人教版英语必修二unit3reading概要1.ppt

Reading Earliest computer Analytical Machine Nowadays computer Who am I ? 1642 The analytical Machine was made by Charles Babbage. 1936 1960s The first family of computers was connected by a network. 1970s now The computer began as a calculating machine． 1842 Alan Turing wrote a book to describe how computers could be made to work and built as “universal machine”． Computers had new transistors and became small and thin. 1960s Computers were brought into peoples homes． Computers connect people all over the world together. Scanning: 1. What is the order of the text? By comparison. B. By analysing data. C. By space. D. By time. Alan Turing calculating machine PC (desktop /notebook) analytical machine universal machine artificial intelligence Internet Completing the chart below. Charles Babbage The “father” (inventor) 2. What is the main idea of the passage? It tells us the background of computer technology. It introduces the history of computer development. It classifies functions of different calculators. It informs us the power of computers. Alan Turing Charles Babbage Q1: How did the computer work as an analytical machine? The computer followed instructions from cards with holes. Q2: What makes the computer totally  change his size? New transistors Questions Q3: how did computer change in its size, intelligence, speed, function? And how about people’s opinion? Size: Intelligence: Speed: Function: People’s opinion: smaller quicker cleverer dealing with …, communicating with… clever useful calculating? simple-minded? 3. We can read a passage like this most probably ______. A. in a book review B. in an essay(论文) C. in a magazine D. in a tourist guide 4. The way the writer uses to describe the character in the passage is _____. A. simile B. metaphor C. personification * * * * * * * *