Unit 7 Communications (1)Part Ⅰ Warming upA.key words:security安全Freedom from risk or danger; safety.安全：不受威胁或危险；mega['megə]兆,百万online VCRVCR: Video Cassette Recorder录像机Vocabulary:haystack['heistæk]干草堆A large stack of hay for winter storage in the open（户外）干草堆：放于户外备冬用的干草堆look for a needle in a haystack做没有希望的事, 海底捞针gigahertz['gigəhə:ts]千兆赫1,000,000,000 periods per secondmegahertz['megə.hə:ts]兆赫one million periods per secondrender宣布To deliver or pronounce formally正式宣布：正式地交付或宣布：eg. The jury has rendered its verdict.陪审团已经作出了裁决Fast Search & Transfer (FAST)一个挪威软件研究集团Developer ForumIntel Developer Forum（英特尔信息技术峰会，简称IDF）是由英特尔公司主办的技术讲座，在美国、中国等7个地区举办，每年分秋冬举办两次。

IDF主要由主题演讲、技术专题讲座以及技术展示组成，主题演讲的演讲者均是英特尔的高层人士，演讲的题目都具有相当的前瞻性，作为一家在处理器、网络处理器等领域处于领先地位的公司，IDF的确是让业界获悉英特尔最新动向的最佳场合。

