新世纪英语专业综合教程(第二版)第4册Unit3
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The concluding statement appears at the beginning of the last paragraph: “All this being said, I believe that the key to realizing the potential of the Internet is in achieving balance in our lives.”
Eduardo: (recalling): I told him I thought it sounded great. It was a great idea. There was nothing to hack. People were gonna provide their own pictures, their own information. And people had the ability to invite, or not invite, their friends to join. See, in a world where social structure was everything, that was the thing.
Structural analysis Rhetorical features
Part II (Paragraphs 3 — 6): The author supports his point with evidence and reasons in the body of argumentation.
Unit 3
AALLIIEENNAATTIIOONN AANNDD TTHHEE IINNTTEERRNNEETT
Audiovisual supplement Cultural information
Watch the video and answer the following questions.
1. According to Mark, why did people come to the Facemash in a stampede? It wasn’t because they saw pictures of hot girls, but because they saw pictures of girls they knew.
2. According to Eduardo, what was so great about the idea?
For one thing, there was nothing to hack. People would provide their own pictures, their own information, and people had the ability to invite, or not invite, their friends to join. In addition, in a world where social structure was everything, that was the thing.
Audiovisual supplement Cultural information
However, there is sufficient evidence indicating that the Internet can exert a harmful influence on people. For example, its addictive power has increased children and youngsters’ time spent in front of the computer screens at the expense of other healthier physical activities, thus increasing their chance of getting overweight and shortsighted. In addition, children have limited ability of telling right from wrong and therefore are subject to the potential contaminating influence of the harmful materials on the Internet.
Audiovisual supplement Cultural information
From You’ve Got Mail
Audiovisual supplement Cultural information
Mark: People came to the Facemash in a stampede, right?
This piece of argumentative writing falls into three parts.
Part I
(Paragraphs 1 — 2): The writer presents his thesis in the opening part: the Internet may be responsible for furthering the fragmentation of society by alienating its individual users.
Eduardo: Yeah. Mark: But it wasn’t because they saw pictures of hot
girls. You can go anywhere on the Internet and see pictures of hot girls. Eduardo: Yeah. Mark: That’s because they saw pictures of girls they knew. People want to go on the Internet and check out their friends, so why not build a website that offers that? Friends, pictures, profiles, whatever you can visit, browse around. Maybe it’s someone you just met at a party. But I’m not talking about a dating site. I’m talking
Some examples: globalization/alienation; real / not real; reality / virtual existence; outside playing with his friends / play his games against his friends in the cyberspace
Structural analysis Rhetorical features
If the Internet allows for the free exchange of ideas, it helps to unify us. Then how does it alienate us while uniting us? How does it fragment society while globalizing ideas? This is the issue that the author tackles in the text.
Part III (Paragraph 7): The writer reiterates his main idea in the conclusion of the text.
Structural analysis Rhetorical features
The thesis statement of the text is in the second paragraph: “... the Internet may be responsible for furthering the fragmentation of society by alienating its individual users.”
about taking the entire social experience of college and putting it online. Eduardo: I can’t feel my legs. Mark: I know. I’m totally psyched about this, too. But, Wardo? Eduardo: Yeah? Eduardo: (recalling): “It would be exclusive.” Mark: You would have to know the people on the site to get past your own page, like getting punched. Now, that’s good. Mark: Wardo, it’s like a final club, except we’re the president.
Structural analysis Rhetorical features
The seeming self-contradiction that the Internet can lead to globalization on the one hand and cause the alienation of the users from the people around them on the other is reinforced by the use of pairs of antonyms.
Practice: Please find more examples of antonyms in the text.
Detailed reading
ALIENATION AND THE INTERNET Will Baker
1 The Internet provides an amazing forum for the free exchange of ideas. Given the relatively few restrictions governing access and usage, it is the communications modal equivalent of international waters. It is my personal belief that the human potential can only be realized by the globalization of ideas. I developed this position years before the Internet came into widespread use. And I am excited at the potential for the Internet to dramatically alter our global society for the better. HowBaidu Nhomakorabeaver I am also troubled by the possible unintended negative consequences.
Audiovisual supplement Cultural information
Pros and Cons of the Internet
The Internet is a wonderful source from which we can retrieve valuable information. Moreover, it facilitates our communication with people far away from us at a cost substantially less than that of traditional means of communication. Also, it can be an important building block to children’s learning because a vast amount of information is only clicks away. There is evidence suggesting that computer use is linked to slightly better academic performance.
