Key to Exercises
Text ComprehensionI. B.Ⅱ. TFFTT
Ⅲ.
1. As the author sees it, the Internet is most likely to make our global village a better place to live in. It provides a miraculous forum for the globalization of ideas, which contributes to the realization of human potential. Furthermore, it is a powerful tool for the acquisition and application of knowledge. The benefits of the Internet, however, may be darkened by its negative consequences. It may deprive its user of his time for necessary interaction with other society members so that the whole world may be further fragmented. In addition, there is a reasonable likelihood that the Internet presents too much information, which gives its user a skewed sense of reality by making him a cognitively overloaded man.
2. His friend was addicted to the Internet. He would spend even over twenty-four hours non-stop on the Internet so that he had to force himself to go off line. As he spent so much time in cyberspace, his sense of reality might have been crooked. Moreover, without any face-.to-face verbal communication with other people, he felt lonely and depressed.
3. The alienation of society members had begun long before the Internet started to be used worldwide. After World War 1I when the soldiers returned from the battlefields, they devoted
themselves to \"progress\". What did to achieve their goal was to manufacture large quantities of cars and make them available to most people. With the car people could travel around more easily, but at the expense of their reunion with their extended families and communications with their neighbors. Thus, it is apparent that it was the car ownership that alienated people before the Internet. In the information age, however, people are alienated not so much by cars as by the Interact. Interact addicts are far from rare. As illustrated by the example of the author's nephew, it seems to be an irreversible trend that more and more people, old and young, are becoming addicted to the Internet. They will spend many hours non-stop in cyberspace rather than with their families or friends. For lack of communications, they are becoming strangers to other people. Therefore, there is a good reason to believe that the society is being further alienated by the Internet.
4. The \"cruel irony\" means that the Internet provides the user with a convenient means of communicating and making friends with people far apart on the one hand, but on the other, it estranges the user from the people around him by canceling his availability for the face-to-face communications even with his families and close friends and for involvement in the community activities.
5. The potential of the Internet as a powerful tool for globalizing ideas and for acquiring and applying knowledge can only be realized when its user strikes a balance between the reality and the Internet. Although the Internet makes it possible for its users to debate, shop, travel and have romance in cyberspace without leaving home, the overuse of this tool probably results in a distorted sense of reality. The only way to avoid being penalized by the Interact is make moderate
use of this tool without losing one's sense of place in the world.
Ⅳ.
1. As the Internet can be reached and used with relatively few restrictions, it plays a role in connecting people globally, which is comparable to traveling through international waterways.2. A lot of people talk about the \"new information age\with the idea that the Internet separates people from each other and fragments society further as a result.
3. I think that in our society the top priority is given to the satisfaction of one's immediate needs. The Internet is the best means to achieve this purpose, for on the Internet one can do whatever he likes to.
Vocabulary ExercisesI.
1. ability to develop, achieve or succeed
2. causing to feel very distant from or not welcome to other people
3. liked it very much and wanted to spend as much time doing it as possible4. a word or phrase which is often repeated to express a belief5. more information than one can cope with
6. a set of images and sounds produced by a computer which seems so real that for most purposes it can be regarded as realII.
1. for the better 3. was confronted with 5. in earnest 7. prior to III.
1. alienating 5. exaggerates IV. 1. A
2. at the expense of4. took advantage of6. are available for
8. would give ... pause to think
2. globalization 6. Depression 3. fragmenting 7. simulated 4. addict8. gratified
2. B 3. B 4. C 5. B 6. A 7. D 8. D
V.
1.However I am also troubled by the possible unintended negative consequences. Antonym: intended, purposeful, intentional, planned 2.Automobile ownership became commonplace and suburbs were created. Antonym: extraordinary, unusual3.Those folks were already becoming distanced from their extended families and neighbors. Synonym: alienate, isolate, estrange4.These activities might foster a sense of community among the local people.Synonym: cultivate, nurture5.He said that he felt like an alcoholic in that moderate use of the Internet was just not
possible for him.
Antonym: considerable, excessive, indulgent6.It seems to me that the Internet is a powerful tool that presents an opportunity for the
advancement of the acquisition and application of knowledge. Synonym: improvement, enhancement7.And I can also understand how one might have his or her sense of reality distorted in the progress. Synonym: misrepresent, falsify8.We are forced to ask fundamental questions about how we perceive the world about us.Antonym: unimportant, trivial, minorVI.
