听力在高考中也占据了很大的一部分分数,同学在学校学习英语一般都是学习语法和发音但是听力也是非常重要的,以下是小编整理的《Computers》这课课文单词发音和课文内容朗读,口语和听力不够好的同学可以跟着一起学习一下。
Over time I have been changed quite a lot. I began as a calculating machine in France in 1642. Although I was young I could simplify difficult sums. I developed very slowly and it took nearly two hundred years before I was built as an analytical machine by Charles Babbage. After I was programmed by an operator who used cards with holes, I could "think" logically and produce an answer quicker than any person. At that time it was considered a technological revolution and the start of my "artificial intelligence". In 1936 my real father, Alan Turing, wrote a book about how I could be made to work as a "universal machine" to solve any difficult mathematical problem. From then on, I grew rapidly both in size and in brainpower. By the 1940s I had grown as large as a room, and I wondered if I would grow any larger. However, this reality also worried my designers. As time went by, I was made smaller. First as a PC (personal computer) and then as a laptop, I have been used in offices and homes since the 1970s.(点击阅读
Computers原文及电子课本)
二、Computers听力单词
1. calculate v: count
2. common adj: belonging equally the same to all
3. universal adj: present or occurring everywhere
4. intelligence n [U]: mental ability to learn and understand things
5. anyway adv: anyhow
6. totally adv: completely
7. advantage n: favorable factors
8. disagree vi: be unlike or have a different opinion
9. choice n: the act of choosing
10. material n: matter from which things are made
11.create v: to cause to be or exist
12. arise (arose, arisen) vi: come into being