Lesson 4 Text At the forefront of information technology Micorsoft Office 97 may create （).

The Dyson, a world leader in information technology and electronic device, employs 1,135 people at its headquarters in Shanghai. The company has an annual turnover of $130 million and Dyson computers are sold all around the world. In addition, the company has won many design awards and, most surprising of all, Dyson computers are on display in several of the world leading office equipment trade fairs.

Clothes, decorations, physique, hair and facial features give a great deal of information about us. For instance, we wear clothes to keep us warm,【C1】______ unlike animals, we do not have a protective covering of hair. But for the【C2】______ of communication, we【C3】______ in clothes of different colors, styles and materials; we use cosmetics and perfume; we【C4】______ beards and sideburns.

Strict【C5】 ______ govern the clothes we wear. We do not wear football boots with a dinner jacket,【C6】______ a boiler suit to work in an insurance office. Fashionable and smart【C7】______ are associated with good qualities and well-dressed people have been【C8】______ to get more help and cooperation from【C9】______ strangers. For example, a woman is. often given more【C10】______ of help with her broken-down car when she is dressed【C11】 ______ than when she is dressed less appealingly.

Rebels consider themselves to be【C12】______ from other people in society, and often【C13】______ their physical appearance to show this. In the last two decades in Britain there【C14】______ a number of youth movements with【C15】______ uniforms.

But in our modern society some people also choose【C16】______ clothes to project their personalities. 【C17】______ types wear brighter colors than more reserved people. Some people wear odd【C18】______ of clothes to express their individuality. For example, someone【C19】______ give an impression of high social status,【C20】______ origin and bad temper by wearing an expensive suit.

【C1】

A．when

B．because

C．so

D．but

阅读理解：根据文章内容，判断正误。

The Internet has been perhaps the greatest innovation in information technology. It has become an important tool with many advantages.

First, the Internet is a treasure house of information and knowledge on any topic. It is common practice now to search the web for resources and information for homework, office presentations, work projects and studies, etc.

Second, there are more and more massive open online courses (MOOCs). These MOOCs make it possible for people to carry out their learning any place around the world, and any time around the clock. As long as the learners have access to a digital device which is linked up to the Internet, they can enjoy browsing the pages or watching video lectures. In doing so, they have opportunities to learn from professors they otherwise would not be able to access.

Third, entertainment is one of the leading reasons people like the Web. Listening to music, playing games, watching movies, following the latest news about famous sports stars, movie stars and singers and looking into lifestyle. websites have become day-to-day activities of many Internet users.

One cannot imagine a social life without QQ or WeChat. These social apps have become our means for staying connected with friends, colleagues and family members, and staying in touch with the world.

Last but not least, we can do shop and do other businesses online. We can order goods, books, tickets and pay bills without having to leave our homes or offices.

操作提示：正确选T，错误选F。

1. You can use the Internet to do a lot of things.{T; F}

2. Now, only a few people know how to search the web for resources and information.{T; F}

3. With the Internet, one can learn online anytime and anywhere.{T; F}

4. QQ and WeChat are mentioned in the text as online shopping apps.{T; F}

5. You can order online, but you must go to a bank to pay your bills.{T; F}

—Look at the statements and the short news below.

—Which news does each statement 1-7 refer to.

—For each sentence, mark one letter A, B, C or D oh your Answer Sheet.

—You will need to some of the letters more than once.

A

The Santa Cruz Operation Incorporate (SCO), a US-based software developer, opened a representative office in Beijing yesterday.

Founded in 1979, SCO has become the world's leading developer and supplier of software for UNIX systems. The new office in Beijing will bring SCO closer to Chinese customers and help it understand the massive Chinese market better, said Lars Turndal, SCO'S president and chief executive officer. SCO will mainly target government, departments, key industries and service institutions.

B

US computer giant International Business Machines (IBM) last week announced that it will invest at least $100 million in information technology projects in China. This makes IBM the first foreign company to become involved in the country's top information infrastructure project,

C

Coca-Cola has been voted the top international company in Asia, according to a recent survey published by the Far Eastern Economic Review, a major Asian magazine. Readers of this and other prominent Asian economic magazines choose Coca-Cola from among 500 large international companies in Asia. Cola-Cola is now the world's largest beverage company serving 685 million drinks per day in more than 195 countries.

D

GRD, the manufacturing giant, plans to cut 1,500 jobs at its Portland factory over the next five years after union refusal to increase productivity. As a result, GRD have been forced to downsize the Portland plant.

One of the purposes of entering China is to have a better idea of Chinese market.

