Ⅰ.词汇知识
1．_________(vt.) 系；贴；连接 2．_________(n.& vi.) 开关；交换 3．_________(n.) 费用；价钱 →______________(adj.)室内的
10．command (n.& v．)命令；指令→ ______________(n.)指挥官
11．______________(vt.)提供动力(n.)权力；力量→______________(adj.)强大的
→______________(adj.)无力的；无权力的 12．disability (n.)失去能力；伤残→______________(adj.)伤残的
→______________(n.)能力→ ______________(adj.)4．_________(n.) 命令；指令 5．_________(adv.) 户外
6．_________(n.) 罪犯；犯人 7.
_________预测(n.) 8．_________逮捕(vt.)
9．_________替换的；供选择的(adj.) 10．_________资源(n.)
11．_________失去能力；伤残(n.)
12．_________娱乐；消遣(n.) 1．________(vt.) 造成……形状
13．________(vt.) 预言；预料
14．_________(adj.) 乐观的；乐观主义的 15．________(n.) 殖民地
16．___________(adv.) 最后；终于
17．___________(adv.) 无疑地；确定地
Ⅱ.词形转换：
1．alternative (adj.)替换的，供选择的(n.)二者之一→______________ (adv.)替换地
2．prediction (n.)预测→______________(v.)预测 3．______________(adj.)危险的；冒险的→______________(n.& v．)冒险
4．resource (n.)资源→______________(n.)源(泉)；来源；出处
5．______________(adj.)都市的；城市的→______________(adj.)郊区的 6．______________(vt.)装；装载→______________(vt.)卸(货)
7．______________(vt.)开火；启动；解雇(n.)火 8．______________(n.)范围(n.& v．)限制→______________(adj.)有限的
9．outdoors (adv.)户外→______________(adj.)户外的→______________(adv.)室内地
能干的；有能力的
Ⅲ. 重点短语必背
1．______sure 肯定地
2．free _____charge 免费地 3．get rid _____ 除掉；处理掉 4．use_____ 用完 5．rely _____ 依靠 6．run _____ 用完 7．______ a start 首先
8．on the way _____ 即将被淘汰 9．look_____ 当心；小心 10．come_____ 变为现实 11．refer _____ 指的是 12．throw ______扔掉
13. 爱护；关心; _____________ 14. 可回收材料; _____________ 15. 浪费自然资源; _____________ 16.可替代能源; _____________
17. 把 B 装入 A 中_____________ 18. 逮捕罪犯_____________ 19. 通过…方式_____________ 20. 一按开关_____________ 21. 做手术_____________
22. 远程手术门诊部_____________
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Ⅳ.课文填空。
The City of the Future
What will the city of the future look like? No one knows ______ ______（确切的）, and _________(make) predictions _________(be) a _________（risk） business. But one thing is certain – they are going to get bigger before they get smaller. In the future, _____ ____(关爱) the environment will become very important as earth’s natural resources ______ ___ （用完）. We will use lots of _________（recycle） materials, such as plastic, aluminum, steel, glass, wood and paper, and we will waste fewer natural _________（resource）. We will also have to ______ _______ _______（更多地依赖）_______ __ (可再生能源) , such as solar and wind _________（风能）. All this seems certain, but there are plenty of things about city life in the future which are not certain.
_________（ find out ）what young people think about the future of urban life, a teacher at a university in Texas in the United States asked his students to think how they would _________（管理） a city of 50,000 people in the year 2025. Here are some of the ideas they had:
Garbage ships To _____ ____ （去除）garbage problems, the city will load huge spaceships _________（介词填空） waste materials and send them towards the sun, _________（prevent）landfill and _________（environment）problems.
Batman Nets Police will arrest criminals by _________（fire）nets instead of guns. Forget smoking No smoking will be allowed within a future city’s _________(范围). Smoking will be possible only outside cities, and outdoors.
Forget the malls In the future all shopping will be done online, and catalogues will have voice _________（命令） to ______ _______ (下订单).
Telephones for life Everyone will be given a telephone number _____ ____ （出生时） that will never change ______ ___ （无论在哪儿）they live.
Recreation All forms of recreation(翻译_______), such as cinemas, bowling, softball, concerts and others, will be provided _____ ____ （免费）by the city.
Cars All cars will be powered by electricity, solar ______ (太阳能) or wind, and it will be possible to change the colour of cars at the flick of a switch.
Telesurgery Distance surgery will become common as doctors _____ _______ (实施） operations from thousands of miles away, with each city _________（have）its own telesurgery
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outpatient clinic.
Holidays at home Senior citizens and people with disabilities will be able to go anywhere in the world using high-tech cameras _____ ____ （绑在） their head.
Space travel Travellling in space by ordinary citizens will be common. Each city will have its own spaceport.
Famous Last Words
_____ ______ (并不是所有的) predictions __ ___ ___ __ (实现). Many of them are wrong, and some are very wrong. Here are just a few of the bad predictions people _______ (make) in the twentieth century about the twenty-first century: AIRPLANES
“No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.” Orville Wright, 1908. COMPUTERS
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers” Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 CLOTHES
“Thirty years from now people _____ ______ (将正穿着) clothes _______ (make )of paper which they will be able to ______ _______ （扔掉）after ________ (wear) them two or three times.”
Changing Times Magazine, 1957 MEN ON THE MOON
“With the first moon colonies __________ (predicte) for the 1970’s, work is now ______ ______ (正在发展)on the types of building required for men to stay in when they’re on the moon.” Arnold B,Barach in The Changes to Come, 1962. THE BEATLES
“We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is ______ _______ ____ (过时、淘汰).” Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962. ROBOTS IN THE HOUSE
“By the year 2000, housewives will probably have a robot _________ (shape) like a box with one large eye on the top, several arms and hands, and long narrow pads on the side for ______ ____
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