研二英语.ppt

Coding the infrastructure Team: 张浩 李恩亮 Infrastructure /`infr?`str?kt??/ n: the basic systems and services that are necessary for a country or an organization. eg. With the rapid growth of the Chinese economy, its infrastructure has been greatly strengthened. A. real image B. profound effect C. basic structure D. fast development But, warns Haque, there could be disadvantage too. “It depends whether we end up treating the internet of things as a system where we become enslaved to our devices, or whether we treat it as a truly open framework in which we are putting our devices and machines on to this system in order to facilitate our existence,” he says. “It could go either way.” Few of the experts doubt that the internet of things will have a profound effect on the world, but what is apparent is that there is no single authority designing it. Talk to any of the designers and coders building the infrastructure and each will tell you that they have private fears about a world where, as Wired magazine founder Kevin Kelly recently described it, “the environment is the web.” Furthermore, the internet of things would have no no/off switch. It will arrive incrementally, one IP-enabled light switch at a time. end up finally be or do something eg. Be careful, you could end up by getting hurt. We were going to go out, but ___watching videos. A.end in B.end up C.end about D.end out enslave /en`sleiv/ Vt: to make sb. a slave eg: Gone forever are the days when the imperialists?enslaved?the Chinese people . be enslave to: to make sb. become slave of enslaved by fashion facilitate /f?siliteit/ Vt: to make an action or process possible or easier eg: The new trade agreement should facilitate more rapid economic growth. Computers have been widely used to facilitate language learning. A. lessen B. weigh C. strengthen D. relieve * *