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New Horizon College English Book 4 ???????4

• School of Foreign Studies
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• Unit 4
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Unit Four Section A The Telecommunications
Revolution
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Warm-up Watch and Discuss 1.How much do you
know about telecommunications? Its development?
The devices? 2. What impact does the
telecommunications development have on our life?
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• Watch and Discuss

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1.Tips
Information superhighway
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• 2.Tips
• Advantages
• conveniences in my life
• possible to communicate with others at any
  time and any places
• access to endless amount of information
• Side-effects
• Read fewer books.
• Engage in fewer social activities.
• Communicate less within the family and feel more
  lonely and depressed.
• Get lost over the endless amount of information.

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Background Information
Information Age

• The Information Age is an era of fundamental
  and global change in intellectual, philosophical,
  cultural and social terms. Todays Information
  Age began with the telegraph. It was the first
  instrument to transform information into
  electrical form and transmit it reliably over
  long distances. New techniques of encoding and
  distributing digital information are promoting
  the progress of the Information Age throughout
  society.

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• Information Superhighway
• This is a name first used by former US
  vice-president Al Gore for the vision of a
  global, high-speed communications network that
  would carry voice, data, video, and other forms
  of information all over the world, and that would
  make it possible for people to send e-mail, get
  up-to-the-minute news, and access business,
  government and educational information.

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• The Internet is already providing many of
  these features, via telephone networks, cable TV
  services, online service providers, and
  satellites. In the US, the information
  superhighway is also known as National
  Information Infrastructure. The information
  superhighway can be understood to be a highway
  which has computer technology and modern
  telecommunications technology serving as the base
  of the road and fiber-optic cables serving as the
  surface

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• of the road. The vehicles are the multimedia
  machines equipped with computer, television and
  telephone, and high speed transmission and
  exchange of various multimedia information form
  the web covering the whole nation. If the
  national superhighways all over the world are
  linked together, the global information
  superhighway will be created.

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Contents
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I. New Words

• boost v.
• to increase raise????
• promote vigorously help or encourage
  (sb./sth.)??,??,??

Example
The company boosted its sales this year.
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The unexpected win boosted the teams morale.
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I. New Words

• 2. parade
• A line of people, vehicles, etc. moving forward
  in order, often as a celebration of some event ??
• A series of people or things that seems never to
  end ???,???

Example
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has kicked off
in New York.
The parade opened with Snoopy. As always, Santa
Claus made an appearance at the parade.
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I. New Words

• 2. parade
• A line of people, vehicles, etc. moving forward
  in order, often as a celebration of some event ??
• A series of people or things that seems never to
  end ???,???

Example
A parade of people said that Mr. Davis had shot a
policeman.
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I. New Words

• 3. condense V.
• make sth. shorter or smaller ????
• (cause sth. to) change from gas or vapour to a
  liquid ????

Example
He managed to condense his letter of application
to one page. ???????????????
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Steam is condensed into water when it touches
cold surfaces.
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I. New Words

• 4. economic economical
• a. economic relating to the economy of a country
  and economics ???,????
• b. economical not costing a lot of money or not
  wasting money ???,???,???,???

Example
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economic bankruptcy
economic circles
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an economic crisis
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economic sanction
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This car is economical to run because it doesnt
use much fuel.
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• 5. intensive a.
• involving a lot of activity, effort, or
  careful attention in a short period of time
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Example
labor-intensive ?????? capital-intensive
?????? intensive care
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I. New Words

• 6. lick vt.
• move ones tongue over sth. ?
• (sl) easily defeat sb. or deal with sth. (?)????

Example
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The little girl is licking the ice-cream cone.
Manchester United licked Chelsea in an English
Premiership match.
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A. Language points

• 7.stake
• money that sb. invests in a company??
• a pointed piece of wood, metal, etc. that is
  pushed into the grond to support sth. or mark a
  particular place????

Example
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Contents
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Structure Analysis
Introduction Question Sample Solutions
Conclusion

• Writing device Comparisons

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Introduction the advantages of
telecommunications technologies.
Part I (Paras.1_ )
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Question How fast to develop telecommunications
technologies in developing countries?
Part II (Para. _ )
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Sample solutions Six countries or regions are
working hard to realize telecommunications
transformation.
Part III (Paras. _ _ )
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Conclusion Developing countries can catch up
with Americans and Western Europeans if they
persist.
Part IV (Para. 11)
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Passage Reading

• Part I (Para.1-2) Advantages of the
  telecommunications revolution for developing
  countries

