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Центр інноваційних технологій та компютерного тестування
Тест ::: 2025 Математика, Математика СО 4 курс (іспит 8 семестр)
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Дата генерації: 05.05.2025
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Computers
have become _______ because the modern world is the age of high
technologies. Different types, sizes, names of computers _______. They
are used for computing in many ways, for example, computer helps us to
do _______, to receive, store and transfer any kind of information, to
work on the Internet, to communicate with people all over the world...
It's really _______ of all usages of the computer.
We daily deal with
different computer systems, as calculators, car electronics, mobile
phones, timer in the microwave or the washing machine, the programmer
inside the TV set and so on. The impact _______ is felt in every area –
government, business, science, medicine, sport, industry, agriculture,
entertainment and at home.
1. of the computer on our society
2. a part of our everyday life
3. a unique typewriter
4. different mathematical and logical operations
5. find uses throughout our society
6. computers make us capable of
7. very hard to finish the enumeration
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Symbolic
language is _______ for it determines its true aspect. With the aid of
symbolism _______ in reasoning almost mechanically by the eye and leave
their mind free to grasp the fundamental ideas of the subject matter.
Just as music uses symbolism _______ so mathematics expresses
quantitative relations and spatial forms symbolically. Unlike the common
language, which is the product of custom, as well as social and
political movements, _______, purposefully and often ingeniously
designed. By virtue of its compactness, _______ which when expressed in
terms of common language are unmanageable. This compactness makes for
efficiency of thought.
Mathematical language is precise and concise,
so that it is often confusing to people unaccustomed to its forms. The
symbolism used in mathematical language is essential to distinguish
meanings often confused in common speech. Mathematical style aims at
brevity and formal perfection.
1. mathematicians can make transitions
2. the language of music is carefully
3. it permits a mathematician to work with ideas
4. for the representation and communication of sounds
5. precise and concise
6. the language of mathematics is carefully
7. one of the basic characteristics of modern mathematics
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Trigonometry
is a branch of mathematics that deals with triangles, _______ in which
one angle has 90 degrees (right triangles). Trigonometry deals with
relationships _______ and with the trigonometric functions, which
describe those relationships.
Trigonometry has applications in both
_______ where it is essential in many branches of science and
technology. It is usually taught in secondary schools _______ part of a
precalculus course. Trigonometry is informally called "trig".
A branch of trigonometry, _______ studies triangles on spheres, and is important in astronomy and navigation.
1. between the sides and the angles of triangles
2. between the legs and the hypotenuse
3. particularly those plane triangles
4. called spherical trigonometry,
5. called plane figures
6. pure mathematics and in applied mathematics,
7. either as a separate course or as
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Computers
will be embedded or hidden in a variety of items. For example, we’ll
have wearable computers that will be embedded in a belt of jewellery,
etc.
ICT devices will be mobile and multimedia: we’ll watch mobile TV programmes on our phones _______.
We’ll
be able to swim _______, a technology that will change the
two-dimensional world of the Internet into a 3-D experiences with
three-dimensional sound and images and even the sense of touch.
User
interfaces, the systems _______, will resemble human communication.
There will be gesture interfaces based on facial-band recognition
systems. Computer chips can be injected under the RFID, radio frequency
identification tags, might be used to track or identify people or to
store information, such as medical data, although there are concerns
about privacy and personal safety. There might be intelligent robots,
_______. The processing power of computers may have reached
1,000,000,000 MIPS _______ the estimated speed of human thought.
1. that facilitate communication between people and computers
2. which will also access the Internet and work as a mobile office
3. a molecular computer
4. machines that will be able to think creatively
5. in the immersive Internet
6. made with organic material
7. millions of instructions per second
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If
one angle of a triangle is 90 degrees and _______ the third is thereby
fixed, _______ add up to 180 degrees. The two acute angles therefore add
up to 90 degrees:_______. The shape of a right triangle is completely
determined, up to similarity, by the angles. This means that once one of
the other angles is known, _______ regardless of the overall size of
the triangle. These ratios are given _______ of the known angle A, where
a, b and c refer to the lengths of the sides in the accompanying
figure.
