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1 (R1) You will listen to an interview with ethno-
biologist
Karl Court, who has spent most of
his career in the Amazon jungle
Predict the topics? Choose only five.
1. Lifetime searching for plants with medicinal
properties.
2. Type of people that he encounters tend to be the
most difficult to deal with
3. The fright of the jungle
4. Aims and objectives to be achieved.
5. Investigations conducted in this field.
6. Establishing cooperation between government
and researchers
7. Science books which are related to life of jungle
book.
2 Fill in the gaps using words from the
conversation.
1. I am talking about th e __________________ ethno-
biologist Karl Court.
2. There’s a n _______________________ relationship
between how much people say they love
the
Amazon and how much time they spend there
3. What
type
of
people
that
you
_____________________________ tend to be the
most difficult to deal with?.
4. The
things
that
you
can’t
control,
like
____________________________ parasites
and
viruses that eat you away from the inside.
5. Tell me something you have__________
recently.
3 Read the text and choose the best title.
1. Changes and
new implementations in the
government sector.
2. ICT to be widely implemented in Real Sector of
Uzbekistan.
3. Pros and cons of new implementations to be
realized in Uzbekistan.
ICT to be Widely Implemented into real sector
of Uzbekistan.
On April 3, 2014 the President of Uzbekistan
Islam Karimov signed a resolution «On measures
for further implementation of information and
communication technologies in the real economy».
This document was adopted in order to accelerate
the development and introduction o f information
and communication technologies and software
products into the real economy sectors and on this
basis to improve management efficiency,
reduce
production costs, ensuring the reliability and
transparency o f financial and economic activity of
associations and large enterprises and to improve
their competitiveness in domestic and foreign
markets.
The following issues are set as the most important
tasks and directions of development of ICT in the
real economy:
•
widespread adoption of ICT and software
products,
mainly
locally
developed,
into
document management system, accounting
and reporting, financial and economic activity
o f associations and enterprises, personnel
management, organization o f manufacture and
technological processes;
•
improvment of the
quality o f products and
services, reducing their costs and production
costs through
implementation of modern
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1.
Find the words in the text with the similar
meaning .
realization
2.
quicken
3.
order
4. endorse
5.
performer
6.
empower
7.
business
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information systems and software for accounting
and rational use of material resources, regulation
of relations with consumers;
•
introduction of new product sale schemes by
enterprises through the Internet to open new
markets and increase the export potential o f the
country;
•
introduction in production processes o f innovative
mechanisms and technologies by expanding
cooperation with
research and designing firms,
institutions of higher education;
•
organization of an effective system o f advanced
ICT training and retraining in joint stock
companies, associations and large enterprises.
The resolution has also approved the list of
priority projects for introduction of information
and communication systems and products into the
real economy sectors in 2014-2015. Executors are
instructed to create specialized working groups, to
develop network schedules for the implementation of
projects and pre-feasibility studies o f projects along
with setting target figures of cost-effectiveness of
their implementation that help increase productivity,
reduce costs and improve profitability.
Major priority
projects for the introduction o f information and
communication systems and software products will
be included in the investment program of Uzbekistan.
Annually before June 1 lists o f new projects will be
developed for further introduction of information
and communication systems and software products
in economic entities and large industrial enterprises
to be included in the investment program. Joint-stock
companies, associations, large industrial enterprises
are instructed to annually include in their business
plans and cost estimates the separate line items for
the introduction of information
and communication
systems and software products, including providing
training and skills development. Companies will
also put into practice quarterly financial incentives
and promotion professionals and employees directly
involved in the implementation o f projects for the
introduction o f information and communication
systems and software products. Implementation o f
these tasks will also contribute to the development o f
the ICT market and the domestic software industry
thanks to orders for specific IT projects for the
real economy. According to the data of the State
Committee
for Communication, Information and
Telecommunication Technologies of Uzbekistan,
the National Register o f software development has
already included over 40 companies that provide
services on integration of information systems and
software products
