研究生英语综合教程下Unit4[P].ppt

高等院校研究生英语系列教材;*; Content;Task 1 Work in groups and solve the following crossword puzzle involving words describing things that have emerged in recent years with the improvement of science and technology, e.g. email, surfing the Net, search engine, cell phone, etc. ;;;Task 2 Step One Directions: Work in pairs to match inventors in Column A with inventions in Column B. (P96) ;1) Tim Berners-Lee (England) → 2) Alexander Graham Bell (US, born in Scotland) → 3) Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright (US) → 4) Thomas Alva Edison (US) → 5) Cai Lun (China) → 6) Alexander Fleming (England) → 7) Leo Baekeland (US, born in Belgium) → 8) Chester Floyd Carlson (US) → 9) Wilhelm Conrad von R?ntgen (Germany) → 10) Willis Carrier (US) → ; Is Google Making Us Stupid?; ;Task 1 Complete the following extract with information from the text. Over the past few years, I’ve had an 1) _____________ feeling that I’m not thinking the way I used to think, particularly when I am 2) ________. In the past, I would be able to 3) ________ myself in lengthy articles. But, it is a different story now. It has become an exacting thing for me to do some 4) _______ reading. This, I think, can be attributed to a universal medium – the Net, which provides immediate 5) ________ to such an incredibly rich store of information. Reliance on the Net leads to the gradual loss of my capacity for 6) _____________ and contemplation. Similar troubles with reading also fall upon other people, ; including Scott Karp, who recently confessed that he has 7) ________ reading books altogether, and Bruce Friedman, who claimed that the Internet has 8) _______ his mental habits. A recently published study of online research habits also points to the 9) _______ in the way we read and think. Although the Internet and text-messaging on cell phones facilitate our reading, it’s a 10) ________ kind of reading. According to Maryanne Wolf, a developmental psychologist at Tufts University, we tend to become “mere