Reading

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Reading
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Guess who I am.
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Task 1 Skimming
1. Who is the speaker in this story? A
computer. 2. Write down three sentences from the
story to support your idea. 1) Then in 1822 I
was built as an Analytical machine by
Charles Babbage.
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2) My real father was Alan Turing, 3) However,
people thought I was simple-minded until they
discovered I had artificial intelligence.
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Task 2 Fast reading
1. Where were you in 1642? In France. 2. What
happened to you in 1822? I was built as an
Analytical Machine by Babbage. 3. What were
you called in 1936? A universal machine. 4.
What happened to you in the 1970s? I was
brought into peoples homes.
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Task 3 Careful reading
The computer began as a calculating machine.
1642
The Analytical Machine was built by Charles Babbage
1936
1822
Alan Turing wrote a book to describe how
computers could be made.
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1960s
The first family of computers was connected to each other.
1970s
now
Computers had new transistors and became smaller
1960s
Computers were brought into people's homes.
Computers connect people all over the world
together.
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Task 4 Fill in the blanks.
1 completely
2 complete change
3 The study of how to make computers do intelligent things.
4 being born
5 unable to understand difficulties
6 pass
totally
revolution
Artificial intelligence
birth
simple-minded
go by
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7 take correct action for
8 linked computer system
9 indeed
10 used to show that something happens in spite of a problem
deal with
network
truly
anyway
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Task 5 QUESTION-ANSWER COMPETITION
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1. What is PC? Speak the name on the whole.
It means personal computer.
2. What is IT?
Information Technology.
3. What is CD-ROM?
Compact disc read-only memory.
4. What is DVD?
Digital Video Disc.
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5. What is W.W.W?
World wide web.
6. ?????
Science and technology.
7. ?????
Artificial intelligence.
8.??????
Notebook computer.
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9. Who was the first person to devise the first
computer?
Charles Babbage invented an Analytical machine
in 1822.
10. Who was the computers real father?
Alan Turing.
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Reading task on Page 58
Read the passage and then fill in the chart.
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RECORD CARD HUA FEI
 Ability
Performance in 78th Olympics  
Prize won
Performance in 79th Olympics  
Reason for failure  
Treatment  
Excellent style and movements Olympic standard
Wonderful turns, dives, circles and dances
Silver medal for high flying exercises
Began very well but failed through no fault of
his own
Parachute failed to open.
Two new legs and a new head
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Language points
1. calculate v. work (sth.) out by using numbers
e.g. calculate the cost of sth.
calculator n.
??????????or?????
visitor, survivor, competitor
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2. in common for or by all of a group
????????? the land owned in common by the
residents ??????? in common ???have??,?
have nothing in common ????? have little
in common ???????
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have something in common ??????? have a lot in
common ??????? ???????????????????? 1) You know,
Dorothy, you and I have one thing in common. 2)
We just had nothing in common and I couldn't
communicate with his dull business friends. 3) I
suddenly felt we had a lot in common.
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• 3. analytical adj.???, ???
• analyse vt. ????
• analogy n. ????
• analysis n. ????
• analyst n. ???
• analytic adj. ??????

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4. simple-minded showing very little
intelligence ????? ?? Richard is smart
but he has a lot of simple-minded friends.
??????, ?????????????? simple-minded
????????, ??????????????
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absent-minded ????? open-minded ???,
????? narrow-minded ????? single-minded
????? strong-minded ????? weak-minded
???, ???
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• 5. artificial adj. ???,???
• artificial flowers/limbs/pearls ??/??/???
• artificial intelligence ????

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• 6. anyway ????
• Anyway, you can try.
  ??????????
• I dont care what you say Im going to do it
  anyway.
• ?? someway ????????? ???

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7. go by (of time) pass
e.g. As time goes by my memory gets worse
and worse.
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• 8. totally adv. ??????
• totally blind ??
• total adj. ??? ???
• total silence ????
• in total ??

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9. And my memory became so large that I
couldnt believe it!
??so that ?????
? tooto ???????
And my memory became too large for me to
believe it.
eg He is so old that he cant carry the box.
He is too old to carry the box.
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• ?????that???????
• The stone is so heavy that no one can lift it.
• ?? so that ??????,???????

so...that...???so???/???????,???????? So
hard does he work that he seldom goes home.
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• 10. deal with
• 1) ??(???) ?get along/on with, do with
• 2) ??......,? refer to
• 3) ?......??
• deal in sth. ??/??
• deal sth. out ????

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?? deal with/do with ?????????, ????????, do
with?what??,deal with?how???
What do you do with How do you deal with

the wounded?
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11. I love being used to connect people who
arent close enough to speak to each other.
enough ???
???
e.g. Enough has been done for him.
???? (???????)
e.g. We have not enough food.
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??? (?????, ??,????)
e.g. The book is easy enough for her to read.
They didnt run fast enough.
You didnt practise enough at the piano.
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Homework

• Look up the words below
• in common, go by, anyway, so...that,
• in a way, watch over.

Finish the Ex2 and Ex3 in Learning about
Language on page27.