[00:00.00]可可英语www.utensil-race.com
[00:02.00]Part III
[00:06.90]Global multi-media giant
[00:13.56]Key words:
[00:19.02]America Online Time Warner
[00:24.76]buy stock unite
[00:31.92]Vocabulary:
[00:37.09]stock share
[00:41.74]A:Listen to a news report.Fill in the blanks.
[00:48.09]The Internet company America Online
[00:53.05]and the movie company Time warner may soon___to create the world's____company.
[01:02.72]Officials of the two companies said they will work to use____
[01:10.90]to provide news and entertainment products.
[01:16.25]America Online will____Time Warner for at least____dollars.
[01:25.50]Officials of both companies have approved____.
[01:31.14]But it still must be approved by ____ and government officials.
[01:38.27]B:Now listen to a more detailed report.
[01:43.63]Supply the missing information.
[04:55.84]C:Now listen again.Decide whether the statements are true of false.
[05:04.17]Put"T" or "F" in the brackets.
[05:08.90]Part IV
[05:16.66]Language study and language appreciation
[05:23.92]Listen to the following statements
[05:27.68]you have learned in the previous and present units.
[05:32.41]Pay special attention to the parts in bold type.
[05:37.16]Learn to appreciate and use the language.
[05:41.32]1.information superhighway/traffic/the bulk of the traffic
[05:48.68]One feature of the information superhighway is that the traffic travels fast.
[05:57.96]The bulk of the traffic consists of data containing music files,instant messages,
[06:07.70]toll-free phone calls,e-commerce orders,online games and just about anything.
[06:16.35]2.to zoom along
[06:20.81]Techies use their own special shorthand to keep messages zooming along.
[06:29.28]3.to enjoy the ease of shopping over.../sales over...
[06:37.74]They say women are beginning to enjoy the ease of shopping over the computer.
[06:46.99]The experts asy that sales over the computer Internet system
[06:55.53]could reach 12 thousand million dollars.
[07:00.99]4.to click one's mouse device/
[07:06.24]to provide one's credit card number/on a computer screen
[07:13.21]Instead they can click their mouse device on a gift shown on a compuer screen
[07:23.38]then provide their credit card number.
[07:27.92]5.so distant that...can hardly envision...
[07:34.48]It is an era so distant to most Americans that they can hardly envision it.
[07:43.44]6.to wire... for...
[07:49.08]Colleges across the United States have spent hundreds of millions of dollars
[07:58.04]in recent years wiring dormitories for high-speed Internet access.
[08:05.02]7.to mow...down/a high-rise dorm/to play over...
[08:15.28]At a high-rise dorm at the University of Southern California,
[08:23.82]walking down the hallway on the eighth floor almost any time of day,
[08:30.59]you're likely to hear students in separate rooms shouting at each other
[08:36.55]--"You killed me!"
[08:39.42]--as they mow each other down in online games played over the network.
[08:45.87]8.from opposite ends of the floor
[08:51.62]Friends from opposite ends of the floor simultaneously make for the elevators.
[09:01.47]9.to message.../to head off to...
[09:08.13]They've just messaged each other by computer
[09:15.26]that it's time to head off to the dining commons.
[09:20.22]10.to atted professors' "virtual office hours" online
[09:28.56]Today's students register for classes,get their homeword assignments,
[09:37.52]research papers and attend professors' "virtual office hours" online.
[09:45.59]11.to love one's life over...
[09:51.05]We live our lives over the Internet.