高级英语unit7-8.pptVIP

* * Unit 7 The Age of Miracle Chips Questions: 1 What does a miracle chip look like? What is it made of? 2 In what aspects will the chip be used according to the text? 3 What is the significance of the computer revolution? The text consists of 2 parts Part 1(1-3):Para. 1: What it looks like, what it is. (suspense) Para. 2: the inert fleck (the miracle chip), its uses, its advantages over the old type of computers.Para. 3: Its force and significance.  Part 2 (4-17): Section 1. (Paras. 4--6) gives a vivid description of what life in an ordinary American family will be like when equipped with the computer. Section 2. (Paras.7—16) many uses of this microelectronic revolution; lots of examples about the capabilities of the computer in various areas of life. Section 3. (Para. 17) conclusion Proper nouns: The Navaho rug: 纳瓦霍地毯 The Venetian blinds: 软百叶窗 Byzantine art: 拜占庭艺术 Wellsian fantasy: 威尔斯式的科学幻想 Oxford tutorial: 牛津导师制 Smithsonian antique: 博物馆里的老古董 “miles to empty”: 燃料里程计量器 Ford Motor Co.:福特汽车公司 General Motors: 通用汽车公司 Continental Mark V：大陆牌V型车 -- chip: an integrated circuit (集成电路) on a very small thin piece of silicon -- a stylized Navaho rug: rugs of intricate geometric designs woven by the Navaho (Indian) tribe in the U.S. -- the aerial view of: a bird’s view of -- hulking: large，heavy，and often unwieldy or clumsy -- Caliban: a huge, uncouth, deformed creature, the slave of Prospero, in Shakespeare’s The Tempest -- drudgery :work that is hard，menial。or tiresome Translating the following: -- Unlike the hulking Calibans of vacuum tubes and tangled wires from which it evolved , it is cheap, easy to mass produce, fast, infinitely versatile and convenient. -- With the chip, amazing feats of memory and execution become possible in everything from automobile engines to universities and hospitals, from farms to banks and corporate offices, from outer space to a babys nursery.  -- 那种老式计算机由许许多多的真空管和纷繁交错的导线组成，体积庞大笨重，犹如怪物凯列班。芯片虽然是由老式计算机衍化而来的，