step_by_step3000第三冊unit7答案及原文.doc

Unit 7 Communications (I)Part I Warming upA.Tapescript:1. And British papers report the latest trend when you meet someone in a bar is to get their number, go home, and google them. Yes that gorgeous girl or guy you met the other night is probably patrolling a search engine right now to check you out. So dont even think of trying to tell them youre a famous footballer or brain surgeon or television presenter.2. The jamming, earlier this month, of several popular Internet sites with a flood of crippling messages sent a wakeup call to those involved with electronic or e-commerce. One recent suggestion is to form an industry-wide group to share information about security issues. High-tech executives want to make a coordinated effort to ensure that the Internet becomes a safe place to conduct business.3. Now home to some 800 million pages--a figure thats doubling each year- searching the Internet can be like looking for a needle in a haystack. But Oslo-based Fast Search Transfer (FAST) has developed a search engine (www. alltheweb, com) capable of scanning more than 200 million pages. FAST is working on a mega-search engine that searches all the web, all the time.4. This week, the Intel corporation held its semi-annual Developer Forum in Palm Springs, California. The gathering draws more than 2,000 hardware and software developers from around the world. Intel executives opened the event with a demonstration of a high-speed chip, code-named Williamette. The chip, designed to power personal computers, has a speed of one point five gigahertz, making it almost twice as fast as Intels popular Pentium III chip which runs at 800 megahertz.5. An online VCR seems like a bright idea but its been quickly rendered non-functional by the copyright lawyers. Not for the first time, the Hollywood studios objected to re-transmitting network television shows, in this case for users to watch via the web. Programs were being made available for visitors to save remotely or record for