Unit2

Lead-in

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1.Steve's biological parents.

2.With no idea what to do in future.

3.Because they radically changed the way communication technologydeveloped.

4.No,the comparison is a piece of amusing hyperbole inventively linking thethree through the image of an apple and should not be taken seriously.

Text comprehension

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1.Refer to Paragraph 1.As the author sees it,the Internet is most likely tomake our global village a better place to live in.It provides a miraculous forumfor the globalization of ideas,which contributes to the realization if humanpotential.Furthermore,it is a powerful tool for the acquisition and applicationof knowledge.The benefits of the Internet,however,may be darkened by its?negative consequences.It may deprive the user of his time for necessaryinteraction with other members of society soethat the whole world may be?further fragmented In addition,there is a reasonable likelihood that the?Internet presents too much information,which gives the user a skewed sense?of reality by making him cognitively overloaded.

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3.His friend was addicted to the Internet.He wouldspend even over twenty-four hours nonstop on the Internet so that he had toforce himself to go off-line.As he spent so much time in cyberspace,his senseof reality might have been crooked.Moreover,without any face-to-face verbal?communication with other people,he felt lonely and depressed.

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4.The alienation of members of society had begun longbefore the Internet started to be used worldwide.After World War II,when thesoldiers returned from the battlefields,they devoted themselves to "progress."Large quantities of cars were manufactured,which fed the creation of suburbs,and consequently people lived far apart from each other.The Internet has?added to the problem and Internet addicts are far from rare.As illustrated bythe example of the author's nephew,it seems to be an irreversible trend thatmore and more people,old and young,are becoming addicted to the Internet.They will spend many hours non-stop in cyberspace rather than with theirfamilies or friends.For lack of communication,they are becoming strangers toother people.Therefore,there is a good reason to believe that society is beingfurther alienated by the Internet.

4.The cruel irony means that on the one hand the Internet provides users witha convenient means of communicating and making friends with people farapart,but on the other,it estranges them from the people around them bycurtailing their availability for face-to-face communication even with theirfamilies and close friends and for involvementin community activities.

5.Refer to Paragraphs 6 and 7.The potential of the Internet as a powerful toolfor globalizing ideas and for acquiring and applying knowledge can only berealized when the user strikes a balance between reality and the Internet.

Although the Internet makes it possible for the user to debate,shop,travel andhave romance in cyberspace without leaving home,the overuse of this toolprobably results in a distorted sense of reality.The only way to avoid beingpenalized by the Internet is making moderate use of this tool without losing?one's sense of place in the world.

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1.As the Internet can be reached and used with relatively few restrictions,itplays a role in connecting people globally,which is comparable to travellingthrough international waterways.

2.A lot of people talk about the "new information age,"but not so many peopleare acquainted with the idea that the Internet separates people from eachother and fragments society further as a result

3.I think that in our society top priority is given to the satisfaction of one'simmediate needs.The Internet is the best means to achieve this purpose,foron the Internet one can do whatever he likes to.

Structural analysis of the text

The three parts of the text:

Part i(Paragraphs 1-2),Part 2(Paragraphs 3-6);and Part 3(Paragraph 7).Thesis statement:….the Internet may be responsible for furthering thefragmentation of society by alienating its individual users.

Concluding statement:All of this being said.I believe that the key to realizingthe potential of the Internet is in achieving balance in our lives.

Rhetorical features of the text

More antonyms:real--not real reality--virtual existence,outside playing withhis friends -play his games against his friends in cyberspace.The use of all公眾these pairs of antonymous words and expressions helps to reinforce theseeming self-contradiction that the Internet can lead to globalization on the onehand and cause the alienation of the users from the people around them on theother.

Vocabulary

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1.ability to develop,achieve or succeed

2.causing to feel very distant from or not welcome to other people

3.liked it very much and wanted to spend as much time doing it as possible

4.more information than one can cope with

5.a set of images and sounds produced by a computer which seem so realthat for most purposes they can be regarded as real

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1.for the better

2.at the expense of

3.was confronted with

4.took advantage of

5.in earnest

6.are available for

7.prior to

8.givepause

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1.alienating

2.globalization

3.fragmenting

4.addict

5.exaggerate

6.Depression

7.simulated

8.gratified

IV

1.indulgence

2.subtle

3.mourn

4.distort

5.imitate

6.satisfaction

7.realized

8.estrange

V

1.intended(Purposeful,intentional,planned)

2.extraordinary (unusual)

3.alienate (isolate,estrange)

4.cultivate (nurture)

5:considerable(excessive,indulgent)

6.improvement (enhancement)

7.misrepresent (falsify)

8.unimportant (trivial,minor)

VI

1.expanses

2.thinking it is necessary

3.commonplace

4.at home

5.tell you

6.large number

Grammar

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1.All of this being said,I believe that the key to realizing the potential of theInternet is in achieving balance in our lives.

