当代研究生英语读写教程（上课件Unit1TextA.ppt

Unit 1 Content Warming-up-1 Have you heard of the Second Life? Watch the video and then have a discussion about it. Group discussion 1. Questions:  1) Do you often surf on Internet and do you rely on it in everyday life ?  2) How do you make use of the cyberspace? 3) What do you think is the best way to avoid undesirable materials, such as pornography, in cyberspace?2. Each group appoint one representative to give a presentation about the group’s discussion. You can also find some ideas from the map on the next page. Text A CYBERSPACE: IF YOU DON’T LOVE IT, LEAVE IT  Esther Dyson Reading—Text A Main Idea and Structure First reading: Scan the text and try to catch the main idea. The following words are for your reference to organize the idea: Cyberspace, voluntary, composition, communities, evolvement, identify, labeling, individual choice, responsibility Paras.1-2 1 Something in the American psyche loves new frontiers. We hanker after wide-open spaces; we like to explore; we like to make rules but refuse to follow them. But in this age it’s hard to find a place where you can go and be yourself without worrying about the neighbors. 2 There is such a place: cyberspace. Formerly a playground for computer fans, cyberspace now embraces every conceivable constituency: schoolchildren, flirtatious singles, Hungarian-Americans, accountants. Can they all get along? Or will our fear of kids surfing for dirty pictures behind their bedroom doors provoke a crackdown? Paras.3-4 3 The first order of business is to grasp what cyberspace is. It might help to leave behind metaphors of highways and frontiers and to think instead of real estate.2 Real estate, remember, is an intellectual, legal, artificial environment constructed on top of land. Real estate recognizes the difference between parkland and shopping mall, between red-light zone3