Unit Nine Computer and Life,Section Listening and Speaking Section Intensive Reading Section Grammar Section Applied Writing Section Reading Practice Section Cultural Tips,Section Listening and Speaking Travel by Train,Tune In Task 1 Directions: You will hear one word read from each group. Underline the letter beside the word you hear.,BACK,Task 2 Directions: In this part you will hear 10 sentences twice. Listen carefully and fill in the blanks.,Listen On,Task 1 Warming Up Patterns Learning,Task 2 Directions: In this part you will hear a dialogue twice. Listen carefully and fill in the blanks. Key Words due/ dju: / adj. 到期的；预期的 through/ru: / n.（火车）直达的；直通的,Task 3 Directions: Listen to the conversations twice and answer the questions. Key Words & Phrases schedule/edju:l / vt. 排定, 安排 return ticket 往返票,Task 4 Directions: Listen to a dialogue three times and write down your answer in no more than 3 words.,Speak Out,Task 1 Role-Play Directions: Complete the following five dialogues with the help of the sentences in the box and practice the dialogue with your partner. 1. The local stops at every station. 2. Its $ 25.00 one way or $ 45.00 for a weekend excursion. 3. May I have two lower berths? 4. Why dont we sit together? I wouldnt mind reading for a while. We can switch seats later on. 5. Thats about two hours from now.,1. A: When is the next train to New York? B: _ 2. A: Where does the local stop? B: _ 3. A: Whats the round-trip fare? B: _ 4. A: This express will go straight from Beijing to Shanghai without a stop. B: _ 5. A: Let me see. These seats must be ours. 13 A and B. And 15 C must be over there. B:_,Task 2 Role-play Directions: Give an introduction of China high-speed rail with the help of the given phrases and sentences. 1. To be the best way of getting around China. 2. To be clean, comfortable and modern. 3. All tickets are for assigned seats. 4. Prices are reasonable. 5. There are just two classes of tickets, first class and second class.,Section Intensive Reading,Preview Nowadays more and more people log onto the Internet to do something they want to. In this text the author gives us two examples to illustrate how useful the computer is in our daily life and we can know much about how to E-mail and shop on the Internet.,BACK,Text,E-mail and Shop Online With Internet, people can compose, send, and receive electronic mails. Many people get dozens of messages a day and consider it as their primary way of interacting with the outside world, far outdistancing the telephone and snail mail. E-mail is the most widely used service, you can exchange e-mail with millions of people all over the world. And people use e-mail for anything they might use paper mail or the telephone for. Mail, much more than any old Internet service, is connected to many non-Internet systems, which means that you can exchange mail with many people not on the Internet in addition to all the people who are on it.,In order to e-mail your message, you can first apply for an Internet account and get an e-mail address. Internet mail address has two parts, separated by “ (the “at“ sign). The part before the is the mailbox, which is (roughly speaking) your personal name, and the part after is the domain, usually the name of the computer you use. Sometimes the domain used is the group that contains all the local computers. The mailbox is usually your username (the name you use to log into your computer), so your address may be chen bc.org. Domain names are traditionally represented in uppercase (as in BC. ORG), and mailbox names in lowercase or mixed case (as in chen). If youre sending a message to another user in your domain, you can leave out the domain part altogether when you type the address.,After relevant arrangements, the main ones of which are to set your e-mail address, the address of the outgoing mail server and incoming mail server, you can send and receive mails. Sending mail is easy. You run your mail program and type the address you want to send mail to. It may ask you for a Subject Line and then you can type your message, you can say anything you want, and it can be as long as you want. E-mail is the most economical way of correspondence. You are charged on the basis of the time taken to send the e-mail on the Internet. Its destination makes no difference in the charge. To save money, youd better finish the letter before getting connected to the Internet.,Additionally, you can shop on the Internet. You can enter the shopping web sites or Internet stores, which will provide you with the prices, pictures and detailed instruction of the goods, which you enjoy. When you have made the decision, you may order according to the instructions. Then you can wait at home for the goods to be delivered to you. Then you can pay when you receive the go