The Telecommunications Revolution

New Horizon College English Unit 4 : Section A The Telecommunications Revolution 新视野

Pre-reading Activities Text Analysis Main idea and Structure Expressions & Patterns Summary How to apply to our real life the typical expressions and patterns taken from the text Blank filling Exercises Writing All the exercises for Section A 议论文与说明文写作技巧

II. Text Analysis: Main Idea and Structure New Words & Text Main Idea & Structure Main Idea New Words Structure Text Main Idea of Each Part Part Ⅰ Part Ⅱ Part Ⅲ Part Ⅳ

New Words Back • web • condense • intensive • desperate • rust • antique • lick • strategic • recession • scratch • telecommunications • dumb • utility • optical • diameter • millimeter • cable • copper • parade • spider 下一页

New Words Back • reliable • tag • usage • width • nowhere • disposal • revenue • fax • electron • persist • Phrases and • Expressions • be stuck with • a matter of sth. • / doing sth. • choose between • date from • be stuck in • scratch the • surface • province • provincial • infrastructure • log • peak • invest • investor • stake • lease • ridge 上一页下一页

New Words Back • log on to • at one’s disposal • make use of • keep pace with • lag behind • Proper Names • Latin America • Eastern Europe • Budapest • Vietnam • Russia • Tibet • Manhattan • Hungary • Dutch • BellSouth • Corporation • Western European 上一页下一页

Text Back The Telecommunications Revolution Para. 1a A transformation is occurring that should greatly boost living standards in the developing world. Places that until recently were deaf and dumb are rapidly acquiring up-to-date telecommunications that will let them promote both internal and foreign investment. It may take a decade for many countries in Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe to improve transportation, power supplies, and other utilities. 下一页

Back Para. 1bBut a single optical fiber with a diameter of less than half a millimeter can carry more information than a large cable made of copper wires. By installing optical fiber, digital switches, and the latest wireless transmission systems, a parade of urban centers and industrial zones from Beijing to Budapest are stepping directly into the Information Age. A spider’s web of digital and wireless communication links is already reaching most of Asia and parts of Eastern Europe. 上一页下一页

Back Para. 2All these developing regions see advanced communications as a way to leap over whole stages of economic development. Widespread access to information technologies, for example, promises tocondense the time required to change from labor-intensive assembly work to industries that involve engineering, marketing, and design. Modern communications “will give countries like China and Vietnama huge advantage over countries stuckwith old technology”. 上一页下一页

Back Para. 3How fast these nations should push ahead is amatterof debate. Many experts think Vietnam is going too far by requiring that all mobile phones be expensive digital models, when it is desperate for any phones, period. “These countries lack experience in weighing costs and choosingbetween technologies,” says one expert. 上一页下一页

Back Para. 4 Still, there’s little dispute that communications will be a key factorseparating the winners from the losers. Consider Russia. Because of its strong educational system in mathematics and science, it should thrive in the Information Age. The problem is its national phone system is a rustingantique that datesfrom the l930s. To lick this problem, Russia is starting to install optical fiber and has a strategic plan to pump $40 billion into various communications projects. But its economy isstuckin recession and it barely has the money to even scratchthesurface of the problem. 上一页下一页

Back Para. 5 Compare that with the mainland of China. Over the next decade, it plans to pour some $100 billion into telecommunications equipment. In a way, China’s backwardness is an advantage, because the expansion occurs just as new technologies are becoming cheaper than copper wire systems. By the end of 1995, each of China’s provincial capitals except for Tibet will have digital switches and high-capacity optical fiber links. This means that major cities are getting the basic infrastructure to become major parts of the information superhighway, allowing people to log on to the most advanced services available. 上一页下一页

Back Para. 6 Telecommunications is also a key to Shanghai’s dream of becoming a top financial center. To offer peak performance in providing the electronic data and paperless trading global investors expect, Shanghai plans telecommunications networks as powerful as those in Manhattan. 上一页下一页