Clothes, decorations, physique, hair and facial (1)_____ give a great deal of information about us. For instance, we wear clothes to keep us warm, (2)_____ unlike animals we do not have a protective (3)_____ of hair. But for the purpose of communication, we dress (4)_____ clothes of different colours, style. and material; we wear jewellery and other valuables; we use cosmetics and perfume; we (5)_____ beards and sideburns; and we smoke pipes and carry walking sticks.

Strict rules govern the clothes we wear. We do not, wear football boots with a dinner-jacket, (6)_____ a boiler suit to work in an insurance office. A clerk on Wall Street will wear more formal dress than someone in a (7)_____ job in a country town. Fashionable and smart (8)_____ are associated with good qualities, and well-dressed people have been (9)_____ to get more help and cooperation from (10)_____ strangers. For example, a woman is often given more (11)_____ of help with her broken-down car when she is dressed attractively than when she is dressed less (12)_____.

Rebels consider themselves to be different from other people in society, and often (13)_____ their physical appearance to show this. In the last two decades in Britain there have been a number of (14)_____ movements with distinct uniforms. Hippies did not just wear simple clothes but dressed in a particular style. that made them instantly (15)_____.

But in our modern society some people (16)_____ choose particular clothes to project the personalities. (17)_____ types wear brighter colours than more reserved people. Some people wear odd (18)_____ of clothes to express their individuality. For example, someone (19)_____ give an impression of high social status, (20)_____ origin and bad temper by wearing an expensive suit.

A．features

B．appearance

C．aspects

D．looks

Chart information details to be used in ECDIS should be the latest edition of information originated by a government-authorized hydrographic office and conform. to the standards of(the)().

A.International Maritime Organization

B.International Hydrographic Organization

C.NASA

D.US Coast Guard

The Hammersmith Hospital in West London, home of the Royal Post-graduate Medical School has been the scene(发生地点) of many innovations in medicine. It is now home(中心地,根据地) to the most expensive and ambitious medical technology project ever in Britain, which this year will make the Hammersmith the world's first fully digital hospital. The paper-free office brought about by computerization and modern information technology is familiar to(为……所熟悉) many office workers today. It has taken longer for the same technology to be applied to medical imaging(医学影像学), because of the immense computing power and high cost o the equipment required.

But now the Hammersmith is becoming the first hospital in which all imaging data-- X-rays, ultrasonic ,CT and MRI images--are stored not on cumbersome, inflammable films but as digital data on optical discs. The first consequence of this can be seen in the air-conditioned computer room in the new building, where two compact(坚实的,结实的) cabinets each about as tall as a man and 0.6m wide are ready to store every X-ray and scan made at the Hammersmith in the next 16 years on optical discs(光盘).

Space saving is the most obvious but not the most important advantage of the digital h6spital. A consultant conducting a clinic with a workstation linked by fibre optics(光纤) to the data store has no need of cumbersome trolleys loaded with patients' X-rays. The new technology considerably reduces the exposure to ionizing (电离的) radiation needed to get pictures doctors need, corresponding to reducing the slight but inevitable health risk that come with repeated X-rays.

X-rays record their images on fluorescent(荧光的) plates, lasers read off and store the data and the plates are wiped clean to use again. This requires less radiation than conventional(常规的) imaging. The ability to enhance imaging also reduces the need for extra exposures.

Another advantage is that any stored image can be sent to any of the hospital's 138 workstations in four seconds(soon that will come down(降落) to two seconds). Soon it will be possible to send it direct to other hospitals, or to computer screens in GP's(全科医生) clinics.

PACS(图像存档通讯系统) is the most expensive single medical technology project ever funded in UK. Most of the money has come from the Department of Health, which has realized that it will benefit patients at the Hammersmith Hospital and those referred from elsewhere, in terms of(按照) better, quicker and safer diagnosis and treatment.

Another technique uses radio a belled(用放射性同位素示踪的) white blood cells to guide doctors to the sites of hidden abscesses(脓肿) or other trouble spots.

In the most innovative technique of all, interventional(干预的,介入的) radiology, doctors use tiny instruments at the ends of fine catheters(导管), inserted deep into the body under local anaesthetic, to perform. a growing amount of microsurgery, viewed by surgeons—and patients if appropriate—in extremely clear detail. Every scrap(碎片,段) of unwanted image is electronically edited off the screen by the computer.

The Hammersmith Hospital is also pioneering interventional radiography, in which doctor carry out microsurgery at the same time as they image the patients' organs in minute detail. The blocking or unblocking of arteries to prevent damage due to bleeding or thrombosis(血栓形成) is among the conditions now being treated in this way.

The Hammersmith Hospital______.

A．is located in the west of London

B．takes the lead in medical innovations

C．has more advanced and modern medical technology than any other hospital in Britain.

