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高级英语第一册第七课翻译神奇的集成电路片时代（Advanced English, Volume 1, seventh, translating the magical era of integrated circuit chips） The age of miracle chips (excerpts) Author information The new micro technology will make the social change It is tiny, only about 1/4 inches square. Under a microscope, it is like a picture of flowers blooming like a piece of brocade Navaho rug, or aerial view of a railway yard. Like the grains of sand on a beach, it is the main component of silicon - oxygen outside the surface of the earth the most abundant element. However, the majority of Americans -- Inert flakes are not familiar with, but has an amazing ability to make our society is changing. This is known as the miracle chip has twenty-five years ago made a full computing room size computer with the same. The old computer has many vacuum tubes and tangled like wire, big stupid, like a monster. Integrated circuit chip is derived from the old computer, the difference is that it is low cost, easy batch production, fast calculation, various functions, convenient use. The miracle chip represents the new development of human science and technology. In recent years, the momentum of development of the technology of rapid and far-reaching significance to production tools and human history and the discovery of the steam engine. Just as the industrial revolution for human beings to bear a lot of heavy manual labor, and the development of productivity, the microcomputer is rapidly for human to assume a lot of heavy mental work, and in various ways that man has only begun to grasp to expand the function of the human brain. With the chip, amazing feats of memory and execution in automobile engines to universities and hospitals, from farms to banks and corporate offices in various fields, from outer space to play a role in the nursery. Daily life: the power button At half past seven in the morning bell, the alarm bell rang, the bedroom curtains swing silently apart, the Venetian blinds snap up to room temper