英语四级听力1讲解Unit2

• shorthand • 速写 • abbreviation • 缩写 • zoom • 放大 • decode • 解码
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standby n. a thing that is kept ready to be used 备用 make the rounds: to be communicated or passed from person to person: • The news quickly made the rounds.
• Listen to the following statements and
answer the questions: • 1. Who? ___________________ Tim Berners-Lee • 2. When? ___________________ In the 1980s • 3. When? ___________________ In 1990 • 4. Where? ___________________ On to the Internet • 5. How many? _________________ 100,000 • 6. What? __________________ E-commerce • 7. To whom? _______________________________ People with imagination and new ideas
Maine
缅因州
1. A state of the
northeast United States. 2. Augusta is the capital 3. Portland the largest city. 4. Population: 1,233,223
• hoax: • a plan to deceive someone, such as telling the
•Section B Abbreviations Used in Email
• Pre-listening: • What abbreviations do you use when you
write email messages or when you are chatting online? • U for you • 88 for bye bye
Unit 2
Net Changes Life (1)
•Part I Warming up
•Section A: Email History
• Pre-listening questions: • 1. What way or ways do you use most to
communicate with your families or friends? • 2. Do you know when people began to use email?
• Key to Section B: • AISI ____________________ as I see it • IMHO in my humble opinion • FWIW for what it is worth if I’m wrong • CMIIW correct me ______________ • AAMOF ______________________ as a matter of fact • BION ______________________ believe it or not
Key to Ex. A
• Great Dates in Email History • 1)____________ October 1969 • Leonard Kleinrock, a UCLA computer science
first email message professor, sends the _________________ to a colleague at Stanford. The computer promptly crashes.
• connection: • n.连接 • broadcasting : • n.广播 • relation : • n.关系, 联系, • costly : • expensive
warning that reading an email entitled “Good Times” will _____ your hard drive erase and ______ your processor. destroy
• 7) ___________ December 1998 • In the movie You’ve Got Mail, a celebration
• UCLA: • University of California, Los Angeles • promptly: • immediately • crash: • (of a computer system): to suffer a sudden
major failure usually with attendant loss of data
• FYI • MYOB • SOP • TAFN • BCNU
for your ____________ information mind your _____________ own business ________ operating procedure standard that’s all for now ___________________ be seein’you
email every day during their campaign to coordinate their travel schedules. A single message costs _________ to send. •US＄4
• 5) ______________ September 1983 • Colby College in Waterville, Maine, becomes
• (information) superhighway: • The global information and communications
network that includes __________and the Internet other networks switching systems ____________and ______________such as,______________, cable television networks telephone networks _______________ and _____________________. satellite communication networks
police there is a bomb somewhere when there is not one, or a trick: • The bomb threat turned out to be a hoax. • 骗局;玩笑;恶作剧 • hard drive: • 【电脑】硬盘驱动器 • processor: • 【电脑】信息处理器;处理程序
Elizabeth II, Born 1926. Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (since 1952) who ascended to the throne on the death of her father, George VI.
Queen Elizabeth II
• 3) _____________ February 1976 • Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first
__________ to send an email message. head of state
• 4) ___________ Fall 1976 • ___________ and Walter Mondale use Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter:
• Jimmy Carter • 39th President of the
United States (1924- )
• campaign: • a connected series of operations designed to bring
about a particular result • election campaign • coordinate: • to make various different things work effectively as a whole 协调,调节,使调和 • If we coordinate our efforts we should be able to win the game. • 如果我们同心协力,我们应该能够打赢这 场比赛。
Part 2 Network
• PRE-LISTENING • Words are given different meanings at different times.
The same is true with the word “network”. • Can anyone tell different meanings of “network” at different times? • an interconnected or interrelated chain, group, or system • <a network of hotels> • a system of computers, terminals, and databases connected by communications lines • a group of radio or television stations linked by wire or radio relay
• 2) ________________ March 1972 • Ray Tomlison, author of the first email
software, chooses the “@” for _______: “I addresses got there first, so I got to choose any punctuFra Baidu bibliotektion I wanted”.
• Section C: WWW • World Wide Web: • A major service on the Internet. • The complete set of documents residing on all
Internet servers that use the HTTP protocol <超文件传输协定>, accessible to users via a simple point-and-click system. • 万维网 • primitive: • 原始的;早期的
one of the first institutions of ____________ to assign email _______ higher education accounts to all its students.
• 6) ____________ December 1994 • A widely circulated email hoax appears,
of email romance, Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks recreate The Shop Around the Corner online. The original movie, The Shop Around the Corner, was shown in 1937.