(英音版)新概念英语第四册Lesson10Siliconvalley

1、（英音版）新概念英语第四册Lesson 10 SiliconvalleyLesson 10Silicon valley硅谷First listen and then answer the following question.听录音，然后回答以下问题。What does the computer industry thrive on apart from anarchy?Technology trends may push Silicon Valley back to the future.Carver Mead, a pioneer in integrated circuits and a

2、professor ofcomputer science at the California Institute of Technology, notesthere are now work-stations that enable engineers to design, test andproduce chips right on their desks, much the way an editor creates anewsletter on a Macintosh. As the time and cost of making a chipdrop to a few days and

3、 a few hundred dollars, engineers may soon befree to let their imaginations soar without being penalized byexpensive failures. Mead predicts that inventors will be able to perfectpowerful customized chips over a weekend at the office - spawning anew generation of garage start-ups and giving the U.S.

4、 a jump on itsforeign rivals in getting new products to market fast. Were got moregarages with smart people, Mead observes. We really thrive onanarchy.And on Asians. Already, orientals and Asian Americansconstitute the majority of the engineering staffs at many Valley firms.And Chinese, Korean, Fili

5、pino and Indian engineers are graduating indroves from Californias colleges. As the heads of next-generationstart-ups, these Asian innovators can draw on customs andlanguages to forge righter links with crucial Pacific Rim markets. Forinstance, Alex Au, a Stanford Ph. D. from Hong Kong, has set up a

6、Taiwan factory to challenge Japans near lock on the memory-chipmarket. India-born N.Damodar Reddys tiny California companyreopened an AT & T chip plant in Kansas City last spring withfinancing from the state of Missouri. Before it becomes a retirementvillage, Silicon Valley may prove a classroom for building a globalbusiness.US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT, October 2, 1989New words and expressions生词和短语siliconn.硅integratedadj.综合的circuitn.线路，电路Californian.加利福尼亚（美国州名）workstationn.工作站chipn.芯片，集成电路片，集成块newslettern.时事通讯Macintoshn.苹果机，一种个人