《計算機專業(yè)英語（第2版）》在《計算機專業(yè)英語》第一版的基礎之上對部分課文和閱讀材料的內容做了更新。以計算機科學和網絡技術為背景，精選了16篇主題針對計算機進行概括描述的英語文章。內容涉及到計算機的歷史和未來、計算機操作、軟件和硬件的安裝與使用、病毒、黑客、網絡搜索與網絡安全等各個領域。《計算機專業(yè)英語（第2版）》中的語言具有較強的時代氣息，內容具有較強的可讀性。每一課的內容包括：課文、單詞、難句分析、語法、技能訓練和閱讀材料。為了方便閱讀，在每課課文前面都有摘要和關鍵詞。書后附有每篇課文的參考譯文和練習答案，并附有一份全書的綜合練習自測題和參考答案。
《計算機專業(yè)英語（第2版）》可作為高職高專計算機專業(yè)或相關專業(yè)的英語教材，也可供自學者和計算機愛好者使用。
《計算機專業(yè)英語》自2003年第一版發(fā)行之后，受到讀者的歡迎，至今已印刷了7次，并被教育部評為普通高等教育“十一五”國家級規(guī)劃教材。為了適應計算機領域瞬息萬變的知識更新的形勢，更好地促進教學，《計算機專業(yè)英語》第二版對教材內容做了更新。這次更新不僅是對課文和閱讀材料的內容選擇上進行更新，而且吸收國外教材注重實用的理念，對語法、練習、技能訓練等部分也進行了修改。同時在全書的結構編排上，也做了相應的調整。第二版中將課文增加至16課，并在書后增加了一份綜合練習自測題，以幫助讀者復習和自我評估。
21世紀高職高專教育的發(fā)展是以應用型與專業(yè)理論型教育并存、共同發(fā)展為特征的教育模式。本科的教學往往是偏重理論教育，學生實踐能力普遍偏弱，與生產實踐脫離較遠，而專科又是本科的濃縮。因此，解決現階段出現的教育現狀與社會需求嚴重脫節(jié)問題的最好的辦法是大力發(fā)展高等職業(yè)教育。高職高專教育是高等教育的重要組成部分，具有高等教育和職業(yè)教育的雙重屬性，其教學目的是使學生既掌握所學專業(yè)的基礎知識和基本理論，又掌握該專業(yè)應具備的職業(yè)技能，并具有運用所學知識分析和解決實際問題的綜合能力，從而成為各行業(yè)的中高級專門人才。國家已經認識到發(fā)展高等職業(yè)教育對我國建設的重要性，并加大力度重點發(fā)展高等職業(yè)教育，這主要體現在：
（1）重點發(fā)展高職，新擴招的學生主要是高職；
（2）原來的大專逐步向高職發(fā)展；
（3）成人教育也要辦成高職類型。
高職教育將和全日制普通高等教育并列成為我國重要的高等教育形式。目前我國已有高職高專學校1000多所，現正在逐步向本科和研究生層次發(fā)展。高職教育的蓬勃發(fā)展正面臨如下問題：1）知識更新快；2）每節(jié)課需傳遞的信息量增大；3）實踐性強，實驗教學占主要地位；4）現有的高校教學經驗不適合高職的教學要求；5）師資的知識結構還要改變和更新；6）現階段沒有既定的、完善的教學大綱和教材。
教材建設工作是高職高專教學工作中重要的組成部分，根據1999年教育部高教司主持召開的全國高職高專教材工作會議精神，我們組織編寫了本套高職高專規(guī)劃教材。本套教材具有高職高專的特色，注重對學生實際操作能力的培養(yǎng)，適合當前高職高專的教學需要，希望在教學中能起到拋磚引玉的作用。本套教材有以下特點：
（1）以實用為主兼顧最基本的理論知識。本套教材以涵蓋網絡專業(yè)、多媒體專業(yè)、信息管理專業(yè)、電腦藝術設計專業(yè)、會計電算化專業(yè)和電子商務專業(yè)等多個專業(yè)的教學用書。
（2）本套教材的基礎部分以公共課為主要講述內容，專業(yè)部分以實用技術為主，并以實例貫穿全書進行講述。對個別實用性極強的內容，采用以實例教學的方式闡述，用實例講解該技術的具體操作方法。
Lesson One
Text： Installation Steps ofa Desktop Board
New Words
Sentence Explanations
Grammar： Word-formation in the Computer Fields
Exercises （ I ）
Skill Training： Conversation at an Office
Exercises （II）
Reading Materials （A）： Information Technology
Reading Materials （B）. Commonly Used Computer Terms
Lesson Two
Text： Peripherals
New Words
Sentence Explanations
Grammar- The Parts of Speech and Their Use
Exercises （ I ）
Skill Training： Key Words
Exercises （ II ）
Reading Materials （A）： The Features of CD-RW Drive
Reading Materials （B）. Commonly Used Computer Terms
Lesson Three
Text： Learn a Language Online
New Words
Sentence Explanations
Grammar： Verbs and the Components of a Sentence
Exercises （ I ）
Skill Training： Abstract
Exercises （ II ）
Reading Materials （A） ： China Races to Supplant India in Software.
