4．go by(时间)流逝；超过；经过

5．as a result结果

6．so...that...如此......以至于......

Ⅲ.重点句式

1．before引导时间状语从句

I developed very slowly and it took nearly two hundred years before I was built as an analytical machine by Charles Babbage.

我发育缓慢，差不多到了两百年之后，查尔斯·巴比奇才把我制成了一台分析机。

2．as引导时间状语从句

As time went by，I was made smaller.

随着时间的推移，我被制造得更小了。

3．不定式作表语

Anyhow，my goal is to provide humans with a life of high quality.

不管怎样，我的目标是为人类提供高质量的生活。

Ⅰ.课文判断正(T)误(F)

1．Alan Turing built an analytical machine to solve any mathematical problem.(F)

2．People began to realize that the computer got cleverer and quicker with time passing by.(T)

3．The computer wasn't able to share knowledge with others through the World Wide Web until in the 1970s they gave it a family connected by a network.(F)

4．Since the 1970s，the computer was used by people around the world through the Internet.(T)

5．The larger the computer is，the more memory it has.(F)

Ⅱ.课文阅读理解

1．"I" in the passage refers to .

A．a TV set B．a computer

C．a radio D．the Internet

答案　B