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disease that are resistant to antibiotics are constantly developing. Burning fossil fuels has led to fears of global warming; while nuclear power has produced dangerous waste that will remain a hazard for generations to come.
However, perhaps to talk of man triumphing over nature is the wrong way to look at the matter. We need to find ways to work with nature rather than forever fighting against it.
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Unit 2
Script for the recording:
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Part I Pre-Reading Task
What will the world be like in five hundred years' time? A thousand years' time? Or more? Some people are optimistic, looking forward to a better world. Others are pessimistic, and fear that things can only get worse. The writer of the song you are about to listen to takes the pessimistic view. Looking further and further into the future things seem to him to get worse and worse. By 3535, he foresees all our thoughts and feelings will be shaped by drugs. Looking further still into the future he foretells that our bodies will waste away as machines do everything for us. Family life as we know it will fade away as children are bred artificially, chosen, in the words of the song, \to taking care of the planet and avoiding using up all its resources, he ends by wondering whether man will still be around in the future. It's enough, as he says, to make even God shake his head.
Here is the song:
In the Year 2525
Zager & Evans
In the year 2525 If man is still alive If
woman
can
survive
They may find
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In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need* to tell the truth, tell no lies Everything you think, do, or say Is in the pill you took today
In the year 4545
Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes You won't rind a thing to do Nobody's gonna look at you In the year 5555
Your arms are hanging limp at your sides Your legs not nothing to do Some machine is doing that for you
In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife You'll pick your son, pick your daughter .too From the
bottom
of
a
long
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In the year, 7510
. If God's a-comin' he ought to make it by then Maybe he'll look around himself and say Guess it's time for the Judgment Day1 .
In the year 8510
God's gonna shake his mighty head .
He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been Or tear it
down and start again In the year 9595
I'm kinda wondering if man's gonna be alive He's taken everything this old earth can give And he ain't put back nothing
1 the Judgment Day: the end of the world, the time of God's final judgment of all people
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Now it's been 10,000 years Man has cried a billion tears For what he never knew Now man's reign is through But through the eternal night The twinkling of starlight So very far away Maybe it's only yesterday
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Text Organization
Parts Part One Part Two Paragraphs Paras 1-3 Paras 4-9 Main Ideas New technology will have a dramatic impact on cars and highways in the 21st century. With the aid of advanced technology, smart cars will be so designed that they can help eliminate traffic accidents, determine their own precise locations and warn of traffic jams. GPS and \highways, which will benefit us in more than one way. Part Three Paras 10-13 1) Smart cars can see, hear, feel, smell, talk, and act 2) They can eliminate most car accidents; 3) They can alert the police and provide precise location if stolen;
4) They can monitor one's driving and the driving conditions nearby; 5) They can alert the driver who feels drowsy;
6) They can locate your car precisely and warn of traffic jams.
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Vocabulary
I. 1. 1) expansion
3) vapor
: . j
2) manufacturing 4) take control of
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5) hazards 6) satellite 7) convert 8) magnetic 9) bunched 10)in the air
11) got/was stuck 12)approximately 13) in application 14)monotonous 15) mounted 2. 1) send out 2)stand up for
from 4)making up for 3) result
5) starting up 6)play up 7) give up 8)take on
play up
take on
3. 1) With regard to the recent flood of corporate scandals, some professors from Stanford and
Harvard say they will incorporate Enron's real-world lessons into their classroom work. 2) Our vacation was a disaster: the food was terrible, and the weather was awful as well. 3As a Special Administrative Region (SAR), Macao is permitted to retain its lucrative gambling ) industry although gambling remains illegal on the Chinese mainland. Manufacturers usually begin by building the prototype of a new model before they set up a factory to 4make the cars.
) Medical evidence shows that smoking and lung cancer are correlated. Expanded use of computer technology, development of stronger and lighter materials, and research in/into pollution control will produce better, and \automobiles. In the 1980s the notion that a car would \to its driver was science fiction; by the 1990s it had become a reality, more or less. Presently automobile companies such as GM and Nissan are poised to launch new advertising campaigns for their smart cars. Sounds are 2) produced by objects that vibrate in the air at a rate that the ear can detect. This rate is called frequency and is measured in hertz, or vibrations per second. Reflective devices 3are more visible at night and are used in some locations to mark lanes and other significant places on the road. What's more, automated vehicle-control technologies are presently under development to improve highway safety. These devices are mounted in the vehicle and can alert a driver to an impending hazard or, in an emergency, override the actions of the driver.
II. Word Formation
Clipped Words
kilo kilogram kilogrammemo memorandum memorandumgym gymnasium gymnasium
Blends Medicare email comsat
medical care electronic mail
communications satellite
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lib doc vet prep auto
liberation doctor
veterinarian preparatory automobile newscast autopilot Eurodollar brunch telecast news broadcast automatic pilot European dollar breakfast lunch television broadcast
III. Usage
1. swimming pool
3. enriched Middle English 5. fully developed prototype 7. working population
2. drawing board 4. disturbing change 6. Canned foods
8. puzzling differences
Struct-ure
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1) Thanksgiving in the U.S.A., like Spring Festival in China, brings families back together from across the country.
2) The monkey suddenly emerged from behind the tree, frightening Lucy into screaming. 3) Mom said that she would not allow me to buy a new computer unless the price dropped to below 2000 yuan.
4) In between the chores, Jim managed to spend 50 to 60 hours a week working at the computer or doing reporting for the freelance articles he sells to magazines.
2. 1) Most people find it hard to understand how living with one's own children could be lonely. 2) The manager felt it necessary to remove the five misbehaving secretaries in order to maintain administrative discipline.
3) The Senator called it wasteful to give free Medicare to those who could afford to pay. 4) We don't consider it possible to set back the clock of history. Comprehensive Exercises I. Cloze
(A)
1. alert 3. highway
5. take control of 7. decrease 9. monotonous
2. hazards 4. start up 6. lane
8. get stuck in 10. eliminate