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Detail Reading Now try to find out what happened to Li Qiang before, during and after the journey. Pair work Make a telephone conversation between Li Qiang and his mother, according to the text Read the text carefully and then fill in the blanks about the details of Li Qiang’s future tour. In the hovering carriage: ◆It is driven by computer. ◆By bending and ________down in our seat, you can move swiftly. ◆I lost sight of Qang Ping when we reached what looked like a large market because of too many carriages flying by _____________ . At home: ◆It is a large bright clean room. ◆It had a _____ wall, a brown floor and soft lighting. ◆The wall moved — it was made of _____! Their leaves provided the room with much-needed ______. ◆A table and some chairs rose from _____________ as if by magic. when Wang Ping ______ a switch on a computer screen. * Skimming What is the main idea of the passage? What’s the writer’s attitude towards the future, optimistic or pessimistic? It’s mainly about Li Qiang’s future journey. Pessimistic. Reading First Impressions Read the text carefully and answer the following questions: Paragraph 1 What did Li Qing suffer from? How was the problem solved? He suffered from “time log”, which means you keep getting flashbacks from your previous time period. Some green tablets solved the problem. Paragraph 2 How did they travel to the year AD 3005? In a capsule. Paragraph 3 What was the air like there? In what way did people there travel? The air seemed thin as if it had little oxygen left. People there travelled in a hovering carriage driven by computer. Paragraph 4 What were houses like there? Bright, clean, green moving walls, brown floor and soft lighting, trees inside rooms, movable furniture. a. We were transported into the future by a comfortable time capsule. b. I arrived at Wang Ping’s home and everything in his house made me surprised. c. I w