1. Подберите вместо пропуска подходящее по смыслу слово.
1. British scientists invented а way of multiplying and dividing.
a) mechanical; b) electrical; c) optical
2. A new branch of mathematics, , was invented in England and
Germany independently.
a) mechanics; b) arithmetics; c) calculus
3. A young American clerk invented a means of co d in g by
punched cards.
a) letters; b) data; c) numbers
4. Soon punched cards were replaced b y terminals.
a) printer; b) scanner; c) keyboard
5. Mark I was the first computer that could solve mathematical
problems.
a) analog; b) digital; c) mechanical
6. J. von Neumann simplified his computer by storing information in
a code.
a) analytical; b) numerical; c) binary
7. Vacuum tubes could control an d electric signals.
a) calculate; b) amplify; c) generate
8. The first-generation computers w ere and often burned out.
a) uncomfortable; b) uncommunicative; c) unreliable
9. Computers of the second generation u sed , which reduced
computational time greatly.
a) transistors; b) integrated circuits; c) vacuum tubes
10. Due to the development of the fourth-generation computers
became possible.
a) microelectronics; b) miniaturization; c) microminiaturization