Reading Materials （B） ： Commonly Used Computer Terms
Lesson Four
Text： Interact Morals Watchdog Guards Against Viruses as Well.
New Words
Sentence Explanations
Grammar： The Tenses
Exercises （ I ）
Then and Now
Skill Training： Business Card
Exercises （ II ）
Reading Materials （A）： Dont Bug Me!
Reading Materials （B）： Commonly Used Computer Terms
Lesson Five
Text： How the Internet Works
New Words
Sentence Explanations
Grammar： The Passive Voice
Exercises （ I ）
Skill Training： Superscription
Exercises （ II ）
Reading Materials （A）： Google Leading Role oflntemet...
Reading Materials （B）： Commonly Used Computer Terms
Lesson Six
Text： Voice Recognition Not Science Fiction
New Words
Sentence Explanations
Grammar： The Subjunctive Mood
Exercises （ I ）
Skill Training： Notice
Exercises （ II ）
Reading Materials （A）： Using a Modem
Reading Materials （B）： Commonly Used Computer Terms
Lesson Seven
Text： Using Ants as Models for New Distributed Systems
New Words
Sentence Explanations
Grammar： The Infinitive
Exercises （ I ）
Skill Training： The Structure of a Letter
Exercises （ II ）
Reading Materials （A）： End of the PC Era
Reading Materials （B）： Commonly Used Computer Terms
Lesson Eight
Text： A New Programming Language Java
New Words
Sentence Explanations
Grammar： Past Participle and Present Participle
Exercises （ I ）
Skill Training： Commonly-used Opening Sentences and Closing Sentences of Letters
Exercises （ II ）
Reading Materials （A）：A Mobile Computer Team Services Sick Machines.
Reading Materials （B）： Commonly Used Computer Terms
Lesson Nine
Text： Plug-and-Play Robots
New Words
Sentence Explanations
Grammar： Gerund
Exercises （ I ）
Skill Training： Letter Writing
Exercises （ II ）
Reading Materials （A）： A Guide to Computers and Plug-ins on the Internet
Reading Materials （B）： Commonly Used Computer Terms
Lesson Ten
Text： Caught in the Web of the Internet
New Words
Sentence Explanations
Grammar： Non-finite Forms of Verbs
Exercises （ I ）
Skill Training： Introduction to Company Organizations
Exercises （ II ）
Reading Materials （A）： Eleven Commandments by Bill Gates
Reading Materials （B）： Commonly Used Computer Terms
Lesson Eleven
Text： Hackers Are Enemy Number One on the Intemet
New Words
Sentence Explanations
Grammar： Noun Clause
Exercises （ I ）
Skill Training： Invitation Card
Exercises （ II ）
Reading Materials （A）： The Information Superhighway： From Expectation to Realization
Reading Materials （B）： Commonly Used Computer Terms
Lesson Twelve
Text： The Challenges of Using Search Agents to Perform Research on the World Wide Web
New Words
Sentence Explanations
Grammar： Adjective Clause
Exercises （ I ）
Skill Training： Job Interview .
