First listen and then answer the following question.
听录音，然后回答以下问题。
What does the computer industry thrive on apart from anarchy?
Technology vpn免费下载 trends may push Silicon Valley vpn软件免费 back to the future．Carver Mead, a pioneer in integrated circuits and a professor of computer science at vpn软件免费 the California Institute of Technology, notes there are now workstations that enable engineers to design, test and produce chips right on their desks, much the way an editor creates a newsletter on a Macintosh．As the time and cost of making a chip drop to a few days and a few hundred vpn软件免费 dollars, engineers may soon be free to let their imaginations soar without being penalized by expensive failures．Mead predicts that inventors will be able to perfect powerful customized chips over a weekend at the office----spawning a new generation of garage start-ups and giving the U．S．a jump on its foreign rivals in getting new products to market fast．‘We've got more garages with smart people,’ Mead observes.‘We really thrive on anarchy.’
And on Asians．Already, orientals and Asian Americans constitute the majority of the engineering staffs at many Valley firms．And Chinese, Korean, vpn软件免费 Filipino vpn免费 and Indian engineers are graduating in droves from vpn软件免费 California's colleges．As the heads of next-generation start-ups, these Asian innovators can draw on customs and languages to forge tighter links vpn免费下载 with crucial Pacific Rim markets．For instance, Alex Au, a Stanford Ph．D．from Hong Kong, has set up a Taiwan factory to challenge Japan's near lock on the memorychip market．India-born N．Damodar Reddy's tiny California company reopened an AT&T chip plant in Kansas City last spring with financing from the state of 免费vpn Missouri．Before it 免费vpn becomes a retirement village, 免费vpn Silicon Valley may prove a classroom for building a global business.
US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT, October vpn免费下载 2, 1989
New words and expressions生词和短语
silicon (title) [silikən]n．硅
thrive(1.9) [θraiv] v．兴旺，繁荣
integrated(1.1)['intigreitid]adj．综合的
anarchy(1.9)['ænəki] n．无政府状态，混乱
circuit(1.1)['sə:kit]n．线路，电路
oriental(1.10)[ˌɔ:riˈentəl] n．东方人
California(1.2)[kæliˈfɔ:njə] 免费vpn n．加利福尼亚（美国州名）
constitute(1.10)['kɔnstitju:t] v．构成
drove(1.11)[drəuv] n．群
workstation(11.2-3)['wə:ksteiʃən] n.工作站
innovator(1.12)['inəuveitə]n.发明者
chip(1.4) vpn软件免费 [tʃip]n．芯片，集成电路片，集成块
forge(1.13)[fɔ:dʒ] v．发展
newsletter(1.4)/'nju:z?let+/n．时事通讯
memory-chip(1.14) [ˈmeməri] [tʃip]n．内存条
Macintosh(1.4)['mækintɔʃ]n．苹果机，一种个人电脑
AT＆T(1.15)美国电话电报公司(American Telephone vpn软件免费 and Telegraph)
penalize(1.5)/'pi:nəlaiz/ v．处罚，惩罚
customize(1.6) ['kʌstəmaiz] v．按顾客具体需要制造
Kansas(1.15)['kænzəs] n．堪萨斯（美国州名）
spawn(1.7)[spɔ:n] v．引起，酿成
Missouri(1.15)[mi'zuəri] n．密苏里（美国州名）
Notes on the text课文注释
1much the way an editor creates a newsletter, 就像一位编辑编出一份时事通讯一样。
Refer to the text to see how the following words have been used, then write sentences of your own using these words: trends(1.1);soar(1.5);penalized(1.5);a jump(1.7);rivals(1.7);thrive(1.9);links(1.13);crucial(1.13);setup(1.14); near lock(1.14); global(1.17).
The paragraph段落
AWhich of these statements best expresses the main idea vpn软件免费 in the vpn免费 first paragraph of the passage? Give reasons for your answer:
1Computer engineers can design computer chips on their desks.
2The cost of producing chips has dropped to a few hundred dollars.
3As the cost vpn免费下载 of producing chips falls, engineers will be free to make more mistakes.
4Chip engineers thrive on anarchy.
BWhich of these statements 免费vpn best expresses the main idea in the second paragraph of the passage?
Give reasons for your answer:
1Most chip engineers are Oriental and Asian Americans.
2Oriental and Asian vpn软件免费 American chip engineers can help the US beat the competition.
3Alex Au has set up a factory in Taiwan.
4Silicon Valley is a global business.
