计算机专业英语(第二版) 教学课件 作者 吴群 吴坚 Lesson Thirteen.ppt

专业英语 Lesson Thirteen ? Key point: adverbial clauses ? Difficult points: subjunctive mood in the adverbial clauses of condition, concessive, manner and purpose ? Requirement: By the end of this lesson, you should be able to have a good command of the usage of adverbial clauses computer terms given in the lesson ? By the end of this lesson, you should be able to tell your feelings about Bill Gates’ Speech write your resume BILL GATES SPEECH TO TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY I believe software is the key element that really unlocks the power of all this technology, and the idea of making it easy to find information, easy to create information, easy to communicate with other people. Software is at the center of that and so software will be the fastest growing industry in the world and one that will create lots and lots of great jobs. Certainly here in China the opportunity for hundreds of thousands of great jobs should be very exciting because there is a global shortage in terms of computer skills. Every industry needs a lot of software work there, and so I talk about the software industry creating so many great jobs in the years ahead. I think you picked a great field to be in, and we look forward to working with you. Thank you. New Words get involved with 卷入；接触 miracle n. 奇迹 exponentially ad. 指数地 mainframe n. 大型计算机 fascinate v. 强烈地吸引住 amaze v. 使惊奇 prediction n. 预言 MHz n. 兆赫（megahertz的缩写） Pentium n. “奔腾”，Intel公司生产 的CPU芯片 incredible a. 难以置信的 storage n. 存储 capacity n. 容量 graphics n. 制图法 dramatically ad. 显著地 ambitious a. 有雄心的； 野心勃勃的； 热望的 pursuit v. 追赶；寻求 art