Eduardo: (recalling): I told him I thought it sounded great. It was a great idea. There was nothing to hack. People were gonna provide their own pictures, their own information. And people had the ability to invite, or not invite, their friends to join. See, in a world where social structure was everything, that was the thing.
Structural analysis Rhetorical features
Part II (Paragraphs 3 — 6): The author supports his point with evidence and reasons in the body of argumentation.
Unit 3
AALLIIEENNAATTIIOONN AANNDD TTHHEE IINNTTEERRNNEETT
Audiovisual supplement Cultural information
Watch the video and answer the following questions.
1. According to Mark, why did people come to the Facemash in a stampede? It wasn’t because they saw pictures of hot girls, but because they saw pictures of girls they knew.
2. According to Eduardo, what was so great about the idea?
For one thing, there was nothing to hack. People would provide their own pictures, their own information, and people had the ability to invite, or not invite, their friends to join. In addition, in a world where social structure was everything, that was the thing.
Audiovisual supplement Cultural information
However, there is sufficient evidence indicating that the Internet can exert a harmful influence on people. For example, its addictive power has increased children and youngsters’ time spent in front of the computer screens at the expense of other healthier physical activities, thus increasing their chance of getting overweight and shortsighted. In addition, children have limited ability of telling right from wrong and therefore are subject to the potential contaminating influence of the harmful materials on the Internet.
Audiovisual supplement Cultural information
From You’ve Got Mail
Audiovisual supplement Cultural information
Mark: People came to the Facemash in a stampede, right?
This piece of argumentative writing falls into three parts.
Part I
(Paragraphs 1 — 2): The writer presents his thesis in the opening part: the Internet may be responsible for furthering the fragmentation of society by alienating its individual users.
Eduardo: Yeah. Mark: But it wasn’t because they saw pictures of hot
girls. You can go anywhere on the Internet and see pictures of hot girls. Eduardo: Yeah. Mark: That’s because they saw pictures of girls they knew. People want to go on the Internet and check out their friends, so why not build a website that offers that? Friends, pictures, profiles, whatever you can visit, browse around. Maybe it’s someone you just met at a party. But I’m not talking about a dating site. I’m talking
Some examples: globalization/alienation; real / not real; reality / virtual existence; outside playing with his friends / play his games against his friends in the cyberspace
Structural analysis Rhetorical features
If the Internet allows for the free exchange of ideas, it helps to unify us. Then how does it alienate us while uniting us? How does it fragment society while globalizing ideas? This is the issue that the author tackles in the text.
Part III (Paragraph 7): The writer reiterates his main idea in the conclusion of the text.
Structural analysis Rhetorical features
The thesis statement of the text is in the second paragraph: “... the Internet may be responsible for furthering the fragmentation of society by alienating its individual users.”
about taking the entire social experience of college and putting it online. Eduardo: I can’t feel my legs. Mark: I know. I’m totally psyched about this, too. But, Wardo? Eduardo: Yeah? Eduardo: (recalling): “It would be exclusive.” Mark: You would have to know the people on the site to get past your own page, like getting punched. Now, that’s good. Mark: Wardo, it’s like a final club, except we’re the president.
Structural analysis Rhetorical features
The seeming self-contradiction that the Internet can lead to globalization on the one hand and cause the alienation of the users from the people around them on the other is reinforced by the use of pairs of antonyms.
Practice: Please find more examples of antonyms in the text.
Detailed reading
ALIENATION AND THE INTERNET Will Baker
1 The Internet provides an amazing forum for the free exchange of ideas. Given the relatively few restrictions governing access and usage, it is the communications modal equivalent of international waters. It is my personal belief that the human potential can only be realized by the globalization of ideas. I developed this position years before the Internet came into widespread use. And I am excited at the potential for the Internet to dramatically alter our global society for the better. HowBaidu Nhomakorabeaver I am also troubled by the possible unintended negative consequences.
Audiovisual supplement Cultural information
Pros and Cons of the Internet
The Internet is a wonderful source from which we can retrieve valuable information. Moreover, it facilitates our communication with people far away from us at a cost substantially less than that of traditional means of communication. Also, it can be an important building block to children’s learning because a vast amount of information is only clicks away. There is evidence suggesting that computer use is linked to slightly better academic performance.