Computers. Exit test

*Read the text and mark the statements True, False, Not Stated. Every year, IBM Corporation chooses five new technologies it believes will change the world within the next five years. The IBM list is called Five in Five. When identifying the technologies the company considers its own research and the new directions of society and business. This year, the list describes some future devices that will work with our five senses. Imagine looking for clothes online and touching your computer or smartphone to feel the cloth. IBM predicts that such a technology can be available in the next five years. Touch is just one of the senses that computers will help to exploit. IBM says smart machines will soon be able to listen to the environment and give us information about the sounds they hear. For example, a speech recognition system will tell new parents why their baby is crying. From the sound the baby is creating you know the difference between a child for example who is sick as opposed to a child who is just lonely. That kind of understanding would be great for parents. Smart machines will also help to identify medical conditions. If you sneeze on your computer or smartphone, the machine will study thousands of molecules in your breath. Then it can tell you whether you need to see a doctor. In the near future, built-in cameras in our personal computers will be able to examine and name colours and recognize images. IBM scientists are also developing a computer system that can examine and combine food molecules to create the most popular flavours and smells. Some leading computer science professors hope the progress that IBM is predicting will lead more talented students to create future inventions. They believe that advances in computer technology will make what now seems like science fiction a part of our everyday lives. A new technology will give you a chance to feel the material of the clothes you choose from the distance.

*Read the text and mark the statements True, False, Not Stated. Every year, IBM Corporation chooses five new technologies it believes will change the world within the next five years. The IBM list is called Five in Five. When identifying the technologies the company considers its own research and the new directions of society and business. This year, the list describes some future devices that will work with our five senses. Imagine looking for clothes online and touching your computer or smartphone to feel the cloth. IBM predicts that such a technology can be available in the next five years. Touch is just one of the senses that computers will help to exploit. IBM says smart machines will soon be able to listen to the environment and give us information about the sounds they hear. For example, a speech recognition system will tell new parents why their baby is crying. From the sound the baby is creating you know the difference between a child for example who is sick as opposed to a child who is just lonely. That kind of understanding would be great for parents. Smart machines will also help to identify medical conditions. If you sneeze on your computer or smartphone, the machine will study thousands of molecules in your breath. Then it can tell you whether you need to see a doctor. In the near future, built-in cameras in our personal computers will be able to examine and name colours and recognize images. IBM scientists are also developing a computer system that can examine and combine food molecules to create the most popular flavours and smells. Some leading computer science professors hope the progress that IBM is predicting will lead more talented students to create future inventions. They believe that advances in computer technology will make what now seems like science fiction a part of our everyday lives. When a child feels lonely he/she immediately gets ill.

*Read the text and mark the statements True, False, Not Stated. Every year, IBM Corporation chooses five new technologies it believes will change the world within the next five years. The IBM list is called Five in Five. When identifying the technologies the company considers its own research and the new directions of society and business. This year, the list describes some future devices that will work with our five senses. Imagine looking for clothes online and touching your computer or smartphone to feel the cloth. IBM predicts that such a technology can be available in the next five years. Touch is just one of the senses that computers will help to exploit. IBM says smart machines will soon be able to listen to the environment and give us information about the sounds they hear. For example, a speech recognition system will tell new parents why their baby is crying. From the sound the baby is creating you know the difference between a child for example who is sick as opposed to a child who is just lonely. That kind of understanding would be great for parents. Smart machines will also help to identify medical conditions. If you sneeze on your computer or smartphone, the machine will study thousands of molecules in your breath. Then it can tell you whether you need to see a doctor. In the near future, built-in cameras in our personal computers will be able to examine and name colours and recognize images. IBM scientists are also developing a computer system that can examine and combine food molecules to create the most popular flavours and smells. Some leading computer science professors hope the progress that IBM is predicting will lead more talented students to create future inventions. They believe that advances in computer technology will make what now seems like science fiction a part of our everyday lives. What you find in science fiction today can become real in future.