Back Para. 7aMeanwhile, Hungary also hopes to jump into the modern world. Currently, 700,000 Hungarians are waiting for phones. To partially overcome the problem of funds and to speed the import of Western technology, Hungary sold a 30% stake in its national phone company to two Western companies. To further reduce the waiting list for phones, Hungary has leased rights to a Dutch-Scandinavian group of companies to build and operate what it says will be one of the most advanced digital mobile phone systems in the world. 上一页下一页

Back Para. 7b In fact, wireless is one of the most popular ways to get a phone system up fast in developing countries. It’s cheaper to build radio towers than to string lines across mountain ridges, and businesses eager for reliable service are willing to accept a significantly higher price tag for a wireless call—the fee is typically two to four times as much as for calls made over fixed lines. 上一页下一页

Back Para. 8 Wireless demand and usage have also exploded across the entire width and breadth of Latin America. For wireless phone service providers, nowhere is business better than in Latin America — having an operation there is like having an endless pile of money atyourdisposal. BellSouthCorporation, with operations in four wireless markets, estimates its annual revenue per average customer at about $2,000 as compared to $860 in the United States. That’s partly because Latin American customers talk two to four times as long on the phone as people in North America. 上一页下一页

Back Para. 9 Thailand is also turning to wireless, as a way to allow Thais to make better use of all the time they spend stuck in traffic. And it isn’t that easy to call or fax from the office: the waiting list for phone lines has from one to two million names on it. So mobile phones have become the rage among businesspeople, who can remain in contact despite the traffic jams. 上一页下一页

Back Para. 10Vietnam is making one of the boldest leaps. Despite a per person income of just $220 a year, all of the 300,000 lines Vietnam plans to add annually will be optical fiber with digital switching, rather than cheaper systems that send electrons over copper wires. By going for next-generation technology now, Vietnamese telecommunications officials say they’ll be able to keep pace with anyone in Asia for decades. 上一页下一页

Back Para. 11 For countries that have lagged behind for so long, the temptation to move aheadin one jump is hard to resist. And despite the mistakes they’ll make, they’ll persist—so that one day they can cruise alongside Americans and Western Europeans on the information superhighway. 上一页

II. Text Analysis: Main Idea and Structure What is the text mainly about? Back Telecommunications is widely conceived as a key to developing countries’ dream of jumping into the modern world. Although there is some dispute as to how fast they can push ahead with their plans, different developing countries still are seeking their own ways of leaping over their backwardness with one jump in this direction. Surely, they will catch up with developed countries on the information superhighway as long as they persist in their efforts.

II. Text Analysis: Main Idea and Structure How is the text organized? For details Back The passage is arranged into four parts: The advantages of telecommunications technologies; the questions that should be considered in developing the new technologies for developing countries; different countries trying to solve their problems with different solutions; and the conclusions. As a striking feature of its organization, what is in suspense is sketched out whereas what is in certainty is explicated through comparison and exemplification. 下一页

II. Text Analysis: Main Idea and Structure Back Part 1 (Paras. 1-2) A new technology and its advantages. Telecommunications: boosting living standards and promoting internal and foreign investment;… Part 2 (Para. 3) What’s in suspense. How fast to develop telecommunications technologies in developing countries. Communications will be a key factor separating the winners from the losers. Six countries and regions are working hard to realize telecommunications transformation. Part 3 (Paras. 4-10) What’s in certainty. Part 4 (Para. 11) A brilliant prospect. Developing countries can catch up with Americans and Western Europeans if they persist.

II. Text Analysis: Main Idea and Structure Part I (Paras. 1-2) Part II Part III Part IV For details Back Main idea? Advanced telecommunications will boost living standards in the developing world, speed its step into Information Age, and accelerate the rate of its economic development, etc. Devices for developing it? Contrast(对比法)

For details Back It may take a decade for many countries in Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe to improve transportation, power supplies, and other utilities. But a single optical fiber with a diameter less than millimeter can carry more information than a large cable made of copper wires. By installing optical fiber, digital switches, and the latest wireless transmission systems, a parade of urban centers and industrial zones from Beijing to Budapest are stepping directly into the Information Age. 亚洲、拉丁美洲和东欧的许多国家也许需要10年的时间来改善其交通、电力供应和其他公用设施。但是单单一根直径小于半毫米的光纤电缆就可以比由铜丝制成的粗电缆负载更多的信息。由于安装了光纤电缆、数字转换器和最新的无线传输系统，从北京到布达佩斯的一系列城区和工业区正在直接跨入信息时代。 Contrast is employed in the first paragraph to highlight the advantage of optical fiber over conventional materials. 返回