1. the ratios of the various sides are always the same
2. they are obtuse angles
3. because the three angles of any triangle
4. by the following trigonometric functions
5. they are complementary angles
6. one of the other angles is known,
7. the ratios of the various sides are always different
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Let's
try to answer the question: "What makes the computer such an
irreplaceable device?" The answer is very simple – _______ doing
everything you need. It is a high speed calculating machine which speeds
up _______. It is an electronic notebook which manages to collect
tremendous quantity of data, _______, which keeps records of students
and teachers, studying programs, personal information etc. It is a
unique typewriter that allows every user _______, pictures or even
photos. It is the greatest electronic entertainment system, so you can
relax listening to your favourite music or _______, or playing computer
games. And finally, computer is a personal communicator that enables to
communicate with other people all over the world without living your
house.
1. computers make us capable of
2. watching you favourite film
3. such as databases any school or university
4. a unique typewriter
5. a part of our everyday life
6. to type and to print any kind of written document
7. your financial calculations
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I
use computers to find information for people. Readers come in with a
lot of queries and I use either our own database _______ database that
we are connected to to find what we want. They might want to know the
name and address of a particular society or last year’s accounts of a
company and we can find it for them. On the other hand, they might want
to find a particular newspaper article but they do not know the exact
date _______ so we can find it for them _______ for anything they can
remember: _______. Moreover, we use computers _______ and to record the
books that readers borrow.
1. by checking on our online database
2. to catalogue the books into the library
3. a name or the general topic
4. or the national
5. to carry out program instructions
6. it was published
7. all the instructions and data
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Three
noncollinear points (also knwon as coplanar points) determine a plane,
which is yet another undefined term _______ such as a tabletop. Subsets
of a plane are called plane shapes or planes figures.
Another
important example of a geometric figure is the concept of an angle. By
an angle we mean _______ that have a common endpoint, known as the
vertex. The line segments are called _______. If one of the line
segments of an angle is horizontal and _______ then we call the angle a
right angle. Note that the sides of an angle partition the plane into
two regions, _______ of the angle. Two angles with the same opening are
said to be congruent.
1. the sides of the angle
2. one of the other angles
3. the other is vertical
4. between the legs and the hypotenuse
5. the opening between two line segments
6. the interior and the exterior
7. used to describe a flat space
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A
computer system consists of two parts: the software, _______ and the
hardware, which consists of all electronic and mechanical parts of the
computer. The basic structure of a computer system contains _______: the
central processing unit or CPU, the main memory or the internal memory
and the peripherals.
The central processing unit is the brain of the
computer. Its function is _______ and to operate the processing of the
other computer units. _______ the user can add a specialized expansion
cards to the CPU of his computer. The main memory stores all the
instructions and data which were currently processed by the CPU. It
usually consists of two sections: RAM (random access memory) and ROM
(read only memory). RAM is the memory used for creating, loading and
running computer programs. ROM is computer memory _______ in the system.
1. For better video and sound performances or networking
2. four main hardware sections
3. to carry out program instructions of the software
4. that takes in information
5. three main hardware sections
6. which holds the programmed instructions
7. which are instructions and programs of the computer
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Hardware
consists of devices composing a computer system: _______, the main
memory and the input and output units. The part of the computer _______
is called the input unit. It collects and converts data in the form
_______. To be accepted by the machine, information has to be in the
form of digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4,... 9 or signs A, B, C, D, …. So, the input
unit makes possible communication _______ and human to the computer.
The most common input device is a keyboard, which looks like an electric
typewriter. The mouse is a handheld device connected with the computer
_______.
Another type of the input unit is optic-electronic scanner.
Video camera and microphone can be also used to take in information into
the computer.
1. from the other data-handling equipment
2. that takes in information
3. the central processing unit
4. suitable for computer processing
5. by checking on our online database
6. by means of a small cable or bluetooth
7. which holds the programmed instructions
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Geometry,
a branch of mathematics _______ is a fundamental area of study in the
field. Two of the most important concepts in geometry are similarity and
congruence. Two figures are said to be similar _______ but not
necessarily the same size. This means that one can be a scaled version
of the other. The scale factor is _______ of corresponding sides. Two
geometric figures are congruent if they have the same size and shape.
This means _______ through rotations, translations, or reflections.
Similarity and congruence have numerous applications in the real world.
Architects and engineers use these concepts when designing and building
structures. Artists use them _______. Even in nature, we can find
examples of similarity and congruence, such as in the patterns of a
snowflake or the symmetry of a butterfly's wings.
1. that one can be transformed into the other
2. which are instructions and programs
3. the ratio of the lengths
4. to create perspective in their works
5. that deals with shapes and their properties,
6. that takes in information
7. if they have the same shape,
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The
part of the computer _______ is called the output unit. The computer
can easily put out information _______ – hardcopy or softcopy forms.
