北师大版高中英语模块7--Unit 20 warm-up1

[00:01.36]Unit 20 New Frontiers  Warm-up
[00:05.46]Exercise 3 Listen to four extracts
[00:09.49]and identify these different programmes.
[00:12.81]1 It was announced today that the launch
[00:15.41]of the shuttle,taking a new crew
[00:17.11]to the international Space Station, Alpha,
[00:19.10]has been delayed due to bad weather
[00:20.65]at the Kennedy Space Center.
[00:22.31]The new international crew
[00:23.27]are planning to take over from the existing one
[00:25.23]and to carry out repairs on the solar panels,
[00:27.45]which suffered slight damage last week.
[00:31.04]2 Our next guest is Rosalind Picard
[00:34.65]from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[00:37.18]Good evening.Now Rosalind, you're the author
[00:39.56]of the book Emotional Computers
[00:41.55]and you're a pioneer in the field
[00:42.99]of "affective computing¹".
[00:44.95]What exactly is that?
[00:47.42]Well, basically, we are carrying out research
[00:49.57]into ways of producing computers
[00:51.21]that can sense our mood and react to us.
[00:53.89]This may sound like science fiction, but...
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1 computing   

n.计算

参考例句：

• to work in computing 从事信息处理
• Back in the dark ages of computing, in about 1980, they started a software company. 早在计算机尚未普及的时代（约1980年），他们就创办了软件公司。