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1、Unit 1 Literature*Prepare Yourselfcommunications satellitemobile telephonyintelligent robotclonetelecommunications通讯卫星移动通讯智能机器人克隆远程通讯*Prepare Yourself文学科幻小说空间旅行外星人人类社会高技术信息时代信息产业literaturescience fictionspace travellingalienhuman societyhi-techinformation ageinformation industry*Textual organization
2、IDEA DIAGRAMScience and scientists vs.literature and writersThe area where their ideas meet is:So far writers of science fiction have:*Textual organizationThe future of business communication depends on:The important thing for writers of science fiction in the information age is:The author concludes
3、 that:*Textual organizationThe theme of the text:*TEXT 1WHATS THE BIG IDEA?Imagination is more important than knowledge.Albert Einstein*Paragraph 1Nokia sponsors a wide range of educational,cultural and other activities.One of the most unusual activities was the sponsoring of“Future Histories”,a col
4、lection of stories by prominent writers of science fiction.Why should a telecommunications company become involved with literature?It could be called“research”.*Paragraph 1 translation诺基亚公司出资赞助了众多的教育、文化以及其他活动。其最不寻常的活动之一就是它赞助了一本未来历史小说集，“未来历史”指的是由著名的科幻小说作家所创作的作品集。为什么一家通讯公司要同文学扯上关系呢？你可以把它看成是一种“研究”。*Par
5、agraph 2Science and literature have traditionally been hostile to each other.Writers have regarded scientists as dull creatures who take pleasure in destroying great words of the imagination with boring facts.Scientists have thought of writers as frivolous people with no respect for the rules of evi
6、dence.At the heart of their mutual suspicion is the question of who owns the truth.Does something become real when it is imagined or when it is physically created?*Paragrapg 2 translation长久以来，科学和文学一直水火不容。作家一直都把科学家看作是一群无聊家伙，他们用乏味的事实来摧毁想象力伟大的作品，并且乐此不疲。科学家则认为作家非常轻浮，根本不尊重事实。双方相互质疑的关键所在是：谁代表着真理？事物到底是有了构想
7、之后就真实存在，还是实物被制造出来之后才真实存在。*Paragraph 3Science fiction is the one area where these two opposing groups have met and exchanged ideas.As its name suggests,science fiction is literature which predicts the technology of the future and the effect this will have on human society.Over the years many of their
8、 speculations have been remarkably accurate.Space travel,communications satellites,nuclear power,robotics,cloning and mobile telephony have all appeared in books before they appeared in reality.*Paragraph 3 Translation科幻小说使得这两个相互对立的群体得以相遇并交流思想。顾名思义，科幻小说是预测未来技术以及它给人类社会所带来的影响的文学形式。多年以来，他们的很多构想竟然惊人的准确。
9、在成为事实之前，太空旅行、通讯卫星、核能、机器人、克隆和移动通讯早已经出现在科幻小说中。*Paragraph 4Yet sometimes the writers have got it wrong.Nobody predicted the emergence of personal computers,for instance.And contact with alien beings from other planets still seems a long way off,despite being a common subject of science fiction.*Paragra
10、ph 4 Translation然而，有时候作家（的预言）也会出错。比如说，没有谁预测到个人电脑的出现。尽管外星人早就是科幻小说的经典题材，但同来自其他星球的外星人接触似乎仍然是遥遥无期。*Paragraph 5Over the years,the time between the prediction of new technology in science fiction and its actual discovery has become shorter.It took 100 years before the moon landings predicted by the French
11、 writer Jules Verne actually took place.The idea of robots first emerged in the 1920s.The first robots were built in the 1970s.And in the 1940s,Arthur.C.Clarke predicted that communication satellites would circle the globe by the year 2000.These arrived 30 years before they were due.*Paragraph 5 Tra
12、nslation随着时间的推移，科幻小说中对新科技的预测和新技术真正成为现实的时间间隔已经被缩短。法国作家儒勒.凡尔纳曾经预测人类登上月球，而百年之后这一预测才真正成为现实。二十世纪二十年代人类开始有了机器人的构想，直到二十世纪七十年代机器人才第一次被制造出来。二十世纪四十年代，阿琵.西.克拉克预测，到2000年，通讯卫星将围绕地球旅旋转，这一预测则提前30年成为了现实。*Paragraph 6Richard Dawkins,a British scientist,recently stated that scientific discovery revealed the beauty and
13、 complexity of nature in a way that the human imagination could never do.英国科学家理查德.道金斯最近提出，科学发现揭示了自然界的美和复杂性，这一点是人类的想象力永远不能做到的。”*Paragraph 7Yet this is not the end of the road for science fiction.Many of the developments it has predicted are used for communication and we are now in what is called the“
14、information age”.Over one third of the population in the Western world are employed in the information technology industries.World leader call for the establishment of“knowledge-based societies.”And the people who have to do the work complain of“information overload”.*Paragraph 7 Translation然而这并不是科幻
