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Book5 Unit 3 Life in the future Period 1 教师寄语：Study hard and you’ll enjoy yourself in the future. 努力学习，你将会享受幸福的未来。 Learning aim: Improve the students’ reading ability and get them to master the words, phrases and sentence patterns of this unit. Difficult and important points: Improve the students’ reading ability. Step 1. Read and recite the following key words. 1. 1. adjust v.调整，使适应 →adjustment n.调整，调节 →adjustable adj.可调节的 2. instant n.瞬间；片刻adj.立即的；立刻的 →instantly adv. 立即地 conj.一……就 3. impress v.使感动 →impressive adj. 给人深刻印象的 →impression n. 印象，感想 4. optimistic adj. 乐观 (主义) 的→optimism n.乐观主义 →optimist n. 乐观(主义)者 pessimistic adj. 悲观 (主义) 的→pessimism n. 悲观主义→pessimist n.悲观(主义)者 settle v.解决；安居 →settler n.定居者；移居者→settlement n.定居,居住地 6. surroundings n.周围的事物；环境 →surrounding adj.周围的 →surround v.包围 7. receiver n.接受者；接收器 → receive v.接受；得到 →reception n.接待处；接纳 8. desert n.沙漠 v.抛弃；遗弃 → deserted adj.被遗弃的；无人居住的 9. representative n.代表adj.典型的 →represent v.代表；描述 → representation n.描绘；代表 Step 2. Read the following passage fluently. An Air Crash I was a previous typist in a post office. Because I couldn’t tolerate typing any more postage bills or postcodes on a typewriter every day, I resigned. With a greedy motivation of making big money, I took up working as a business representative for the G.E Ecology Company, which produced goods by recycling useful materials from our dustbins. My new job left me good impressions in many aspects except that the working timetable was full of traveling by jets. Once, when speeding up, our jet was swallowed by a thunderstorm, which destroyed our GPS receiver and made us lose sight of the directions. A constantly flashing light showed that our jet was in danger. A steward instantly asked us to put on masks and fasten the safety belts, and then pressed a button to switch on the escaping capsule. It slid sideways out of the opening at once and landed in a desert area safely. Lacking food and tablets, we were nervous and uncertain at f