研究生英语第4单元下.ppt

OTC: Over the Counter 非处方药 GMT: Greenwich Mean Time IMF: the International Monetary Fund OPEC: organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries FAQ: Frequently asked questions jump是普通用词，指用双脚向上跳，向下跳，或在同一平面上跳到有一定距离的某一点上，或跳过。leap常可与jump换用，但侧重身体猛力向上升起并朝前急冲的动作，有时含突然的意味。spring更强调有力和弹跳的运动。hop指单脚短跳或双足猛力的动作。也指小鸟、青蛙等的跳。bound多指向前向上或向下跳跃、奔跳。skip指两脚交替轻轻地跳或跨的动作。 Thanks for Attending! Jincao YU * * * English Reading and Translation * Unit 4 Science and Technology Is Google Making Us Stupid? Reading Focus 6. Anecdotes alone don’t prove much. And we still await the long-term neurological and psychological experiments that will provide a definitive picture of how Internet use affects cognition. But a recently published study of online research habits , conducted by scholars from University College London, suggests that we may well be in the midst of a sea change in the way we read and think. As part of the five-year research program, the scholars examined computer logs documenting the behavior of visitors to two popular research sites, one operated by the British Library and one by a U.K. educational consortium, that provide access to journal articles, e-books, and other sources of written information. To be continued ... They found that people using the sites exhibited “a form of skimming activity,” hopping from one source to another and rarely returning to any source they’d already visited. They typically read no more than one or two pages of an article or book before they would “bounce” out to another site. Sometimes they’d save a long article, but there’s no evidence that they ever went back and actually read it. 7. Thanks to the ubiquity of text on the Internet, not to mention the popularity of text-messaging on cell phones, we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice. But it’s a different kind of reading, and behind it lies a different kind of thinking—perhaps even a new sense of the self. “We