新编英语教程英语专业

1、Unit 5Students book:VocabularyA. Guessing the meanings of words and phrases 1. c 2. f 3. j 4. a 5. d 6. b 7. h 8. e 9. g 10. iB. Looking up words and phrases in a dictionary1. striking or unusual in appearance2. a person paid to do hard and uninteresting work3. fixed amount of work4. chance, unplann

2、ed, unlooked for5. be present (in some place)6. the opportunity or right to use or see something7. put together quickly or roughly8. language or way of communicating which is used by people who do not speak the same native language9. the most typical10. doing things not in the accepted way11. someth

3、ing that is midway between two different things12. profit from; turn to one's advantageWorkbook:TEXT IComprehension (reference versions): B. Answers for reference:1. Where high quality is not just something someone does on certain occasions, but rather something that one does regularly and that

4、one finds it difficult to stop doing.2. nowadays by using a computer equipped with a modem and pointing and clicking with a mouse, you can get information from any place in this world, and neither time, nor space, nor high long-distance phone tariffs will make it difficult for you to do so.3. Who kn

5、ew at that time that this humble software consultant would create the World Wide Web which would change our civilization, bring about millionaires, and a rich source of information.4. Surprisingly enough, such a fact did not take place in an industrial city or town but in the Swiss Alps, which seeme

6、d to be remote from industry.5. that could keep myself informed about all the chance connections that one may meet with in real life, and which one's brains ought to be good enough to remember, but sometimes I would just not remember.6. On the Internet one should be able to begin from one's

7、own software move on to get a list of names of people one wishes to contact, and to get access to a phone book, and to get a chart showing an organization, and to obtain whatever information one wishes to get.7. In 1991 the World Wide Web made its first appearance to the world, and thereafter what u

8、sed to be chaotic on the computer screen began to be orderly and clear.8. He changed a most effective communications system (i. e., the computer) which used to be only at the disposal of the select educated class into a means of communication for large numbers of common people.TEXT IIComprehensionAn

9、swers for reference:1. Just a week ago, on October 11, 1997, his wife told him the most distressing/upsetting/ dreadful / frightening news about their little son who appeared to be healthy.2. Mary Anne was attracted by and her attention was fixed on the words "serious heart disease from birth.&

10、quot;3. The world is so rich that it just cannot let this child die without trying to do something. (This a strong message requesting help. )4. In the following days, Yongxin's state of mind changed from hopefulness to hopelessness and vice versa by turns.5. Mary Anne Wehland was given uncertain

11、 promises from several surgeons that treated children's heart diseases, who offered to treat Shao-Shao free of charge.6. Every year he went to Peru with a U. C. L.A. medical team to operate on children who were not supposed to be able to have operations, aiming at restoring the normal function o

12、f their hearts; and he had seen many of these children become well and healthy.7. Mary Anne wanted to take a risk: she would ask the Deng family to go to Los Angeles before she tried to get money for the catheterization.8. Yongxin phoned Mary Anne who had only been known to him through e-mails for m

13、any months. Now that he heard Mary Anne's voice, he, being very hopeful now, was so thankful to her that he could hardly speak.9. The operation would be a great risk, but Dr. Laks thought he had good reasons to take the risk and perform the operation.10. As soon as he had no trouble with his pul

14、monary blood pressure, Shao-Shao would be able to go through the operation, which would enable his blood to flow normally thereafter.11. On the morning of the next day, "Today," which was a national television talk show, put on a short programme about the child.12. a donor that did not giv

15、e his name who, with other people who also wished Shao-Shao good health, raised the money for Shao-Shao's use to more than $110,000.13. Both Yongxin and Han Dan felt uncertain during the whole of the long day.14. Now Yongxin and Han Dan cried with exceedingly great happiness.TEXT III1. The Nino

16、300. It is a palm-sized personal computer.2. It is very small, only as big as the palm of the hand. It is very light in weight, and is pen-based. It has a built-in modem, Microsoft Windows CE 2.0, and a voice command It has a bright, backlit touch screen. The battery it uses is rechargeable.3. 1) It

17、 provides the latest news headlines. 2) Games of solitaire can be played on it. 3) It sends c-mails. 4) It reminds the owner of meetings, schedules, and various other things. 5) It records voice commands.4. Philips.GUIDED WRITINGSentence CombinationReference version:One reason why the family unit is

18、 crumbling is that parents have relinquished their authority over children. The permissive school of thought says "Let the child do what he wants to when he wants to, no matter what it is, don't warp his personality, don't thwart him, otherwise you will ruin him for life". Because

19、of this we've got a generation of spoilt self-centred brats with no respect for their elders. Children always push to see how much they can get away with; if you give them nothing to push against, there are no moral limits, no moral convictions will develop in the children. We have this in the s

20、chools children have much less respect for their teachers nowadays. Respect doesn't mean that when someone in authority says "Jump", you jump-that's the military approach. Speaking of young people today, if they have an opinion that's different from yours, then you' re the