15、小说的穷途末路，它所预言的很多发展正用信息交流，我们正在所谓的“信息时代”，西方国家超过三分之一的人口受聘于信息科技产业。世界上的领导人倡导“知识型社会”的建立。人们尽管抱怨“信息负担过重”但还必须从事这一行业。*Paragraph 8In the middle of all this,there is a real need for people with vision.The future of business communication depends on the ability to imagine new realities and then produce products a
16、nd services for them.In“Future Histories”,one story deals with an investor who constantly travels in search of new opportunities in high technology.He backs a company which produces intelligent robots,capable of learning new tasks from their environment.One day,he notices that the robots have stoppe
17、d working.*Eventually,he realizes that they are asking themselves a question which has never occurred to him.Why are we doing this?Writers in the information age have moved from predicting scientific discoveries of the future.Now they speculate about the effect of the revolution of communication on
18、human society.In a world dominated by business and technology,there is still an important role to be played by people who can answer the question whats the big idea?*Paragraph 8 Translation在所有问题中，人们具有想像力是必须的。未来的商业交流主要依赖于把幻想变为现实的能力。能力具备了，才能生产出更多的产品和享有更多的服务，在“未来的历史”中，讲述了一个投资人的故事，他经常奔波于探寻高科技带来的新机遇。他主办了
19、一家公司，主要生产智能机器人，这种机器人能够根据它所处环境而学习处理各种任务。有一天，他发现，机器人停止工作了。*Paragraph 8 Translation最后，他才认识到：机器人们在自问一个他以前从未想过的问题。信息时代的作家们已不再预言未来的科学发现，我们该怎样应对这一问题呢？于是人们就着手开始估测交际变革对人类的影响，在商业和技术占统治地位的社会中，人们仍需要扮演的一个重要角色，那就是回答：“什么是大创意呢？”*KEY TO EXERCISES*Vocabulary Study(A)1 in search of2 a wide range of3 plays a major role
20、 in4 revealed5 calling for6 in reality7 dominate8 respect9 was predicted10 speculation*Vocabulary Study(B)1 culture2 cultural3 sponsoring4 sponsored5 complication6 complexity7 prevail8 dominated9 supporters10 investors*Vocabulary Study(C)1 overdose n.2 overpopulated adj.3 overemphasized v.4 overload
21、 v.5 overwhelming adj.6 overworked adj.&v.7 overcrowded adj.8 overcharging n.*Grammar review I1 He established his reputation as a radical with his first speech.2 Tolstoy regarded this as one of his most important works.3 Acid rain is recognized as one of the most serious global environmental proble
22、ms.*4 We may define a square as a rectangle with four equal sides.5 He always describes himself as a business executive;in fact,he is a clerk.6 Am I to take this excuse as a reason for your behavior?*Grammar review II 1 Conditions which apply to your flight are available at the travel agency where y
23、ou book your holiday.2 The company is trying to create an easy atmosphere where employees enjoy their work.3 Except for those isolated areas in her vicinity where occasionally the illegally run casinos would appear,the city was virtually casino free.*4 An applicants educational background is not the
24、 most important criterion;his or her attitude is what counts.5 Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge;it is thinking that makes what we read ours.6 If you are interested in what college students think and are concerned about,please call us for tickets to the lecture on college l
25、ife in todays China.*Tranlation(English-Chinese)Science fiction is a literary genre developed in the 20th century in which the fiction writer addresses how scientific discoveries,technological developments,and future events and societal changes affect human beings.科学幻想小说是20世纪发展起来的一种文学体裁，科幻小说作家在其作品中描
26、述科学发现，技术进步以及未来的事件和社会变化如何影响人类。*The description of these influences may be a careful and informed extrapolation of scientific facts and principles.Or it may range into farfetched areas flatly contradictory of such facts and principles.对这些影响的描写，可能是对科学事实和原理的一种细致而有根据的推断，或是描写与这些事实和原理完全矛盾的令人难以置信的一些领域。*Tran
27、slation(Chinese-English)由于现代科学的兴起，特别是天文学和物理学的巨大变革，科学幻想小说的出现才成为可能。Science fiction was made possible only by the rise of modern science itself,notably the great revolutions in astronomy and physics.*真正的科幻小说始于19世纪末儒勒凡尔纳的科学幻想浪漫故事，不过，凡尔纳的科学只是停留在发明的水平上。Science fiction proper began toward the end of the 19th century with the scientific romances of Jules Verne,whose science was rather on the level of invention.*The EndPlease begin with Unit 2Please begin with Unit 2*