计算机专业英语Unit 5 Internet.ppt

大连理工大学出版社 Internet Passage One Internet — A Magic World Training target: In this part, our target is to train your reading comprehension. We have made the flexible sentences strong black and marked the subject, predicate and have object of them. Try to grasp the main idea of these sentences. 主语、谓语、宾语 Passage One Internet — A Magic World Internet is a giant global and open computer network, which is a collection of interconnected networks. It is also a way to exchange information and share resource between international computers. The original Internet is ARPANET(Advanced Research Projects Agency Network ) , which was established by U.S. Department of Defense in 1969. The ARPANET was used to share data between some separated military institutes and universities in region. By 1972 the network had expanded to incorporate 40 nodes. Many U.S. government agency networks had been linked by ARPANET, and because the networks were of a disparate nature, a common network protocol called TCP/IP (Transmission Control ProtocolInternet Protocol) was developed and became the standard for inter-networking military computers. interconnect v.互联 international adj. 国际的 military adj. 军事的,军用的 node n. 节点 protocol n. 协议 Passage One Internet — A Magic World When the U.S. was developing their national net, the other countries were developing too. At the end of 1980s, interlinkage of different countries’ computer net appears. After that there were countries joining in every year and getting to form the present Internet. It is growing so quickly that nobody can say exactly how many users are “On the Net” now. Once your computer makes a connection with the Internet, you will find that you have walked into the largest repository of information–a magic world. The following are the important service functions that Internet provides. repository n. 仓库，资源丰富 的地方 Passage One Internet — A Magic World 1.E-mail The most widely used tool on the Internet is electron