HIDDEN WORD
Clues 1. An unfilled job. 2. Working less than the regular number of hours a week. 3. Working for a limited period of time. 4. The necessary skill, ability or knowledge (often referring to academic examinations). 5. Meeting to -decide whether a person is suitable for a job. 6. Knowledge or skill which comes from practice. 7. Working for an unlimited period of time. 8. A course of instruction, teaching. 9. Working the regular number of hours a week.
3. This is a questionnaire (анкета, опросный лист) for applicants. Answer the following questions: What is your speciality? Have you served a recognized apprenticeship? What special subjects have you studied? Have you good computer skills? What foreign languages do you speak? What are you occupied in? Have you got work experience? How long were you in your last job? Where can you work on graduating from the university? What positions shall you be able to occupy? What do you know about your future job? What do you think about your future job? What you think will be your duties? What do you think of your further outlooks?
4. Here are some thoughts of a student about his future profession. Read the text and answer the following questions: 1) What speciality has he chosen? Why? 2) In what fields can a computer engineer work? 3) What does he think about his further outlooks? I'll become a specialist in computer technologies — a computer engineer. Computer industry is developing so fast, that it comprises almost all spheres of professional life. No business now is possible without computers. This is especially true about automated manufacturing of products and robotics. Computer control of automated production opens new horizons for the cheap and quality production of goods. Information is now generated, transmitted, received, and stored electronically through computer networks on a scale unprecedented in history, and there is every indication that the explosive rate of growth in this field will continue. Computer engineering is a general field. It deals with both electric and electronic industries. Electronic engineering deals with the research, design, integration, and application of circuits and devices used in the transmission and processing of information. Engineers in the field of electric and electronic engineering are concerned with all aspects of electrical communications, from fundamental questions such as «What is information?» to the highly practical, such as the design of telephone systems. In designing communication systems, engineers rely on various branches of advanced mathematics, such as Fourier analysis, linear systems theory, linear algebra, differential equations, and probability theory. Engineers work on control systems which are used extensively in automated manufacturing and in robotics. Major developments in the field of communications and control have been the replacement of analogue systems with digital systems; fibre optics are used now instead of copper cables. Digital systems offer far greater immunity to electrical noise. Fibre optics are likewise immune to interference; they also have great carrying capacity, and are extremely light and inexpensive to manufacture. Computer engineering is now the most rapidly growing field. The electronics of computers is the design and manufacture of memory systems, of central processing units, and of peripheral devices. The most prospective industry now is the Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) and new computer architectures. The field of computer science is closely related to computer engineering; however, the task of making computers more «intelligent» (artificial intelligence), through creation of sophisticated programs or development of higher level machine languages or other means, is generally regarded as the dream of computer science. One current trend in computer engineering is microminiaturization. Engineers continue to work to fit greater and greater numbers of circuit elements onto smaller and smaller chips. Another trend is towards increasing the speed of computer operations through the use of parallel processors and superconducting materials. So, as you see, there are a lot of employment opportunities in my field. I don't worry about finding a job. The most important thing for me now is to study well and to graduate from the University.
Vocabulary List automated manufacturing of products — автоматизированное производство товаров robotics — робототехника horizons [h∂ `raizn] to generate — генерировать, производить to transmit — передавать to store — хранить scale — масштаб unprecedented in history — не имеющий прецедентов в истории indication — указание, свидетельство explosive — взрывной to deal with — иметь дело с, заниматься чем-либо circuits — электрические схемы, цепи device — устройство processing — обработка to rely — полагаться Fourier analysis — анализ Фурье linear systems theory — теория линейных систем linear algebra — линейная алгебра differential equations — дифференциальные уравнения probability theory — теория вероятности extensively — широко replacement — замещение fibre optics — оптоволоконные технологии copper — медь digital — цифровой immunity — защищенность, невосприимчивость carrying capacity — пропускная способность rapidly growing — быстрорастущий artificial intelligence — искусственный разум sophisticated — сложный superconducting — сверхпроводимость
5. What do you think about your future profession? What was the reason to choose it? What is the most important thing for you in your future profession and what is the most important thing for you now?
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