2019年英语新同步浙江专用必修五讲义：Unit 3 Section Ⅰ Warming Up Reading — Prereading.docVIP

Its Friday morning in the year 2025, and youre 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 at Mega Giga Industries on time? A quick check of your Internet-connected refrigerator magnet tells you your train which travels at speeds up to 250 miles an hour as it electromagnetically hovers 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.Its programmed to know the way, and it will get you there without speeding, getting lost, or crashing. Settling into your office chair, which changes color to match what youre wearing，you pick up yesterday mornings newspaper.Printed on reusable electronic paper，it instantly rewrites itself with todays headlines.Now its time for your big meeting.Uh-oh！Youve left your handwritten notes at home.No problem.The digital ink pen you used has stored an electronic copy of what you wrote. Could this scene really take place in just a couple of decades？The researchers who are currently developing all this stuff think so.These gadgets (小装置) may be as common in 20 years as cell phones and DVD players are today. Section_ⅠWarming Up Reading — Pre-reading eq \a\vs4\al([原文呈现]) FIRST IMPRESSIONS① Spacemail：liqiang299A@GreatAdventureSpaceS15/11/3008(Earthtime) Dear Mum and Dad， I still cannot believe that I am taking up② this prize that I won last year.I have to remind myself constantly③ that I am really in AD 3008. Worried about the journey④， I was unsettled⑤ for the first few days. As a result, I suffered from⑥ “time lag”. This is similar to⑦ the “jet lag⑧” you get from flying⑨， but it seems⑩ you keep getting flashbacks? from your previous? time period.So I was very nervous and uncertain? at first.However, my friend and guide?， Wang Ping, was very understanding? and gave me some green tablets? whi