浙江省诸暨市草塔中学高中英语 Unit 3 Life in the future Future world 素材 新人教版必修 5It’s a Friday morning in the year 2030, and you’re running late. You got distracted ( 注意力分散的 ) 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 a speed up to 250 miles an hour as it electromagnetically hovers above its guide track is running late, too. So you decide to drive your environmentally-friendly hydrogen fuel cell car instead — or rather, let your car dri ve you. It’s programmed to know the way, and it will get you there without speeding, getting lost, or crashing.After arriving at work, you settle into your office chair, which changes color to match what you’re wearing, and pick up yesterday morning’s newspaper. Printed on reusable electronic paper, it immed iately rewrites itself with today’s headlines. Now it’s time for your big meeting. Uh-oh! You’ve left your handwritten notes at home. No problem. T he digital ink pen you used has stored an electronic copy of what you wrote.Your wristwatch (手表) videophone suddenly rings. Your best friend’s face appears on the screen asking what you’re doing this weekend. You advise him to wear the 3-D contact lenses (三维隐形眼镜) and play virtual (虚拟的) soccer with the U.S. Olympic team. Your friend says no and suggests taking the new nanotube (纳米管) elevator (made of microscopic fibers many times stronger than steel) to the International Space Station.Could these really take place in just a couple of decades? The researche rs who are now developing these think so. These gadgets ( 小 玩 意 儿 ) may be as common in about 20 years as cellphones and DVD players are today.
