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1、Unit 8: Part A Foreword 21st Century College English: Book 1 Unit 8: Part A Pre-Reading Activities Intensive Study Exercises Assignment Pre-reading Activities Warm-up Questions Listening What do you know about Bill Gates and his company Microsoft? Pre-reading Activities First Listening: Before liste
2、ning to the tape, have a quick look at the following words. description potential communicate creative 描述 潜力 交流 创造性的 Pre-reading Activities Second Listening: Listen to the tape again. Then, choose the best answer to each of the following questions. Pre-reading Activities Check-up 1. What is the main
3、 topic of the listening passage? A) The history of the computer. B) The future of the information highway. C) Practical uses of the Internet. D) How the Internet was invented. Pre-reading Activities 2. How did Bill Gates learn about the first personal computer? A) He invented it. B) He read about it
4、 in a magazine. C) One of his professors at Harvard University told him about it. D) One of his friends told him about it. Pre-reading Activities 3. Who does Gates feel should make decisions about the information highway? A) Elected officials. B) International political organizations. C) Computer pr
5、ogrammers. D) Everyday people as well as experts. Pre-reading Activities 4. What does Gates say his purpose in writing this book is? A) To make more money. B) To publicize the Internet. C) To encourage people to discuss the new technologies. D) To warn people about the dangers of new technologies. S
6、cript Pre-reading Activities During my second year as a student at Harvard University, a friend and I saw a description of the first “ PC” or personal computer in a magazine. As we read about it, we got very excited. We didn t know exactly how the PC would be used, but we knew that it would be impor
7、tant. We were right. The PC revolution has changed the way millions and millions of people around the world live and work. Now we are all beginning another gr a journey. This journey is based on new ways of communicating and exchanging information. Some people call it the “ information highway.” Thi
8、s new communications revolution will take place over many years and will require us to solve problems which are not yet seen. Many important decisions will have to be made, and our choices will affect the whole world. Decisions about planning the information highway should be made by all kinds of pe
9、ople. Not just technical people and computer experts, but everyday citizens and computer users themselves must also be involved. That way, the information highway will fulfill its great potential. I hope my book will serve as something like a map or a travel guide for the trip that we are all about
10、to take together on the information highway. That is why I ve chosen to call it The Road Ahead. My goal in writing this book is to encourage the exchange of creative ideas about technology. The information revolution is already underway and it s up to all of us to make the most of it. Pre-reading Ac
11、tivities Intensive Study Text-related Information Intensive Study Difficult sentences Key words, phrases & usages Comprehension exercises Text-related Information Bill (William) Gates Bill (William) Gates, born in 1955, is an American computer entrepreneur who in 1975 co-founded Micro-Soft (later Mi
12、crosoft) with Paul Allen, a private company for the manufacture and sale of computers. By the end of the 1980s Microsoft was a leading multi-national computer company and had made Gates, its chairman and chief executive, the youngest multi-billionaire in the world. Foreword by Bill Gates 1 The past
13、twenty years have been an incredible adventure for me. It started on a day when, as a college sophomore, I stood in Harvard Square with my friend Paul Allen and pored over the description of a kit computer in Popular Electronics magazine. As we read excitedly about the first truly personal computer,
14、 Paul and I didn t know exactly how it would be used, but we were sure it would change us and the world of computing. We were right. The personal-computer revolution happened and it has affected millions of lives. It has led us to places we had barely imagined. Language Points 2 We are all beginning
15、 another great journey. We aren t sure where this one will lead us either, but again I am certain this revolution will touch even more lives and take us all farther. The major changes coming will be in the way people communicate with each other. The benefits and problems arising from this upcoming c
16、ommunications revolution will be much greater than those brought about by the PC revolution. Language Points 3 There is never a reliable map for unexplored territory, but we can learn important lessons from the creation and evolution of the $120-billion personal-computer industry. The PC its evolving hardware, business applications, on-li
