新视野研究生英语_读说写1Unit 5 Remote Control课文原文
unit-5Remote Control
Remote Control1Recently the washington post printed an article explaining how the appliance manufacturers plan to drive consumers insane.2Of course they don’t say they want to drive us insane. What they say they want to do is have us live in homes where”all appliances on the internet,sharing informatioon”and appliances will be”smarter than most of their owners.”For example,the article states,you could have a home where the dishwasher”can be turned on from the office”and therefrigerator”knows when it’s out of milk”and the bathroom scale” transmits your weight to zhe gym.”3I frankly wonder whether the appliance manufacturers , withall due respect,have benn smoking crack,I mean,did they ever stop to ask themselves why a consumer,after loading a dishwasher,would go to the office to start it? would there be some knd of career benefit?YOUR BOSS:”what are you doing?YOU:”I’m starting my dishwasher!YOUR BOSS:that’s the kind of productivity we need around here!YOU:Now I’m flushing the upstairs toilet4Listen,appliance manufacturers:We don’t need a dishwasheres that we can communicate with from afar,If you want to improve our dishwashers, ,give us one that senses when people leave dirty dishes on the kitchen counter,and shouts at them:”Put those dishes in the dishwasher right now or I’ll leak all over your shoes!”5Likewies,we don’t need a refrigerator that knows when it’s out of milk.We already have a foolproof system for determining if we’reout of milk:We ask our wife.What we could use isa refrigerator that refuses to let us open its door when it senses that we are about to consume our fourth Jell-O Pudding Snack in tow hours.6As for a scale that transmits our weight to the gym:Are they nuts?We don’t want our weight transmitted to our own eyeballs!What if the gym decided to transmit our weight transmitted our weight to all these other appliances on the Internet? What if,God forbid,our refrigerator found out what our weight was! We’d never get the door open again!7But here is what really concerns me about these new”smart”appliances:Even if we like the features,we won’t be able to use them..We can’t use the appliance features we have now.I have a feature-packed telephone with 43 buttons,at least 20 of which I am afraid to touch.this phone probably can communicate with the dead,but I don’t know how to operate it,just as I don’t know how to operate my TV,which requires three remote controls.One control came with the TV;a second came with the VCR;the thirsd was brought here by the cable man,who apparently felt that I did not have enough buttons.8So when I want to watch TV,I’m confronted with a total of 120 buttons.identified by such helpful labeled as PIP MTS DBS FZ JUMP and BLANK.There are three buttons labeld POWER,,but there are times-----especially if my son and his friends,who are not afraid of features,have changed the settings---when I honestly cannot figure out how to turn the TV om.I stand there,holding three remote controls,pressing buttons at random,until eventually I give up and go turn on the dishwasher.It has been,literally,years since I have successfully recorded a TV show.That is how”smart”my appliances have become.9And mow the appliance manufacturers want to give us even more features.Do you know what this means?It means that some night you’ll open the door of you”smart” refrigerator,looking for a beer,and you’ll hear a pleasant,cheerful voice---recorded by the same woman who informsyou that Your Call Is Important when you call a business that does not wish to speak with you personally---telling you:”Your celery is limp.”You will not know how you refrigerator know this,and,what is