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Bookshelf Internet Life Bookshelf Silent Reading Text Understanding Cultural Tips and Hints Language Points Text Translation Exercises Silent Reading You are going to read a passage about the Internet. Before you read, write down your own views on the aspects of the subject. Text Understanding Read the title to understand the theme of the article. This passage is going to deal with ____________. Text Understanding Read the passage and try to answer the questions below. Text Understanding Read the passage and try to answer the questions below. Text Understanding Read the passage and try to answer the questions below. Cultural Tips and Hints Silicon Graphics Inc. Dr. Kai-Fu Lee (李开复) Cultural Tips . Hints Silicon Graphics Inc. SGI, also known as Silicon Graphics, Inc., is a leader in high-performance computing, visualization and storage. SGI‘ s vision is to provide technology that enables the most significant scientific and creative breakthroughs of the 21st century. Its focus is exclusively on the technical computing market. Its products and services are related to defense and homeland security, science and research, manufacturing, energy and media industries. With offices worldwide, the company is headquartered in Mountain View, California. The company sells and services five key market segments: Government and defense: 30% Science: 35% Manufacturing: 20% Energy: 5% Media: 10% Cultural Tips . Hints Dr. Kai-Fu Lee (李开复) As corporate vice president of the Natural Interactive Services Division (NISD自然互动服务产品部门) at Microsoft Corp., Kai-Fu Lee was responsible for the development of the technologies and services for making the user interface simpler and more natural. NISD includes technologies and products for speech, natural language, advanced search and help, and authoring and learning technologies. The mission of NISD is to make these technologies usable and useful for Microsofts customers. Lee joined Microsoft in 1998, and was the founder of Microsoft Researc