大学英语 College English Unit 7 Science and Technology

大学英语(上) College english(士)

大学英语（上） College English (Ⅰ)

Unit 7 Science and Technology By FENG Pengpeng

Unit 7 Science and Technology By FENG Pengpeng

Outline 口 Text a conversation The company That Wasn't a Text b internet issues 口 Exercises ■ Conversation Reading comprehension Vocabulary and structure ■C|oze ■ Translation ■ Writing

Outline  Text A Conversation: The Company That Wasn’t  Text B Internet Issues  Exercises ◼ Conversation ◼ Reading Comprehension ◼ Vocabulary and Structure ◼ Cloze ◼ Translation ◼ Writing

Text a Conversation The Company That Wasnt a The company that wasn't a company (in the traditional sense)

Text A Conversation: The Company That Wasn’t  The company that wasn’t a company (in the traditional sense)

Text: an overview D Ann finds smith Investment Company a respected local firm is looking for someone speaking Chinese for some translation work she sends an e-mail to the contact person and gets the chance for an interview

Text: An Overview  Ann finds Smith Investment Company, a respected local firm, is looking for someone speaking Chinese for some translation work. She sends an e-mail to the contact person and gets the chance for an interview

a Receptionist: May i help you? 日Ann: Yes, my name is Ann and工 have a two o'clock appointment with ms. andrea o Brien 口 Receptionist: Please have a seat she'll be with you soon

 Receptionist: May I help you?  Ann: Yes, my name is Ann, and I have a two o’clock appointment with Ms. Andrea O’Brien.  Receptionist: Please have a seat. She’ll be with you soon

a Andrea: Ann? Good afternoon ! I' Andrea O Brien. Nice to meet you a Ann: Nice to meet you, too. Sorry I'm a little late. I'm not sure if i had the right address or not i was expecting a large office building D Andrea: Well, we used to have our own building downtown. But now we created this virtual office environment

 Andrea: Ann? Good afternoon! I’m Andrea O’Brien. Nice to meet you.  Ann: Nice to meet you, too. Sorry I’m a little late… I’m not sure if I had the right address or not. I was expecting a large office building…  Andrea: Well, we used to have our own building downtown. But now we created this virtual office environment

Q Ann: Oh yeah I heard about these types of companies, but exactly how does a virtual office work? d Andrea: It's pretty simple really about everything is done with a computer and a telephone all we had to do was move the equipment in the old building to the homes of our employees and hook them up to our network

 Ann: Oh yeah! I heard about these types of companies, but exactly how does a virtual office work?  Andrea: It’s pretty simple, really. About everything is done with a computer and a telephone. All we had to do was move the equipment in the old building to the homes of our employees and hook them up to our network

Q Ann: This is really interesting. But don't people ever need to come into the office Q Andrea: No not really. they can do their job easily from home via the Internet. Whenever they do have a scheduled meeting they always go to their client's office or home

 Ann: This is really interesting. But don’t people ever need to come into the office?  Andrea: No, not really. They can do their job easily from home via the Internet. Whenever they do have a scheduled meeting, they always go to their client’s office or home

O Ann: But what about your own staff meeting? O Andrea: We rely on teleconferencing, holding open discussion on the phone O Ann That's pretty amazing. so, what's this office for?

 Ann: But what about your own staff meeting?  Andrea: We rely on teleconferencing, holding open discussion on the phone.  Ann: That’s pretty amazing. So, what’s this office for?