Hardcopy output can be held in your hands, _______ or pictures printed
on it. Softcopy is displayed on a monitor. The output unit is varying
_______ of the auxiliary equipment receiving information. But all
peripherals are slow as compared with the computer. In this case buffers
are used. A buffer is a storage device _______ from the computer and
release the information at the proper speed for the peripheral
equipment.
1. that takes in information
2. which is able to accept information at a very high speed
3. in the form acceptable to people
4. which are instructions and programs of the computer
5. according to the capacity
6. that puts out information produced by the computer system
7. such as paper with the text
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The
central processing unit (CPU) is the nerve centre of any computer
system. It coordinates and controls _______, reads, interprets software
instructions and performs all arithmetic and logic processes applied to
data. The CPU has three separate sections: an internal or main memory,
_______, and a control unit.
The main memory is the component of the
computer which stores information. It stores the numbers to be operated
on, intermediate and final results, _______. There are two important
features of the memory unit: an access time and a capacity. The more
memory has your computer, _______. There are two basic types of the main
memory: RAM and ROM. RAM accepts new instructions and information from
the peripherals. ROM is used _______ inside of computer permanently.
1. an arithmetic and logic unit
2. the more operations you can perform
3. a name or the general topic
4. the activities of all other computer units
5. to carry out program instructions of the software
6. as well as the instruction themselves
7. to store data or instruction
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The
word polygon _______: Poly and gon. Poly means many and gon means
sides. It means that a polygon is a geometrical figure _______. The
sides of the polygons are straight line segments _______ with each
other. These sides are also referred to as edges of the polygon. Vertex
of the polygon refers to a point _______ meet each other. At the vertex,
the angle of the polygon is also formed. Some examples of polygons
include triangle, square, rectangle, rhombus, and hexagon. All these
figures are two-dimensional. A circle is also a two-dimensional figure,
but it is not a polygon _______ rather it is a simple curved figure.
1. if they have the same shape,
2. where two line segments
3. that are joined end to end
4. where the category is derived
5. is created by combining two words
6. because it does not have angles or sides,
7. that has multiple sides
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The
final component of any computer system is its Software, _______ for
directing all computer operations and electronic data. These computer
programs give the hardware _______ to conduct the processing. The
computer is merely a general-purpose machine which requires a specific
software to execute a given instruction.
Computers accept
information, carry out different calculations – addition, subtraction,
multiplication, division, _______ produce logical operations, _______
matching, selecting, etc. and then output data as information. It is
exactly _______ which determines the order of operations to be
performed.
1. that unit of the computer
2. checking on our online database
3. exact sequence of instructions
4. such as comparing, sorting,
5. which includes programs
6. that takes in information
7. raising into a power, taking a square root,
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Programs
of the software are usually divided into two categories – system
software and application software. System software sits directly on top
of your
computer's hardware components (also referred to as its bare
metal). It includes the range of software _______ that enables it to
function. This include the operating system, _______, linkers and
debuggers.
Systems software can also be used for managing computer resources. Systems software is designed _______, not human users.
System
software controls all standard computer activities: _______, one of the
system programs is loaded into its memory, these programs contain
information about capacity of the computer's main memory, the
processor's model, the disk drivers to be used and so on. System
programs are designed for the specific pieces of hardware. _______ For
example, if the user wants to activate his peripheral device, such as
printer or scanner, he needs to load a specific driver. By installing
the driver you start the application of newly attached auxiliary.
1. These programs are called drivers.
2. to be used by the computer system itself
3. that unit of the computer
4. drivers for your hardware devices
5. to store data or instruction
6. you would install to your system
7. when a computer is first turned on
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A
circle is a 2D shape defined as the locus of all points _______ called
the 'center'. It is a smooth, curved shape that is perfectly symmetrical
all around.
A polygon is a flat 2D shape with straight sides. It
must have at least three sides and could contain many angles. The faces
of polygons are made from straight lines, _______ to form a 'closed'
shape.
Circles and polygons differ by their properties. Circles are
perfectly _______ they have one continuous curvature. All points on the
circle are an equal distance from the center. For a polygon, the sides
are straight lines. It has vertices and exhibits individual angles,
_______ from all vertices. Thus, circles cannot be classified as
polygons _______ these particular characteristics.