worse,you will not know who else you refrigerator is telling about it.And,If you want to try to make the refrigeartor stop,you’ll have to decipher Owner’s Manual instructions written by and for nuclear physicists.10Is this the kind of future you want,consumers?Do you want appliances that are smarter than you? Of course not.Your appliances should be dumber than you.just like your furniture,your pets and your representatives in Congress.So,I am urging you to let the appliance industry know,by phone,letter,fax and e-mail,that when it comes to”smart”appliances,you vote NO.You need to act quickly.Because while you’re reading this, your microwave oven is voting YES.。
新视野一 第五单元 原文与翻译 汉语翻译版
Cliff Young, an unlikely hero澳大利亚一年一度的悉尼至墨尔本的马拉松比赛全长875公里，被认为是世界上最艰难的马拉松赛事之一，对任何年龄段的世界顶尖运动员来说都是一项严酷的耐力考验。
体能超好的年轻选手在赛前要进行数月的训练，而且还和像耐克和阿迪达斯这样著名的赞助商签约，这些赞助商通过强大的资金和装备支持机制为选手提供资助和装备。
这项比赛历时七天，即使对那些为荣誉和奖金而赛的世界一流运动员来说，这项比赛也是对体能和力量的严峻考验。
1983年比赛那一天，克里夫·杨，一个牙齿已全部脱落的61岁的农民业余选手也来参加比赛。
他脚穿橡胶靴，年龄也比其他选手大得多。
没有人注意到这个外表古怪的老头，他就跟个隐身人差不多。
聚集的人群以为克里夫只是来观看比赛的。
当克里夫明确表示自己是来参赛的时候，他周围的世界级选手先是表示出明显的怀疑，继而予以鄙视。
显然，人们认为这只是媒体的炒作而已。
但是媒体记者颇为好奇，所以当克里夫领好自己的参赛号码，走进配备昂贵的特殊装备的参赛选手队伍时，镜头对准了他，聚集的记者们向他抛来一个又一个问题。
他们问：“你是谁？”“你来做什么？”“我是克里夫·杨。
我来自墨尔本郊外的一个大农场，我们在那里养羊。
”他们接着问道：“你为什么认为自己有能力参加这项比赛？跑完全程要花一周的时间，而且每晚的睡眠不足六个小时。
”克里夫回答道：“我放羊时每一次都要跑上两三天。
这项比赛只是需要再多花几天而已。
我相信我可以做到。
”很快，马拉松比赛开始了，年轻的运动员把克里夫远远地甩在了后面。
人们笑了，有些人还大声地笑，因为克里夫甚至连跑步的姿势都不正确。
他跑步的样子怪极了，因为他似乎是在拖着脚走。
随着比赛的进行，体育解说员和观众们的注意力都放到了那些领先的选手身上。
想象一下第二天早上看到新闻报道说克里夫还在比赛的队伍里时，人们有多么惊奇！不仅如此，他还彻夜未眠，一直在跑。
新视野研究生英语_读说写1Unit5RemoteControl课文原文
新视野研究生英语_读说写1Unit5RemoteControl课文原文原文Unit Five Remote Control1、Recently the Washington Post printed an article explaining how the appliance manufacturers plan to drive consumers insane.2、Of course they don’t say they want to drive us insane. What they say they want to do is have us live in homes where “all appliances are on the Internet, sharing information”and appliances will be “smarter than most of their owners.”For example, the article states, you could have a home where the dishwasher “can be turned on from the office”and the refrigerator “knows when it’s out of milk” and the bathroom scale “transmits your weight to the gym.”3、I frankly wonder whether the appliance manufacturers, with all due respect, have been smoking crack.I mean, did they ever stop to ask themselves why a consumer, after loading a dishwasher, would go to the office to start it? Would there be some kind of career benefit?YOUR BOSS: What are you doing?YO U ( tapping computer keyboard ): I’m starting my dishwasher!YOUR BOSS: That’s the kind of productivity we need around here!YOU: Now I’m flushing the upstairs toilet!4、Listen, applian ce manufacturers: We don’t need a dishwaher that we can communicate with from afar.If you want to improve our dishwashers, give us one that senses when people leave dirty on the kitchen counter, and shouts at them: “Put those dishes in the dishwasher rignt nowor I’ll leak all over your shoes!”5、Likewise, we don’t need a r efrigerator that knows when it’s out of milk.We alrealy have a foolproof system for determining if we’re out of milk. We ask our wife. What we could use is a refrigerator that refuses to let us open its door when it senses that we are about to consume our fourth Jell-O Pudding Snack in two hours.6、As for a scale that transmits our weight to the gym: Are they nuts?We don’t want our weight transmitted to our own eyeballs!What if the gym decided to trainsmit our weight to all these other appliances on the Internet?What if, God forbid, our refrigerator found out what our weight was!We’d never get the door open again!7、But here is what really concerns me about these new “smart” appliances:Even if we like the