Unit4TheVirtualWorld范文合集
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Unit4The Virtual World
Part II Reading Task
Comprehension
Content Question
Pair Work
1.She ud to be a television producer, but now she is a writer.2.She writes and edits articles online, submits them via email, and communicates with colleagues via the Internet, too.3.She could stay computer-assisted at home for weeks, going out only t get mail, newspapers and groceries.4.They feel as if they had become one with the computer, and life ems to be unreal.5.That people who grew ud to a virtual life would feel an aversion
to outside forms of socializing.6.She gets overexcited, speaks too much, and interrupts others.7.She is bad-tempered, easily angered, and attacks everyone in sight, all becau she has long become parated from others and lacks emotional face-to-face exchanges with people.8.She fights her boyfriend, misinterpreting his intentions becau of the lack of emotional cues given by their typed dialogue.9.Becau we rely on co-works for company.10.She calls people, arrangers to meet the few friends remaining in the City, gets to the gym, arranges interviews for stories, doctor’s appointments---anything to get her out of the hou and connected with others.11.No, she doesn’t feel happy.She feels being face to face is intolerable.12.She makes her excus and flees, re-enters her apartment, runs to the computer, clicks on the modem, and disappears into the virtual world again.Text Organization
Working On Your Own
1.1.2-3
2.1,4-10,13
3.11
4.12
2.The first paragraph describes the conquences of living a virtual life and the last tells of the author’s escape back into it.Together, they bring out the dilemma people at prent are in: Becau of modern technology, we have a choice between a virtual life and real life, but find both unsatisfactory.Language Sen Enhancement
1.(1)routine
(2)for company
日航副机长酒驾(3)unemployment
(4)externally
南京网页设计(5)drug abu
(6)restore
morrison(7)fled
(8)gym
(9)t apart
(10)appointments
Vocabulary
I
1.1)converly
2)but then
3)symptom
4)spitting
5)abusing
6)tonereply什么意思
kissin u
7)took;in
8)editing
9)have arranged
10)in sight
11)stretched
12)data
英语造句网2.1)smoking cigarettes jars on me.2)find themlves getting sucked in.3)has arranged for a technician from the computer store to check and repair it.4)fled their country to avoid military rvice/fled to other countries to avoid military rvice.5)restore people’s confidence in it.3.1)the virtual;on line;via
2)nightmare;routine;any appointment;arrange for
older3)cue;remarks;his tune
II.Collocation
1.We came here all the way on foot.2.Private cars are not allowed on campus.3.They are on vacation in Florida.4.Mary has been talking to her friend on the phone for an hour.5.Don’t worry, Lucy is always on time.6.Industrial demand on fuel is on the ri.III.Usage
1.hardsirocco
2.difficult
3.impossible
4.tough
5.hard
6.easy
Comprehensive Exercis
I.cloze
1.(1)Internet
(2)click
(3)virtual
(4)routines
(5)arrange
(6)nightmare
(7)annoying
(8)connection
法语学习网(9)crawls
(10)take in
(11)spit
(12)data
(13)sucked into
(14)At times
clan
(15)flee
(16)on line
2.(1)companion
(2)deliver
(3)access
(4)enables
(5)customers
(6)delights
(7)provides
(8)small
(9)remote
(10)information
II.Translation
1.1)Rearch shows that laughter can bring a lot of health benefits.2)A slow Internet connection speed is really annoying.3)As the law stands, helping someone commit suicide is a crime.4)In her report, Mary tries to interpret the data from a completely different angle.5)Sue is a girl of great talent.Her amazing memory ts her apart from her classmates.2.Perhaps you envy me for being able to work from home on the computer.I a
gree that the Internet has made my job a lot easier.I can write, submit and edit articles via email, chat with my colleagues on line and discuss work with my boss.With a click of the mou, I can get all the data I need and keep up with the latest news.But then, communicating through the Net can be frustrating at times.The system may crash.Wor still, without the emotional cues of face-to-face communication, the typed words sometimes em difficult to interpret.
