标题: 考研英语历年真题来源报刊阅读(13) [打印本页] 作者: dengxi6489 时间: 2010-12-5 02:05 标题: 考研英语历年真题来源报刊阅读(13) Microsoft brings instant chat toTV screen, through games
Microsoft planned to announce today that it will make its Windows Live Messenger service available on its Xbox 360 game consoles, bringing instant messaging from the computer to the television.
The move was meant to help Microsoft stay ahead of Sony, its chief rival in the electronic games business, in delivering the richest online experience for game players. It is also an element of Microsoft overall strategy to connect people across PCs, televisions and mobile devices like cellphones.
More than 200 million people use Windows Live Messenger to chat with friends, family members and colleagues. Separately, more than six million Xbox 360 owners are connected to the company Xbox Live online community, an enhancement that lets people with broadband Internet connections communicate with one another.
In the second week of May, those two worlds will begin to converge. Xbox Live members will be able to link their “gamertag” ,the online identity they use within the Xbox community, to an existing Windows Live Messenger account. Players will then be able to chat with their instantessaging contacts using a virtual oncreen keyboard or a USB keyboard plugged into the game machine.
Microsoft executives said they hoped to offer voice chat between Xbox and Live Messenger users later this year.
“We feel this is a huge step in driving social networking further into the family room by allowing Xbox 360 users to IM directly from their couch,” said John Rodman, Microsoft group manager for the Xbox 360, in a telephone interview last week. “Now you don have to manage two separate groups of friends online.”
Microsoft and Sony are battling to dominate the high end of the console gaming market. (Nintendo, by contrast, is appealing largely to families and more budgetonscious players.) In years past, game consoles stood out from one another mostly by their game offerings. But now it appears that top game publishers like Electronic Arts will release most of their biggest games for both the Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3.
As a result, Microsoft and Sony are attempting to differentiate their game machines with other features, like film playback capabilities and online services.
Microsoft has been ahead of Sony in online console gamelaying, but last month Sony announced that it was developing a new Internet service called PlayStation Home that could surpass some elements of Xbox Live. The instantessaging feature appears to be one part of Microsoft response.
delivery［di5livEri］
n.传递，传送，交付
［真题例句］ Coupled with the growing quantity of information is the development of technologies which enable the storage and delivery of more information with greater speed to more locations than has ever been possible before.［1995年阅读3］
［真题例句］ (71) Actually, it isn, because it assumes that there is an agreed account (n.②) of human rights, which is something the world does not have.［1997年翻译］
［真题例句］ Is it true that the American intellectual is rejected and considered of no account (n.③) in his society? ［2006年翻译］
［例句精译］ 是否美国的知识分子在社会中真的被排斥并被认为毫不重要？
［真题例句］ Kitcher is a philosopher, and this may account (v.①), in part, for the clarity and effectiveness of his arguments.［1996年阅读5］
［例句精译］ 肯切尔是位哲学家，这也许能部分说明他的理论为何明确而有说服力。
［真题例句］ Multinational corporations accounted (v.②) for less than 20% of international trade in 1982.Today the figure is more than 25% and growing rapidly.［2001年阅读4］
［真题例句］ “We know that,” the men from the budget (n.) office have said, “but what do you think? Is it worthwhile going on? What do you think we might expect?”［1999年阅读5］
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