Поставьте глаголы в настоящее время и переведите: 1. robert … twenty-five pounds a week. (earn) 2. robert … beautiful pictures. (paint) 3. she … to come here. (want) 4. they … to buy a television-set. (want) 5. it … two hours to get there. (take) 6. this sweater … four pounds. (cost) 7. ted … football well. (play) 8. miriam … too much time with him. (spend) 9. stan … to the bbc regularly. (listen) 10. linda … german fluently. (speak) 11. he … medicine. (study) 12. miss gibb … very well. (dress) 13. barry … too much whisky. (drink) 14. mike … only thrillers. (read) 15. my teacher …very hard. (work) 16. betty … to me regularly. (write) 17. mr bull … us very often. (visit) 18. this beer … sour. (taste) 19. it … on the circumstances. (depend) 20. water … of two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen. (consist)
The number of Dwarves Snow White lived with — seven (7)
The Celsius freezing point — zero (0)
Days in April — thirty (30)
The number of letters in the English alphabet — twenty-six (26)
An unlucky number — thirteen (13)
Teeth in the normal human mouth — thirty-two (32)
The number of years in a millennium — one thousand (1000)
The number of months in a year — twelve (12)
Days in December – thirty-one (31)
Degrees in a right angle — ninety (90)
Books in a trilogy — three (3)
Minutes in an hour — sixty (60)
Legs has an octopus — eight (хотя сейчас ученые считают, то у осьминога только 2 ноги - Octopuses have six arms and two legs)
The number of cents in a half-dollar — fifty (50)
Players in a soccer team — eleven (11)
Number of hours in a day — twenty-four (24)
Celsius boiling point — one hundred (100)
1. Why is IT progress different from other advances?
Thanks to modern software and robots, new information technologies can significantly speed up many processes and transfer information faster.
2. What are the characteristics of the information society?
The new information society has its own characteristics. First, more and more employees are working in the service and information sector. Secondly, there are more and more huge databases for collecting and storing information.
3. What is the role of information in this society?
information and IT are becoming commodities and are beginning to play an important role in the country's economy.
5. What are the possible dangers of widespread access to information?
"Intellectual terrorism", when computer viruses block important programs.
6. What green energy sources are you aware of?
sun, gravity, wind or rain.
7. How can scientific innovation affect our daily life?
The impact can range from psychological and health problems in children who spend too much time online to the ability to prevent genetic diseases for future generations.
8.What are the key challenges facing humanity today?
But the most difficult problems facing humanity are global problems.
9. How can these problems be solved?
The only way to solve them is to work globally and in cooperation with other countries. And here humanity must find a way to use new technologies for the common good. Solving these problems cannot be postponed, because otherwise people will be less likely to survive on this planet.
10. What environmental issues are mentioned in the text?
First of all, this is an environmental problem: pollution of air, water and soil, depletion of natural resources. Renewable natural resources such as oxygen, forests, flora and fauna do not have time to recover.
11. What are the benefits of scientific and technological progress?
These processes affect social structures and values.
12. What are the disadvantages of scientific and technological progress?
computer viruses block important programs.
13. Найдите в тексте синонимы к словам «новый», «быстрый», «важный» и «отправить». Вы можете придумать другие синонимы этих слов?
Новый-свежий New -fresh
Быстрый-беглец Quick-fugitive
Важный-главный Important-main
Отправить-послать Send message- send