In our era, a computer occupies a certain place in a person's life. Someone uses a computer for games, some for training, some like to sit on the Internet. But all these computers have a common structure and principles of functioning, and, accordingly, the history of development. The evolutionary process that led to modern computers has been and continues to be extremely fast and dynamic. Scientists deduced even the regularity that the frequency of processors doubles every 18 months! In the first half of the XIX century. English mathematician Charles Babbage tried to build a universal computing device, that is, a computer
1. Jane woke up. It was 12 o’clock. It was (1) _ high afternoon. (2) THE day was bright but rather cold. It was (3) AN unusually cold day for (4) _ summer, as in (5) _ summer the weather is usually hot or warm. “(6) _ autumn is coming nearer,” Jane thought.2. “(1)_ winter has come!” thought Susan when she came up to the window. It was (2) _ late autumn but the ground was covered with white soft snow. “What (3) A day!” cried Susan’s brother running into the room. “It is (4) A real winter. I would like to throw snowballs on (5)A fine day like that. Let’s go.” But Jane had other things to do at (6)_ noon. She wanted to finish the job she had begun (7) THE day before but never finished.3. It was (1) A cold winter morning. Andrew was taking his dog Spot out. He usually did it in (2) THE morning about 8 or 9 o’clock. But that (3) _ morning he got up at (4) _ dawn. It was really(5)_ early morning. Andrew understood he could not sleep on(6)THE morning like that and walked out of the house.4. That (1)_ evening at (2)_ dusk I ...
In the first half of the XIX century. English mathematician Charles Babbage tried to build a universal computing device, that is, a computer