Unit 6Future新理念交互英语教程第二册教材.ppt

Part One Texts Text A Text B Back Text A Back Text A Back Notes Vocabulary Structure Future World 1 It’s Friday morning in the year 2025, and you’re running late. You got distracted 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 on time? 2 A quick check of your Internet-connected refrigerator magnet tells you your train, which travels at speeds up to 350 miles an hour as it electromagnetically runs above its guide track, is a bit behind schedule, too. So you decide to drive your environmentally friendly hydrogen fuel cell car 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. Text A Notes Vocabulary Structure Back 3 Settling into your office chair, which changes color to match what you’re wearing, you pick up yesterday morning’s newspaper. Printed on electronic paper which can be used again, it rewrites itself with today’s headlines at once. Now it’s time for your big meeting. Uh-oh! You’ve left your notes at home. No problem. The digital ink pen you used has stored an electronic copy of what you wrote. Text A Notes Vocabulary Structure Back 4 Your watch videophone suddenly rings. Your best friend’s face pops up on the organic LED screen asking what you’re doing this weekend. “Will you slap on your 3-D contact lenses and play virtual football with the US team?” “No, no,” your friend says, so you have to take the new nanotube lift (made of microscopic fibers many times stronger than steel) 60 000 miles into space. Text A Notes Vocabulary Structure Back 5 Could this scene really take place in just a couple of decades? The researchers who are now developing all this stuff think so. These small devices may be as common in 10 years as cell phones and DVD players are today. Text A Para. 1~Para. 4 Description of the imaginary life in