1. Language points
2. Questions

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The Telecommunications Revolution
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Para. 1a A transformation is occurring that
should greatly boost living standards in the
developing world. Places that until recently were
deaf and dumb are rapidly acquiring up-to-date
telecommunications that will let them promote
both internal and foreign investment.
??? herereferring to places without
telecommunications facilities such as telephones
and thus unable to communicate with the outside
world
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Para. 1b It may take a decade for many countries
in Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe to
improve transportation, power supplies, and other
utilities. But a single optical fiber with a
diameter of less than half a millimeter can carry
more information than a large cable made of
copper wires. By installing optical fiber,
digital switches, and the latest wireless
transmission systems, a parade of urban centers
and industrial zones from Beijing to Budapest are
stepping directly into the Information Age. A
spiders web of digital and wireless
communication links is already reaching most of
Asia and parts of Eastern Europe.
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Para 1 Advantages of the telecommunications
revolution for developing countries
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Para. 2 All these developing regions see advanced
communications as a way to leap over whole stages
of economic development. Widespread access to
information technologies, for example, promises
to condense the time required to change from
labor-intensive assembly work to industries that
involve engineering, marketing, and design.
Modern communications will give countries like
China and Vietnam a huge advantage over countries
stuck with old technology.
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Why are advanced communications seen as a way to
leap over whole stages of economic development?
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A. Language points

• 1. Widespread/Constant access to sth. promises /
  tends to do sth. else. ??/????/????/??
  

Example
Frequent access to vermilion tends to make one
red, whereas constant access to ink tends to keep
one black.
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A. Language points

• 2. give sb. an advantage over make someone more
  likely to succeed than others ?????

Example
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Her youth gave her an advantage over the other
runner.
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A. Language points

• 3. be stuck with have sth. you do not want
  because you cannot get rid of it ????,????

Example
Shall we be stuck with the chattering old lady
until the end of the holiday?
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Passage Reading

• Part II (Para.3) How fast to develop
  telecommunications technologies in developing
  countries?

1. Language points
2. Questions

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Para. 3 How fast these nations should push ahead
is a matter of debate. Many experts think Vietnam
is going too far by requiring that all mobile
phones be expensive digital models, when it is
desperate for any phones, period. These
countries lack experience in weighing costs and
choosing between technologies, says one expert.
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Para 3 Question
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A. Language points

• a matter of sth. sth. that needs or depends on
  sth. else ????

Example
Success in business is simply a matter of knowing
when to take a chance.
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His negligence of duties is a matter of morality.
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A. Language points

• 2. go too far behave in an unacceptable or
  extreme way????, ????

Example
I do not mind a joke, but this is going too far.
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A. Language points

• 3. period used at the end of a statement to show
  that you believe you have said all there is to
  say on a subject and you are not going to discuss
  it any more.

Example
There will be no more shouting, period!
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We are all against the proposal, period.
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Passage Reading

• Part III (Para.4-10) Sample solutions Six
  countries or regions

1. Language points
2. Questions

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Para. 4 Still, theres little dispute that
communications will be a key factor separating
the winners from the losers. Consider
Russia. Because of its strong educational system
in mathematics and science, it should thrive in
the Information Age. The problem is its national
phone system is a rusting antique that dates from
the l930s. To lick this problem, Russia is
starting to install optical fiber and has a
strategic plan to pump 40 billion into various
communications projects. But its economy is stuck
in recession and it barely has the money to even
scratch the surface of the problem.
There is little dispute/doubt that????,????
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Para 4 Russia
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A. Language points

• 1. to pump / pour / inject sth. into
• ???/??

Example
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Education is not a matter of pumping facts into
students minds, but a matter of working out
their potentials.
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A. Language points

• 2. be stuck in be in an unpleasant situation
  and unable to change it or get away from it ?? ,??

Example
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The bus is stuck in the mud.
He was stuck awkwardly in the middle.
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A. Language points

• 3. scratch the surface deal with only the simple
  or obvious parts of sth. ?????????

Example
The famine is so bad and aid can only scratch the
surface. ??????,?????????? scratch the surface
of the problem ???????
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Para. 5 Compare that with the mainland of China.
Over the next decade, it plans to pour some 100
billion into telecommunications equipment. In a
way, Chinas backwardness is an advantage,
because the expansion occurs just as new
technologies are becoming cheaper than copper
wire systems. By the end of 1995, each of Chinas
provincial capitals except for Lhasa will have
digital switches and high-capacity optical fiber
links. This means that major cities are getting
the basic infrastructure to become major parts of
the information superhighway, allowing people to
log on to the most advanced services available.
pump / pour /inject sth.into
to a certain extent partly
Para 5 Mainland China
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A. Language points

• log on to
• to get access to (Internet) ??,??(??)

