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Week -Week Unit 4: The Virtual Wrold 阅读任务答案注意：各位同学：全新版大学英语综合教程、新世纪大学英语快速阅读以及一课一练中的阅读任务，随书附有答案，请自己查找校对。全新版大学英语阅读教程(学生用书) （高级版）答案见下。3）全新版大学英语阅读教程(学生用书2) (高级版) Unit 4 (P81-P87) Passage: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway【答案】1. How to find out supporting ideas of an argumentA) The opponents argument: The internet and multimedia technology will outdate conventional news media, publishing, governing, teaching and business transaction.The opponents supporting ideas:1) “Interactive electronic information will make books obsolete.”2) Because of “the freedom of electronic networks,” “government will become profoundly democratic and efficient.”3) “Multimedia will revolutionize the classroom.” “Multimedia and interactive video systems will make learning easy and schoolwork fun.” “Students will happily learn from animated characters while being taught by expertly tailored software.” “Teachers wont be as essential when we have computer-aided education.”4) “Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems.”B) The authors argument: The prediction of a digital wonderland is absurd.The authors supporting ideas:1) “Lacking editors, reporters, reviewers, or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unreviewed, unedited, unfiltered data.” In this sense, “no online database will replace your daily newspaper.”2) “Bureaucracies have neverbeen quick to change.”3) “These expensive toys are difficult to use in classrooms, require extensive teacher preparation and waste what few dollars trickle into schools.” 4) “The networks are missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople. Without the personal attention and human interactions of good salesfolk, the Internet cant blossom into an electronic shopping mall.”2. How to detect the meanings of the following with the help of the context clues1) flock to: go in large crowds to ( the computer networks)2) thanks to: woing to, because of3) gulf: gap, drastic difference4) gets out: gets known to all, gets spread5) logged onto: connected to6) uploaded: put (articles, files, etc.) onto the networks in order to be seen by many others7) ran for: competed with others for the position8) logged in: connected to a website to see a particular file9) what: those10) negotiate: produce an agreement, settle a piece of business 11) trustworthy: reliable, wrothy to be trusted12) comes close to: can be equal to 3. Multiple-choice questionsD A D D 4. Put the following into Chinese1) 我为他们的乌托邦式的梦想和源源不断地涌入我的调制解调器的可怕的现实之间的巨大反差而震惊。2) 哪些大吹大擂的互联网贩子不会告诉你万维网其实是一个充斥着未经编辑的资料的茫茫大海