2015-2016学年高一英语讲练（人教版）：Book 2 Unit 3 Reading Tasks .docVIP

READING TASKS WHO AM I ? Pre-reading activities Task I. What do you use computers for? Task II. List some advantages of computers. Task III. Do you think that the computer is a great invention? List some other inventions that greatly changed people’s lives. While-reading activities Task I. Read the text and fill in the blanks in the chart below. Task II. Read Paragraph 1 and match the machine with their functions. machines functions 1. a calculating machine A. think logically and answer quicker than any person 2. an analytical machine B. is used in offices and homes 3. a universal machine C. solve any difficult mathematical problem 4. a personal computer or a laptop D. simplify difficult sums Task III. Read Paragraph 2 and Paragraph 3 and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F) . 1. The computers became smaller and smaller because of the changes in memory storage. 2. The memory of a computer is like that of an elephant in that they both never forget the things they have been told. 3. The World Wide Web makes computers work faster. 4. Human beings use computers to help them to explore the universe. Task IV. Below is the summary of the text with some words or phrases missing. Choose the words or phrases from the box and make the summary complete. smaller, calculating machine, analytical machine, quicker, chip, network, communication, rockets, mathematical problem, room In 1642 I was a(n) 1. ________ in France. 200 years after that I became a(n) 2. ________ built by Charles Babbage. Later by using cards with holes I could be made to produce answers 3. ________ than any person. That was the beginning of my “artificial intelligence.” In 1936 Alan Turing wrote a book about how I might be used to solve any 4. ________. By the 1940s I had grown as large as a(n) 5. ________, so people tried to make me 6. ________ by improving my memory. Now it is so lar