2. Look at the pictures and complete the following table, then tell your classmates where you read.
Where to find books (a) in a bookstore (b) in a library
Ⅰ. About the Author
Part 2 Theme-related Reading
Anna Quindlen is the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling novelist. She joined Newsweek as a contributing editor in October, 1999, succeeding the late Meg Greenfield. Her column appears every other week on the magazine’s back page.
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Ⅱ. Information Related to the Text
1．Steven Paul Jobs： Steven Paul Jobs (1955—2011) was an American businessman and inventor widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution. He was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs was also the co-founder and previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney.
3． “It is a truth universally acknowledged”： The complete sentence is “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” It is the beginning sentence of the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
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大学英语 读写教程 II
Unit 2
Education
The book is the ship across the sea of time.
——Francis Bacon
Contents
Part I Pre-reading Activities Part II Theme-related Reading Text A Part III Theme-related Reading Text B Part IV Writing Practice Part V After-class Activities
Jobs announced his resignation due to health problems in August 2011. On October 5, 2011, he died at his home in Palo Alto, California, aged 56.
Part 2 Theme-related Reading
(c) on the Internet
Part 2 Theme-related Reading
Part II Theme-related Reading
Text A
Ⅰ. About the Author Ⅱ. Information Related to the Text
Ⅲ. Text A Turning the Page
Part 1 Pre-reading Activities
Part I Pre-reading Activities
1. Listen to the passage E-publishing Overview and then discuss
with your classmates the topic: Comparison between traditional
reading and e-reading.
Script
ramification n. : 分支
familiarize vt. : 使熟悉，使亲近
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print-on-demand(POD) : 按需出版
astounding a. : 令人惊奇的
Part 1 Pre-reading Activities
2．YouTube： YouTube is a popular video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. YouTube was created in mid-February 2005 by three former PayPal employees. The San Bruno-based service uses Adobe Flash technology to display a wide variety of video content, including movie clips, TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos.