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The Virtual World Unit 4<br />
A Virtual Life<br />
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The Virtual World Unit 4<br />
A Virtual Life<br />
Table of Contents<br />
I. Background Information II. Comprehension Questions III. Vocabulary and Expressions<br />
I. Background Information<br />
The Internet & The First Computer<br />
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The World´s First Computer: Abacus<br />
Inventor of the Modern Computer<br />
The First Freely Programmable Computer invented by Konrad Zuse<br />
Konrad Zuse´s Z1 Circa 1938<br />
The Harvard MARK I Computer Howard Aiken and Grace Hopper, 1944<br />
A New Type of Computer<br />
The Internet is changing our lives and a parallel universe is rapidly emerging online.<br />
Today there´s scarcely an aspect of our life that isn´t being upended by the torrent of information available on the hundreds of millions of sites crowding the Internet, not to mention its ability to keep us in constant touch with each other via electronic mail.<br />
The Internet is saving Companies billions of dollars in producing goods and serving the needs of their customers.<br />
The Internet and e-commerce are viewed as ea global mega-trend along the lines of the megaprinting press, the telephone, the computer and the electricity. (a megawatt, a megabyte).<br />
You would be hard pressed to name something that isn’t available on the Internet. Consider: books, health, movie tickets, baby clothes, stocks, real estate, toys and airline tickets.<br />
Some Popular TV Companies in U.S.A.<br />
Cable News Network<br />
The National Broadcasting Company (1940)<br />
The Public Broadcasting Service<br />
The American Broadcasting Company<br />
Part II<br />
Reading Comprehension Questions<br />
1. What is a virtual life according to the text? 2. How is the relationship between the author and her boyfriend developed? 3. What is the author’s profession now? 4. Does she enjoy the life on the Internet always? 5. What is her personality?<br />
6. Was she once happy with the real life? re7. Why did she want to re-enter the virtual life, a place of safety? 8. Have you found any value of virtual life? 9. Have you found any English learning environment on the Net? 10. Can you distinguish virtual life from real life?<br />
Part III. Vocabulary Exercises<br />
Fill in the blanks of the following sentences with the given words below, and change the form when necessary.<br />
Abuse, Conversely, Data, Edit, In sight, Symptom, Tone, Virtual,<br />
1. She visits virtual stores and did virtual shopping via computer every day. 2. Before we draw the conclusion, we must data collect sufficient and analyze them in scientific ways. 3. After three years of campaigning, the end in sight is finally for John.<br />
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