*Read the text and mark the statements True, False, Not Stated. Every year, IBM Corporation chooses five new technologies it believes will change the world within the next five years. The IBM list is called Five in Five. When identifying the technologies the company considers its own research and the new directions of society and business. This year, the list describes some future devices that will work with our five senses. Imagine looking for clothes online and touching your computer or smartphone to feel the cloth. IBM predicts that such a technology can be available in the next five years. Touch is just one of the senses that computers will help to exploit. IBM says smart machines will soon be able to listen to the environment and give us information about the sounds they hear. For example, a speech recognition system will tell new parents why their baby is crying. From the sound the baby is creating you know the difference between a child for example who is sick as opposed to a child who is just lonely. That kind of understanding would be great for parents. Smart machines will also help to identify medical conditions. If you sneeze on your computer or smartphone, the machine will study thousands of molecules in your breath. Then it can tell you whether you need to see a doctor. In the near future, built-in cameras in our personal computers will be able to examine and name colours and recognize images. IBM scientists are also developing a computer system that can examine and combine food molecules to create the most popular flavours and smells. Some leading computer science professors hope the progress that IBM is predicting will lead more talented students to create future inventions. They believe that advances in computer technology will make what now seems like science fiction a part of our everyday lives. IBM list called “Five in Five” includes five recent inventions most famous in five biggest countries of the world.

*Read the text and mark the statements True, False, Not Stated. Every year, IBM Corporation chooses five new technologies it believes will change the world within the next five years. The IBM list is called Five in Five. When identifying the technologies the company considers its own research and the new directions of society and business. This year, the list describes some future devices that will work with our five senses. Imagine looking for clothes online and touching your computer or smartphone to feel the cloth. IBM predicts that such a technology can be available in the next five years. Touch is just one of the senses that computers will help to exploit. IBM says smart machines will soon be able to listen to the environment and give us information about the sounds they hear. For example, a speech recognition system will tell new parents why their baby is crying. From the sound the baby is creating you know the difference between a child for example who is sick as opposed to a child who is just lonely. That kind of understanding would be great for parents. Smart machines will also help to identify medical conditions. If you sneeze on your computer or smartphone, the machine will study thousands of molecules in your breath. Then it can tell you whether you need to see a doctor. In the near future, built-in cameras in our personal computers will be able to examine and name colours and recognize images. IBM scientists are also developing a computer system that can examine and combine food molecules to create the most popular flavours and smells. Some leading computer science professors hope the progress that IBM is predicting will lead more talented students to create future inventions. They believe that advances in computer technology will make what now seems like science fiction a part of our everyday lives. Computers will be useful for inventing new dishes and different diets.

**Вы два раза услышите пять высказываний, обозначенных буквами А, В, С, D, Е. Установите соответствие между высказываниями и утверждени­ями из следующего списка: к каждому высказыванию подберите соот­ветствующее утверждение, обозначенное цифрами. Используйте каждое утверждение из списка 1-6 только один раз. В задании есть одно лишнее утверждение. A B C D E 1. This speaker says that his/her family is against his/her computer. 2. This speaker explains the good sides of an expensive computer. 3. This speaker explains what computer games he/she enjoys. 4. This speaker says that he/she has several devices for different use. 5. This speaker explains why he/she has a problem without a computer. 6. This speaker explains the reasons for his/her future job choice.

*Read the text and mark the statements True, False, Not Stated. Every year, IBM Corporation chooses five new technologies it believes will change the world within the next five years. The IBM list is called Five in Five. When identifying the technologies the company considers its own research and the new directions of society and business. This year, the list describes some future devices that will work with our five senses. Imagine looking for clothes online and touching your computer or smartphone to feel the cloth. IBM predicts that such a technology can be available in the next five years. Touch is just one of the senses that computers will help to exploit. IBM says smart machines will soon be able to listen to the environment and give us information about the sounds they hear. For example, a speech recognition system will tell new parents why their baby is crying. From the sound the baby is creating you know the difference between a child for example who is sick as opposed to a child who is just lonely. That kind of understanding would be great for parents. Smart machines will also help to identify medical conditions. If you sneeze on your computer or smartphone, the machine will study thousands of molecules in your breath. Then it can tell you whether you need to see a doctor. In the near future, built-in cameras in our personal computers will be able to examine and name colours and recognize images. IBM scientists are also developing a computer system that can examine and combine food molecules to create the most popular flavours and smells. Some leading computer science professors hope the progress that IBM is predicting will lead more talented students to create future inventions. They believe that advances in computer technology will make what now seems like science fiction a part of our everyday lives. There is a special project to develop devices that could use our five senses.

