[МЭБИК] Иностранный язык в профессиональной деятельности.Обязательное задание МЭБИК 2025г.

Сдано на оценку 5 в 2025году.

I. Прочитайте и переведите текст. Выполните все задания к тексту.

MICROSOFT: COMPETITION ONLY WITH ITSELF

1.   Microsoft is the only large company in the world that has no competitors. Only Microsoft could grasp a giant market violating no laws. But it violated more than USA federal laws – it disturbed USA market traditions. According to these traditions, in every sector of the economy each major company has at least one major firm-competitor. There are Coca-Cola and Pepsi, Ford and General Motors, IBM and Apple. But Microsoft is singular.

2.   Then, each major company gives an opportunity for existence of many smaller firms. For example, Ford doesn’t make alarm systems, garages and radios for its cars. They are made by other smaller companies. But Microsoft itself sells each new version of Windows together with all necessary applications.

3.   So Microsoft is very unpopular in the American business world. Since 1990, scandals about Microsoft have been happening annually. It was already accused of an «anti-competition» agreement with IBM, attempting to monopolize the market of operating systems and their program security, and many other violations of anti-monopoly legislation. Sometimes Microsoft won in these conflicts, and sometimes it was defeated, but really it always remained a monopoly.

4.   The reason of Microsoft’s great success is Bill Gates. His almost supernatural talent to foretell the market’s future is well known. He can guess which product he will be able to sell very profitably some years later, and so makes this product earlier than others.

5.   For example, in 1990 Gates declared his new conception – «information on your fingertips», and foretold the development of the world computer industry in 1990-2000. He said that in the nearest future everyone would have any information within one’s grasp – «on fingertips» – with a computer’s help. Now it has already become a reality – there is almost any information one could want in networks.

6.   In 1995 Gates foretold that ten years later there would be pocket computers, car computers, PC-kiosks, and personal computers that understand the owner’s voice; that information would be accessible everywhere to everybody. A pocket computer will replace everything in a person’s pocket, except a handkerchief: credit card, pager, notebook with modem. If you need a large screen, you can use a PC-kiosk. A pocket computer will be able to connect quickly to a PC-kiosk, or any other computer.

7. At present there already are hand-held PCs. Now they are not as good as Gates promised – but an operation system in them is Windows, they are Internet-ready, and can be connected with common computers. This proves that everything Gates says is possible. As yet his forecasts aren’t completely realized, but he spoke about the year 2005, and then, probably, they will become reality.

II.   EXERCISES

1.   Найдите в тексте производные от следующих слов. Переведите их с учетом части речи:

compete, exist, agree, develop, place, apply, profit, inform, access, own, violate, real, nature.

2.   Найдите в тексте антонимы к следующим словам:

defeat, popular, never, disconnect, fiction, slowly, take, partner, past, bad, buy, big.

3. Найдите русские эквиваленты (колонка В) к английским словам (колонка А):

A                      B

more   Эти

most   Каждый

these   Те

those   Большинство

were   Когда

very   более, больше

when   Затем

then   Были

other   Все

all   Очень

every   Другой

each   Любой

any   Каждый

4. Переведите письменно следующие словосочетания из текста.

  Постарайтесь подобрать самый удачный вариант перевода:

the only large company in the world

a giant market

market traditions

according to these traditions

business world

to foretell the market’s future

the development of the world computer industry

an Internet-ready computer

a hand-held personal computer

5. Перепишите следующие предложения, подчеркните в них прилагательные и наречия. Переведите следующие предложения, обращая особое внимание на степени сравнения прилагательных и наречий.

1. Microsoft makes this product earlier than others.

2. But it violated more than USA federal laws.

      3. Each major company gives an opportunity for the existence of many smaller firms.

       4. He said that in the nearest future everyone would have any information.

5. Now they are not as good as he promised.

  6. Переведите следующие предложения, обращая особое внимание на 

   формы глаголов-сказуемых. Укажите номера предложений, в которых

   в  состав сказуемого входит модальный глагол или его эквивалент.

      1. Microsoft is the only large company in the world that has no competitors.

       2. A pocket computer will be able to connect quickly to any other computer.

3. Only Microsoft could grasp a giant market violating no laws.

4. They are made by other smaller companies.

5. Now it has already become a reality.

     6. He can guess which product he will be able to sell very profitably some years  later.

7. Придумайте и запишите вопрос, ответом на который может служить  абзац 3.

         8. Прочитайте следующие утверждения и определите, являются ли они согласно тексту: верными (T), неверными (F) или не обсуждаются вообще (N):

1. Microsoft’s products are much more expensive than the products of other companies.

2. Microsoft is the world popular company in the American business world.

3.The output of Pepsi is greater than that of Coca-Cola.

4.Each major company gives an opportunity for the existence of many smaller firms.

5.Microsoft itself sells each new version of Windows together with all necessary applications.

      9.Расположите следующие предложения в таком порядке, чтобы 

       получилось краткое изложение текста «Microsoft: Competition Only with Itself»

1.   So Microsoft is very popular in the American business world.

2.   Microsoft is the only large company that has no competitors.

3.   Since 1990, scandals about Microsoft have been happening annually.

4.   This proves that everything Gates says is possible.

5.   A pocket computer will replace everything in a person’s pocket.

III.   VOCABULARY

competitor   конкурент

grasp   захватывать

violate   нарушать, попирать

law   закон

disturb   нарушать

opportunity   возможность

existence   существование

annually   ежегодно

accuse   обвинять

agreement   соглашение

attempt   пытаться, стараться

security   безопасность

legislation   законодательство

defeat   наносить поражение

remain   оставаться

foretell   предсказывать

profitably   выгодно

fingertips   кончики пальцев

owner   хозяин, владелец

except   делать исключение

omission   пропуск

connect   соединять

prove   доказывать

necessary   необходимый

forecast   прогноз

realize   понимать,осознавать; осуществлять