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英语四第4单元复习题
Unit4
Reading Comprehension
Section A Fast Reading
The Information Superhighway
1 Are you too tired to go to the video store but you want to see the movie Beauty and the Beast at home? Want to listen to your favorite guitar player’s latest jazz cassette? Need some new reading material, like a magazine or book? No problem. Just sit down in front of your home computer or TV and enter what you want, when you want it, from an electronic catalogue containing thousands of titles.
2. Your school has no professors of Japanese, a language you want to learn before visiting Japan during the coming summer holiday. Don’t worry. Just sign up for the language course offered by a school in another district or city, have the latest edition of the course offered by a school in another district or city, have the latest edition of the course teaching materials sent to your computer, and attend by video. If you need extra help with a translation assignment or your pronunciation, a tutor can give you feedback via your computer.
3 Welcome to the information superhighway.
4 While nearly everyone has heard of the information superhighway, even experts differ on exactly what the term means and what the future it promises will look like. Broadly speaking, however, the superhighway refers to the union of today’s broadcasting, cable, video, telephone, and computer and semiconductor industries into one large all-connected industry.
5 Directing the union are technological advances that have made it easier to store and rapidly transmit information into homes and offices. Fiber-optic cable, for example—made up of hair-thin glass fibers—is a tremendously efficient carrier of information. Lasers shooting light through glass fiber can transmit 250,000 times as much data as a standard telephone wire, or tens of thousands of paragraphs such as this one every second.
6 The greatly increased volume and speed of data transmission that these technologies permit can be compared to the way in which a high
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