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单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,Lesson 26,News Report 5,Aims,Learn about Spains credit rating,Learn about Microsofts 1st tablet computer,Talk about Internet civilization and security,3,1,2,Part A Sample News Reading,Notes：,1.Moodys Investors Service 穆迪投资者效劳公司,由约翰穆迪于1909年创立，对铁路债券进行信用评级。1913年，穆迪开始对公用事业和工业债券进行信用评级。穆迪公司的总部设在美国纽约，其股票在纽约证券交易所上市代码MCO，穆迪公司是国际权威投资信用评估机构，同时也是著名的金融信息出版公司。,2.The company said it acted because Spain is borrowing about 125 billion dollars in rescue loans for its banks.,译：该公司称调低的原因是因为西班牙借了近,1250,亿美元的救援贷款用于其银行。,3.That means that Moodys judges the credit risk of Spanish debt has moved from very low to moderate.,译：这意味着穆迪判定西班牙国债信用风险从极低变为中等。,4.Debt markets punished Spain by pushing up the interest rate on its long-term debt to about 6.8 percent.,译：债券市场对西班牙的惩罚是将其长期债务利率推高到了6.8%左右。,5.That increases Spains borrowing costs and hurts its already troubled economy.,译：这提升了西班牙的借贷本钱，并对该国本已陷入困境的经济造成伤害。,6.平板电脑英文：Tablet Personal Computer，简称Tablet PC、Flat Pc、Tablet、Slates，是一种小型、方便携带的个人电脑，以触摸屏作为根本的输入设备。平板电脑由比尔盖茨提出，应支持来自Intel、AMD和ARM的芯片架构，从微软提出的平板电脑概念产品上看，平板电脑就是一款无须翻盖、没有键盘、小到放入女士手袋，但却功能完整的PC。,7.,Microsoft will offer two versions of the Surface.Each has a different processor.The Surface for Windows RT runs on an ARM processor.It is less powerful than the Surface for Windows 8 Pro,which uses an Intel processor.,译：微软将推出两个版本的,Surface,。每个的处理器都不同。其中,Windows RT,版本采用了,ARM,处理器，比使用,Intel,处理器的,Windows 8 Pro,版本略差。,Part B Listening,I.Listen and complete the sentences.,If researchers want to know what happened on a,_,day,they often look at newspapers published on that day.But what would happen if newspapers were to stop,_,?Future researchers would likely turn to the Web.The Internet Archives Wayback Machine at Archive.org has for years saved,or archived,websites from the past.But it only does this once a day for,_,websites,and even less often for,_,websites.,particular,publishing,news,other,29-year-old reporter Ben Welsh decided to create a site _ to Archive.org.But he wanted to archive only news websites.And,he wanted to save their homepages more often.Mr.Welsh works for the Los Angeles _ newspaper in California.In May he _ PastPages.org.The website saves the homepages of 70 news websites from _ the world once an hour.Mr.Welsh says this _ of what he calls“harvesting is important in todays _ news environment.,similar,Times,created,around,schedule,Quickly-changing,II.Listen to the news report and choose the best answer to each of the following questions.,1.Which one of the following is NOT TRUE?,a.Superman,Batman and Spiderman are all comic book heroes.,b.Tom,Joe and Karen are all comic book heroes.,c.Joe Knight and Karen Berman are not real people.,d.Tom is the motorcycle shop owner in the book.,2.The book“Financial Intelligence:A Managers Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean was written _.,a.in 2006,b.this month,c.3 years ago,d.in 2004,3.Who was the book“Financial Intelligence written for?,a.Joe Knight.,b.Karen Berman.,c.Joe Knight and Karen Berman.,d.People who need to learn quickly about accounting.,4.Why did the book“Financial Intelligence:A Managers Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean become a best-seller?,a.The book explains,in simple ways,often-complex methods of keeping financial information.,b.The book is a combination of a textbook and a graphic novel.,c.The book was written for people who need to learn quickly about accounting.,d.The book provides the same information in easy-to-understand picture form.,5.Publisher SmarterComics released the book in the new form of _.,a.TV program,b.film,ic book,d.textbook,III.Listen to the news report and answer the questions orally.,1.What is the news mainly about?,The issue of Internet censorship.,2.What is Chinas largest microblogging service?,Sina Weibo.,3.What did it announce last week?,New policies that will restrict what its users can place online.,4.How does it serve its users?,It lets users publish text and pictures in real time.,5.Why did the Chinese government punish those microblogging services?,Because they failed to restrict the false reports.,6.According to the news,how many Internet users are there in China?,More than 513 million.,Part C Speaking,Work in pairs and talk about Internet civilization and,security.,Tips:,How often do you surf the Internet?Are you a good netizen and well-behaved blogger?,What do you think of those who talk dirty on the net?Have you ever read or spread any false stories online?Have you even met any online fraud?How have you dealt with them?,If you were a government official,what would you do to improve Internet civilization and security?,
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