2.When I walked in,Grandpa was sitting at the kitchen table,thenewspaper spread before him.

3.The boys leaned against the willow tree,fishing poles resting on sticks,eyes gazing at the bobbers floating on the ripples

4.Mark went homeward alone,his heart full of a strange emotion.

5.The discussion completed,the chairman adjourned the meeting for halfan hour.

6.The cowboy dominates the pages of many magazines,his hair dark andcurly,his broad shoulders sloping yet powerful and his expression calm andconfident.

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be pacified1.pacify

2.seeing

3.being treated

closing4.getting

5.reporting

6.resolving

7.making

8.going

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1.had he arrived when she started complaining

2.does Manton care about anything else once he gets logged onto the Net.

3.must you touch this switch.

4.in all their lives have they known such hardships.

5.does he worry about his financial position that he can't sleep at night.公樣

6.after several trials did they succeed.

IV

1.e.g.I am ready to accept your proposal in that I believe it to be the best youcan offer.

2.e.g.All things being considered,I think I ought to award the scholarship toJohn.

Translation

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1.由于登錄和使用互聯(lián)網(wǎng)的限制相對(duì)較少，它的作用就等同于通信傳播中的國(guó)際海域

2.乍聽(tīng)起來(lái)這似乎相互矛盾：一種東西怎么會(huì)既能讓人們自由地交流思想，從而使全球融為一體，同時(shí)又讓人們彼此疏遠(yuǎn)呢?

3.據(jù)我所知，此人不喜歡夸大其詞，因此當(dāng)他描述自己的網(wǎng)龍，說(shuō)常常連續(xù)上網(wǎng)一天一夜時(shí)，這引起了我的思考

4.但代價(jià)是消耗了原本可以用來(lái)參加一些培養(yǎng)他們村莊及城鎮(zhèn)社區(qū)意識(shí)的活動(dòng)的時(shí)間

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1.There's no denying that smoking is addictive.And once you're addicted,it'svery difficult to rid yourself of it.

2.In a Japanese-made video game,players can simulate the experience of AIDSfrom HIV infection until death.

3.We can only increase production at the expense of quality,which could ruin?the company's reputation.

4.She is not often given to anger,but this time she really lost her temper.

5.A teacher of foreign language should possess at the very least a graduatedegree from a certified education school or institute if he or she is to teachhigh school.

6.An important task of sociolinguistics is to perceive the relationship betweenlanguage and society.

亞互聯(lián)網(wǎng)已經(jīng)把我們帶入了一個(gè)真正的信息時(shí)代，而且正在幫助世界各地的人們?cè)谝凰压妭€(gè)以前不可想象的范圍內(nèi)相互交流無(wú)論互聯(lián)網(wǎng)和信息高速公路走的是一條什么樣的發(fā)展道路，電信視和計(jì)算機(jī)行業(yè)一致采用數(shù)碼化的做法永遠(yuǎn)改變了我們的交際和計(jì)算方式這種一致將使公司能提供以前因技術(shù)有限而不能提供的服務(wù)觀眾能夠通過(guò)網(wǎng)絡(luò)電視連接互聯(lián)網(wǎng)大屏幕高清數(shù)宇電視和DVD有可能改變電影的拍攝方法衛(wèi)星將幫助汽車(chē)自行回家家戶戶將接收到衛(wèi)星、微波發(fā)射塔、光纖或銅線傳送的信號(hào)。

Exercises for integrated skills

I The Internet undoubtedly enriches our lives in many ways./The instantreach of the email/makes keeping-in-touch so rewarding/and so excuse-proof/The access to so much information by our fingertips /certainly makes atremendous difference./But do all these new platforms /of carrying onexisting activities /contribute to the making of the new opportunities /created by the coming of electricity and telephone,/and steam locomotives andairplanes ?/Do they really boost our productivity /and create new wealth ?/Are we simply using a new platform in the Internet/to do things we have been英價(jià)doing without it?/If so,we don't really need Internet companies to do them forus./Perhaps,the leaders of the Internet revolution/can't easily reconcile withtheir fate of becoming dispensable./It certainly will take a lot of independentthinking on our own part/to get over the Internet-is-the-world mood.

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