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Unit4 The Virtual World
Part II Reading Task
Comprehension Content Question Pair Work
1. She used to be a television producer, but now she is a writer. 2. She writes and edits articles online, submits them via email, and
communicates with colleagues via the Internet, too.
3. She could stay computer-assisted at home for weeks, going out
only t get mail, newspapers and groceries.
4. They feel as if they had become one with the computer, and life
seems to be unreal.
5. That people who grew used to a virtual life would feel an
aversion to outside forms of socializing.
6. She gets overexcited, speaks too much, and interrupts others. 7. She is bad-tempered, easily angered, and attacks everyone in
sight, all because she has long become separated from others and lacks emotional face-to-face exchanges with people.
8. She fights her boyfriend, misinterpreting his intentions because
of the lack of emotional cues given by their typed dialogue. 9. Because we rely on co-works for company.
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10. She calls people, arrangers to meet the few friends remaining in
the City, gets to the gym, arranges interviews for stories, doctor’s appointments---anything to get her out of the house and connected with others.
11. No, she doesn’t feel happy. She feels being face to face is
intolerable.
12. She makes her excuses and flees, re-enters her apartment, runs
to the computer, clicks on the modem, and disappears into the virtual world again.
Text Organization Working On Your Own
1.
1. 2-3 2. 1,4-10,13 3. 11 4. 12 2.
The first paragraph describes the consequences of living a virtual life and the last tells of the author’s escape back into it. Together, they bring out the dilemma people at present are in: Because of modern technology, we have a choice between a virtual life and real life, but find both unsatisfactory.
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Language Sense Enhancement
1.
(1) routine (2) for company (3) unemployme
nt
(4) externally (5) drug abuse (6) restore (7) fled
(8) gym (9) set apart (10)
appoint
ments
Vocabulary I
1.
1) conversely 2) but then 3) symptom 4) spitting 5) abusing 2.
1) smoking cigarettes jars on me. 2) find themselves getting sucked in.
3) has arranged for a technician from the computer store to
check and repair it.
4) fled their country to avoid military service/fled to other
countries to avoid military service. 5) restore people’s confidence in it.
6) tone 7) took; in 8) editing 9) have
arranged
10) in sight 11) stretched 12) data
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