Transcript Unit 3 Life in the future 教材背景链接

Unit 3 Life in the future
教材背景链接
名言佳句
Future gains are uncertain.
未来的收获是不易确定的。(谚)
Fear not the future；weep not for the past.
不要为未来担忧，不要为过去悲泣。(谚)
The greatest source of misery and hatred in this world is
clinging to past hurts.
这个世界上痛苦与仇恨最大的源泉是对过去伤痛的执迷。
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Future World
再过二十年，我们的生活会变成什么样子呢？到那时，
一些有趣的小装置，比如与互联网相连接的冰箱磁铁、
环保型的氢动力车、与衣服颜色相搭配的办公椅、数字
墨水笔等等都将会像今天的手机和DVD机一样随处可见。
It’s Friday morning in the year 2025 ， and you’re
running late.You got distracted(思想不集中的) watching
the music video that was playing in the corner of your
bathroom
mirror while
you
were brushing
your
teeth.How will you get to your office at Mega Giga
Industries on time?
A quick check of your Internet-connected refrigerator
magnet(冰箱磁铁) tells you that your train which travels at
speed up to 250 miles an hour is a bit behind schedule，
too.So you decide to drive your environment-friendly
hydrogen fuel cell car(氢动力小汽车) instead—or rather，
let your car drive you.It’s programmed to know the way，
and it will get you there without speeding，getting lost，or
crashing.
Settling back in your office chair，which changes color to
match what you’re wearing ， you pick up yesterday
morning’s newspaper.Printed on reusable electronic paper，
it instantly rewrites itself with today’s headlines.Now it’s
time for you to have a meeting.Uh-oh！You’ve left your
handwritten notes at home.No problem.The digital ink pen
(数字墨水笔) you used has stored an electronic copy of what
you wrote.
Your videophone suddenly rings.Your best friend’s face
appears on the screen asking what you are doing this
weekend.“Will you wear your 3-D contact lenses(隐形眼镜)
and play soccer with the U．S.Olympic Soccer Team？
”Your friend asked.“No，no.”You answered，“I will
take the new type of elevator 60,000 miles into space.”
Could this scene really take place in just a couple of
decades？The researchers who are developing all this
stuff at the present time think so.These gadgets(小装置)
may be as common in 20 years as cellphones and DVD
players are today.
Choose the best words from the passage to fill in the
blanks.
1．i________ adv.at once；immediately
2．s________ v．to make yourself or sb. else comfortable
in a new position
3．e________ n．a machine that carries people or goods
up and down to different levels in a building
Keys：1.instantly
2.settle
3.elevator