3mjt-新视野大学英语读写教程第四册unit4-预习资料

Unit4 section A

h Equivalents of Chinese

提高生活水平

促进国内投资

最新无线传输系统

一系列

走得太远

急需

缺某方面经验

估算成本

选择技术

区分输赢的因素

在信息时代繁荣

解决资金问题

大容量光纤

基础设施

信息高速公路

提供优质服务

花高价买某物

由自己支配

与某人保持联系

迈出大胆的一步

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 weight costs

to choose between technologies

Factors separating winners from losers

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 one

’

s disposal

to remain in contact with sb.

to make a bold leap

nd Dictation

Eric

Brewer

is

a

busy

man.

He

is

a

computer

science

[S01]

________

at

the

University

of

California,

Berkeley.

He

also

is

director

of

the

Intel

Research

Berkeley

Lab.

There,

he

leads

a

team of students and Intel company researchers on [S02] _______ with new technologies.

One of their [S03] ________ is a WiFi-based long distance network, or WiLDNet.

Wi-Fi is short for [S04]

_______ fidelity. Wi-Fi [S05] __________, or hot spots, can be found in

airports, hotels, coffee shops and many other places.

But Wi-Fi is [S06] ________ for short distances. Eric Brewer [S07] _______ that most WiLDNets

will

only

need

to

cover

several

kilometers

of

[S08]

________.

Yet,

in

Venezuela,

[S09]

________________________

___ __________________________________________________ ______________.

endpoint in a WiLDNet uses a router that takes only about seven watts of power. [S10] ______

___________________ __________________________________________________ ___.

The routers cost about four hundred dollars. But Eric Brewer tells us the price should be

less once the technology is finalized for mass production. [S11]

__________________________________________________ _____________________________

__________ _____________.

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Structure Analysis

The passage explores the topic from different aspects: the advantages of the telecommunications

revolution,

questions

that

need

considering

in

conducting

it,

and

how

to

realize

it

in

different

countries. So the pattern of writing the writer adopts for the text is as follows:

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