VII. Find the words and expressions in the text that mean the following

1. _______ aircraft control through systems operated by electronic circuits rather than mechanical rods

2. _______ to cause something to slow down or speed up

3. _______ method of designing and building something into a usable and/or pleasing form

4. _______ to mix together

5. _______ the ability of a system to respond gracefully to an unexpected hardware or software failure

6. _______ physical components that make up a computer system

7. _______ a transmission path on which signals are dropped off or picked up at every device attached to the line

VIII. Work in pairs. Complete the text with the given phrases:

During software uploads; pace of technology; come in two forms; at aviation door; permanently installed; data from aircraft computers; software updates; to accomplish this task;

When the computer technology revolution arrived (1)______, it brought with it software to drive microprocessors in the new avionics systems. Thanks to the rapid (2) ______ and the need to maintain currency of certain databases, it wasn’t long before the avionics required (3) ______. (4) ______, avionics manufacturers developed a data loader to upload and transmit the software via the aircraft’s data bus. Data loaders (5) ______: the airborne loader, which is (6) ______ on the aircraft, and the portable data loader, which is plugged into the aircraft while it is on the ground. (7) ______, a display allows the aircraft mechanic to select the target hardware, then send the software to it via the data bus. In addition to uploading software, the data loaders download (8) ______.