What are your strengths? What are your skills?
2. Complete these sentences with passive form of the verbs in brackets.
a) In future the whole suite of services ……..(base) on voice processing,
allowing a natural voice interface to talk to the computer.
b) Electronic money doesn’t have to ……….(link) to any national currency,
so can be independent of local currency fluctuations.
c) Microprocessors (make)………………. of silicon
d) Call centres (use)……….. to deal with telephone enquiries.
e) In recent years, most mobile phones (equip) ………… with Bluetooth.
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6. Билет 5

1. What is a computer? What types of computers do you
know? Which one do you prefer and why? What are the
components of a computer?
2. Make the sentences passive
a) Companies are developing products that organize
information graphically in more intuitive ways.
b) We will not soon require keyboards and mice for using
personal computers.
c) Doctors use the system to access a number of databases.
d) You can download single tracks.
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7. Билет 6

1. What is hardware? What are the examples of it? What is
software? What are the examples of it?
2. Say all tense forms. What tense are they? Translate the
sentences into Russian.
a) They hope that people will interact naturally with
hundreds of smart devices at a time.
b) He’s organizing the paintings into themes now.
c) She’s added a sound track.
d) In a few years, doctors will be using expert systems to
diagnose illnesses.
e) Soon, engineers will have built different types of android.
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8. Билет 7

1. What do computer peripherals include? What are the examples
of storage devices? What are input/output devices?
2. Open the brackets and put the verbs in the correct tense forms:
Present simple, Present Continuous, Present Perfect, Future Simple,
Past Simple, Future Perfect, Future Continuous.
a) In 2001, The Code Red worm (infect) tens of thousands of
machines.
b) When Kevin Minick (begin) hacking?
c) I already (scan) in about a third of these photographs.
d) The best database packages also (include) network facilities,
which can make businesses more productive.
e) In the future, gesture recognition systems (produce) photorealistic images.
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9. Билет 8

1. What is an operating system? What is its function
2. Open the brackets and put the verbs in the correct tense
forms: Present simple, Present Continuous, Present Perfect,
Future Simple, Past Simple, Future Perfect, Future Continuous.
a) My laptop has crashes! Don’t worry. I (lend) you mine.
b) At the moment I (work) on my project. I (search) the Web for
sites on digital cameras.
c) In 1992 David L. Smith (be) prosecuted for writing the
Melissa virus, which was passed in Word files sent via email.
d) Thanks to ICT, by the year 2030 we (find) cures for the major
diseases of our time.
e) By this time next week, I (work) for IBM.
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10. Билет 9

1. What are the most common operating systems? Which one is the
most and least popular and why?
2. Choose all the examples of passive. What tense are they?
a) Neural networks looks at the rules of using data, which are based
on the connections found or on a sample set of data.
b) Once the data to be mined is identified, it should be cleansed.
c) The power of data mining is being used for many purposes, such
as analysing Supreme Court decisions, discovering patterns in
health care, pulling stories about competitors from newswires,
etc.
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11. Билет 10

1. What do you think is the main difference of the computer from
other machines?
2. Choose all the examples of passive. What tense are they?
a) Virtual reality systems are being developed throughout the world
for a range of uses.
b) Robert T. Morris Jr, the son of a prominent National Security
Agency computer consultant, was sentenced for his offence
yesterday. As punishment, he was required to contribute 400
hours of community service, and to pay a $10,000 fine.
c) Telecoms applications will soon be bundled together in much the
same way as office application suites are today.
d) He has been charged with 10 courts of downloading
unauthorised information.
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12. Билет 11

1. Why is Windows so popular? Give two reasons.
2. Choose all the examples of passive. What tense are they?
a) I’m frequently asked which online service is ‘best, but the
answer is there is no best.
b) Some operating systems are adopted as ‘industry standards’
and these are the ones which should be evaluated because
they normally have a good software base.
c) An operating system is stored on disk and has to be booted
into the internal memory (RAM) where it must reside
throughout processing so that commands are instantly
available.
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13. Билет 12

1. Сhoose one operating system and gives the arguments why it
is the best one.
2. Rewrite each of the sentences use gerund.
a) An important function of the operating system is to manage
the computer’s resources.
b) One task of the supervisor program is to load into memory
non-resident programs as required.
c) The role of operating system is to communicate directly with
the hardware.
d) One of the key function of the the operating system is to
establish a ser interface.
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14. Билет 13

1. What is GUI? Give your idea.
2. Rewrite each of the sentences use gerund.
a) An additional role is to provide services for applications
services software.
b) Part of the work of mainframe operating system is to
support multiple programs and users.
c) The task in most cases is to facilitate interaction between a
single user a PC.
d) One of the most important functions of a computer is to
process large amounts of data quickly.
e) The main reason for installing more memory is to allow the
computer to process data faster.
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15. Билет 14

1. What are the advantages of GUI that made it so popular?
Can you name some computer systems that use GUI?
2. Choose the correct variant.
Sun Microsystems …… Java in 1995.
a) has developed b) developed c) was developing d) have
developed
By this time next month, I …… that Blackberry that I’ve been
wanting to buy for months.
a) will have bought b) will buy c) will be buying d) buy
People in every country …… high speed access to the
internet within five years.
a) will be having b) will have had c) will have d) have
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16. Билет 15

1. In what spheres of our life can we use multimedia programs? What
are the most important components of multimedia? What is done
to improve them?
2. Fill in the blanks correct form of the word given in brackets.
a) If money supply in most countries (comprise) ________________
only currency in the past, business transactions would have been
impossible.
b) If the public had not begun to expect inflation, lenders (not, insist)
____________ on higher interest rates.
c) Your computer could process data faster if you ( install) a faster
process.
d) The demand for labor (not, increase)_____________ if there had
not been the increase in business activity.
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