Bu read the theory and
choose the correct item.
comparative adverbs
• (far/much/a lot/a little/a bit)
less/more-adverb than
• for two things that are (not) the
same: (not) as adverbas
• irregular forms well-better
badly - worse, fast - faster; late
later; early - earlier, hard-harder
1 the river is flowing less/much
fast here than under the bridge.
2 snakes can attack more/as
quickly than you expect.
3 the prince did not rule less/as
wisely as his father.
4 it's raining far badly/worse
than in the morning
5 celia can ride a horse much
more/far gracefully than her
sister
6 no one works as hard/harder
as my grandmother!
7 i get up a lot more earlier in
the summer
8 a dog guards your house
little/far more faithfully than
an alarm!
1) The ten fingers of a man's hands were the very first calculating device.
2) An abacus is a mechanical device that consists of beads or disks that can be moved up and down on a series of sticks or strings within a usually wooden frame. (в данном тексте нет определения)
3) The modern slide rule (в тексте слово написано с ошибкой) is a ruler with a sliding piece used mainly for multiplication and division, and also for "scientific" functions such as roots, logarithms and trigonometry.
4) John Napier did.
5) They independently invented calculus, a branch of mathematics.
6) In 1830, Charles Babbage designed the first calculating machine which he showed at the Paris Exhibition in 1855.
7) The main idea of . Ch.Babbage's machine was to cut out the human being altogether, except for providing the machine with the necessary facts about the problem to be solved.
8) Electromechanical machines had been developed by the early twentieth century and were used for business data processing .
9) Hollerith invented a means of coding the data by punching holes into cards.
10) They were called unit record machines because each punched card contained a unit of data.
11) Electronic computers were developed to perform calculations for military and scientific purposes .
12) By the late 1970s punched cards had been almost universally replaced by keyboard terminals.
Это началось с Младенца
Это началось с Младенца, и яслей, полных сена
Это началось с трех королей, пришедших издалека
Это началось с пастухов, увидевших ангелов, высоких и светлых
Это началось с яркой звезды, наполнившей небо светом
Теперь рождественские ели сверкают, а магазины заполнены игрушками, которые скоро получат счастливые мальчики и девочки
Малыши ждут Деда Мороза, с оленем и в санях.
Рождественские открытки доставляют, а в Рождественский день открывают подарки, играют и веселятся
Но позже, когда Рождество закончилось, вспомни, с чего оно началось
С Младенца, в сене, в яслях, в хлеве
Две тысячи лет назад