当代研究生英语读写教程123579单元课文

当代研究生英语读写教程123579单元课文

Unit 1：cyberspace ：if you don't love it ,leave it

something in the American psyche loves new frontiers. We hanker after

wide-open spaces ;we like to explore ;we like to make rules but refuse to follow them .But in this age it's hard to find a place where you can go and be yourself without worrying about he neighbours .

There is such a place : cyberspace . Formerly a playground for computer fans ,cyberspace . Formely a playground for computer fans ,cyberspace now embraces everyconceivableconstituency:schoollchildren,flirtatious ,singles,Huganan-Americana accountants.Can they all get along?Or will our fear of kids surfing for dirty pictures behind their bedroom doors provoke a crackdown ?

The first order of business is to grasp what cyberspace is . It might help to leave beind metaphors 隐喻 of highways and frontiers and to think instead of real estate . Real estate ,remember ,is an intellectual ,legal ,artificial environment constructed on top of land. Real estate recognizes the difference between parkland and shopping mall ,between red-light zone and school district ,between church ,state and drugstore .

in the same way , you could think of cyberspace as a giant and unbounded world of virtual real estate .Some property is privatedly owned and rented out ; other property is common land ; some places are suitable for children , and others are best avoided by all citizens . Unfortunately ,it's those places that are now capturing the popular imagination ,plaecs that offer bombmaking instructions ,pornography, advice on how to steal credit cards .They make cyberspace sound like a nasty place . Good citizens jump to a conclusion : Better regulate it .

But before using regulations to counter indecency ,it is fundamental to interpret the nature of cyberspace . Cyberspace isn't a frontier where wicked people can grab unsuspecting children ,nor is it a giant television system that can beam offensive messages at unwilling viewers . In this kind of real estate ,users have to choose where thy visit ,what they see ,what they do .It's optiona .In other words,cyberspace is a voluntary destination Unit 2 WHY IS IT SO HARD FOR MEN AND WOMEN TO TALK

I was addressing a small gathering in a suburban Virginia living room -- a women's group that had invited men to join them. Throughout the evening, one man had been particularly talkative, frequently offering ideas and anecdotes,while his wife sat silently beside him on the couch. Toward to end of the evening, I commented that women frequently complain that their husbands do not talk to them. This man quickly concurred. He gestured toward his wife and said, "She is the talker in our family." The room burst into laughter; the man looked puzzled and hurt. "It is true," he explained. "When I come home from work I have nothing to say. If she did not keep the conversation going, we would spend the whole evening in silence."

This episode crystallizes the irony that although American men tend to talk more than women in public situations, they often talk less at home. And this pattern is wreaking havoc with marriage.

Sociologist Catherine Kohier Riessman, who reported in her new book Divorce Talk that most of the women she interviewed -- but only a few of the men -- give the lack of communication as the reason for their porces.

In my own research, complaints from women about their husbands most often focused not on tangible inequities such as having give up the chance for a career to accompany a husband to his, or doing far more than their share of daily life. Instead, they focused on communication:"He does not listen to me," "He does not talk to me." I found that most wives want their husbands to be, first and foremost, conversational partners, but few husbands share this expectation of their wives.

In short, the image that represents the current crisis is the stereotypical cartoon scene of a man sitting at the breakfast table with a newspaper held up in front of his face, while a woman glares at the back of it, wanting to talk.

Linguistic Battle Between Men and Women

How can women and men have such different impressions of communication in --in someplace reality ,many destinations .You don't just get "onto the Net" ;you have to go see cyberspace communities themselves ,not by the courts or by politicians in Washington . .Yes , in community particular . standards That means should that people be enforced can choose ,but where those to standards go and what set by to shopping malls , television ,highways and other terrestrial jurisdictions.But let's define the what makes cyberspace so alluring is precisely the way in which it's different from territor:

over the teleophone .These are private and consensualand require no regulation at all .

First ,there are private e-malil conversations ,similar to the conversations you have download anytihing from legal texts and lists of "great new restaurants " to game software Second , there are information and entertainment services , wehre people can or dirty pictures . These places are like bookstores ,malls and movie houses --places whre you subscription; stuff go to buy something it (especially .The pornography customer needs to request an item or sign up for a ComputerServe .Some of these directly .

or America services Online are free ; others or included ) is not sent out to people who don't ask for charge as may part and of may a broader bill their service customers like themselves . In real-estate terms ,they're like bars or restaurants or bathhouses . Each active Third ,there are "real" communities ---groups of people who communicate among participate Other moderator ; others are more like bulletin boards ---anyone is free to post anything .Many of participant contributes may simply to a g …… 此处隐藏：51568字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……