Английский язык: Аннотирование и реферирование текста

225 II . Find and write down the international words from the text . III . Translate the following words . Are there the words with the same meaning in Russian : a) e-bahn, i-way, online, freenet, web page, freeware, browser, gopher, archie, gateway; b) netters, e-surfers, internet surfers, netizens, spiders, geeks? IV . Read the article attentively and define its main ideas and make up the plan of the text . V . Make up the abstract and the annotation of the text . Текст 3. The digital home – Science fiction? By Dewayne Hendricks From the Economist print edition , September 1 st , 2005 / San Francisco Technology firms are pushing a futuristic vision of home enter- tainment not because consumers are desperate for it but because they themselves are. Recently, at one of the fast-proliferating conferences devoted to the "digital home", John Burke, an executive at Motorola, a maker of mobile phones and digital gadgets, showed a video that pre- sented his company's version of this vision. In the clip, a youngish man wakes up to a rock video that automatically starts playing on a screen next to his bed. He gets up to have breakfast and the rock video follows him to a screen in the kitchen. He moves into the living room and up pops the rock video on yet another screen. When he leaves his flat and gets into his car, the video starts playing on a screen in the steering wheel. To ordinary humans this sort of thing must seem like silly – or downright frightening – marketing claptrap. In fact, even Mr. Burke's audience of self-selected technophiles seemed sceptical. "Did you no- tice that the guy was a bachelor," said Tim Dowling, the boss of Pure Networks, a software firm in Seattle that helps users to set up and trou-