練習(xí)材料
L51-3:
Predicting the future
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Bagrit foresaw a time when computers would be small
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enough to hold in the hand, when they would be capable of
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providing information about traffic jams and suggesting
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alternative routes, when they would be used in hospitals to
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help doctors to diagnose illnesses, when they would relieve
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office workers and accountants of dull, repetitive clerical
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work. All these computer uses have become commonplace.
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Of course, Leon Bagrit could not possibly have foreseen the
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development of the Internet, the worldwide system that
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enables us to communicate instantly with anyone in any
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part of the world by using computers linked to telephone
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networks. Nor could he have foreseen how we could use the
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Internet to obtain information on every known subject, so
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we can read it on a screen in our homes and even print it as
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well if we want to. Computers have become smaller and
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smaller, more and more powerful and cheaper and cheaper.
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This is what makes Leon Bagrit's predictions particularly
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remarkable. If he, or someone like him, were alive today, he
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might be able to tell us what to expect in the next fifty years.
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任務(wù)配置：L0+L4
知識(shí)筆記：
1/ 單詞
diagnose - v. 診斷
relieve - v. 減輕
commonplace - adj. 平凡
2/音標(biāo)
diagnose /?da??gn??z/
repetitive /r??p?t?t?v/
練習(xí)感悟：
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