UNITthevirtuallife

1、welcomeUnit 4： the Virtual worldWhat is the VIRTUAL WORLD?虛擬世界What can people do in the virtual world?What do you think of the virtual life?A VIRTUAL LIFEText AMaia SzalavitzGlobal Reading1. Part Division of the Text4. Questions about the TextFor Part 1 Questions and AnswersFor Part 2 Multiple Choic

2、eFor Part 3 True or False2. Further Understanding3. Language points in each partPart DivisionParts parasMain Ideas 1 2 3 134101113Description of the authors virtual life.Her unpleasant feelings about the virtual life.Her efforts of returning to the real world and her feeling about the real world.Que

3、stions about the Text Read the first and the last paragraph, what can you know about the writers attitudes toward the virtual life and real life?The first paragraph tells about the consequences of living a virtual life and the last tells about the authors return to it.Together, they show us the prob

4、lem people have at present: because of modern technology, we have a choice between the virtual life and the real life, but we find both have their own problems. The author, however, finally has to choose the virtual one despite its negative effectsQuestions and Answers For Part 11. What did the auth

5、or do three years ago and what is she doing now?She worked as a television producer three years ago, and now she is a telecommuter. 2.How does the author manage her daily life?She can order food, manage her money, love and work on Net. Multiple Choice 1.How does the author feel when she is suddenly

6、confronted with people in the real world? ( )A) She feels shy.B) She feels angry.C) She feels cautious.D) She feels overexcited. Read Part 2 carefully and choose ONE best answer for each question.D) She feels overexcited.DFor Part 2 2. How does the author behave on line?( )A) She is friendly.B) She

7、is humorous.C) She is bad-tempered.D) She is talkative.C) She is bad-tempered.CFor Part 2 3. Why does the author fight her boyfriend on net sometimes? ( ) A) Because they havent seen each other for a long time.B) Because their typed dialogue lacks emotional cues and she misinterprets it.C) Because h

8、e doesnt love her any longer.D) Because he doesnt send e-mails to her frequently.BFor Part 2B) Because their typed dialogue lacks emotional cues and she misinterprets it. 4.What does the author think the daily routine is?( )A) Dressing for work.B) Working with colleagues at the office.C) Sleeping no

9、rmal hours.DD) All the above.D) All the above.For Part 21.The author tries to at least get to the gym in order to keep fit. True or False2. The author can get used to the real world very well.The author tries to at least get to the gym, so that she may set apart the weekend from the rest of her week

10、.FShe finds that sometimes being face to face is too much.F( ) ( ) For Part 34. The author cant make a choice between the real world and the virtual one.3. The author cant bear her friends laughter and the noise in the restaurant.She finally chooses the virtual world.aFT( ) ( ) For Part 3A VIRTUAL L

11、IFE seems more rejecting than Id imagined it would be. Time itself becomes fluid - hours become minutes, or seconds stretch into days. Weekends, once a highlight of my week, are now just two ordinary days.1 After too long on the Net, even a phone call can be a shock. My boyfriends Liverpool accent s

12、uddenly becomes impossible to interpret after his easily understood words on screen; a secretarys clipped toneWhat does this sentence imply?virtual: adj.1) 虛擬的；網(wǎng)絡(luò)的Virtual life：網(wǎng)絡(luò)生活：網(wǎng)絡(luò)生活 in fact, though not in name2) Guangxu was so weak that Cixi was the virtual ruler of Cerpret: v.1) underst

13、and2)explain詩(shī)有助于闡述人生。Poetry helps to interpret life.translateCan you interpret this English sentence into Chinese?3)The thanks is interpreted as a bribe.這種感謝被理解為賄賂 What does the sentence imply?The author has become more familiar with the virtual world than the real world.stretch: v. become longer, w

14、iderThe cat is stretching out.2 For the last three years, since I stopped working as a television producer, I have done much of my work as a telecommuter. I submit articles and edit them via email and communicate with colleagues on Internet mailing lists. My boyfriend lives in England, so much of ou

15、r relationship is also computer-assisted. 3 If I desired, I could stay inside for weeks without wanting anything. I can order food, and manage my money, love and work. submit: 1)vt. give (sth.) to sb. 2)vt. yield, obey 服從Should a wife submit herself to her husband?我昨天遞交了辭呈。I submitted my resignation

16、 yesterday.via介詞介詞1.經(jīng)由;取道He flew to New York via Hong Kong.2.通過(guò),憑借I sent a message to Mary via her friend. In fact, at times I have spent as long as three weeks alone at home, going out only to get mail and buy newspapers and groceries. I watched most of the endless snowstorm of 96 on TV.4 But after

17、 a while, life itself begins to feel unreal. I start to feel as though Ive become one with my machines, taking data in, spitting them back out, just another link in the Net. Others on line report the same symptoms. We start to feel an aversion to outside forms of socializing. We have become the Net

