| 1. If the Apple Computer company had not introduced the GUI,…
2. If you or I add up two numbers of six figures without a calculator,...
3. If you had chosen a more complicated program,…
4. If I had the time,...
5. If robots are more widely used in industry,…
6. If we had an access to the database,…
| a) your computer would have solved this problem.
b) I would help you to solve the problem. But I must be off.
c) their Macintosh computer would not have been successful.
d) it will take us a lot of time.
e) we would find the required information quickly.
f) the number of workers will be reduced.
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Ex. 18. Complete the sentences with the required predicates. Consult the box. Are the sentences the first, second or third conditionals?
| 1. The virus ___ as soon as you ___ the infected floppy in your PC.
2. Consumers ___ the new software if it ___ so expensive.
3. If he ___ his invention, he ___ a lot of money.
4. Provided you ___ more than 10 CDs, we ___ the cost of each disk by 10%.
5. If you ___ on a source file in the list, the text editor ___ that file.
6. The office manager ___ the documents in time if the printer ___.
| a) would use
b) bought
c) will spread
d) would have typed
e) had patented
f) double click
g) were not
h) will open
i) had been repaired
j) would have made
k) should reduce
l) put
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Ex. 19. Read and translate the text.
