高一英语外研必修4课件：1.1IntroductionReadingVocabulary.pptxVIP

Module 1　Life in the FutureWhat will life in the future be like?Will it be much better than it is now?And what will we be able to do 10,20 or 30 years later?Let’s just close our eyes and think!Genetic EngineeringGenetic engineering will help us create the perfect human.Babies will grow up to do slam dunks like basketball players or look like film stars.Also,we will be able to mix plants and animals!But do you want your dog to be a tree?The DeadIn the future,we will be able to bring the dead back to life.Then each family can meet and talk with its dead family members.It will be like living with ghosts1.On television people will see Albert Einstein,Marilyn Monroe(玛丽莲·梦露),Confucius,Elvis Presley(埃尔维斯·普雷斯利),and Shakespeare talking with each other!Long-living PeopleOver the next 20 to 50 years,it will become harder to tell the difference between human and machine.All body parts will be replaceable.We will then be able to make fake people.We will make a copy of ourselves,so we will appear to be alive long after we are dead.A few decades later,people will find ways to transfer2 their spirit to the new body.Nanobots(纳米机器人)We will be able to build nanobots to travel through our body.Also,nanobots will be used when we are sick.For example,when we have a stomachache,we will swallow3 a very small robot and it will travel through our stomach,taking a video of what’s happening there.Then we can show the video to help the doctor diagnose our problem.单词注释1.ghost n.幽灵,鬼魂2.transfer v.转移,改变3.swallow v.吞下难句剖析Over the next 20 to 50 years,it will become harder to tell the difference between human and machine.在接下来的20到50年间,辨别人和机器的区别将更加困难。剖析:it是形式主语,to tell the difference...是真正的主语,tell是“辨别,分辨”的意思。如tell A from B“把A和B辨别开来”。导读诱思Which of the predictions in the passage do you think will come true in the future?Why?(no more than 30 words)?答案:The prediction about nanobots.Big robots have been used in our life and workplace,so with the development of advanced technology,nanobots to be swallowed wil