Английский язык (стр. 10 )

The end of the short-lived age of fossil-fuel is already in sight; soon-in one or two centuries at the most-we will have wasted al the world's resources of oil and coal This no longer means disaster, for atomic energy has arrived in time to save our civilization from dying of lack of power. We are moving into the brighter and cleaner age. But for that very reason, it may also be a colder age.

This suggests that it may be easier to affect the climate (the long pattern of temperature and moisture)than to control the behaviour of the weather, which is a local and short phenomenon.

The climate of the Earth is determined to no small extent by the immense quantities of ice locked up at the poles, and that ice remains perpetually frozen, in spite of twenty-four-hour-long summer days, because the Sun's heat is reflected off the blinding white wastes, but has no chance of being absorbed. If that ice can be removed, it would never reform on the same scale. The darker, exposed soil would collect and keep so much of the Sun's warmth now lost to us, that the general Earth temperature would be at a higher level.

3. Образец итогового лексико-грамматического теста

Distance Learning

The traditional view of learning is that it is confined to the classroom. However millions of people have discovered that learning can happen at any time, at any place and at any age. Open learning, lifelong learning and distance learning are becoming familiar ideas. Open learning is a general term for any education or training scheme that tries to make learning available to more people. Distance learning, is a special type of open learning where tutors and learners are far away from each other. This was sometimes called ‘home-study’ or ‘correspondence courses’. Originally relying on the postal system, distance learning now uses television, telephone and the computer.

Many distance learning programmes include computer-based packages. E-mail and the Internet are rising in popularity. The time is coming when many learners will use only multi-media, and communicate with their tutors only by e-mail.

In 1969 the Open University (OU) was created in the UK. This firmly established in the West the principle of access for all to quality education. It is the only university in the UK established to teach its students through open learning. This is its unique method of study designed for part-time students, who do not have the opportunity to study full time. Some study for career development or to update their job skills, some for personal challenge or satisfaction. Some take just one course. Others work for a degree, a diploma or a certificate. Its courses are taught through television, radio and specially written coursebooks. Its students work with tutors, to whom they send their written work and with whom they then discuss it, either at meetings or through correspondence. In summer, they have to attend short residential courses of about a week.

The OU is an international university. It teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students in other European Union countries, and in Central and Eastern Europe it delivers business and management courses through local partners. The University has one of the largest Business Schools in Europe with more that 21,000 students taking courses leading to a Master’s degree in business administration (MBA).

At present distance learning has changed from being the last choice for people who couldn’t attend college or university to being the first choice for people who want flexibility and quality. Ten years ago, few people would have understood the terms ‘distance learning’ or ‘open learning’; now they are part of the educational vocabulary.

1. Прочитайте текст Distance Learning и выберите утверждение, которое соответствует содержанию статьи

1. Distance learning is …

а) a traditional method of learning.

b) summer schools.

c) a special type of open learning.

2. The Open University is the greatest development in education that allows people of all ages and from different backgrounds to …

a) study for a degree.

b) do research.

c) do business.

3. Distance learning now uses …

a) postal system as the only one available.

b) new technologies to provide quality education.

c) face-to-face contact each month.

4. The OU offers its courses to …

a) local residents.

b) different people at any age.

c) people with a degree.

5. Distance learning allows each student to have an individual …

a) tutor.

b) access to computer.

c) scheme of study.

6. A great number of colleges and universities offering courses by distance learning has grown …

a) in the UK.

b) in European Union countries.

c) all over the world.

II. Выберите слово, которое лучше других подходит по значению выделенному слову/словосочетанию

7. The traditional view of learning is that it is confined to the classroom.

a) is limited to b) is taken in c) is included into

8. New technologies like e-mail and the Internet are rising in popularity.

a) are changing b) are working c) are going up

9. People study for career development or to update their job skills.

a) to understand b) to modernize c) to discover

10. However millions of people have discovered that learning can happen at any time, at any place and at any age.

a) attend b) take place c) allow

11. In Central and Eastern Europe the OU delivers business and management courses through local partners.

a) moves b) discusses c) provides

III. Закончите предложения, выбрав правильный предлог из предложенных в рамке:

 

at over through for to

12. The Open University established the principle of access … all to quality education.

13. The OU courses are offered … the Internet.

14. One of the biggest growth areas is for courses leading … a Master’s degree in business administration.

15. The OU is the only university in the UK established to teach its students … open learning.

16. Open learning method can let people learn … their own speed and in their own time.

IV. Поставьте глаголы, данные в скобках в соответствующей временной форме и залоге

17. In the UK companies like Ford, IBM … (give) on-the-job training through learning right now.

18. The course … (deliver) by CD-ROM and the Internet.

19. Such factors as age, place, daily activity … (not serve) as limiting factors in distance learning.

20.At present distance learning … (increase) the learners’ opportunities to get quality education.

21. Since the OU began teaching a lot of people … (study) one or more of its courses.

V. Завершите предложение, выбрав соответствующий модальный глагол

22. In summer the OU students … to attend short residential courses of about a week.

a) must b) should c) have

23. Face-to-face contact … help students make friends with each other during the summer courses.

a) can b) ought c) need

24. Each student … have an individual scheme of study.

a) have b) must c) might

25. The OU students … discuss their written work with their tutors.

a) ought b) have c) should

4. Текст для ознакомительного чтения

COMPUTERS CONCERN YOU

When Charles Babbage, a professor of mathematics at Cambrige University, invented the first calculating machine in 1812 he could hardly have imagined the situation we find ourselves in today. Nearly everything we do in the modern world is helped, or even controlled, by computers, the complicated descendants of his simple machine. Computers are being used more and more extensively in the world today, for the simple reason that they are far more efficient than human beings. They have much better memories and can store huge amounts of information, and they can do calculations in a fraction of the time taken by a human mathematician. No man alive can do 500,000 sums in one second, but an advanced computer can. In fact, computers can do many of the things we do, but faster and better. They can pay wages, reserve seats on planes, control machines in factories, work out tomorrow's weather, and even play chess, write poetry and compose music. Let's look now at some of the ways in which computers concern people in their daily work and lives.

Chief inspector Hartson talks about the ways in which computers can help the police fight crime."Members of the public often think of detective work as fast and exciting when most of it is slow and boring", he said. "For example, a detective on a stolen car case may have to check through long lists of information, and in the time it takes him to do this the thief may well escape. With the new National Police Computer we are now able to find out details of car ownership and driving licences in a fraction of the time it takes by traditional methods. In police work speed is often essential, so computers are ideal for helping us catch criminals".

Приожение 3

Федеральное агентство по образованию

Государственное образовательное учреждение высшего

профессионального образования

«Алтайский государственный технический университет

имени »

Бийский технологический институт (филиал)

Кафедра иностранных языков

(наименование кафедры, обеспечивающей преподавание дисциплины)

ТЕСТЫ КОНТРОЛЯ ОСТАТОЧНЫХ ЗНАНИЙ

Дисциплина иностранный язык

(шифр с указанием цикла подготовки, наименование дисциплины)

Статус дисциплины обязательная

(обязательная, элективная, факультативная)

Специальности (направления) ). 060500, 060800 .

(коды и наименования специальностей или направлений)

Форма обучения очная

(очная, очно-заочная, заочная)

Бийск 2005

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