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1、高等院校研究生英语系列教材综合教程（下）INTEGRATED COURSE2Unit 4 Science and Technology ContentStarting outReading FocusReading MorePractical TranslationFocused WritingFinal ProjectTask 1Work in groups and solve the following crossword puzzle involving words describing things that have emerged in recent years with the
2、improvement of science and technology, e.g. email, surfing the Net, search engine, cell phone, etc.Starting outStarting outAcross 2. a science which involves developing and making extremely small but very powerful machines 4. to post a reply in order to raise the threads profile by returning it to t
3、he top of the list of active threads 5. to produce an exact copy of an animal or a plant from its cells 9. someone who secretly uses or changes the information in other peoples computer systems 10.GM food refers to _ modified food which is not affected by particular diseases or harmful insects. 13.
4、A _ potato is someone who spends most of their time surfing the net. 15. email messages that a computer user has not asked for and does not want to read, for example from someone who is advertising something 16. a business that sells products or services on the Internet, instead of in a shop 17. a v
5、irtual pet in the form of an interactive program 19. the opposite of cyberspace or the virtual world of the Internet 20. education via the Internet; e- educationDown 1. keyboard characters used in combination to produce whimsical symbols representing a range of emotions, also known as smiley 3. onli
6、ne romance 6. teenagers who spend too much time in front of the screen (television or computer screens) 7. a knowledgeable and experienced Internet user 8. move information or programs from a computer network to a small computer 11. an activity performed on Internet forums or chat rooms that involve
7、s wandering the website, reading posts and never actually posting anything 12. the user (or employee) of the forum which is granted access to the posts for the purpose of moderating discussion on the Internet 14. someone who has just started doing something, especially using the Internet or computer
8、s 18. China and India will soon have far larger numbers of _(s) than any Western nation. 1EMO2NANOTE3CHNOLOGYIYC4BUMP5CLONE6S7K8DNR9HACKERNOLROWO10GENETICA11LLYWN12MVEUBL13MOUSE14NNRIODE15SPAMK16ETAILERWGIDR17CYBERPETN18NAIRG19MEATSPACETOIRZ20WEBUCATIONNTask 2 F Step OneDirections: Work in pairs to
9、match inventors in Column A with inventions in Column B. (P96)Starting outStarting out1) Tim Berners-Lee (England) 2) Alexander Graham Bell (US, born in Scotland) 3) Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright (US) 4) Thomas Alva Edison (US) 5) Cai Lun (China) 6) Alexander Fleming (England) 7) Leo Baekeland (U
10、S, born in Belgium) 8) Chester Floyd Carlson (US) 9) Wilhelm Conrad von Rntgen (Germany) 10) Willis Carrier (US) Starting out Starting out g. the World Wide Webd. telephone i. airplane h. electric light bulb c. paper a. penicillin e. plastics j. xerographyb. X-ray f. air-conditionerIs Google Making
11、Us Stupid?Reading FocusReading FocusGlobal Understanding 1Detailed Information2Critical Thinking3Language Points4Reading FocusReading FocusVocabulary in Action5Task 1 Complete the following extract with information from the text. Over the past few years, Ive had an 1) _ feeling that Im not thinking
12、the way I used to think, particularly when I am 2) _. In the past, I would be able to 3) _ myself in lengthy articles. But, it is a different story now. It has become an exacting thing for me to do some 4) _ reading. This, I think, can be attributed to a universal medium the Net, which provides imme
13、diate 5) _ to such an incredibly rich store of information. Reliance on the Net leads to the gradual loss of my capacity for 6) _ and contemplation. Similar troubles with reading also fall upon other people,Reading FocusReading Focus Global Understandinguncomfortablereading immersedeepaccessconcentr
14、ationincluding Scott Karp, who recently confessed that he has 7) _ reading books altogether, and Bruce Friedman, who claimed that the Internet has 8) _ his mental habits. A recently published study of online research habits also points to the 9) _ in the way we read and think. Although the Internet
15、and text-messaging on cell phones facilitate our reading, its a 10) _ kind of reading. According to Maryanne Wolf, a developmental psychologist at Tufts University, we tend to become “mere 11) _ of information” while reading online. Reading FocusReading Focus Global Understandingstopped alteredchangedifferentdecodersAs a consequence, our ability to interpret and make rich mental connections remains tremendously 12) _. Another good case in point, illustrating the point that 13) _ extend across many regions of the brain when we apply different media, is Fr
