Unit 3 Section Ⅰ Listening and Speaking & Reading and Thinking（课件PPT）- 2022-2023学年高一新教材英语必修第二册【勤径学升·同步练测】（人教版）

单击此处添加文本具体内容 UNIT3　THE INTERNET Section Ⅰ　Listening and Speaking & Reading and Thinking 　　Although the Internet is relatively new to the modern world,it has rapidly become part of our daily life.It has become one of the major media of communication and news resources in today’s society.It’s not a surprise that this infant medium would soon take the place of the traditional sources for news. [对应学生用书第49页] Section Ⅰ　Listening and Speaking & Reading and Thinking But can something so new be trusted?In a medium where anyone can create a web page,no one knows which news is fake and which news is real.At least with newspapers,we have our established names.And even with television,we think we can trust our nightly news report on the national television stations.Still,studies show that the Internet still is a main,if not the most significant,source for news. Section Ⅰ　Listening and Speaking & Reading and Thinking The Internet began as a connection of a few government computers used mainly for military (军事的) purposes.Then,very basic things began to grow out of it:such as download areas and simple e-mail.With the creation of HTML which could let you jump from site to site through links,“web browsers (浏览器)” were created.Then came the first web pages and the first bits of news whether the news was personal,local or national.The evolution of online news wasn’t slow.In fact,most of the growth took place within a single year. Section Ⅰ　Listening and Speaking & Reading and Thinking With the quick and recent influence of the Internet,it becomes difficult to differentiate between the more established news sources and the online medium.We know we can trust sites like MSNBC because they have an established name already in television news.But with journalists like Mike Drudge (who broke the Monica Lewinsky scandal),his site has been considered more of a “rumor center” than a source for legitimate news.Yet this does not prevent people from using the sites,as news websites offer the quicke