Ex. 5. Определить, являются следующие утверждения истинными или ложными (T или F), ссылаясь на информацию из текста.
T F
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1. The abacus and the fingers are two calculating devices still in use today.
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2. The slide rule was invented hundreds of years ago.
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3. During the early 1880s, many people worked on inventing a mechanical calculating machine.
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4. Charles Babbage, an Englishman, could well be called the father of computers.
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5. The first computer was invented and built in the USA.
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6. Instructions used by computers have always been kept inside the computer's memory.
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7. Using transistors instead of vacuum tubes did nothing to increase the speed at which calculations were done.
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8. As computers evolved, their size decreased and their dependability increased.
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9. Today's computers have more circuits than previous computers.
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10. Computer technology has developed to a point from which new developments in the field will take a long time to come.
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