21、fool and they' re right, even if they don't have enough experience to judge.IV. Translation1. If you have access to the lnternet and log on to it, you can get information online about current affairs, education, science and technology, finance, public health and entertainment.2. Thanks to th

22、e rapid development of modern means of telecommunication, international communication is generally unencumbered by time or space.3. She is a scientist of action. For one thing, she more than anyone else in the experiment group has devoted so much time and energy to this project.4. I really don't

23、 understand why he noodles around that antiquated /outmoded /old-fashioned computer all day long.5. In case you fail to get into the central database, you can call our Technical Support Service Department for help. 6. A language has a limited number of prepositions and articles, but its nouns and ve

24、rbs are open-ended and infinite- new words are born every day.7. With the awareness that the English language is the lingua franca of the world, an increasing number of young people try to learn English as much as they can in their spare time.8. What distinguishes this young man from others is that

25、he is inclined to think unconventionally, and would make no compromise with traditional ideas.9. This research institute is a nonprofit institution whose research projects arc usually funded by some multi-national corporations.10. Our general manager is one who is completely oriented toward the mark

26、et economy. At every critical juncture in the business development of the corporation, he would choose nothing but the market road.B. Reference version: In this electronic age, information grows at a phenomenal speed. Some knowledge of computer network is required of an average person. With a comput

27、er that is equipped with a mouse and a modem, you can get information unencumbered by time or space. All you need to do is turn on your computer and log it on to the lnternet. Launch a search engine and you find nearly anything online. As a matter of fact, you have access to all the information that

28、 is non-proprietary and free. TheWorld Wide Web has made the world no more than a global village. You can easily keep track of the news and current events around the world, and order what you need by e-mail. What if you are lnternet illiterate and know nothing about such things as Hyper Text Transfe

29、r Protocol.'? It's simple: you take a computer lesson and learn about the lingua franca of this age. You know, life on the lnternet is not at all a life of dreary and tedious work, but a life full of excitement and new discovery.V. Blank FillingA. 1. them 2. chief 3. sisters 4. at 5. learn/p

30、rogress 6. praise/compliments/encouragement 7. too 8. children 9. in 10. brakes 11. message 12. because 13. owe 14. without 15. not 16. with/around/by 17. others 18. the 19. world 20. passB. 1. whether 2. reservation 3. whatever 4. industries 5. allow 6. system 7. so 8. reach 9. officer 10. recent 1

31、1. changes 12. also 13. prepare 14. career 15. manage C. (1) recent (2) onto the Internet (3) size (4) have spread(5) global (6) have logged on to (7) system (8) information(9) web pages (10) commonly (11) as well as (12) data(13) pour through (14) huge(15) documents (16) timetables(17) around the w

32、orld (18) reach (19) covering (20) sharing(21) felt (22) century (23) require (24) counters(25) completed (26) at home (27) rapidly (28) users(29) online (30) fascinatingVI. A. 1. up to his eyes in work 2. have an eye for 3. was a real eye-opener 4. see eye to eye about 5. keep an eye on 6. I still

33、seein my minds eye. 7. running her eyes over 8. feasting his eyes on 9. has his eye on 10. see eye to eye 11. kept an eye on 12. with the naked eye 13. has an eye for a good thing 14. opened his eyesB.1. inappropriate 2. inefficient 3. overstatement 4. humbly5. true 5. raise 7. extraordinary 8. elas

34、tic/flexible/moving9. sagely 10. distraction 11. ash-white 12. general 13. uneducated 14. unavailable 15. tactful 16. stiff 17. disagreeable 18. innocence 19. ungracious 20. insufficient 21. contempt 22. sharply 23. mental/spiritual 24. tighten 25. incapableDictation:A. Word dictation acquaintance r

35、andom compromise unencumbered debut chaotic sparse unconventionally exponential residence B. sentence-making with key phrases (reference versions)1. get credit for: Steve Jobs got credit for the remarkable success of Apple. 2. keep track of: Although he has quitted his job at Nestle, he still keeps

36、track of the companys latest development. C. Paragraph dictation (8 sentences) A computer does not think, at least not in the most widely accepted sense of the word; it does only what it is told and it does exactly what it is told./ If given faulty instructions or incorrect data, it produces faulty

37、results. /The mistakes that sometimes occur are almost always the fault of the people who work with the computer, not of the computer itself. /When the proper safeguards are applied, even a malfunctioning computer will not produce incorrect results; it will, instead, signal the operator that somethi

38、ng is wrong./ Although a computer does not think, it does make decisions./ Each decision is based on a logical pattern previously stored in the computer./ It makes a decision by following instructions such as “If the number you are reading is 10 or less, proceed to the next step. If it is greater than 10, skip the next step.”/ In making decisions, the computer uses the processes of logic./ A computer can also retain information that is