Ex. 23. Use the verbs in the required tense/voice form. Translate the sentences.

1. The ‘bar code’ [to print– Present Indefinite Passive] on products for sale and [to contain– Present Indefinite Active] information that a computer can read.

2. The results of the public opinion poll on this question [to display– Future Indefinite Passive] on the Internet.

3. The computer [to program– Present Indefinite Passive] to warn users before information [to delete– Present Indefinite Passive].

4. In 2001, Microsoft [to release– Past Indefinite Active] a new operating system known as Windows XP, the company’s first operating system that [not/to base– Past Indefinite Passive] on MS-DOS.

5. The automatic engine driver [to be– Present Indefinite Active] a small computer with transducers. All the necessary data of train operation – distance, time of covering each section of the route, speed limits, etc. [to programand to feed– Present Indefinite Passive] into the computer’s memory.

6. The world’s first programmable computer [to design –Past Indefinite Passive] by the English mathematician and inventor, Charles Babbage in the 19th century. The programs for this machine [to write –Past Indefinite Passive] by mathematician Ada Byron. For this reason, she [to consider –Present Indefinite Passive] the world’s first programmer.

7. Hundreds of thousands of people [to need– Future Indefinite Passive] to manufacture, operate, program and manage new computer equipment.

8. The first digital computer called ENIAC [to build– Past Indefinite Passive] in the 1940s. It [to have– Past Indefinite Active] more than 18,000 glass tubes inside and [to weigh– Past Indefinite Active] more than five elephants.

 

Ex. 24. Say the same: