英语听力入门第一册第三单元.doc

Unit 3 Net changes life (2) Part 1 warming up key words: telegraph：电报机；电报 verb. (1) To transmit (a message) by telegraph. 用电报机发送用电报机发送（信息） (2) To send or convey a message to (a recipient) by telegraph. 打电报给…用电报向（接收者）发送或传递信息 a wire cable: 电缆 radio program 广播节目 direct telephone calls 直拨电话 communications satellite通讯卫星 networks：网 （1）A system of lines or channels that cross or interconnect: 交通网相互交叉或连接的线路或水道： eg. a network of railroads铁路网 （2）A complex, interconnected group or system:复杂而相互作用的系统： （3）An extended group of people with similar interests or concerns who interact and remain in informal contact for mutual assistance or support. 人际网, 有共同爱好或兴趣，并互相作用保持非正式交往以获得多方面帮助或支持的群体 （4）A chain of radio or television broadcasting stations linked by wire or microwave relay. 广播网由线路或微波中转站连接的电台或电视台网络 vocabulary: orbit: The path of a celestial body or an artificial satellite as it revolves around another body. 运行轨道，天体绕另一天体或人造卫星绕一天体旋转所运行的轨道 Pennsylvania: 宾夕法尼亚州 From the beginning of human history, information traveled only as fast as the ship could sail, or horse could run, or a person could walk. People experimented with other ways to send messages. Now listen t some statements about a brief history of communications. Match the columns of time and events. c e a d b g h f Tapescript The first telegraphs were delivered in Britain and the United States in 1830s. each letter of the alphabet and each number had to be sent separately by a device called a telegraph key. On Aug. 5th, 1858, the first message was transmitted by a wire cable under the Atlantic Ocean. This meant that information now took only a matter of hours to reach most large cities in the world. On November 2nd, 1920, radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania broadcast the first radio program. Within a few short years, news ad information could be heard anywhere a radio broadcast could reach. After World War II, a new invention appeared: television. In the industrial countries, television quickly became common