UNIT 8研究生英语 教学 教程 课件.ppt

1. Which fields of business earn money very easily or quickly, do you think? 2. Computer industry has gone through three waves. What are they? 3. Can you name a few leading figures in computer technology? 1. What are the characteristics of the recent boom in technological advances, formations of new businesses, and personal fortunes? 2. What does the first wave of personal fortunes refer to? What do you know about hardware? Why is it called “tangible products”? 1. When did the Hewlett and Packard families start to make money? What did they produce? 2. What does Intel produce? Are Intel’s products used in the Macintosh? 3. Who is Gordon Moore? 4. What does Sun Microsystems produce? What do Cisco Systems and 3Com produce? 1. Who is Michael Dell? What does his company produce？ 2. How many people are richer than him in America? Who are they? 1. What examples of application software does the author give? 2. Which kind of products is more profitable, hardware or software? Why? 1. Which software company is the strongest in the world? Which is the second strongest? 1. What is Berners-Lee’s contribution to the development of information technology? 2. What are the purposes of HTML and HTTP? be underway (L. 2) take the crucial step (L. 7) bring about (L. 8) One is … Another… The third… (L. 9-12) 1. What important decision did Bill Gates make in 1995? navigate v. 航行，导航 navigation （L.1) navigator shift to ··· (L. 6) web-friendly (L. 7) 1. What did Netscape do in 1995? 1. How do Internet businesses make profits according to Paragraph 9 and 10? give access to (L. 3) online auction site (L. 5) charge a commission (L. 5) conclude a deal (L. 6) microroyalties (L. 3) an agreed portion of the money earned from a piece of writing, music, etc., paid to its author, musician, etc. 1. Does the author believe the theories about the sources of Internet profits? 2. What do you think is the author’s pur