1. expanses 3. commonplace 5. tell you
2. thinking it is necessary4. at home
6. large number
Grammar ExercisesI.
1.All of this being said, I believe that the key to realizing the potential of the Internet is in
achieving balance in our lives.
2.There having been no rain, the ground was dry.
3.When I walked in, Grandpa was sitting at the kitchen table, the newspaper spread before him.4.The boys leaned against the willow tree, fishing poles resting on sticks, eyes gazing at the
bobs floating on the ripples.
5.Mark went homeward alone, his heart full of strange emotion.
6.The discussion completed, the chairman adjourned the meeting for half an hour.
7.Diana stood motionless at the end of the diving board, her hands at her sides, her heels
slightly raised, every muscle anticipating action.
8.The cowboy dominates the pages of many magazines, his hair dark and curly, his broad
shoulders sloping yet powerful and his expression calm and confident.II.
1. pacify, be pacified, grumbling 3. being treated 5. getting, closing 7. reporting 9. making
2. seeing4. doing
6.answering, ring 8. resolving10. going
III.
1. Hardly had he arrived when she started complaining.
2. Rarely does Manton care about anything else once he gets logged on to the Net.
3. Under no circumstances must you touch this switch.4. Never in all their lives have they known such hardships.
5. So much does he worry about his financial position that he can't sleep at night.6. Not only did he speak more correctly but also more convincingly.7. Only after several trials did they succeed.
8. Under no circumstances are the passengers permitted to open the door themselves.IV.1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.
TranslationI.
1.由于登录和使用互联网的相对较少，它的作用就等同于通讯传播中的国际海域。2.乍听起来这似乎相互矛盾，一种东西怎么会既能让人们自由地交流思想、从而使全球
融为一体，同时又让人们彼此疏远呢?
3.据我所知，此人不喜欢夸大其词，因此当他描述自己的网瘾、说常常连续泡网一天一
夜时，这引起了我的思考。
4.但代价是消耗了原本可以用来参加一些培养他们村庄及城镇社区意识的活动的时间。II.
1.There's no denying that smoking is addictive. And once you are addicted, it's very difficult to
get rid of the habit.
2.In a Japanese-made video game, players can simulate the experience of AIDS from HIV
infection until death.
3.I’m sure he was in earnest when he said that you could use this money to continue your study
of music.
4.We can only increase production at the expense of quality, which could ruin the company's
reputation.
5.She is not often given to anger, but this time she really lost her temper.
6.A teacher of foreign language should possess at the very least a graduate degree from a
certified education school or institute if he is to teach high school.7.III.
互联网已经把我们带入了一个真正的信息时代，而且正在帮助世界各地的人们在一个以前不可想象的范围内相互交流。无论互联网和信息高速公路走的是一条什么样的 发展道路，电讯，电势和计算机行业一致采用数码化的做法永远改变了我们的交际和计算方式。
I soon perceived that I couldn't make him change his mind.
The teacher blew a whistle and off ran the children.
The man lit the fuse and after a few seconds up went the rocket.On the stairs was sitting a small dark-haired girl.Round the corner came a milk-van.There goes the vicar.
The people dived for cover as over their heads flew the bullets.In the doorway stood her father.
In front of them was a white pillar and on top of it stood a small, marble statue.
这种一致将使公司能提供以前因技术有限而不能提供的服务。网络电视将使观众能接触互联网。大屏幕，高保真数字电视和DVD有可能改变电影的拍摄方法。卫星将帮助汽车找到回家的路。家家户户将接收到卫星，微波发射塔，纤维或铜线传送的信号。I. Dictation.
The Internet undoubtedly enriches our lives in many ways. / The instant reach of the email/makes keeping-in-touch so rewarding/ and so excuse-proof. / The access to so much information (quality aside) by our fingertips/certainly makes a tremendous difference./But do all these new platforms/of carrying on existing activities / contribute to the making of the new opportunities/ created by the coming of electricity and telephone ,/ and steam locomotives and airplanes? / Do they really boost our productivity/ and create new wealth? / Are we simply using a new platform in the Internet/ to do things we have been doing without it? /If so,/ we don't really need Internet companies to do them for us./ Perhaps,/ the leaders of the Internet revolution/can't easily reconcile with their fate of becoming dispensable. / It certainly will take a lot of independent thinking on our own part/to get over the Internet-is-the-world mood.II.
1. as 6. but
2. of
7. to 3. rate 8. or 4. with 9. any 5. in
10. problem
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