II. Text Analysis: Main Idea and Structure Part I Part II (Para. 3) Part III Part IV For details Back Main idea? This part puts forward a question for consideration: How fast to develop telecommunications technologies in developing countries? Devices for developing it? Exemplification (例证法)

Back In the first sentence, the author makes a statement of his view. Then, what’s going on in Vietnam is taken for an instance, noticeably without resorting to any expressions indicating example. For details The statement of the author’s view: How fast these nations should push ahead is a matter of debate. The example: Many experts think Vietnam is going too far by requiring that all mobile phones be expensive digital models, when it is desperate for any phones, period. 返回

II. Text Analysis: Main Idea and Structure Part I Part II Part III (Paras. 4-10) Part IV For details Back Main idea? This part deals with how 6 different countries or regions carry out their telecommunications transformation. Each of them tries to seek different ways out of its own problems. Devices for developing it? Comparison and contrast(对比法）

Back Russian economy is stuck in recession and it barely has the money to even scratch the surface of the problem. Russia. A loser. (Implied) Nothing mentioned to show achievements so far. China has the money to invest. (Implied) China. A winner.By the end of 1995, China’s major cities are getting the basic infrastructure to become major parts of the information superhighway. Telecommunications helps Shanghai to realize its dream of becoming a top financial center. For details Russia enjoys a strong educational system in mathematics and science. Russian development was held up by its national phone system, a rusting antique. Russia plans to pump $40 billion into various communications projects. China is backward. Chinatakes advantage of its backwardness because new technologies are even cheaper than copper wire systems. China plans to pour some $100 billion into telecommunications equipment. In this part, comparisons are made between Russia and China. 返回

II. Text Analysis: Main Idea and Structure Part I Part II Part III Part IV (Para. 11) Back Main idea? Developing countries can catch up with Americans and Western Europeans in telecommunications technologies if they persist in their efforts. Devices for developing it? The author concludes the article with favorable remarks on the revolution of telecommunications.

III.Expressions & Patterns B. Patterns for you to use as models A. Expressions • to boost living standards • to leap over whole stages of economic development • to promise to do sth. • to give… a huge advantage over… • to be stuck with • to push ahead>>more • Typical patterns for changes in sth./sb. • Typical patterns for probability of doing sth. • Typical patterns for certainty of sth. • Typical patterns for comparisons • >>more

III.Expressions & Patterns Back • across the entire width and breadth of a place • as compared to • to become the rage among… • to make a bold leap • to move ahead • in/with one jump • a matter of debate • to be desperate for sth. • to weigh costs • to separate A from B • to be stuck in • to pump/pour sth. into… • to scratch the surface of sth. • to log on to sth. • to accept/pay a high price tag for sth.

III.Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 1. 提高生活水准 • to boost living standards (L. 1) 活学活用没有什么比在比赛中获胜更能提高运动员的士气。 Nothing can boost the morale of players better than their victory in games. 下一页上一页

III.Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 2. 跨越经济发展诸阶段 • to leap over whole stages of economic development (L. 11) 活学活用爱的力量可以使两个民族跨越时空,和睦相处。 The power of love enables two peoples to leap over time and space and live in harmony with each other. 下一页上一页

III.Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 3. 有望做某事 • to promise to do sth. (L. 13) 活学活用瑞雪兆丰年。 A seasonable snow promises to bless the crops in the coming year. 下一页上一页

III.Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 4. 使······与······相比拥有巨大的优势 • to give… a huge advantage over… (L. 16) 活学活用在就业市场上，一些固有的性别观念使男性与女性相比拥有巨大的优势。 In the job market, some fixed notions about gender give men a huge advantage over women. 下一页上一页

III. Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 5. 无法摆脱/战胜 • to be stuck/overcome with… (L. 16) 活学活用光明的真正含义不在于你生活中有没有黑暗，而在于你是否被黑暗所战胜。 The true meaning of light lies not in whether there is any dark in your life but in whether or not you are overcome with dark. 下一页上一页

III. Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 6. 坚决进行（下去） • to push ahead/forward (with) (L. 18) 活学活用一旦心中确定了目标，不管有任何艰难困苦，都要勇往直前。 Once you have a goal set in mind, just push forward with it, regardless of any hardships involved. 下一页上一页

III. Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 7. 一个有争论的问题/看法问题/时间问题 • a matter of debate/opinion/time/…(L. 19) 活学活用有时，战争与和平并非是一个可以选择的问题。在某些情况下，战争的展开恰恰是为了和平。 Sometimes, war or peace is not a matter of choice. In some cases, a war is waged for the sake of peace. 下一页上一页

III. Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 8. 急需······ • to be desperate for sth./to do sth. (L. 22) 活学活用请节约用水！近些年，越来越多的地方严重缺水。 Please save water! More and more places have been desperate for water in recent years. 下一页上一页

III. Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 9. 估算成本／权衡意见／斟酌词句 • to weigh costs/ideas/one’s words (L. 23) 活学活用爱对个人得失斤斤计较的人，根本不可能生活得幸福。 Those who are liable to weigh personal gains and losses are far from likely to live in happiness. 下一页上一页

III. Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 10. 区分A与B • to separate A from B (L. 26) 活学活用一般来说，鉴别官场上廉洁与腐败的试金石是金钱。 In general, the litmus test for separating honesty from corruption in official circles is money. 下一页上一页

III. Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 11. 陷入······ • to be stuck in… (L. 31) 活学活用虽然罪犯已落入我们的圈套，然而困兽犹斗，我们不能有丝毫大意。 Although the criminals have been stuck in our trap, we must be on guard against their turning to bay. 下一页上一页

III. Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 12. 把······投入／灌输······之中 • to pump/pour sth. into… (L. 33 / 34) 活学活用教育并非向学生头脑里灌输事实,而是最大限度地开发其智力。 Education is not a matter of pumping facts into students’ heads, but a matter of tapping their intellectual resources to the fullest. 下一页上一页

III. Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 13. 触及表面；略知皮毛 • to scratch the surface of sth. (L. 32) 活学活用研究生应该精通自己的专业，而不是对其略知皮毛。 Post-graduates are supposed to be expert in their areas of study, rather than to scratch the surface of their fields. 下一页上一页

III. Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 14. 进入（计算机）系统；登录 • to log on to sth. (L. 39) 活学活用要登录我们的爱情数据库，必须输入特殊的通行密码。 In order to log on to our database for love affairs, you have to type in a special password. 下一页上一页

III. Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 15. 花费高价来换取某物 • to accept/pay a high price tag for sth. (L. 52) 活学活用要买新款手机得出高价钱，但几个月内此价格就会大幅度降低。 A high price tag has to be paid for cell phones of the latest fashion, but in a couple of months, it will dive enormously. 下一页上一页

III. Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 16. 整个（某个）地方 • across the entire width and breadth of a place (L. 54) 国庆节期间，神州大地到处充满着祥和、幸福的气息。活学活用 During the National Day, there is an atmosphere of peace and happiness across the entire width and breadth of China. 下一页上一页

III. Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 17. 与······相比之下 • as compared to (L. 58) 活学活用中国两大股市于7月30日狂跌，跌幅在5%以上，相比之下,去年同期则是上涨1%。 China’s two stock markets nose-dived on July 30, each by over 5% , as compared to 1% rise at the same time last year. 下一页上一页

III. Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 18. 在······之中成为时尚 • to become the rage among… (L. 64) 活学活用许多业内人士认为利用宽带网登录国际互联网在未来十年将会非常流行。 Many insiders agree that logging on to the Internet through broadband networks will be all the rage in the next decade. 下一页上一页

III. Expressions & Patterns 返回课文 Back 19. 做出大胆的跃进 • to make a bold leap (L. 65) 活学活用现代社会能创造奇迹。它可以使人在一夜之间由穷人一跃而成为富人。 Modern society works miracles. It can enable a person to make a leap from rags to riches overnight. 下一页上一页

The Telecommunications Revolution

The Telecommunications Revolution

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