18、critics worst nightmare.癥狀癥狀 take in:1) receive, admit2) include3) make (clothes) narrower4) understand5) deceive6) seeThe dress was too big, so I took it in.I didnt take in what you were saying. She took in every details of the other womans clothes.Do you mean we should get rid of the stale and tak

19、e in the fresh? Dont be taken in by her promises.This is the total cost of the trip, taking in everything.34 2 6 15Collocation:take after take aparttake back 仿效；在相貌或性格上相似拆開(kāi)收回（所說(shuō)的或所寫(xiě)的事）take down拿下，放下take for把視作；誤認(rèn)為take off take on take out 脫掉（衣服等）；起飛從事；開(kāi)始對(duì)付取出；弄走take over 接管take up舉起；開(kāi)始從事spit:pattern:

20、 spit sth. (out) (at/on/onto sb./sth.)Hes very ill and spitting (up) blood. The baby spat its food out on the floor. We have got into a situation that critics of the net describe as most terrible.Paraphrase the sentence.We have become the Net critics worst nightmare.5 What first seemed like a luxury

21、, crawling from bed to computer, not worrying about hair, and clothes and face, has become a form of escape, a lack of discipline. And once you start replacing real human contact with cyber-interaction, coming back out of the cave can be quite difficult. 6 I find myself shyer, more cautious, more an

22、xious. Or, conversely, when suddenly confronted with real live humans, I get overexcited, speak too much, interrupt. 1.What does “cyber-interaction” mean?2.What does “cave” here refer to?3. “coming back out of the cave can be quite difficult”.“Cyber-” ： means “of the computer”.“Cyber-interaction” me

23、ans the contact via the computer.“Cave” here refers to the isolated life of the virtual world.Returning to normal society from the isolated life of the virtual world can be quite difficult.And once you start replacing real human contact with cyber-interaction, coming back out of the cave can be quit

24、e difficultconversely:adv. 相反地I constantly worry if I am dressed appropriately, that perhaps Ive actually forgotten to put on a skirt and walked outside in the T-shirt and underwear I sleep and live in. 7 At times, I turn on the television and just leave it to talk away in the background, something

25、that Id never done previously. The voices of the programs are comforting, but then Im jarred by the commercials. I find myself sucked in by soap operas, or needing to keep up with the latest news and the weather. “Dateline,” “Frontline,” “Nightline,” CNN, New York 1, every possible angle of every st

26、ory over and over and over, even when they are of no possible use to me. Work moves into the background. I decide to check my email. but then: but at the same timeThe failure of Chinas soccer team looks inevitable. But then, anything can happen in football.jar: v. have an unpleasant effect jar on sb

27、./sth.The way she laughs jars on me.Translate 有時(shí)我把電視機(jī)開(kāi)著，讓它作為背景聲音一直響著，以前我從不這樣做。 At times, I turn on the television and just leave it to talk away in the background, something that Id never done previously “每日新聞”、“一線(xiàn)新聞”、“夜間新聞”、“有線(xiàn)新聞 電視網(wǎng)”、“紐約一套”。Give the Chinese for “Dateline”, “Frontline”, “Nightline”

28、, “CNN”, “New York 1”.What does this sentence mean?It means work becomes less important.What becomes important to the writer?The real human contact becomes important.8 On line, I find myself attacking everyone in sight. I am bad-tempered, and easily angered. I find everyone on my mailing list insens

29、itive, believing that theyve forgotten that there are people actually reading their wounding remarks. I dont realize that Im projecting until after Ive been embarrassed by someone who politely points out that Ive attacked her for agreeing with me. 9 When Im in this state, I fight my boyfriend as wel

30、l, misinterpreting his intentions because of the lack of emotional cues given by our typed dialogue. The fight takes hours, because the system keeps crashing. I say a line, then he does, then crash! And yet we keep on, doggedly. sensitive： 敏感的敏感的remark:1)n. words2) v. say; give an opinionHe gives th

31、e remark that “he who plays with fire gets burnt”.He remarks that Why does the author misinterpret her boyfriends intention? Because the typed dialogue lacks the emotion that can be found in the real dialogue.10 Id never realized how important daily routine is: dressing for work, sleeping normal hou

32、rs. Id never thought I relied so much on co-workers for company. I began to understand why long-term unemployment can be so damaging, why life without an externally supported daily plan can lead to higher rates of drug abuse, crime, suicide.陪伴陪伴Its a crime to commit suicide.11 To restore balance to

33、my life, I force myself back into the real world. I call people, arrange to meet with the few remaining friends who havent fled New York City. I try to at least get to the gym, so as to set apart the weekend from the rest of my week. I arrange interviews for stories, doctors appointments - anything to get me out of the house and connected with others.adj. 剩下的剩下的routine: n. fixed and regular way of doing things請(qǐng)按常規(guī)辦事。Please do it according t