1. round with no sides or vertices,
2. because they don't share
3. which connect together
4. is the perpendicular distance
5. equidistant from a given point
6. which includes programs
7. with no specific point equally distant
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After
the system software is loaded, the applications software is acceptable
to work. Applications software satisfies user's specific need. The
developers of
application software _______ trying to do their best to
attract more users to their software. As the productivity of the
hardware has increased greatly in recent years, _______ in one program
to make software interface look more attractive to the user.
Today we
find new terms created frequently to classify types of applications
software. You have classifications based on usage – _______, office
applications, and other categories _______ based on the main use of the
software. Unfortunately, we also have a newer group of software related
terms that have a negative association. While the applications software
itself may be useful, _______ that may cause undesirable effects.
1. for example games or financial software
2. where the category is derived
3. rely mostly on marketing research strategies
4. it may also carry hidden programs or utilities
5. which includes programs
6. the programmers nowadays tend to include all kinds of gimmicks
7. to be used by the computer system itself
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The
Pascal programming language was originally developed by Niklaus Emil
Wirth (born February 15, 1934), a member of the International Federation
of
Information Processing Working Group. Professor Niklaus Wirth
developed Pascal to provide features _______ of the time. His principle
objectives for Pascal _______, allow for the development of well
structured and well organized programs, and to serve as a vehicle
_______ of computer programming. Pascal, which was named after the
mathematician Blaise Pascal, is a direct descendent from ALGOL 60, which
Wirth helped to develop. Pascal also draws programming components from
ALGOL 68 and ALGOL-W. The original published definition for the Pascal
language _______ published in 1973. It was designed _______ to college
students and was the language of choice to do so from the late 1960's to
the late 1980's.
1. to be used by the computer system itself
2. for the teaching of the important concepts
3. where the category is derived
4. to teach programming techniques and topics
5. that were lacking in other languages
6. appeared in 1971 with latter revisons
7. were for the language to be efficient to implement and run
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The
most popular Internet service is e-mail. Most of the people, _______
use the network only for sending and receiving e-mail messages. However,
_______ are available on the Internet: reading USENET News, using the
World-Wide Web, telnet, FTP, and Gopher. In many developing countries
_______ with a reliable alternative to the expensive and unreliable
telecommunication systems of these countries. Commercial users can
communicate over the Internet _______ and do it very cheaply. When they
send e-mail messages, they only have to pay _______ not for calls
across their countries or around the world.
1. other popular services
2. for the teaching of the important concepts
3. having access to the Internet,
4. the Internet may provide business people
5. for phone calls to their local service providers,
6. with the rest of the world
7. with no specific point equally distant
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A
programming language is an artificial language _______ to a computer.
In order to distinguish the spectrum of programming languages we divide
them according to the convenience of the machine computing or the work
of a programmer. Machine language, mnemonic machine language and
assembly language are best for machines, _______ PASCAL etc. are best
for programmers.
Sometimes a machine language is called _______ which
refers to a computer instructions written in a machine code. This
machine code _______ by a computer without translation. The machine code
is the coding system adopted in the design of a computer to represent
the set of its instructions. The actual machine language _______, but
not by the programmer.
1. whereas such languages as FORTRAN, ALGOL, BASIC,
2. to be used by the computer system itself
3. invented to communicate instructions or commands
4. can be immediately obeyed
5. where the category is derived
6. as a basic programming language or autocode
7. is generated by the software
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High-
level programming languages on the contrary _______ to several machine
code instructions. Such languages as FORTRAN, ALGOL, BASIC, PASCAL etc.
_______, while low-level languages are oriented to the computer's
machine code.
The programming languages are also divided into _______
to their similarity to English: _______ and automatic coding languages.
Comparing the convenience of the languages for the computer and the
programmer usages we can say _______, while symbolic and automatic
coding languages are more similar to English, so they are more
convenient for the use of the programmer.
1. is generated by the software
2. are oriented to the problem
3. can be immediately obeyed
4. that the machine languages are used by the computer directly
5. use the instruction corresponding
6. three basic categories according
7. machine languages, symbolic languages
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The
Internet, a global computer network, _______ began in the United States
in 1969 as a military experiment. It was designed to survive a nuclear
war. Information sent over the Internet _______ from one computer to
another. Because of this, any two computers on the Internet will be able
_______ as long as there is a single route between them. This
technology is called packet switching. Owing to this technology, _______
(by a nuclear explosion, for example), information will just route
around them. One such packet-switching network already survived a war.
It was the Iraqi computer network, _______ during the Gulf War.
