高级英语课后习题答案

时间：2026-01-20

大学生英语专业高级英语课后习题答案

The Age of Miracle Chips

New microtechnology will transform society

I. Give brief answers to the following questions, using your own words as much as possible:

1) What does a miracle chip look like? What is it made of?

2) What was the computer of 25 years ago like? What is the miracle chip of today like?

3) Describe a day of Mr. A and his wife.

4) How will a household computer work?

5) How will a hospital computer work?

6) How will the tiny computers help motorists of the future?

7) What role will computers play in education?

8) What is the significance of the computer revolution?

Ⅱ.Paraphrase:

1) The microelectronic revolution promises to ease, enhance and simplify life in ways undreamed of even by the utopians.

2) The custom-made object, now restricted to the rich, will be within everyone’s reach.

3) The computer might appear to be a dehumanizing factor, but the opposite is in fact true.

4) In no area of American life is personal service so precious as in medical care.

5) The widest benefits of the electronic revolution will accrue to the young.

大学生英语专业高级英语课后习题答案

6) For the mighty army of consumers, the ultimate applications of the computer revolution are still around the bend of a silicon circuit.

Ⅲ. Translate the following into Chinese:

1) Just as the Industrial Revolution took over an immense range of tasks from men’s muscles and enormously expanded productivity, so the microcomputer is rapidly assuming huge burdens of drudgery from the human brain and thereby expanding the mind’s capacities in ways that man has only begun to grasp.

2) Such painless, productive awakenings will in time be a familiar thing. And, barring headaches, tummy aches and heartaches, the American day should proceed as smoothly as it begins.

3) Public education, so often a dreary and capricious process in the U. S., may be invested with the inspiriting quality of an Oxford tutorial – from preschool on.

4) Certainly the miracle chip will affect American life in ways both benign and productive. The computer revolution is stimulating intellects, liberating limbs and propelling mankind to a higher order of existence.

Ⅳ. Look up the following words in the dictionary and put them in-to Chinese. Note the different meanings of the prefix ‘micro-’.

1) microbiology 2) microcircuit

3) microfilm 4) micrograph

5) microgroove 6) microphotograph

7) microreader 8) microsecond

大学生英语专业高级英语课后习题答案

9) microminiaturize 10) microwave

V. Add either the prefix ‘mini-’ or ‘super-’ to the following words and put them into Chinese:

1) radar 2) powers

3) skirt 4) pants

5) fine 6) bus

7) high frequency 8) highway

9) human 10) camera

Ⅵ. Proper names and trade names are sometimes used as common nouns. Point out what the italicized words stand for.

1) Ford Co. now offers buyers of its Continental Mark Vs an option called "miles to empty".

2) Drivers of General Motors’ 1978 Cadillac Seville are also able to punch a button and find out the miles yet to go to a preset destination and the estimated arrival time.

3) She drove in her Fiat to the theatre.

4) He prefers zhonghua to daqianmen.

5) Our Sony works very well.

6) Would you care for a cup of longjing?

7) A Rolex is more expensive than an Omega.

8) Those photos were taken with a Kodak.

大学生英语专业高级英语课后习题答案

9) A Boeing 767 flew us to Shanghai.

10) He put on his Mae West.

Ⅶ.Pick out from the text all the terms connected with the computer.

Ⅷ.The following words and expressions are from the text. For each of them give another word or expression of similar mean-ing also found in this text:

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1) took over 2) immense

3) an immense range of tasks 4) performed

5) eventually 6) astonishing

7) commandeer 8) hit a button

9) sauntered 10) to compute

Ⅸ.Choose the right words from the list given below to complete the following sentences. Make changes where necessary.

Apparatus appliances applications computerize

vacuum tubes silicon chips program capabilities

information calculations computers automakers

read-out microcomputer-controlled

1) Press the button, and you’ll get a_____ on the screen.