features, we won’t be able to use them.We can’t use the appliance features we have now.I have a feature-packed telephone with 43 buttons, at least20 of which I am afraid to touch. This phone probably can communicate wi th the dead, but I don’t know to operate it, just as I don’t know how to o perate my TV, which requires three remote controls.One control (44 buttons ) came with the TV; a second (39 buttons )came with the VCR; the third (37 buttons ) was brought here by the cable man, who apparently felt that I did not have enough buttons.8、So when I want to watch TV, I’m confronted with a total of 120 buttons, identified by such helpful labels as PIP , MTS, DBS,FZ, JUMP and BLANK.There are three buttons labeled POWER, but there are times-especially if my son and his friends, who are not afraid of features, have changed the settings-when I honestly cannot figure out how to turn the TV on.I stand there, holding three remote controls, pressing buttons at random, until eventually I give up and go turn on the dishwasher.It has been, literally, years since I have successfully recorded a TV show.That is how “smart”my appliances have become.9、And now the appliance manfacturers want to give us even more features.Do you know what this means?It means that some night you’ll open the door of your “smart” refrigerator, looking for a beer, and you’ll hear a pleasant, cheerful voice-recorded by the same woman who informs you that Your Call Is Important when you call a business that does not wish to speak with you persinally-telling you: Your celery is Li mp.”You will not know who else your refrigerator knows this, and, what is worse, you will not know how your refrigerator is telling about it( Hey, Bob! I hear your celery is limp!” ).And, if you want to try to make the refrigerator stop, you’ll have to decipher Owner’s Manual instructions written by and for nuclear physicists(“T o disable th e Produce Crispness Monitoring feature, enter the Command Mode, then elect the Edit function, then select Change Vegetable Defaults, then assume that Train Aleaves Chicago traveling westbound at 47 mph, while Train B…..”10、Is this the kind of future you want, consumers?Do you want appliances that are smarter than you?Your appliances should be dumber than you, just like your furniture, your pets and your represetatives in Congress.So Iam urging you to let the appliance industry know, by phone, letter, fax and e-mail, that when it comes to “smart”appliances, you vote NO.You need to act quickly. Because while you’re reading this, your microwave oven is voting YES.。
新视野大学英语读写教程 unit5 课文与单词
▲diagnose
vt. discover the nature of (a disease) 诊断；判断
infect
vt. 1. put disease into the body of (someone) 感染
2. affect; influence 影响
virus
n. a living thing which can cause a spreading disease in the body, or in plants 病毒
The Battle Against AIDS
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was diagnosed in the United States in the late 1970s. Since then, AIDS has killed more than 204,000 Americans — half in the past few years alone. Another 185,000 of the one million infected with the HIV virus are also expected to die.
Recently, the network began helping hair stylists throughout the Southeast set up similar programs in their shops. They are also valuable resources in spreading information to their schools, community groups, and churches.
新视角研究生英语读说写1课件及课后答案Unit-Five-
▪ Dave has also written a total of 25 books, although virtually none of them contain useful information.
▪ In his spare time, Dave is a candidate for president of the United States. If elected, his highest priority will be to seek the death penalty for whoever is responsible for making Americans install low-flow toilets.
