Step by Step 3000 第1册 Unit5:Net changes Life(1)

 　　Unit 5. Net Changes Life.

　　Part 1. Warming up.

　　A. Keywords. email message, addresses, Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ (the second), Jimmy Carter, email accounts, hoax¹.

　　Vocabulary. crash, coordinate², account, hoax, Maine.

　　You are going to hear some important dates in email history.

　　Supply the missing dates and words.

　　Great Days in Email History.

　　October 1969: Leonard Kleinrock, a UCLA computer science professor, sends the first email message to a colleague at Standford.

　　The computer promptly³ crashes.

　　March 1972: Ray Tomlinson, author of the first email software, chooses the "@" sign for addresses.

　　"I got there first, So I got to choose any punctuation⁴ I wanted."

　　February 1976: Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ (the second) becomes the first head of state to send an email message.

　　Fall 1976: Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale use email everyday during their campaign to coordinate their travel schedules.

　　A single message cost 4 $ (U.S dollar) to send.

　　September 1983: Colby College in Waterville, Maine, becomes one of the first institutions of higher education to assign email accounts to all the students.

　　December 1994: A widely circulated email hoax appears, warning that reading an email entitled "Good times" will erase⁵ your hard drive and destroy your processor.

　　December 1998: In the movie "you've got an email", a celebration of email romance, Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks recreate The Shop Around the Corner online.

　　The original movie, The Shop Around the Corner, was shown in 1937.

　　B. Keywords. information superhighway, shorthand, abbreviations.

　　Vocabulary. techie, zoom⁶, decode⁷, standby, make the rounds.

　　Listen to a short talk about the abbreviations used on the Internet.

　　What do these abbreviations mean?

　　Write down the full meaning.

　　One feature of the information superhighway is that the traffic travels fast.

　　And techies used in their own special shorthand to keep messages zooming⁸ along.

　　Today, we'll help you decode tech talk by answering some not so frequently asked questions about the abbreviations on the Internet.

　　What does it mean when a message includes the letters "AISI" or "IMHO"?

　　"AISI" stands for "as I see it", and "IMHO" is shorthand for "in my humble⁹ opinion".

　　Some modest folks will also add "FWIW" before sharing their opinion, which stands for "for what it's worth".

　　Others express their disapproval¹⁰ with the letters "CMIIW", that is "correct me if I'm wrong".

　　The list of commonly abbreviated¹¹ phrases on the net is nearly endless.

　　As a matter of fact, "AAMOF" stands for "as a matter of fact" and "believe or not" gets posted as "BION".

　　Are there any pre-information-age abbreviations still making the rounds in this high-tech¹² era?

　　You bet.

　　The old standbys "FYI", "MYOB" and "SOP¹³", which stand for "for you information", "mind your own business", and "standard operating procedure" are still frequently used today, even in email.

　　Since time is getting short, has the net given us truly short and clear ways to say goodbye.

　　Try "TAFN", "that's all for now", and "BCNU", "be seein' you".

　　C. Keywords. Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web.

　　Vocabulary. primitive¹⁴.

　　You are going to hear some statements.

　　Each statement will be followed an wh-word.

　　Write down the relevant segments according to the wh-word.

　　For example, if you hear "The boy was looking for his mother","whom?", just write down the words "his mother".

　　Tim Berners-Lee is the man who wrote the software program that led to the foundation of the World Wide Web. Who?

　　In the 1980's, scientists were already communicating using a primitive version of email. When?

　　In 1990, Tim Beners-Lee wrote programs which form the basis of the World Wide Web. When?

　　In 1991, his programs were placed on to the Internet. Where?

　　Between 1991 and 1994, the number of web pages rose from ten (10) to one hundred thousand (100,000). How many?

　　Right now, the world is focused on e-commerce. What?

　　The invention of the web brings rapid rewards to people with imagination and new ideas. To whom?

1 hoax   

v.欺骗，哄骗，愚弄；n.愚弄人，恶作剧

参考例句：

• They were the victims of a cruel hoax.他们是一个残忍恶作剧的受害者。
• They hoax him out of his money.他们骗去他的钱。

2 coordinate   

adj.同等的，协调的；n.同等者；vt.协作，协调

参考例句：

• You must coordinate what you said with what you did.你必须使你的言行一致。
• Maybe we can coordinate the relation of them.或许我们可以调和他们之间的关系。

3 promptly   

adv.及时地，敏捷地

参考例句：

• He paid the money back promptly.他立即还了钱。
• She promptly seized the opportunity his absence gave her.她立即抓住了因他不在场给她创造的机会。

4 punctuation   

n.标点符号，标点法

参考例句：

• My son's punctuation is terrible.我儿子的标点符号很糟糕。
• A piece of writing without any punctuation is difficult to understand.一篇没有任何标点符号的文章是很难懂的。

5 erase   

v.擦掉；消除某事物的痕迹

参考例句：

• He tried to erase the idea from his mind.他试图从头脑中抹掉这个想法。
• Please erase my name from the list.请把我的名字从名单上擦去。

6 zoom   

n.急速上升；v.突然扩大，急速上升

参考例句：

• The airplane's zoom carried it above the clouds.飞机的陡直上升使它飞到云层之上。
• I live near an airport and the zoom of passing planes can be heard night and day.我住在一个飞机场附近，昼夜都能听到飞机飞过的嗡嗡声。

7 decode   

vt.译（码），解（码）

参考例句：

• All he had to do was decode it and pass it over.他需要做的就是将它破译然后转给他人。
• The secret documents were intercepted and decoded.机密文件遭截获并被破译。

8 zooming   

adj.快速上升的v.（飞机、汽车等）急速移动( zoom的过去分词 )；（价格、费用等）急升，猛涨

参考例句：

• Zooming and panning are navigational tools for exploring 2D and 3D information. 缩放和平移是浏览二维和三维信息的导航工具。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
• Panning and zooming, especially when paired together, create navigation difficulties for users. 对于用户来说，平移和缩放一起使用时，产生了更多的导航困难。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓

9 humble   

adj.谦卑的，恭顺的；地位低下的；v.降低，贬低

参考例句：

• In my humble opinion,he will win the election.依我拙见，他将在选举中获胜。
• Defeat and failure make people humble.挫折与失败会使人谦卑。

10 disapproval   

n.反对，不赞成

参考例句：

• The teacher made an outward show of disapproval.老师表面上表示不同意。
• They shouted their disapproval.他们喊叫表示反对。

11 abbreviated   

adj. 简短的，省略的 动词abbreviate的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He abbreviated so much that it was hard to understand his article. 他的文章缩写词使用太多，令人费解。
• The United States of America is commonly abbreviated to U.S.A.. 美利坚合众国常被缩略为U.S.A.。

12 high-tech   

adj.高科技的

参考例句：

• The economy is in the upswing which makes high-tech services in more demand too.经济在蓬勃发展，这就使对高科技服务的需求量也在加大。
• The quest of a cure for disease with high-tech has never ceased. 人们希望运用高科技治疗疾病的追求从未停止过。

13 sop   

n.湿透的东西，懦夫；v.浸，泡，浸湿

参考例句：

• I used a mop to sop up the spilled water.我用拖把把泼出的水擦干。
• The playground was a mere sop.操场很湿。

14 primitive   

adj.原始的；简单的；n.原(始)人，原始事物

参考例句：

• It is a primitive instinct to flee a place of danger.逃离危险的地方是一种原始本能。
• His book describes the march of the civilization of a primitive society.他的著作描述了一个原始社会的开化过程。