新视野大学英语第二版读写第四册课文原文sectionb

新视野大学英语第二版读写第四册课文原文sectionb内容摘要：

your fellow tourists look like? Para10 All nationalities, colors, shapes and sizes, gallery human faces, whispered. Para11 lowered voice further and spoke close his ear, the blind man leaned his head eagerly toward . had never before been listened with such intensity. Para12 Very close elderly Japanese woman, said. Just beyond her yellowhaired Scandinavian boy about five leaning forward, his face just below hers. They39。 re motionless, waiting for the performance start. It39。 s the perfect living portrait childhood and old age, Europe and Asia. Para13 Yes, yes, see them, the blind man said quietly, smiling. Para14 curtain the back the stage opened. Six young girls appeared, and described their violetcolored silk skirts, white blouses, and goldcolored hats like smallcrowns, with flexible points that moved rhythm with the dance. the tips their fingers are golden nails per haps centimeters long, told the blind man. The nails highlight each elegant movement their hands. It39。 s delightful effect. Para15 smiled and nodded. How wonderful— would love touch one those golden nails. Para16 The first performance ended just finished dessert, and excused myself and went talk the theater manager. Upon returning, told panion, You39。 ve been invited backstage. Para17 few minutes later was standing next one the dancers, her little crowned head hardly reaching his chest. She shyly extended both hands toward him, the brass fingernails shining the overhead light. His hands, four times large, reached out slowly and held them though they were holding two tiny birds. felt the smooth, curving sharpness the metal tips, the girl stood quite still, gazing into his face with expression wonder. lump formed throat. Para18 After taking cab back the inn, with Chinese guest still with the others, the blind man patted shoulder, then pulled toward him and embraced tightly. How beautifully you saw everything for , whispered. can never thank you enough. Para19 Later thought: should have thanked him. was the one who had been blind, eyes merely skimming the surface things. had helped lift the veil that grows quickly over our eyes this busy world, see whole new realm I39。 d failed appreciate before. Para20 About week after our trip, the chairman told the Chinese executive had called express great satisfaction with the trip. Well done, the chairman said, smiling. knew you could your magic. Para21 was not able tell him that the magic had been done . Unit4 Para1 Are you too tired the video store but you want see the movie Beauty and the Beast home? Want listen your favorite guitar player39。 s latest jazz cassette? Need some new reading material, like magazine book? problem. Just sit down front your home puter and enter what you want, when you want , from electronic catalogue containing thousands titles. Para2 Your school has professors Japanese, language you want learn before visiting Japan during the ing summer holiday. Don39。 t worry. Just sign for the language course offered school another district city, have the latest edition the course teaching materials sent your puter, and attend video. you need extra help with translation assignment your pronunciation, tutor can give you feedback via your puter. Para3 Wele the information superhighway. Para4 While nearly everyone has heard the information superhighway, even experts differ exactly what the term means and what the future promises will look like. Broadly speaking, however, the superhighway refers the union today39。 s broadcasting, cable, video, telephone, and puter and semiconductor industries into one large allconnected industry. Para5 Directing the union are technological advances that have made easier store and rapidly transmit information into homes and offices. Fiberoptic cable, for example—made hairthin glass fibers— tremendously efficient carrier information. Lasers shooting light through glass fiber can transmit 250,000 times much data standard telephone wire, tens thousands paragraphs such this one every second. Para6 The greatly increased volume and speed data transmission that these technologies permit can pared the way which highway with many lanes allows more cars move faster speeds than twolane highway—hence, the information superhighway. Para7 The closest thing information superhighway today the Inter, the system linked puter works that allows million people 135 countries exchange information. Para8 But while the Inter primarily moves words, the information superhighway will soon make routine the electronic transmission data other formats, such audio files and images. That means, for example, that doctor Europe who particularly learned will able treat patients America after viewing their records via puter, deciding the correct dose medicine give the patient, perhaps even remotely controlling blade wielding robot during surgery. Para9 Sending segmen video mail down the hall across the country will easier than typing out message keyboard, predicts one correspondent who specializes technology. Para10 The world the eve new era, says the former United States vicepresident Gore, the Clinton administration39。 s leading high technology advocate. Gore wants the federal government play the leading role shaping the superhighway. Para11 However, era smaller budgets, the United States government unlikely e with the money needed during the next years construct the leaves private industry—puter, phone, and cable panies— move into the vacuum left the government39。 s absence. And while these industries are pioneering the most exciting new technologies, some critics fear that profitminded panies will only develop services for the wealthy. left the hands private enterprise, the data highway could bee little more than synthetic。