Language Points
▪ How the appliance manufacturers plan to drive consumers insane. (Para. 1)
▪ How the appliance makers are making us mad.
insane
adj. mad, senseless. ▪ We never do anything like this in our
agreed to accept his resignation. 2) (of payment) required at a certain time ▪ The wage due to them will be paid no later
新视野大学英语读写教程1课文翻译(完全版)
记住，虚拟课堂里老师看不见学生。 这就意味学生必须直接明了地表达自己的看法和要求。 如果碰到技术方面的问题，或在理解课程中遇到困难，必须大胆说出来，否则任何人都无从 知晓问题所在。 如果某人不理解某个问题，或许别人也有同样的问题。 如果有哪个学生能解决，他(她)也许就会帮助你。 学生在给他人解释问题时，自己对该问题的认识也加深了。
Unit 1 B
虽然常规的学校依然存在，但虚拟课堂在今天的教学领域中起着重要的作用。 随着学生就业机会的迅速增多，越来越多不同年龄层的人开始意识到这种在家就学的网上学 习方式。 然而，网络学生需要具备一些特别的素质才能取得成功。 以下是网上学生要取得成功必备的一些理想素质。
1.与人分享生活、工作及学习经验，这些是网上学习的一部分。
7. 跟上课程进度。
网上学习通常是循序渐进的，要求学生专心投入。 与网络课程保持同步，并按时完成所有功课至关重要。 一旦落后就很难赶上。 学生要有成功的欲望，而且也要渴望这种经历。 老师可能会与学生面对面交流，提供帮助并提醒他们跟上进度的必要性。
正如许多优秀教师并不能有效地用网络辅助教学一样，并不是所有学生都具备在网上学习中 取得成功所需的素质。 具备上述素质的人通常能够成为优秀的网络学生。 一旦拥有这些素质，网上学习说不定将是你最有价值的发现之一。
“我喜欢这种音乐，爸爸。这是我最喜欢的。 您听一下吧，您肯定会喜欢的。” 桑迪伸手把音乐开得更响。
“别，别开那么响，我受不了。 把收音机音量调低点，这样我和你妈妈就听不到了。 我敢肯定，那音乐既伤你的耳朵，又伤你的大脑。”
桑迪走进浴室，打开淋浴喷头。 然后她抓起香皂，浑身上下洗个遍，连头发也洗了。
淋浴后，桑迪梳了梳头发，穿上一件旧的绿色圆领衫和一条牛仔裤。 接着她化好妆，走进了厨房。 和往常一样，她不知道早餐该吃什么，便抓了杯牛奶，站在洗涤槽旁吃烤面包。 就在此时，她妈妈简走进了厨房。
新视野大学英语读写教程1-5单元课文中文标准翻译
Unit 1美国人认为没有人能停止不前。
如果你不求进取，你就会落伍。
这种态度造就了一个投身于研究、实验和探索的民族。
时间是美国人注意节约的两个要素之一，另一要素是劳力。
人们一直说：“只有时间才能支配我们。
”人们似乎把时间当作一个差不多是实实在在的东西来对待。
我们安排时间、节约时间、浪费时间、挤抢时间、消磨时间、缩减时间、对时间的利用作出解释；我们还要因付出时间而收取费用。
时间是一种宝贵的资源，许多人都深感人生的短暂。
时光一去不复返。
我们应当让每一分钟都过得有意义。
外国人对美国的第一印象很可能是：每个人都匆匆忙忙──常常处于压力之下。
城里人看上去总是在匆匆地赶往他们要去的地方，在商店里他们焦躁不安地指望店员能马上来为他们服务，或者为了赶快买完东西，用肘来推搡他人。
白天吃饭时人们也都匆匆忙忙，这部分地反映出这个国家的生活节奏。
人们认为工作时间是宝贵的。
在公共用餐场所，人们都等着别人尽快吃完，以便他们也能及时用餐，你还会发现司机开车很鲁莽，人们推搡着在你身边过去。
你会怀念微笑、简短的交谈以及与陌生人的随意闲聊。
不要觉得这是针对你个人的，这是因为人们都非常珍惜时间，而且也不喜欢他人“浪费”时间到不恰当的地步。
许多刚到美国的人会怀念诸如商务拜访等场合开始时的寒暄。
他们也会怀念那种一边喝茶或喝咖啡一边进行的礼节性交流，这也许是他们自己国家的一种习俗。
他们也许还会怀念在饭店或咖啡馆里谈生意时的那种轻松悠闲的交谈。
一般说来，美国人是不会在如此轻松的环境里通过长时间的闲聊来评价他们的客人的，更不用说会在增进相互间信任的过程中带他们出去吃饭，或带他们去打高尔夫球。
既然我们通常是通过工作而不是社交来评估和了解他人，我们就开门见山地谈正事。
因此，时间老是在我们心中滴滴答答地响着。
因此，我们千方百计地节约时间。
我们发明了一系列节省劳力的装置；我们通过发传真、打电话或发电子邮件与他人迅速地进行交流，而不是通过直接接触。
虽然面对面接触令人愉快，但却要花更多的时间，尤其是在马路上交通拥挤的时候。
新视野第一册读写教程课文第五单元中英文对照
Unit 5Section A The Battle Against AIDSAcquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was diagnosed in the United States in the late 1970s. Since then, AIDS has killed more than 204,000 Americans —half in the past few years alone. Another 185,000 of the one million infected with the HIV virus are also expected to die.Nearly half of those diagnosed with the virus are blacks and Latinos. Women and youth in rural Southern communities now constitute the fastest growing segment of people with AIDS.Despite such alarming numbers, the federal and state governments have been slow in implementing programs to stop the spread of AIDS. In place of government inactivity, a number of local organizations have emerged.One organization, the South Carolina AIDS Education Network, formed in 1985 to combat the growing number of AIDS cases. Like many local organizations, this organization suffers from a lack of money, forcing it to use its resources creatively. To reach more people in the community, some AIDS educational programs operate out of a beauty shop.The owner hands out AIDS information to all her clients when they enter the shop and shows videos on AIDS prevention while they wait for their hair to dry. She also keeps books and other publications around so customers can read them while waiting for their appointments. It's amazing how many people she has educated on the job.Recently, the network began helping hair stylists throughout the Southeast set up similar programs in their shops. They are also valuable resources in spreading information to their schools, community groups, and churches.The