作为全球最负盛名的技术行业盛会之一，英特尔信息技术峰会(IDF)已经成为众多知名的技术专家和企业了解国际行业资讯、交流领先经验的超值平台。

Palm Springs 棕榈泉Palm Spring ——沙漠里的绿洲patrol = search 搜查the human flesh search engine人肉搜索coordinated [kəu'ɔ:dinitid]adj. 同等的,等位的;协调的,整合的,综合的Tapescript:1. And British papers report the latest trend when you meet someone in a bar is to get their number, go home, and google them. Yes that gorgeous girl or guy you met the other night is probably patrolling a search engine right now to check you out. So don’t even think of trying to tell them you’re a famous footballer or brain surgeon or television presenter.2. The jamming, earlier this month, of several popular Internet sites with a flood of crippling messages sent a wakeup call to those involved with electronic or e-commerce. One recent suggestion is to form an industry-wide group to share information about security issues. High-tech executives want to make a coordinated effort to ensure that the Internet becomes a safe place to conduct business.3. Now home to some 800 million pages --- a figure that’s doubling each year --- searching the Internet can be like looking for a needle in a haystack. But Oslo-based Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) has developed a search engine (www. ) capable of scanning more than 200 million pages. FAST is working on a megasearch engine that searches “all the web, all the time.”4. This week, the Intel Corporation held its semi-annual Developer Forum in Palm Springs, California. The gathering draws more than 2,000hardware and software developers from around the world. Intel executives opened the event with a demonstration of a high-speed chip, code-named “Williamette.”The chip, designed to power personal computers, has a speed of one point five gigahertz, making it almost twice as fast as Intel’s popular Pentium Ⅲchip which runs at 800 megahertz.5. An online VCR seems like a bright idea but it’s been quickly rendered non-functional by the copyright lawyers. Not for the first time, the Hollywood studiosobjected to re-transmitting network television show, in this case for users to watch via the web. Programs were being made available for visitors to save remotely or record for subsequent viewing via Windows Media Player.B. key words:redesign重新设计To make a revision in the appearance or function of修改…的外形，修改…的功能alleviate减轻To make (pain, for example) more bearable 减轻：使（痛苦等）更易于忍受：eg. a drug that alleviates cold symptoms一种减轻感冒症状的药品Vocabulary:zip code邮政编码A service mark used for a system designed to expedite the sorting and delivery of mail by assigning a series of numbers to each delivery area in the United States标明邮政编码于：美国的一种服务标志，通过给每个邮递区设定一系列数字使迅速完成邮件的分类和投递的而设计的一个系统donate捐赠To present as a gift to a fund or cause; contribute捐赠：作为礼物给某一基金或事业；贡献National Geographic《国家地理》杂志National Geographic:●Helping choose the magazine’s cover●Interviewing the photographers●Showing more pictures●Providing zip U.S.A.Hunger Site:●Helping alleviate world hunger●Donating contributions to the United Nations World Food Program each time an individual logs on to the site●Total value of distributed food: approximately $400,000Ask Jeeves Site:●Asking questions in simple English●Getting direct answers●Starting year: 1997Questions dealt with so far: more than 150 millionTapescript:1. National Geographic, the magazine, has redesigned its website with some new features. Among them, an opportunity for readers to help choose the magazine’s cover, interviews with National Geographic photographers, and lots and lots of pictures. More pictures in fact than there was room for in the print version. There’s also Zip U.S.A. , the feature you can find both online and in print. I t’s a focused look at one zip code in the U.S.2. Now, there’s a website created to help alleviate world hunger called the Hunger Site. Contributions, generated when computer users visit the site on the Worldwide Web, are donated to the United Nations World Food Program. “The beauty of the site is that when the web surfer clickson, they don’t pay a penny.”This is Abby Spring, a world Food Program official. She says that funds to purchase the food come from corporate donors who make a financial contribution each time an individual logs on to Hungersite --- that’s one word --- dot com. Abby spring says that so far, thanks to Hungersite dot com, the World Food Program has been able to distribute food valued at approximately $400,000.3. The Ask Jeeves Site on the Internet is one of the most useful Internet sites for asking questions in simple English and getting direct answers. Ask most search engines a question these days and they will return a result which gives thousands of pages for you to search. The Ask Jeeves Site gives youhalf a dozen where you can find the exact answer. The Ask Jeeves Site owners say they have dealt with more than 150 million questions since Ask jeeves was set up in 1997. Just this month, people were asking Jeeves the following questions: What are the latest scores for baseball? What is the address of the website for Coca-Cola? Where can I find a list of airfare travel bargains? Tell me the names of the top 20 universities and colleges in the U.S.Part ⅡThe InternetA.key words:anarchy['ænəki]混乱Absence of any cohesive principle, such as a common standard or purpose混乱，无秩序：无任何凝聚性准则，如共同标准或目标asset['æset]资源A useful or valuable quality, person, or thing; an advantage or a resource资源，优点：有用的或有价值的品德，人或事物；优势或资财eg. An agreeable personality is a great asset; proved herself an asset to the company.宜人的性格是一个很大的优点；证明她自己是公司的难得之材threat威胁①An indication of impending danger or harm坏兆头：即将有危险或伤害的迹象②One that is regarded as a possible danger;a menace威胁：一种被认为是可能的危险；一种危险Vocabulary:vague①Not clearly expressed; inexplicit含糊的：没有明确表达的；不明确的②Not thinking or expressing oneself clearly 模糊的：没有思考清楚的或自我表达不清楚的clerical ['klerikəl]职员［办事员，文书］的，办公室工作的desktop[计算机] 桌面1. Technology is moving from the desktop into our everyday life.2. The Internet is the world’s largest experimenting anarchy.3. Some languages will disappear.4. Economies are changing.Tapescript:A --- Anchor P --- Ned Potter S --- SpecialistA: We’re gonna take a closer look tonight again at the future of the Internet. Not that we have anything but the vaguest idea where it’s going in the long run. One of the truly fascinating and somewhat unsettling aspects of the Internet revolution is how many technologists and scientists say that the future may hold any number of surprises. So we’re going to inch our way into the future.P: At the Internet World Trade Show in New York, they see a future when the web iseverywhere.S1: Technology is moving from the desktop into our everyday life.P: Imagine work, society, economics, relationships, all transformed, when anyone, anytime can get any message or knowledge or amusement they want, anywhere on the planet without so much as a wire.S2: In many ways, the Internet is the world’s largest experimenting anarchy, because all of a sudden, the citizens of the world are in charge, and no single government or governing body is in charge of what they do.P: Keep in mind that the web, transmitting by satellites, cell-phone, cable, goes through no one central location that anyone controls. So many of the boundaries that exist today, political and economic, will be strained as never before. Some scientists say three quarters of the world’s languages will disappear as the net connects isolated places.Already English is what you find on most web pages, blending cultures, no matter how much people try to save them. Economies are changing too. As distance becomes meaningless, white-collar clerical, accounting or administrative jobs are being exported to Asia, just as blue-collar factory jobs were years ago.S3: Imagine, there are 40 or 50 million Indians, not to mention the Chinese, who could deliver office work to the rich countries of the world for two dollars an hour.P: So this massive web f information is both an asset and a threat, changing cultures, economies, and governments, in ways no one can imagine or control.B.key words:compulsive[kəm'pʌlsiv]强制的Having the capacity to compeleg. a frightening, compulsive novel一本令人欲罢不能的惊悚小说anonymity[.ænə'nimiti]匿名The quality or state of being unknown or unacknowledged匿名，无名，姓氏不详：不被知道或认识的性质或状态Vocabulary:prone to [prəun]倾向于having a tendency eg. He was prone to anger. 他易于发怒。