Exercises （ II ）
Reading Materials （A）： Safe Sex for Your Computer
Reading Materials （B）： Commonly Used Computer Terms
Lesson Thirteen
Text： Bill Gates Speech to Tsinghua University
New Words
Sentence Explanations
Grammar： Adverbial Clauses
Exercises （ I ）
Skill Training： Resume
Exercises （ II ）
Reading Materials （A）： Help! How Do I Set Up and Send an Online Resume?
Reading Materials （B）： Commonly Used Computer Terms
Lesson Fourteen
Text： The Ancient History of the Intemet
New Words
Sentence Explanations
Grammar： Inverted Word-order
Exercises （ I ）
Skill Training： Personal Statement
Exercises （ II ）
Reading Materials （A）： Father of Internet Surprised by 600 Million Followers
Reading Materials （B）： Commonly Used Computer Terms
Lesson Fifteen
Text： XPs Do-It-Yourself Security
New Words
Sentence Explanations
Grammar： Complex Sentences Analysis
Exercises （ I ）
Skill Training： Advertisement
Exercises （ II ）
Reading Materials （A）： One Number Gets lt All Phone， Fax or Voice Mail .
Reading Materials （B）： Commonly Used Computer Terms
Lesson Sixteen
Text： Talk of Cooperation Is Out as the Software Industry Prepares for Another Period of Sweeping Change
New Words
Sentence Explanations
Grammar： Samples of Complex Sentences Analysis
Exercises （ I ）
Skill Training： Agreement （Contract）
Exercises （ II ）
Reading Materials （A）： Just Imagine. What Computers Cant Do ?
Reading Materials （B）： Commonly Used Computer Terms
Reference Translation and Answers
Complex Exercises
Bibliograohy
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Yahoo fired a loud shot back at Google by agreeing to buy Overture Services Inc.Yahoo agreed to pay $1.63 billion in cash and stock for Overture， months after buyinganother search-technology specialist， Inktomi， for $235 million. The moves will letYahoo reduce its dependence on Google， currently the primary search engine for Yahoosearches.
Microsoft is also waking up to the power of Google and racing to protect its turf.The Yahoo deal has ripples for Microsoft， since the software giant has been a bigOverture customer. But early this year Microsofts MSN online group launched aproject to develop its own search engine， with the goal of using search to increaseMSN subscribers and advertisers. That could be a big threat to Google， givenMicrosofts history of patiently eyeing new markets， then using its grip on PC softwareto dominate them.
Some industry executives think its technological lead is precarious， vulnerable tomoves into its turf by the likes of Microsoft and Yahoo. Dominant market positions intechnology tend to endure only if customers face a high cost of switching products， aswith Microsofts operating systems and Intel Corp.s microprocessor chips.
Some rivals， particularly Yahoo， can blame themselves for helping Google take off.Three years ago. Yahoo picked Googles search engine to provide search results onYahoos network of Web sites， replacing a service by Inktomi. Yahoo had started byproviding Internet searchers with information from its own directory， functioning like agiant Yellow Pages to the Internet organized largely by human editors. If this couldntprovide the information Yahoo would use Googles search technology. Increasingly，though， users went directly to Googles Web site for results.
As for Microsoft， it for years largely ignored Google and the search business. Butsearch is also shaping up to be a central piece of Microsofts next version of Windows，codenamed Longhorn. Longhorn is expected to enable PC users to search for informationacross all of their PC applications， such as Word and Outlook， as well as the Intemet. Asearch engine built into Longhorn could pose a strong challenge to Google.
AOL Time Warners America Online has also helped Google become big. AOLswitched to Googles service for its U.S. customers 14 months ago. With Yahoo andOverture linking up， AOL may be more dependent on its relationship with Google.
Meanwhile， Google is starting to move onto the turf of online shopping companies.Late last year， it created a website called Froogle， which lets users search for books，apparel and virtually any other product for sale online.
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