文档介绍：Can we live without
our mobile phones?
Unit 4 Active Reading (1)
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Active reading 1
Pre-reading Activities
While-reading Activities
After-reading Activities
Further Resources
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Background Information & Cultural Notes
New Words & Expressions
Pre-reading Activities
While-reading Activities
Active
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Post-reading Activities
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Background Information & Cultural Notes
Invention of telephone
Mobile phone development
The film Shouji
Russell Crowe
The underground
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Invention of mobile phone
Mobile phone popularity
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Born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Alexander Graham Bell was the son and grandson of authorities in elocution and the correction of speech.
Educated to pursue a career in the same specialty, his knowledge of the nature of sound led him not only to teach the deaf, but also to invent the telephone.
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In the 1870s, two inventors Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both independently designed devices that could transmit speech electrically (the telephone). Both men rushed their respective designs to the patent office within hours of each other, Alexander Graham Bell patented (获专利) his telephone first.
Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell entered into a famous legal battle over the invention of the telephone, which Bell won.
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According to British newspaper Daily Mail, Nathan Stubblefield, is finally being recognised as the father of mobile phone technology exactly 100 years after he patented his design for a “wireless telephone”.
The melon farmer (果农) came
up with his invention in 1902 after devoting every spare hour and penny he had to establishing a telephone service in his rural home-town of Murray, Kentucky.
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He constructed a 120ft mast in his orchard (果园), which transmitted spee