2018-2019版英语高一、高二同步系列课堂讲义教版Unit4PartⅠ.pdfVIP

Unit 4 Making the news 与传统媒体相比，互联网作为一种新的媒体形式存在着可信度不高的劣势，但它发展迅 猛，前途无量。 Although the Internet is relatively new to the modern world ，it has rapidly become part of our daily life.It has become one of the major media of communication and news resources in toda y ’s society.I t ’snot a surprise that this infant medium would soon take the place of the traditional sources for news. But ，can something so new be trusted？In a medium where anyone can create a webpage，no one knows which news is fake and which news is real.At least with newspapers，we have our established names.And even with television ，we think we can trust our nightly news report on the national television stations.Still ，studies show that the Internet still is a main， if not the most significant source for news. The Internet began as a connection of a few government computers used mainly for military( 军事的 ) purposes.Then ，very basic things began to grow out of it ：such as download areas and simple e －mail.With the creation of HTML which could let you jump from site to site through links ，“ web browsers ( 浏览器 ) ” were created.Then came the first webpages and the first bits of news whether the news was personal，local or national.The evolution of online news was n ’t slow.In fact ，most of the growth took place within a single year. With the quick and recent influence of the Internet ，it becomes difficult to differentiate between the more established news sources and the online medium.We know we can trust sites like MSNBC because they have an established name already in television news.But ，with journalists like Mike Drudge (who broke the Monica Lewinksy scandal) ，his site has been considered more of a “rumor center than a source for legitimate news.Yet this does not” prevent people from using