高中英语人教版高三2 04

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[00:00.00]和谐英语学习网 Unit 18              Office equipment
[00:05.49]Lesson 69            1 Reading comprehension
[00:12.43]Read the text fast and choose the right title for each section:
[00:19.88]The photocopier      The answering machine
[00:25.16]The fax machine      The word processor
[00:30.62]THE OFFLCE
[00:33.96]Offices cannot work properly without certain important pieces of equipment.
[00:41.61]One of the first jobs when you start work in an office
[00:46.79]is to learn how to use every piece of equipment.
[00:51.75]Once you have done this,you will quickly become a useful member of the team.
[00:58.59]It is better to ask for help at the beginning
[01:04.16]rather than to wait until a busy period when everyone is rushed off their feet.
[01:11.73]The fax has greatly changed office work,especially in China.
[01:19.39]When you place a sheet of paper in a fax machine,
[01:25.13]the machine"reads"the writing on the page
[01:30.10]and changes the shapes of letters into electronic signals.
[01:36.05]It then sends these signals down an ordinary telephone line to another fax macine,
[01:42.90]which changes the signals back into the shapes of letters.
[01:48.15]Yor can imagine how useful this is,particularly in countries like China and Japan,
[01:55.30]which use written characters not letters.
[01:59.98]It is also useful for sending pictures,designs,maps and so on.
[02:06.75]Sending a fax is more expensive than posting a letter,but much quicker.
[02:13.90]For example,you can send information abroad immediately,
[02:20.15]but mailing a letter might take a week or so.
[02:25.19]If you want to send a letter to an office abroad that is in a different time zone,
[02:32.35]you can send a fax,and it will be received even though the office is not open.
[02:39.32]There are two other points to consider.
[02:44.18]First,remember that a fax can be read by anyone,so be careful what you send!
[02:51.73]Second,do not start faxing everything!
[02:56.80]It is much cheaper to post or email a long report than to fax it.
[03:03.56]This makes copies,using a mirror,a roller and special black powder.
[03:11.61]Modern machines can make the copy bigger or smaller,
[03:17.77]lighter or darker and copy onto both sides of the paper.
[03:24.15]It can copy a long report and sort the copies and pin them together.
[03:30.99]There is a new type of machine which can produce colour copies.
[03:37.05]All machines are slightly different,
[03:41.31]so you need a short lesson when you start work in a new office.
[03:47.68]This combines a typewriter keyboard,a printer and a computer.
[03:55.23]When you type a letter,the writing appears on a screen in front of you
[04:02.70]and is recorded onto a computer disk.
[04:07.14]When you have finished the letter,
[04:11.59]you make any changes you wish,check it and print it.
[04:17.54]If it is a long report,it is easy to make changes to the text.
[04:24.02]Then,instead of spending maybe five hours typing the report again,
[04:31.46]you can print the new copy in one minute!
[04:35.72]This is a telephone with a tape recorder.
[04:41.08]When there is no one in the office,
[04:46.04]you can leave the answering machine on
[04:49.88]so that people who call you up can leave a message.
[04:54.84]When you return to the office the following moring or after the holiday,
[05:01.51]you can listen to the messages and take any necessary action.
[05:06.83]Many offices use answering machines to give information.
[05:12.89]Imagine a railway station,a bus company or a cinema,
[05:19.35]which many people need to ring to find out the times of trains,buses or films.
[05:23.71]You can print the telephone number of your information service in the newspaper.
[05:29.64]Then,instead of having someone answering the phone all day,
[05:35.80]people can ring up the railway station
[05:39.85]and listen to a tape recording of the information.
[05:44.53]What is more,this"information line"operates 24 hours a day.