Exercise 24. Answer the questions

1. Where is Silicon Valley situated?

2. What does Silicon Valley mean?

3. Why does Silicon Valley continue to be the leading high-tech hub?

4. By whom was the term Silicon Valley coined?

5. Where is Silicon used?

6. What was the initial name of Silicon Valley?

7. What was developed in Silicon Valley?

8. Was Silicon Valley formed as a milieu of innovations?

Exercise 25. True or False?

1. Silicon Valley is the nothern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California, United States.

2. The term is now generally used as a metonym for the high-tech sector.

3. Silicon square continues to be the leading high-tech hub because of its large number of cutting-edge entrepreneurs, engineers and venture capitalists.

4. The Silicon Valley encompasses all of the USA.

5. Ralph Vaerst was a scientist.

6. These firms slowly replaced the orchards.

7. It was in Silicon Valley that the silicon-based integrated circuit sustained by about a quarter of a million information technology workers.

Exercise 26. Give the English equivalents:

залив, в конечном счёте, центр внимания, окружить, вымышлять, полупроводник, фруктовый сад, поддерживать, схождение, обеспечивать, интегрированные цепи, отдел безопасности.

Exercise 27. Retell the text.