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5. Green use means reducing the energy consumption of computers and other information systems as well as using them in an environmentally sound (harmless) manner. B．英译汉
在过去的几十年里，西方文明在迅速发展的同时也埋下了毁灭的种子。现代的生活方式以及所依赖的科学技术悄然把人们推向极其危险的境地——来自太阳表面喷射的等离子球将摧毁我们的电网，造成毁灭性的后果。单单想想这一大灾难就令人毛骨悚然。很难想象太阳就这么抹杀了我们含辛茹苦创造出来的大量成果。但是，这是很可能发生的。太阳表面释放着大量的等离子体——高能量粒子，一些从太阳表面逃逸，以太阳风的形式在太空中穿梭。有时太阳风携带着10亿吨的等离子球，即使一颗进入地球磁场，结果就可能是毁灭性的。
UNIT 7 Cell Phones手机
Read the text. Answer the given questions and translate the underlined sentences or paragraphs into Chinese.
What would life look like without cell phones? Today's hottest selling mobile phones are now loaded with features such as MP3 music players, TV, music and wireless photo printing. Cell phones have changed so much in the past few years that with every new product launch comes another big dilemma for the cellular
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manufacturers. How do you create the next big hit? How does the manufacturer separate the hits fiom the gimmicks, while trying to decipher what cell phone users really want or need in the near future? Industry insiders say the most popular phones will have advanced functions that are simple to customize for individual tastes.
Manufacturers believe that the success of the cell phone lies in the building and development of high-speed networks-to deliver services like video, music and high speed Internet. While these networks are now in operation the industry insiders are considering radical redesigns to phones, displays and services to ensure the new features are simple to use. Such developments, combined with software that allows users to customize their cell phone browser for services such as sports scores or news, could replace PDAs and other-gadgets. Cellular companies are also betting consumers will soon use phones for everything from watching TV to studying and writing school exams. Developers should now concentrate on designing exciting new looks for phones, since few things have more direct influence over a consumer's fickle buying behavior than the emotional response that the shape,color or look of a phone evokes. 1. What are the features of today's mobile phones?
2. What will manufactures face if they produce a new product?
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3. What should the most popular phones have?
4. What will people do with cell phones in the future? 5. Why does the writer mention \the emotional response\the last sentence? Exercises
A. Translate the following sentences into English.
1．如今不管男女老少几乎都拥有手机。
2．这种新的网络连接形式能使大量的数据得以快速地传输。 3．电子邮件正在取代(edge out)传真、电话、快速邮递。它缩短了科学合作者(scientific collaborators)之间的距离。 4．手机从发明到现在已有很长的历史，而且在技术方面有了长足的(by leaps and bounds)进步。
5．快速的数据传输速度可以帮助解决网络传输量巨大增长的问题。
B. Read the text and translate it into Chinese.
A group of scientists looked for many health threats from mobile phones. They found that radio waves may affect biological cells but this may not necessarily lead to any particular harm to the adult mobile user. This can't be said for small children though. Because their skulls and cells are still growing, it is easier for radio waves from mobile phone to enter their heads and their skin tends to absorb more radiation compared to adults.
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The hands-free phone has many benefits including the decrease in strength of radio wave radiation due to the increase in distance of your head to the handset. Rather than holding your mobile phone against your ear, which increases your exposure to radio waves, you can now place it on your lap and still talk to someone with an ear-piece cable. 【课文参考译文】
没有手机的生活会变得怎么样呢？今天畅销的手机都有MP3播放器、电视、音乐、无线相片打印等功能。手机在过去几年里的变化非常大，随着每次新产品的问世，手机制造商们都会再次陷入苦恼之中。该怎么创造下一代人气商品呢？制造商该怎样做才能了解手机使用者们不久的将来真正想要的东西，并且区分畅销与滞销的产品呢？业内人士指出最受欢迎的手机是具有能够简单地迎合顾客个人喜好的尖端功能的手机。
制造商相信手机的成功取决于高速网络的构建和开发以提供如影像或视频、音乐、高速互联网的服务。在这些网络运营的同时，业内人士正在考虑将电话、显示屏以及服务进行彻底的重新设计，使其新的功能使用简化。这些开发产品结合了一种让使用者可以在手机浏览器上定制体育比赛得分或新闻等服务的软件，可以代替PDA（掌上电脑）和其它装置。手机制造商确信，在不久的将来，消费者将用手机完成一切事务，从看电视到学习和学校考试。开发商们现在应当集中精力设计外形更吸引入的新
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手机，因为除了手机的外形、颜色或款式所引起的情绪反应外，还几乎没有别的东西对消费者多变的购买行为起到更直接的影响。
【参考答案】 阅读理解
1. They are loaded with (features such as) MP3 music players, TV, music and wireless photo printing. 2. They will face a big dilemma.
3. The most popular phones should have advanced functions to customize for individual tastes.
4. People will use phones for everything from watching TV to studying and writing school exams.
5. Because he thinks that it affects customers' buying behavior. 【练习参考答案】 A．汉译英
1. Today almost everyone, men and women, old and young, has a cell phone.
2. The new type of Internet connection could carry much data at a very high speed.
3. E-mail is starting to edge out the fax, the telephone, express mail, which shrinks distance between scientific collaborators.
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