Ex. 9. Translate the following sentences, paying attention to the equivalents of the modal verbs can and may – to be able to and to be allowed to.

1. You will be able to burn over four hours of video images onto a DVD.

2. Many private individuals now have their own Web sites. They are able to fill their pages with photographs and personal information for viewing by friends and associates.

3. In 1993, commercial Internet service providers were first allowed to sell Internet connections to individuals.

4. RAM is a working memory, which is able to accept new information from a peripheral device.

5. A Cybercafe is a place where you are able to use computers to get access to the Internet.

6. Staff are not allowed to make personal phone calls except in an emergency.

7. Thanks to digital recording technology, CDs invented in 1979 were able to store more information than traditional vinyl records.

8. When using the Internet, the users are allowed to download, or copy, information from a remote computer to their PC.

9. The secondary memory is able to store far greater amount of information than the main memory.

10. As personal computers became faster and more powerful in the late 1980s, software developers were able to write programs as large and as sophisticated as those previously run only on mainframes.