МОСКОВСКИЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ ГУМАНИТАРНЫЙ



УНИВЕРСИТЕТ им. М.А.Шолохова

Кафедра английского языка             Курс ГАК

Наименование дисциплины     Английский язык

 

                Приложение к экзаменационному билету № 9

 

What is it to love someone if you don’t share the same mother-tongue? My companion’s English is reasonably good, infinitely better than my Russian. But many of the fine shades of meaning than would normally be possible in a conversation between two connected people are out of reach. Sometimes I gaze at the optimistic row of Russian primers, readers and dictionaries on my bookshelf and think; it will never be the language of my infancy, my school-days, my first loves, it will never truly be mine – just as English will never be truly his. My mother and he agree on one thing – that my poems are incomprehensible. So the best of me is closed to him.  

    Sometimes I feel as if I have no language at all, than my country is called Nowhere. For example, we are listening to the radio, and I must either interrupt every few seconds to ask the meaning of this and that, or understand practically nothing. I sit silently, knowing it’s a programme about dissident writers which I could lap up greedily if only I could… I am foreigner, a little island of Englishness

in this Russian kitchen. It is the same when he entertains his friends or talks to them on the phone. I think – they make him laugh in a way I never can, and a cold, ugly jealousy comes down on me like fog. And yet my own culture is all around me in the world outside, and his is not. This Russian kitchen in an English flat, this nowhere language made of English-Russian and Russian-English and silence, these stories we tell one another about our unimaginable pasts - these are home.

       Just before the exame I took recently, I began to dream in Russian. I don’t now how ungrammatical or even nonsensical it was, but in the dream at least it sounded OK. At any rate, I console myself, something of the language must have filtered in through to my subconscious mind if I can dream in it… there is hope for me yet…

 

Экзаменационный билет утвержден на заседании кафедры

« » ___________ 2010 г.              Зав. кафедрой_________________

 

                 МОСКОВСКИЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ ГУМАНИТАРНЫЙ

УНИВЕРСИТЕТ им. М.А. Шолохова

 

Кафедра английского языка   Курс ГАК

Наименование дисциплины  Английский язык  

 

               Приложение к экзаменационному билету № 8

 

                             Who can read we are typing

 

When most computer users worry about privacy in the digital age, they wonder who is reading their e-mail or watching where they go on line. But inside the U.S. government, security officials have a much greater fear: Is someone with the right surveillance equipment tuning in to what is on their computer monitors from a nearby office, or a floor below or even across the street? It can be done through thin air – no phone lines needed. Everyone’s video-display terminal emits enique radio-frequency waves that can be insolated and captured with an antenna focused on a particular computer or room. U.S. military and intelligence agencies have been concerned since at least 1980s about they in official documents “compromising emanations” from computers. The government is looking for protective materials and anti-surveillance monitoring tools that can keep foreign spies from collecting signals from computers in defense labs or U.S. embassies.

A cottage industry of mostly small companies has quietly emerged to market such protective equipment. The main buyers are U.S. agencies and government-approved contractors. The official specifications for such equipment are classified.

But people involved in this trade say that it is possible that nonapproved corporations also are acquiring the technology. And while suppliers say they sell only defensive equipment, some of them assume that their products could easily be adjusted to do offensive surveillance. Some large companies are also jumping into the market. On its Web site, Siemens, the German engineering and electronic

giant, advertises several “emission-proof PCs”. The secretive National Security Agency, the government’s main communications-intelligence organization, has listed 18 companies on its Web site whose computer-protection equipment meet government standards.

While it shops for computer-protection devices, the military is trying to make sure that other potential buyers are banned from purchasing them. The U.S. Army has

Begun buying the 20, 000 units from Codex Data System Inc..

Fearing the dissemination of this kind of equipment, the U.S. government has forbidden  its sale abroad without a license. Last summer the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested a man in Virginia who has since been sentenced to prison for striving to export a computer-monitor surveillance system.

 

Emit (v) – to send out heat, light, radio-waves etc

 

 

Экзаменационный билет утвержден на заседании кафедры

« » __________ 2010 г.                                           Зав. кафедрой ________________

                   МОСК€ОВСКИЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ ГУМАНИТАРНЫЙ

УНИВЕРСИТЕТ им. М.А.Шолохова


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