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Is there an End to the Computer Race?
Today the word «electronics» is in general usage. Millions of people have electron watches. There are a lot of various radio and TV sets, video cassette recorders and CD players in our houses. In factories and plants we are surrounded with electronically controlled machines and instruments, we are carried by airplanes, ships, trains and cars with built-in electronic devices, and satellites circle the globe. In other words, we are living in an electronic world.
And the center of this world is a tiny silicon plate of a few square millimetres, an integrated circuit, or a chip, as it is more commonly known. The integrated circuit is undoubtedly one of the most sophisticated inventions of man, science and technology. It is in the heart of every electronic device and the more cassette recorders, TV sets and computers we need, the more integrated circuits are required.
When we speak about a further development of computers we mean not only quantity, but also high technology and high speed. As the operation of an integrated circuit depends on microscopic «components», the purity of all materials and the cleanness at the plant they are produced at must be of the highest quality. A continuous search is going on in laboratories throughout the world for more perfect, reliable and high speed electronic circuits.
In the past it took scientists and researchers a whole lifetime to make a few thousand calculations, whereas for a modern computer this task is a matter of a few seconds. At present computers capable of performing billions of operations a second are required. Supercomputers are different from ordinary computers. The ordinary computer does the computations operation by operation, while the supercomputer operates like a brain: all operations are being done simultaneously.
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1. If you want to see this doctor, you have to get an official…appointment………APPOINT
2. When Meg was in Rome last year, she went…clubbing…………. CLUB
every night.
3. She …behaves in a very responsible way.
4. Last night we spent about two hours discussing the importance
of politics in our life.
5. When you’re camping, it’s necessary to know which direction
the wind is coming from.
6. Some members of the class refused to participate in the
discussion.
II
1. She’s so clever; she’s incapable of failing an exam. CAPABLE
2. Don’t you know that it’s illegal to travel without LEGAL
a ticket?
3. He was quite unattractive as a baby, but now he’s very ATTRACTIVE
good looking.
4. That’s a really rude thing to say! I didn’t expect you to be so impolite
5. Life is so unfair! My parents blame me for everything! FAIR
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and tells lies.
7. I love all my brothers and sisters because they are never unkind
to me.
8. Don’t talk about money; it’s irrelevant. We are fighting RELEVANT
about sharing a bedroom.