organization has developed several techniques useful to other groups doing similar work. While no one way of winning the war against AIDS exists, the network shares these lessons learned in its battle against AIDS:Speak to your community in a way they can hear. Many communities have a low literacy rate, making impossible passing out AIDS literature and expecting people to read it. To solve this problem, ask people in the community who can draw well to create low-literacy AIDS education publications.These books use simple, hand-drawn pictures of "sad faces" and "happy faces" to illustrate ways people can prevent AIDS. They also show people who looklike those we need to educate, since people can relate more when they see familiar faces and language they can understand. As a result, such books actually have more effect in the communities where they are used than government publications, which cost thousands of dollars more to produce.Train teenagers to educate their peers. Because AIDS is spreading fastest among teenagers in the rural South, the stylists have established an "AIDS Busters"; program which trains youth from 8 to 26 to go into the community and teach "AIDS 101" to their peers. They make it simple and explain the risk of catching AIDS to friends their own age much better than an adult can. They also play a vital role in helping parents understand the types of peer pressure their children experience.Redefine "at risk"; to include women from different backgrounds and marriage status. One woman's doctor told her she was not at risk for AIDS because she was married and didn't use drugs. Such misinformation plagues the medical establishment. According to the Centers for Disease Control, women will soon make up 80 percent of those diagnosed with HIV.The stylists also emphasize that everyone is at risk and that all of us have a right to protect ourselves — regardless of marriage status.These lessons are not the only solutions to the crisis but until there is a cure for AIDS, education represents the only safe measure to guard against the virus.Like no other plague before, the AIDS epidemic threatens to wipe out an entire generation and leave another without parents. We must not let cultural, racial, or social barriers distract us from the job that must be done. Nor can we let political inefficiency stop us from our task. This is an undeclared war that everyone must sign up for in order for us to win. We simply cannot let people continue to die because we don't feel comfortable talking about AIDS. Everyone must become an educator and learn to live.Unit5-A获得性免疫缺陷综合征（艾滋病）是20世纪70年代末在美国发现的。
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原文Unit Five Remote Control1、Recently the Washington Post printed an article explaining how the appliance manufacturers plan to drive consumers insane.2、Of course they don’t say they want to drive us insane. What they say they want to do is have us live in homes where “all appliances are on the Internet, sharing information”and appliances will be “smarter than most of their owners.”For example, the article states, you could have a home where the dishwasher “can be turned on from the office”and the refrigerator “knows when it’s out of milk” and the bathroom scale “transmits your weight to the gym.”3、I frankly wonder whether the appliance manufacturers, with all due respect, have been smoking crack.I mean, did they ever stop to ask themselves why a consumer, after loading a dishwasher, would go to the office to start it? Would there be some kind of career benefit?YOUR BOSS: What are you doing?YOU ( tapping computer keyboard ): I’m starting my dishwasher!YOUR BOSS: That’s the kind of productivity