高中英语 Unit3 computersPart2 Reading and Comprehending 新人教版必修2.ppt

. 二、语篇填空 The development of the puter has experienced a long historic process. It first began 1___ a calculating machine to simplify difficult sum. Then it developed into 2___ analytical machine before being programmed to have “artificial intelligence” to think “logically” during a technological revolution. 3 _______ the year of 1936 on， it grew rapidly both in size and in brainpower. as an From 4 ____ the 1940s， it had grown as large as a room and this reality worried the designers. 5 _______ time going by, it was made smaller with its memory improved. First, the memory was stored in tubes, then on transistors and later on very small chips. As a result, 6 ____ shape totally changed from a large machine 7___ a PC and then a laptop. By With its to In early 1960s， puters were connected 8 ____ a network so that information could be shared 9 _______ the World Wide Web. Since the 1970s, many new applications of the puter have been found in munication, finance, trade and many 10 _______ areas. The puter has bee a devoted friend and a helper of the human race. other by through 三、词形变化 1. ________ (logical) the way he used to deal with the problem is correct. 2. The plan was carried out under the chief engineer’s _________ (person) guidance. 3. I ________ (total) agree with you. 4. Money does not always bring _________ (happy). Logically personal totally happiness 5. In 1936 my real father, Alan Turing， wrote a book about how I could be made to work as a “universal machine” _______ (solve) any difficult mathematical problem. From then on， I ______ (grow) rapidly both in size and in brainpower. By the 1940s I ____________ (grow) as large as a room, and I wondered if I would grow any _______ (large). to solve grew had grown larger However， this reality also worried my designers. As time _____ (go) by， I was made smaller. First as a PC (personal puter) and then as a laptop, I ______ _____ (use) in offices and homes since the 1970s.