高一英语 必修2 Unit3 Reading

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课标人教实验版 高一 Module 2

Unit 3

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Reading

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Warming upLook at these pictures. Discuss what they have in common. Predict what it is going to be about.

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What’s next?

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Pre-reading questions1. What have computers changed our life? 2. What changes will they bring to us in the future?

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Task 1 Skimming1. Who is the speaker in this story? A computer. 2. Write down three sentences from the story to support your idea. 1) I was built as an Analytical machine by Charles Babbage.

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2) My real father, Alan Turing, …

3) I was always lonely standing there bymyself, until in early 1960s they gave

me a family connected by a network.

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Task 2 Fast reading1. Where were you in 1642? In France. 2. What happened to you after nearly two hundred years? 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 have been used in offices and homes.

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Task 3 Careful reading1642 The computer began as a calculating machine. 1822 The analytical machine was made by Charles Babbage. 1936 The computer grew rapidly both in size and in brainpower.

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1940s Computers had grown as large as a room. The first family of computers was 1960s connected to each other. 1970s Computers were used in offices and homes. now Computers connect people all over the world together.

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Develop Early days ment Name A calculating _________ machine An analytical ________ machine

Function Poor Simplify difficult sums Think logically and produce an answer quickly A _________ Solve difficult universal mathematical machine ____________ Strong problems __________

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Develo Network times pment Memory _________ Tubes Large stored in ____________ Transistors Small Small chips Applications __________ ______ Communication Narrow Finance ________ Trade Robots Mobile phones ___________ Medical operations Space rockets Wide

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Task 4 Fill in the blanks.1 2 3 4 totally revolution simplify calculate completely complete change to make things easier to find the answer using numbers can be moved easily from place to place to work out the answer to a problem

5 mobile 6 solve

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explore

8 totally 9 anyhow 10 finance

to travel around an area to find out about it completely anyway activity of managing money

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The history of computers

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The first generation (1945-1956)

the second generation (1956-1963)

the fourth generation (1971- )

the third generation (1964-1971)