D．all of the above

第一篇

The Hammersmith Hospital in West London, home of the Royal Post-graduate Medical School has been the scene(发生地点) of many innovations in medicine. It is now home(中心地,根据地) to the most expensive and ambitious medical technology project ever in Britain, which this year will make the Hammersmith the world's first fully digital hospital. The paper-free office brought about by computerization and modern information technology is familiar to(为……所熟悉) many office workers today. It has taken longer for the same technology to be applied to medical imaging(医学影像学), because of the immense computing power and high cost o the equipment required.

But now the Hammersmith is becoming the first hospital in which all imaging data-- X-rays, ultrasonic ,CT and MRI images--are stored not on cumbersome, inflammable films but as digital data on optical discs. The first consequence of this can be seen in the air-conditioned computer room in the new building, where two compact(坚实的,结实的) cabinets each about as tall as a man and 0.6m wide are ready to store every X-ray and scan made at the Hammersmith in the next 16 years on optical discs(光盘).

Space saving is the most obvious but not the most important advantage of the digital h6spital. A consultant conducting a clinic with a workstation linked by fibre optics(光纤) to the data store has no need of cumbersome trolleys loaded with patients' X-rays. The new technology considerably reduces the exposure to ionizing (电离的) radiation needed to get pictures doctors need, corresponding to reducing the slight but inevitable health risk that come with repeated X-rays.

X-rays record their images on fluorescent(荧光的) plates, lasers read off and store the data and the plates are wiped clean to use again. This requires less radiation than conventional(常规的) imaging. The ability to enhance imaging also reduces the need for extra exposures.

Another advantage is that any stored image can be sent to any of the hospital's 138 workstations in four seconds(soon that will come down(降落) to two seconds). Soon it will be possible to send it direct to other hospitals, or to computer screens in GP's(全科医生) clinics.

PACS(图像存档通讯系统) is the most expensive single medical technology project ever funded in UK. Most of the money has come from the Department of Health, which has realized that it will benefit patients at the Hammersmith Hospital and those referred from elsewhere, in terms of(按照) better, quicker and safer diagnosis and treatment.

Another technique uses radio a belled(用放射性同位素示踪的) white blood cells to guide doctors to the sites of hidden abscesses(脓肿) or other trouble spots.

In the most innovative technique of all, interventional(干预的,介入的) radiology, doctors use tiny instruments at the ends of fine catheters(导管), inserted deep into the body under local anaesthetic, to perform. a growing amount of microsurgery, viewed by surgeons—and patients if appropriate—in extremely clear detail. Every scrap(碎片,段) of unwanted image is electronically edited off the screen by the computer.

The Hammersmith Hospital is also pioneering interventional radiography, in which doctor carry out microsurgery at the same time as they image the patients' organs in minute detail. The blocking or unblocking of arteries to prevent damage due to bleeding or thrombosis(血栓形成) is among the conditions now being treated in this way.

The Hammersmith Hospital______.

A. is located in the west of London

B. takes the lead in medical innovations

C. has more advanced and modern medical technology than any other hospital in Britain.

D. all of the above

An office is the "brain" of a business. In an office, figures, lists and information are compiled which tell the managers or heads of the business what is happening in their shops or factories. These figures guide the managers【51】telling them what has happened and what is happening.

Information comes into an office in all sorts of【52】but the main items of information come

in regularly. It is part of the job of the clerks to collect and classify that information and to put it into a form. that is easily interpreted and understood. Offices collect information, then they【53】it.

This work of collection is common in an office from the sorting of mail every morning to the accountant's work in finding【54】the final figure for year's profit.【55】always requires the arrangement of the same kind of information, often into lists or columns. For this work, correctness, accuracy and speed, as in all office work, are essential.

There is no value,【56】, in collecting the figures【57】mean nothing.【58】are guides which should help us【59】decisions. The interpretation of information and of tables should tell us where success or【60】lies, where profit can be had and where【61】occur. On this kind of information and from the known figures, a choice is【62】and a series of such choices may make a policy.

A firm which has three factories may find,【63】. instance, from its figures, that one factory is losing money and a choice may lie between either a change of manager, a cut in production, an increase in production【64】closure of the factory. Whichever one of these decisions is taken becomes the policy. It is clear【65】a decision leading to a policy can only be as good【66】 the information【67】which it is based.

Consequently there is a constant search【68】more and more exact information. Managers will want to have all the necessary facts【69】they can make the best decision and it is normal for【70】to seek for more and more information.

(51)

Where can listeners get additional information?

A．At a project office.

B．At a website.

C．On 25th Street.

D．At the Town Hall.