Vocabulary

Sort out the words into 2 columns-international words and false friends
department idea critical risk college commission public nature instruction pioneer section elementary substance aspect method energy mimic generator biology experiment
International
False friends
 
    
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Put the following phrases under the correct heading in the table. Use the example:
a)name+nounTuring test
b)activity+noundevelopment laboratory
c)material+nouncyanide poisoning
d)function+nounattack vehicle
e)property+nounsolar energy
 
vote recorder microwave device tin foil phonograph code breaker Touberian theorem fluorescent light Turing machine
development laboratory incandescent lamp Brownian motion Nobel Prize alkaline battery control system Bell laboratories
Tesla coil induction motor Alzheimer's disease power generator communication revolution long-distance telegraphy nuclear weapon wireless message
 
name+noun
activity+noun
material+noun
function+noun
property+noun
 
    
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Write the word next to each transcription:
[pəʹfɔ:m]
 [krɪpʹtɔgrəfə]
[ʹsaɪənaɪd]
 [ʹælgərɪzəm]
[ʹpɔɪzənɪŋ]
 [ʹsaɪfə(r)]
[ɪnʹtelidʒəns]
 [ʹkælkjələs]
[məʹʃi:n]
 [ʹpɜ:pəs]
[ʹdɪdʒɪtl]
 [pəʹtɪkjələ(r)]
    
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Match the basic notions of computer science with their definitions.
  1. 
a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human
  2. 
relating to information that is stored in the form of the numbers 0 and 1.
  3. 
a person whose job is writing programs for computers
  4. 
the art of protecting information by transforming it (encrypting it) into an unreadable format
  5. 
a hypothetical computing machine to serve as an idealized model for mathematical calculation.
  6. 
any of a class of devices capable of solving problems by processing information in discrete form
  7. 
early electronic stored-program general-purpose digital computer
  8. 
an area of study concerned with making computers copy intelligent human behaviour
  9. 
a set of rules that must be followed when solving a particular problem
    
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Match words in column A with the words in column B to make word combinations.

A

B

to solve
to leave
distinguished
civil
to show
to earn
to waste
to perform
operating
to win
manual problems degree time service an affinity respect legacy tasks a scholarship
 
    
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Complete the following sentences with the prepositions if necessary.
a)
Turing’s genius did not earn him respect    the teachers at Sherborne.
b)
Turing aimed    creating machines that would mimic the processes of the human brain.
c)
Alan was awarded    a distinguished degree after graduating from King’s college.
d)
Turing contributed    the development of the digital computer.
e)
He worked from 1952 until his death    mathematical biology.
f)
Turing died suddenly    cyanide poisoning at the age of 41.
g)
During WWII Turing was a head of the section responsible    reading German Naval signals.
    
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Complete the sentences with prepositions.
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