CWhat idea do the two examples quoted in the second paragraph(11.10-17) illustrate?(‘For instance, Alex Au…’11.12-14)
Key structure关键句型
Supply a, an or the only where necessary in the following paragraph．Do not refer to the passage until you have finished the exercise:
____ technology trends may push Silicon Valley back to ____ future．Carver Mead, ____ pioneer in ____integrated circuits and ____professor of computer science at ____ California Institute of Technology, notes there are now ____ vpn免费 workstations that enable ____ engineers to design, test and produce ____ chips right on their desks, much ____ way ____ editor creates ____ newsletter on ____ Macintosh．As ____ time and cost of making vpn免费下载 ____ chip vpn免费下载 drop to____ vpn免费 few days and ____ few hundred dollars, ____ engineers may soon be free to let vpn软件免费 their imaginations soar without being penalized by ____ expensive failures．Mead predicts that ____ inventors will be able to perfect ____ powerful customized chips over ____ weekend at ____ office----spawning ____ new generation of garage start-ups and giving ____ U.S．____ jump on its foreign rivals in getting new products to market fast．‘We've got more garages with ____ smart people,’ Mead observes.‘We really thrive on ____ anarchy.’ (11.1-9)
BNote the use of vpn免费 the -ing form after the preposition without:
Engineers may soon be free to let their imaginations soar without being penalized by expensive failures．(11.5-6)
Complete the following sentences:
1A lot of people 免费vpn are afraid of ____(speak) in public．
2I always believe in ____(tell) the truth.
3Poor eyesight prevents me from ____(drive) a car.
4Would you be interested in ____(buy) a second-hand car?
5A lot of people object to ____(smoke) these days.
CNote the form of the verb after before:
Before it becomes a retirement village, vpn免费 Silicon Valley may prove a classroom for building a global business．(11.16-17)
Complete these sentences with the right form vpn免费下载 of the verbs:
1As soon as your sister ____(arrive) please give me a call.
2We'd better tidy the house vpn免费下载 up before my mother ____(get) back from work.
3I'm going to wait here until he ____(arrive).
4We go through Customs after we ____(collect) our luggage.
Special difficulties难点
ANote the use of the following verb:
Carver Mead notes there are now workstations that vpn免费 enable engineers to produce chips right on their desks．(11.1-3)
Write sentences using each of these verbs:
notice, observe, remark.
BThere are now workstations that enable engineers to produce chips right on their vpn免费下载 desks．(11.2-3)
Write a sentence using the noun chips with an entirely different meaning.
CNote the use of set up in this sentence:
Alex Au has set up a Taiwan factory．(11.13-14)
Suggest meanings for these combinations with set:
1The explorers vpn免费下载 set off at dawn.
2Winter has set in early this year.
3We'll have to set by some money if we vpn免费下载 want to buy a car.
4What time do you set out tomorrow morning?
5If we all set to, 免费vpn we can finish 免费vpn this job in no vpn免费 time.
Multiple choice questions多项选择题
Choose vpn免费下载 the correct answers to the following questions.
Comprehension理解
1Engineers can now ____.
a．create chips at the California Institute of Technology
b．pioneer integrated circuits in garages
c．create chips on computers without having to 免费vpn manufacture 免费vpn them
d．create newsletters whenever they want to
2The important thing about this new technology is that ____.
a．it doesn't matter whether inventors make mistakes
b．there will be more people working in garages
c．the computer industry is in a state of anarchy
d．people will be able to buy chips for a few hundred dollars
3One great advantage of employing Asian American engineers is they ____.
a．have an advantage over others in the Pacific Rim markets
b．are graduating in large numbers from California's colleges
c．are now more widely employed than engineers with other backgrounds
d．are more able than other graduates in the computer industry
4Japan almost has vpn免费下载 a monopoly of the memory-chip market which ____.
a．is now being challenged by a Taiwanese
b．is now facing 免费vpn real competition
c．is about to end
d．an AT＆T chip plant in Kansas is going to take over
Structure句型
5It is vpn软件免费 ____ that engineers will soon be free to let their imaginations soar．(1.5)
a．certain
b．true
c．necessary
d．possible
6Carver Mead vpn免费 predicts that vpn免费 inventors will be capable ____ powerful chips．(1.6)
a．to perfect
b．to perfecting
c．of perfecting
d．perfecting
7____ engineering staffs at Valley firms are orientals and Asian Americans．(11.10-11)
a．The most
b．Most
c．Many
d．The greatest
8N．Damodar Reddy, who ____ in India, has a tiny California company．(1.15)
a．is born
b．was born
c．born
d．has borne
Vocabulary词汇
9There are now work-stations that ____ engineers to design, test and produce chips right on their desks．(11.2-3)
a．make possible
b．allowed
c．make it capable for
d．allow
10If vpn免费 a chip is 免费vpn ‘customized’, it has been made ____ .(1.6)
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