研究生科技英语阅读答案(6)

拥有一个巨大的，高能耗的机器 feature a vast, energy-hungry machine.

从一个不同的角度 from a different angle 一个很难理解的概念 a tough concept；

一个基本的物理原则 a basic physical principle 存在于四维空间中. true of the fourth dimension

最小的缝隙 the smallest of scales

(2) With the passage of time

(3) the increase in demand results in /causes the rise in prices (4) that education is not complete with graduation (5) make my head swim

(6) what had happened by then

(7) Science seeks the unity under the chaos of natural phenomena.

(8) So what we've done is to dedicate ourselves to saving something of what's left. (9) Indeed a man, whose heart is pretty clean, can indulge in this pursuit with an enjoyment that never ceases. (10) But these tasks will ultimately be restructured to better match user goals in the final design. (11) Subsequently, the fine particles are widely dispersed in the atmosphere and descend to earth very slowly. (12) A Chinese astronaut has made the historic first step in outer space for his country. With the successful spacewalk, China has become the third country, after the United States and Russia, to do so. Cheering erupted in the control room when Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang opened the hatch of the Shenzhou 7 spacecraft and went outside.

IV. Cloze

1. called 2. spacecraft 3. revealed 4. feasible 5. unlikely 6. colonization 7. minerals 8. approach 9. establishing 10. added 11. available 12. as 13. solving 14. event 15. volunteer

Unit 5

The End of Email Age

I. comprehension and Appreciation

1. How often do you check your email box? How do you like email? Will you continue to use email since there are a lot of new services which are faster and more convenient. It depends.

2. What is your comment on the language of the text? Is there anything about the language you find interesting?

The language used in this text is very interesting and vivid. The author uses several rhetorical devices, such as simile (as king of communications), personification (its reign) and so on.

3. How come does the author arrive at the conclusion that it is the end of email age? Because a new generation of services is taking its place and starting to take hold -- services like Twitter and Facebook and countless others vying for a piece of the new world. And just as email did more than a decade ago, this shift promises to profoundly rewrite the way we communicate -- in ways we can only begin to imagine.

4. Why does the author say email was better suited to the way we used to use the Internet and it seems boring compared to servives like Facebook and Google Wave? If one wants to check the email, one must logg off and on and wait to check the messages in bursts. Thanks to Facebook, some questions can be answered without asking them. You don't need to ask a friend whether she has left work, if she has updated her public 'status' on the site telling the world so. Email, stuck in the era of attachments, seems boring compared to services like Google Wave, currently in test phase, which allows users to share photos by dragging and dropping them from a desktop into a Wave, and to enter comments in near real time. The always-on connection, in turn, has created a host of new ways to communicate that are much faster than email, and more fun.

5. Do you think it is easy to meet the public satisfaction when it comes to the servives of communications? How do you like the changes in the ways of communications? To some extent, it is hard to meet the public satisfaction when it comes to the services of communications no matter how fast and convenient the services have changed to be. We can see it from the following: Years ago, we were frustrated if it took a few days for a letter to arrive. A couple of years ago, we'd complain about a half-hour delay in getting an email. Today, we gripe about it taking an extra few seconds for a text message to go through. In a few months, we may be complaining that our cellphones aren't automatically able to send messages to friends within a certain distance, letting them know we're nearby.

6. Why does the author say these new services also make communicating more frequent and informal?

Thanks to these new services, interpersonal communcation is more like a blog comment or a throwaway aside, rather than a crafted email sent to one person. There is no need to spend time writing a long email to your half-dozen closest friends about how your vacation went. Now those friends, if they're interested, can watch it unfold in real time online. Instead of sending a few emails a week to a handful of friends, you can send dozens of messages a day to hundreds of people who know you, or just