Text 1

Revision Time Goes Online

About the author:

    Tim Ewington works with the BBC. He set up a company Human Capital in 1995. He is the Press Enquiries founding director. He is also a speaker, maker, scheduler, strategist and channel controller. His field ranges from media research to technical problems related to the economy. Recently, he has come up with a very positive analysis of the BBC's position in the TV audience ratings.

Language notes:

1.They mark the first and the last of Paula's written GCSE exams.
（这两个日子标志着波拉的普通教育证书第一门和最后一门考试。）

GCSE :the General Certificate Of Secondary Education.

2.Belfast:the capital city of Northern Irland.

3.When exams were invented so too was revision, but two inventions have transformed the way we prepare.
(自从发明了考试，就发明了复习，但两项发明改变了我们准备考试的方法。)

Note the inversion in the sentence.

4. It received almost 750 000 hits each week in mid-March, and expects to double that number this month.
（3月中旬该网址每周接受750000次点击，而且本月有望该数字加倍。）

Hit:点击.

5. Channel 4:one of the media channels of the BBC.

6.Paula Kelly is sanguine about online revision.
(波拉·凯利对网上复习持乐观态度。)

Sanguine: optimistic.

7.Mental log: 智力方面的障碍.

8. packages: software for learning.

9.We want our online materials to draw in students who are in danger of being turned off learning but also to allow more ambitious students to approach the whole curriculum at their own pace.

（我们希望网上的资料能吸引那些有对学习失去兴趣的危险的学生，也能让较有抱负的学生根据自己的速度接触全部课程。）

Draw in: attract.

10.Channel 4's Homework High is more funky.

Funky: attractive.

Text 2

Teach Yourself The Lot

About the author:

    Tim Ewington works with the BBC. He set up a company Human Capital in 1995 .He is the Press Enquiries founding director. He is also a speaker, maker, scheduler, strategist and channel controller. His field ranges from media research to technical problems related to the economy. Recently, he has come up with a very positive analysis of the BBC's position in the TV audience ratings.

Language notes:

1. bacon butties: 腊肉三明治.

2. cuppa: a cup of tea.

3. cybercafe: 电脑咖啡馆.

4. net surfers: a person who goes surfing on the internet.

5. backpacker: 背包旅行者.

6. pore over: study or give attention to.

7. After e-mailing easily the most popular reason for using the net is research for either work or education.

( 除了发电子邮件很方便以外，使用网络最普遍的原因是工作和教育方面的研究，还有追求个人爱好的需要。)

After: besides, next to.

8. Human Capital: a media consultancy set up by Tim Ewington.

9. The internet is nothing if not immediate.
（国际互联网的唯一价值就在于它的即时性。）

The internet is useless if it is not immediate.

10. Ivy League universities : 美国的常青藤名牌大学.

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