Example
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Anyone can log on to this computer.
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Para. 6 Telecommunications is also a key to
Shanghais dream of becoming a top financial
center. To offer peak performance in providing
the electronic data and paperless trading global
investors expect, Shanghai plans
telecommunications networks as powerful as those
in Manhattan.
best
Para 6 Shanghai
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Para. 7a Meanwhile, Hungary also hopes to jump
into the modern world. Currently, 700,000
Hungarians are waiting for phones. To partially
overcome the problem of funds and to speed the
import of Western technology, Hungary sold a 30
stake in its national phone company to two
Western companies.
What has Hungary done to quicken its steps into
the modern world?
Para 7 Hungary
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Para. 7b To further reduce the waiting list for
phones, Hungary has leased rights to a
Dutch-Scandinavian group of companies to build
and operate what it says will be one of the most
advanced digital mobile phone systems in the
world. In fact, wireless is one of the most
popular ways to get a phone system up fast in
developing countries. Its cheaper to build radio
towers than to string lines across mountain
ridges, and businesses eager for reliable service
are willing to accept a significantly higher
price tag for a wireless callthe fee is
typically two to four times as much as for calls
made over fixed lines.

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Why is wireless one of the most popular ways to
boost a phone system in developing countries?
Para 7 Hungary
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• 1. times as as ???

Example

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This book is three times as long as the length
of that one.
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Para. 8 Wireless demand and usage have also
exploded across the entire width and breadth of
Latin America. For wireless phone service
providers, nowhere is business better than in
Latin Americahaving an operation there is like
having an endless pile of money at your disposal.
BellSouth Corporation, with operations in four
wireless markets, estimates its annual revenue
per average customer at about 2,000 as compared
to 860 in the United States. Thats partly
because Latin American customers talk two to four
times as long on the phone as people in North
America.

Para 8 Latin American countries
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A. Language points

• 1. the width and length of sth. / the length and
  breadth of sth.the entire extent of
  something???

Example
The heroes traveled the length and breadth of the
land, righting wrongs and helping people in need.
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A. Language points

• 2. at ones disposal available for one to use as
  one wishes?????,?????

Example

• Students have a well-stocked library at their
  disposal.

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use sth.
Para. 9 Thailand is also turning to wireless, as
a way to allow Thais to make better use of all
the time they spend stuck in traffic. And it
isnt that easy to call or fax from the office
The waiting list for phone lines has from one to
two million names on it. So mobile phones have
become the rage among businesspeople who can
remain in contact despite the traffic jams.
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Para 9 Thailand
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A. Language points

• 1. become/be (all) the fashion/rage be the
  latest style/trend????,????

Example

• ???????????? ?

Jeans are all the rage among teenagers.
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Para. 10 Vietnam is making one of the boldest
leaps. Despite a per person income of just 220 a
year, all of the 300,000 lines Vietnam plans to
add annually will be optical fiber with digital
switching, rather than cheaper systems that send
electrons over copper wires. By going for
next-generation technology now, Vietnamese
telecommunications officials say theyll be able
to keep pace with anyone in Asia for decades.
Para 10 Vietnam
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• go for sth. a. choose sth. ?????
• b. attempt to have or achieve
  sth.?????????

Example
I think Ill go for the fruit salad.
Shes going for the world record in the high jump.
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A. Language points

• keep pace with move, increase, change, etc. at
  the same speed as someone or something else
  ?????,????,??

Example
Have earnings kept pace with rising prices?
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Para. 11 For countries that have lagged behind
for so long, the temptation to move ahead in one
jump is hard to resist. And despite the mistakes
theyll make, theyll persistso that one day
they can cruise alongside Americans and Western
Europeans on the information superhighway.
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Para 11 Conclusion Developing countries can
catch up with Americans and Western Europeans if
they persist.
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Contents
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Summary of expressions(1)
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to boost living standards
to promote internal investment
the latest wireless transmission system
a parade of
to go too far
to be desperate for
to lack experience in sth.
to weigh costs
to choose between technologies
factors separating winners from losers
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Summary of expressions(2)
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to thrive in the Information Age
to lick the problem of funds
high-capacity optical fiber
basic infrastructure
information superhighway
to offer peak performance
to accept higher price tag for sth.
at ones disposal
to remain in contact with sb.
to make a bold leap
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Summary of expressions(3)
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to be stuck with / in
to push ahead with sth.
a matter of
to make use of
to go for
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Activity Appreciation

• What can we do with Internet in the future?

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Future Internet
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Assignment
Write a passage of comparison with no less
than 120 words.
Topic TV a Blessing or a Curse
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Thanks for your attention