we need around here!YOU: Now I’m flushing the upstairs toilet!4、Listen, applian ce manufacturers: We don’t need a dishwaher that we can communicate with from afar.If you want to improve our dishwashers, give us one that senses when people leave dirty on the kitchen counter, and shouts at them: “Put those dishes in the dishwasher rignt now or I’ll leak all over your shoes!”5、Likewise, we don’t need a refrigerator that knows when it’s out of milk.We alrealy have a foolproof system for determining if we’re out of milk. We ask our wife. What we could use is a refrigerator that refuses to let us open its door when it senses that we are about to consume our fourth Jell-O Pudding Snack in two hours.6、As for a scale that transmits our weight to the gym: Are they nuts?We don’t want our weight transmitted to our own eyeballs!What if the gym decided to trainsmit our weight to all these other appliances on the Internet?What if, God forbid, our refrigerator found out what our weight was!We’d never get the door open again!7、But here is what really concerns me about these new “smart” appliances:Even if we like the features, we won’t be able to use them.We can’t use the appliance features we have now.I have a feature-packed telephone with 43 buttons, at least 20 of which I am afraid to touch. This phone probably can communicate wi th the dead, but I don’t know to operate it, just as I don’t know how to operate my TV, which requires three remote controls.One control (44 buttons ) came with the TV; a second (39 buttons )came with the VCR; the third (37 buttons ) was brought here by the cable man, who apparently felt that I did not have enough buttons.8、So when I want to watch TV, I’m confronted with a total of 120 buttons, identified by such helpful labels as PIP , MTS, DBS, FZ, JUMP and BLANK.There are three buttons labeled POWER, but there are times-especially if my son and his friends, who are not afraid of features, have changed the settings-when I honestly cannot figure out how to turn the TV on.I stand there, holding three remote controls, pressing buttons at random, until eventually I give up and go turn on the dishwasher.It has been, literally, years since I have successfully recorded a TV show.That is how “smart”my appliances have become.9、And now the appliance manfacturers want to give us even more features.Do you know what this means?It means that some night you’ll open the door of your “smart” refrigerator, looking for a beer, and you’ll hear a pleasant, cheerful voice-recorded by the same woman who informs you that Your Call Is Important when you call a business that does not wish to speak with you persinally-telling you: Your celery is Limp.”You will not know who else your refrigerator knows this, and, what is worse, you will not know how your refrigerator is telling about it( Hey, Bob! I hear your celery is limp!” ).And, if you want to try to make the refrigerator stop, you’ll have to decipher Owner’s Manual instructions written by and for nuclear physicists(“To disable th e Produce Crispness Monitoring feature, enter the Command Mode, then elect the Edit function, then select Change Vegetable Defaults, then assume that Train A leaves Chicago traveling westbound at 47 mph, while Train B…..”10、Is this the kind of future you want, consumers?Do you want appliances that are smarter than you?Your appliances should be dumber than you, just like your furniture, your pets and your represetatives in Congress.So Iam urging you to let the appliance industry know, by phone, letter, fax and e-mail, that when it comes to “smart”appliances, you vote NO.You need to act quickly. Because while you’re reading this, your microwave oven is voting YES.。