2 Read and choose the correct answer. In 1986, the Department of Robotic and Information Systems (1 )... for the first time in Central Asia at Tashkent Polytechnic Institute. The modern level of technology development allows not only making hard work (2)... but also be creative activity. The latest models of robots and Internet (3) ... are able to answer questions and make a dialogue, write poems and stories. All this (4) ... in sports robotics as an independent type which has tens of thousands of fans (5) ... the world.
Television now plays an important role in our life. It is difficult to say if it is good or bad for us. It is clear, that television has advantages and disadvantages.
But are there more advantages than disadvantages? In the first place, television is an entertainment. But it is not only a convenient entertainment. For a family of three, four or five, for example, it is more convenient and less expensive to sit comfortably at home than to go out to find entertainment in other places. They don't have to pay for expensive seats at the theatre or cinema. They turn on the TV-set and can watch interesting films, concerts, football matches.
But some people think that it's bad to watch TV. Those who watch TV need do nothing. We are passive when we watch TV. Television shows us many interesting programmes. But again there is a disadvantage here: we watch TV every evening, and it begins to dominate our lives.
My friend told me that when his TV-set broke down, he and his family found that they had more time to do things and to talk to each other. There are other arguments for and against television.
Very often the programmes are bad. Sometimes they show too much violence in films and news programmes. There is also too much pop music and ads. Ads on the whole are convenient for grown-ups. But is it good for children to watch all those ads where they show all kinds of underwear and what not?
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1. If a dish that you want to try, is far not Tanis toward him across the table: ask sitting around him he could give it to you. By the way, according to the laws of etiquette you should care for the neighbour, who is sitting to your right.
2. Ugly to lend a hand through a neighbor or pull yourself dish over the table.
3. Using a common meal, sugar, salt, immediately put them back in place, leaving no longer on your device.
4. Food meals should be taken in appropriate quantity, remembering about the others seated at the table. On the plate should be put as much as you can eat.
5. Getting up from the table, do not immediately hurry to leave; if you are really waiting for urgent matters, warn about his soon resignation in advance.
Перевод:
1. Если блюдо, которое ты хочешь попробовать, находится далеко, не тянись к нему через весь стол: попроси сидящего поблизости человека передать его тебе. Кстати, по законам этикета ты должен ухаживать за соседкой, которая сидит справа от тебя.
2. Некрасиво протягивать руку через соседа или придвигать к себе блюдо через весь стол.
3. Воспользовавшись общим блюдом, сахарницей, солонкой, тут же поставь их на прежнее место, не оставляя надолго у своего прибора.
4. Еду с блюда нужно брать в соответствующем количестве, помня об остальных сидящих за столом. На тарелку следует класть столько, сколько можно съесть.
5. Встав из-за стола, не стоит сразу же спешить уйти; если тебя действительно ждут неотложные дела, предупреди о своём скором уходе заранее.