UNIT 3 综英4 PPT

5.A person is likely to be cognitively overloaded if he is confronted with too much information on the Internet,and he may consequently have a distorted sense of reality.(面对着网上的巨大信息，一个人可能认知 过度，他也可能看到一个现实中T 的扭曲世界）
Answer：
--- The “cruel irony” means that the Internet provides the user with a convenient means of communicating and making friends with people far apart on the one hand, but on the other, it estranges the user from the people around him by canceling his availability for the face-to-face communications even with his families and close friends and for involvement in the community activities.
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The benefits of the Internet ，however，may be
darkened by its negative consequences. It may deprive its user of his time for necessary interaction with other society members so that the whole world may be further fragmented. In addition,there is a reasonable likelihood that the Internet presents too much information,which gives its user a skewed sense of reality by making him a cognitively overloaded man.
will spend many hours non-stop in cyberspace rather
than with their families or friends. For lack of
communications, the are becoming strangers to other
UNIT 3
ALIENATION AND THE INTERNRT
Will Baker
1307010135 王宇
1307010203张文斐
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Text comprehension
Ⅰ.Decide which of the following best states the author's purpose of writing. （B）
before the Internet started to be used worldwide. After
World War II when the soldiers returned from the
battlefields, they devoted themselves to “progress”.
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2.What happened to the author's friend as regards the Internet?What negative consequences did he see about it?
Answer：
---His friend was addicted to the Internet. He would spend even over twenty-four hours nonstop on the Internet so that he had to force himself go off line. As he spent so much time in cyberspace, his sense of reality might have been crooked. Moreover, without any face-to-face verbal communication with other people, he felt lonely and depressed.
What they did to achieve their goal was to
manufacture large quantities of cars and make them
available to most people. With the car people could
travel around more easily, but at the expense of their
reunion with their extended families and
communications with their neighbors. Thus, it is
apparent that it was the car ownership that alienated
people before the internet.
1.The author believes that the human potential can't be realized without the globalization of ideas. （作者认为 没有信息全球化，人类的潜力就不能实现T）
2.The paradox seems unintelligible to the author that the Internet alienates the participant and at the same time it drives towards global unification.（互联网一方面使全球
紧密团结，另一方面却又使互联网使用者互相隔离，对这种
自相矛盾的现象，作者似乎不能理解）F 3.When his friend told him about his Internet binges， the author thought he was exaggerating.（当他的朋友告 诉他关于互联网热潮时，笔者认为他在夸大其词Fed society members before the Internet gained popularity? What alienates them in the information age?
Answer：
--- The alienation of society members had begun long
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5. How, according to the author, can the potential of the Internet be realized?
Answer：
--- The potential of the Internet as a powerful tool for globalizing ideas and for acquiring and applying knowledge can only be realized when its user strikes a balance between the reality and the Internet. Although the Internet makes it possible for its users to debate, shop, travel and have romance in cyberspace without leaving home, the overuse of this tool probably results in a distorted sense of reality. The only way to avoid being penalized by the Internet is make moderate use of this tool without losing one’s sense of place in the world.
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In the information age, however, people are alienated
not so much by cars as by the Internet. Internet
addicts are far form rare. As illustrated by the
people. Therefore, there is a good reason to believe
that the society is being further alienated by the
Internet.
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4.What is meant by the “cruel irony” that appears in Paragraph 4?
Answer:
---As the author see it，the Internet is most likely to
make our global village a better place to live in.It provides a miraculous forum for the globalization of
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4.When people spend too much time on line，they will be unable to participate in activities together with other community members so that their sense of community gradually diminishes.（人们花太多时间上网，他们就不能 与其他社区成员一起参加活动，这样他们的社区感就会消T失）
example of the author’s nephew, it seems to be an
irreversible trend that more and more people, old and
young, are becoming addicted to the Internet. They
A. To tell the reader that he is bewildered（困惑的/使困惑） by the benefits and the negative consequences brought about by the Internet.
B. To convince the reader of our ability to reap the benefit of the Internet without being penalized(处罚） by it.
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Ⅲ.Answer the following questions.
1.What's the author's viewpoint about the benefit of the Internet？What does he see about its negative side？
C.To argue that the demerits（短处） of the Internet overweigh its merits（长处）.
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Ⅱ.Judge,according to the text,whether the following
statements are true or false.
ideas，which contributes to the realization of human potential. Furthermore，it is a powerful tool for the
acquisition and application of knowledge.
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