*Read the text and mark the statements True, False, Not Stated. Every year, IBM Corporation chooses five new technologies it believes will change the world within the next five years. The IBM list is called Five in Five. When identifying the technologies the company considers its own research and the new directions of society and business. This year, the list describes some future devices that will work with our five senses. Imagine looking for clothes online and touching your computer or smartphone to feel the cloth. IBM predicts that such a technology can be available in the next five years. Touch is just one of the senses that computers will help to exploit. IBM says smart machines will soon be able to listen to the environment and give us information about the sounds they hear. For example, a speech recognition system will tell new parents why their baby is crying. From the sound the baby is creating you know the difference between a child for example who is sick as opposed to a child who is just lonely. That kind of understanding would be great for parents. Smart machines will also help to identify medical conditions. If you sneeze on your computer or smartphone, the machine will study thousands of molecules in your breath. Then it can tell you whether you need to see a doctor. In the near future, built-in cameras in our personal computers will be able to examine and name colours and recognize images. IBM scientists are also developing a computer system that can examine and combine food molecules to create the most popular flavours and smells. Some leading computer science professors hope the progress that IBM is predicting will lead more talented students to create future inventions. They believe that advances in computer technology will make what now seems like science fiction a part of our everyday lives. University students are active participants of the new computer science inventions.

*Read the text and mark the statements True (T), False (F), Not Stated (NS). Every year, IBM Corporation chooses five new technologies it believes will change the world within the next five years. The IBM list is called Five in Five. When identifying the technologies the company considers its own research and the new directions of society and business. This year, the list describes some future devices that will work with our five senses. Imagine looking for clothes online and touching your computer or smartphone to feel the cloth. IBM predicts that such a technology can be available in the next five years. Touch is just one of the senses that computers will help to exploit. IBM says smart machines will soon be able to listen to the environment and give us information about the sounds they hear. For example, a speech recognition system will tell new parents why their baby is crying. From the sound the baby is creating you know the difference between a child for example who is sick as opposed to a child who is just lonely. That kind of understanding would be great for parents. Smart machines will also help to identify medical conditions. If you sneeze on your computer or smartphone, the machine will study thousands of molecules in your breath. Then it can tell you whether you need to see a doctor. In the near future, built-in cameras in our personal computers will be able to examine and name colours and recognize images. IBM scientists are also developing a computer system that can examine and combine food molecules to create the most popular flavours and smells. Some leading computer science professors hope the progress that IBM is predicting will lead more talented students to create future inventions. They believe that advances in computer technology will make what now seems like science fiction a part of our everyday lives. PC will be able to diagnose serious diseases.

***Read the text. Match the titles to the paragraphs of the text. One title is exta. A. Artificial intelligence is the art of making machines that are able to 'think'. We often don't notice it, but artificial intelligence is all around us. It is present in computer games, in the cruise control in our cars and the servers that direct our e-mail. Some scientists believe that the most powerful computers could have the power of the human brain. Machines have always been excellent at tasks like calculation. But now they are better than humans in many spheres, from chess to mixing music. B. The possible dangers of intelligent machines became the stories of many science fiction films. In The Terminator (1984), a computer network uses nuclear weapons against the human race in order to rule the world. This network then makes intelligent robots called 'Terminators' which it programs to kill all the humans. In The Matrix (1999) and The Matrix Reloaded (2003), a machine dominates humanity, using people as batteries to power itself. C. The world's most powerful computer is ASCI Purple, made by IBM in 2004. It can carry out 100 trillion operations per second and has the size of two basketball courts. A computer with double power is expected in the next two years. A spokesman for IBM said that ASCI Purple is near the power of the human brain. But some scientists believe our brains can carry out almost 10,000 trillion operations per second. D. In 1997, then the world chess champion Garry Kasparov played against IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer - and lost. After six games, the world-famous Kasparov lost 2.5 to 3.5 to the computer. In February 2003, Kasparov restored human reputation by finishing equal against the Israeli-built supercomputer Deep Junior. Kasparov ended the game with the score 2-2 against US company X3D Technologies' supercomputer X3D Fritz in November 2003, proving that the human brain can keep up with the latest developments in computing (at least in chess). E. There are a number of different methods which try to measure intelligence, the most famous of which is perhaps the IQ, or 'Intelligence Quotient' test. This test was first used in early 20th century Paris. The modern day IQ test measures a variety of different types of ability such as memory for words and figures and others. Whether IQ tests actually test general intelligence is disputable. Some argue that they just show how good the individual is at IQ tests! F. Analysis shows that human intelligence is changing. We are gaining abilities in some areas of intelligence, while losing them in others, such as memory. So this generation may not remember the great number of poems, their abilities are greater in other areas. It has been discovered that wide use of video games improves reaction time. But we could only dream of computing without calculators as fast as our grandparents did. G. In 1950, mathematician Alan Turing invented a test to check machine intelligence. In the Turing Test, two people (A and B) sit in a closed room, a third person (C), who asks questions, sits outside. Person A tries to answer the questions so that person C doesn't guess who they are: men or women, while person B tries to help him (C) in their identification. Turing suggested a machine take the place of person A. If the machine fooled the human, it was likely to be intelligent.