当代研究生英语课件Unit1_Text_A.ppt

Book One Para.9 9 Third, there are “real” communities—groups of people who communicate among themselves. In real-estate terms, theyre like bars or restaurants or bathhouses. Each active participant contributes to a general conversation, generally through posted messages. Other participants may simply listen or watch. Some services are supervised by a moderator; others are more like bulletin boards—anyone is free to post anything. Many of these services started out unmoderated but are now imposing rules to keep out unwanted advertising, extraneous discussions or increasingly rude participants. Book One there are “real” communities…. : “real” in quotation marks, the author emphasize the fact that people belonging to cyber communities will talk to each others as they do in real life, yet the communities are not real, since one could not spatially locate it as a tangible object, but they are clearly real in its effects Book One in real-estate terms: using the words from … 用不动产的角度来看；按照房地产业的说法 contribute to:做出贡献 -started out unmoderated：were not controlled or regulated at the beginning - impose rules: enforce/ rules 强制管理 - keep out: prevent…from entering 使… 留在外面 extraneous: irrelevant Book One Paragraph 10 Main idea: People with similar interests and tastes form a community in cyberspace, and these people communicate among themselves. 物以类聚，人以群分 birds of a feather flock together People of one mind fall into the same group. Book One Para.10 10 Cyberspace communities evolve just the way terrestrial communities do: people with like-minded interests band together. Every cyberspace community has its own character. Overall, the communities on CompuServe tend to be more professional; those on America Online, affluent young singles; Prodigy, family-oriented. Then there are independents like Echo, a hip, downtown New York service, or Womens Wire, targeted to women who want to avoid the male culture prevalent elsewhere on the Net. On the Internet it