1. embracing millions of users all over the world,
2. identifying signs of threats
3. takes the shortest path available
4. which was not knocked out
5. to stay in touch with each other
6. which is able to accept information
7. if some computers on the network are knocked out
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A
cone is a solid figure formed _______ (the base) and all the lines
joining points of the base to a fixed point (the vertex) not in the
plane of the base. The closed curve is the directrix of the cone _______
(or elements). The curved area of the cone forms its lateral surface.
Cones are named according to the base, e.g. a circular cone or an
elliptical cone. If the base has a center of symmetry, _______ is the
axis of the cone. A cone that has its axis perpendicular to its base is a
right cone; otherwise the cone is an oblique cone. The altitude of a
cone (h) _______ from the plane of the base to the vertex. The volume of
any cone is l/3hA, where A is the area of the base. A right circular
cone _______ has a slant height (s), equal to the distance from the edge
of the base to the vertex (the length of a generator). The term "cone"
is often used loosely for "conical surface".
1. and the lines to the vertex are its generators
2. is the perpendicular distance
3. by a closed plane curve on a plane
4. a line from the vertex to the center
5. which is able to accept information
6. (circular base with perpendicular axis)
7. are used by the computer directly
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Bank
customers can now download money _______, a smart card, using a
specially designed phone _______. To download cash you have to enter
your PIN. You can then use your electronic wallet to pay for goods
across the Internet, _______.
Using the Internet, customers can now
check their account balance and see their latest statement. One bank has
developed a multi-currency payment engine _______ to sell their goods
in sixteen countries, with customers paying in their local currency.
With these developments, coins and notes _______.
1. from their account to an electronic wallet
2. and to transfer money to other card holders
3. as your sole qualification
4. equipped with a smart card reader
5. are likely to disappear
6. for being a good programmer
7. which allows on-line retailers
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The
hypotenuse is the side opposite to the 90 degree angle _______; it is
the longest side of the triangle, _______ adjacent to angle A. The
adjacent leg is the other side that is adjacent to angle A. The opposite
side is the side that is opposite to angle A. The terms _______ are
sometimes used for the opposite and adjacent sides respectively. Many
people find it easy to remember _______ are equal to sine, cosine, or
tangent, by memorizing the word SOH-CAH-TOA.
The reciprocals of these
functions are named the cosecant (csc or cosec), secant (sec) and
cotangent (cot), respectively. The inverse functions are called the
arcsine, arccosine, and arctangent, respectively. There are arithmetic
relations between these functions, _______.
1. which are known as trigonometric identities
2. in an isosceles triangle
3. and one of the two sides
4. what sides of the right triangle
5. what sides of the isosceles triangle
6. in a right triangle
7. perpendicular and base
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Nanotechnology,
the science of creating and using materials or devices _______, is
going to represent a new technological revolution. These devices will
fall in the range of 1 nanometre, _______, to 100 nanometres (nm).
Nanobots,
robots formed from molecules or molecular components, will be used in
medicine _______. For example, they will be injected and will move
through blood vessels destroying cholesterol molecules or cancer.
Nanocomputers,
_______, may have the power of 100 workstations but only be the size of
a grain of sand. There will be two main types of molecular computers.
Quantum
computers, based on quantum mechanics, may be millions of items faster
than current computers. They will be so fast because _______. This
capability is made possible by qbits, quantum bits, which can be 0 or 1,
or something in between, simultaneously.
DNA computers will use DNA biochips to perform the same functions as silicon microchips do today but at a much faster speed.
1. which is equal to one billionth of a metre
2. molecule-sized computers
3. to control and diagnose diseases
4. they will be able to examine all possible answers to a query at the same time
5. to revolutionize the way we live
6. at molecular and atomic sizes
7. into a test bulb
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The
law of sines and the law of cosines can be used _______ of any triangle
as soon as _______ two angles and a side or three sides are known.
These laws are useful in all branches of geometry, _______ as a finite
combination of triangles.
The above definitions apply to angles
between 0 and 90 degrees (0 and π/2 radians) only. Using the unit
circle, one can extend them to all positive and negative
arguments. The trigonometric functions are periodic, _______ or 2π radians. That means their values repeat at those intervals.
The
trigonometric functions can be defined in other ways besides the
geometrical definitions above, _______. With these definitions the
trigonometric functions can be defined for complex numbers.
1. using tools from calculus and infinite series
2. two sides and an angle or
3. two legs and an angle
4. with a period of 360 degrees
5. to compute the remaining angles and sides
6. since every polygon may be described
7. since every square may be described