Вопрос № 933155 - Английский язык

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It is difficult to live without music. You can hear music everywhere: in the streets, in the marketplaces, in the shops, in the parks and in the concert halls. You can even hear it at the seaside and in the forest. We can’t live without music. Modern researches discovered that a human puts music in the third place after the family relations stability and comfort and the job satisfaction. Even sexual realization means less to a human. We like to listen to music, we enjoy to dance to music, we play music instruments. For some people music is their hobby.

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1. Adolescents generally relate to the music of their peer culture and therefore find music a familiar medium for them. Self-expression is often facilitated because of the non-verbal aspect of music. Thus, listening to and discussing songs are safe and non-threatening to the teenager and offer a pleasurable situation where projection of personal thoughts and feelings is facilitated in the situation because it is one step removed from their own experiences (Keen 2001). The therapeutic process is enhanced and may face little resistance because the adolescent client is «tuned in» to the music and not the therapist, who may subsequently become perceived as a safe and trusted adult.
2. Using music with adolescents can facilitate self-concept by affording them structured, successful experiences linked to specific reinforcements. It can enhance communication and self-expression by allowing the client the metaphoric use of song lyrics to promote expression. A great deal of information can also be gained by providing adolescents with the opportunity to write their own songs.
Because of its powerful socializing effect, using music in adolescent groups can provide a common ground and thus improve constructive interaction in individuals who have negative or non-existent peer relationships.
(Tuula Heinonen : Social work in health and mental health / Tuula Heinonen, Anna Metteri. – Toronto : Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc., 2005. – P. 89).
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Vlad: Hi, Boris, I have got a little problem.
Boris: What is it? What is the matter?
Vlad: I saw you receive a parcel with a sign FedEx several times.
Boris: Well, I use their service quite often. Why are you asking?
Vlad: You see, I must get a letter sent by FedEx, and I don’t know what I am to do.
Boris: You know, it is rather simple. 1_______. In fact, it is a carrier service, or an express transportation company. 2_______, say, DHL, FedEx, German Parcel, etc.
Vlad: Then, in what way are they different from traditional postal service?
Boris: In fact, there is a great difference. To begin with, they are more reliable than the regular post. Having something really important to be sent, you’d better use the service of such company, though their services are not cheap at all.
Vlad: Does FedEx deliver internationally, being an American company?
Boris: Of course, they do. If I am not mistaken, they have 3_______ in more than 200 countries.
Vlad: Have they, really? Then, I think, I am sure to receive the documents very soon. But then there is one more question: they have supplied me with the tracking number. What is it needed for?
Boris: Oh, using this number you can track your letter.
Vlad: Where can I track it?
Boris: In 4_______, of course. Just go to FedEx homepage and insert the number you received. You’ll get the complete information about where your package is and when it is going to be at your destination. It is interesting sometimes to see that your parcel travels through so many countries to reach you.
Vlad: Do you want to say that their delivery is slower than a usual post service?
Boris: Why do you think so?
Vlad: You said it travels to many countries…
Boris: No, it is very fast. They choose the best way to deliver. They have their own aircraft and vehicles.
Vlad: It is really very interesting. I wish I knew this before. Now I’d better go and track my parcel.

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A: They say, you have bought 1_______.
B: Yes, now I have got my own computer.
A: That’s fine. And what type of a computer have you got?
B: The most common type, a digital one.
A: By the way, do you know what it means “a digital computer”?
B: It goes without saying. 2_______. All data – pictures, sounds, symbols, and words – are translated into numbers inside the computer.
A: Yes, you are right. Digital computers are so widespread that the word “computer” almost always refers to a digital computer. But there are 3 types of computers: digital, analog, and hybrid…
B: Sorry for interrupting you. I do know about it. 3_______, such as weight, speed, temperature. They solve problems by measuring a quantity in terms of another quantity. Do you understand it?
A: Yes, certainly, for example, they measure 4_______ in terms of the length of a thin line of liquid in a thermometer.
B: Good for you. And when are you going to buy a computer? You know so much about the computers.
A: You see, I haven’t got such a large amount of money.
B: Take it easy. You may use my computer.
A: Thanks a lot.
В: You are welcome.

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Sergei Volkov: Mr Brown, do you work for IBMC?
Robert Brown: Yes, I do. 1_______.
Sergei Volkov: And what kinds of 2_______ do you make?
Robert Brown: IBM makes dataprocessing systems, electronic computers, electric typewriters, dictation machines, etc.
Sergei Volkov: What was your corporation called before, Mr Brown?
Robert Brown: 3_______.
Sergei Volkov: When did your corporation get the name of IBMC?
Robert Brown: It adopted its present name in 1924.
Sergei Volkov: Who is the head of IBMC?
Robert Brown: Thomas J. Watson was the firm’s chief executive for 42 years. IBM’s headquarters are in Armonk, New York.
Sergei Volkov: There are such 4_______ of your corporation at our computer centre.
Robert Brown: May I have a look of them?
Sergei Volkov: Certainly. You are welcome.
Robert Brown: Thanks a lot.

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George Stephenson was a British inventor and engineer. He is famous for building the first practical railway locomotive.
Stephenson was born in 1781 in England. During his youth he worked as a fireman and later as an engineer in the coal mines of Newcastle. He invented one of the first miner’s safety lamps independently of the British inventor Humphrey Davy. Stephenson’s early locomotives were used to carry loads in coal mines, and in 1823 he established a factory at Newcastle for their manufacture. In 1829 he designed a locomotive known as the Rocket, which could carry both loads and passengers at a greater speed than any locomotive at that time. The success of the Rocket was the beginning of the construction of locomotives and laying the railway lines.