Step by Step 3000 第1册 Unit11:Visions of the Future(1)

 　　Unit 11. Visions of the future.

　　Part 1. Warming up.

　　A. Keywords. businesses, office, transport, advertising¹.

　　Vocabulary. clerical worker, client.

　　Listen to some predictions some people have made about the business world in the next 20 years or so, add missing words to the following statements.

　　What do you think might happen in the business world in the next 20 years or so?

　　Um...there will be no more telexes², businesses will only use fax and electronic mail.

　　Mm...office cleaning will be done by robots.

　　Well, there will be much more unemployment.

　　I think people will have to retrained for new skills every ten years.

　　I think robots will replace production workers. Computers will replace clerical workers.

　　People will buy their food from home.

　　There will be less need for transport as people will work from home.

　　Most consumer advertising will be delivered directly to the home.

　　Well, business travel will be replaced by live video meetings, there won't be any need to go to see the clients any more.

　　B. Keywords. Mars, court, population, nuclear, brain, computers.

　　Vocabulary. dome³, tower block.

　　Listen to some 13-year-old children talking about the way they think life will be like in the future.

　　Add the missing words to the statements.

　　I think I'll probably be in a spaceship on my way to the planet Mars.

　　I may be in charge of a robot court, judging some robots.

　　I think the population will have gone up so much, that everyone will be living in big plastic domes⁴ in the Sahara Desert, or also be living under the sea.

　　Obviously nuclear war worries me, but I don't think that will happen.

　　Because I don't think that any human being can...is capable of actually pressing some button that release all the nuclear arms.

　　Perhaps we'll be able to convert brain waves into radio waves, then change back to brain waves.

　　So you could actually have a conversation with someone without talking.

　　And there will be so many people, I think there may, unless they have another plant to go to.

　　There will be loads and loads of tower blocks for people to live in.

　　It will probably be computers that are running country by then.

　　C. Keywords. The Earth, planet, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn⁵, Uranus⁶, Neptune⁷, Pluto⁸.

　　Vocabulary. diameter.

　　C1. you're going to hear a passage about the solar system.

　　Put the names of the plants of the solar system in the right places.

　　The Earth is a planet just under 8,000 mile in diameter, moving around the sun at a distance of 93 million miles, and completing one circuit in 365.5 days.

　　It is not the only planet, eight others are known, all with their own special points of interest.

　　Mercury and Venus are closer to the Sun than we're,

　　Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are farther away.

　　Of course, the nearest to us are Mars, which may approach the Earth to within 35 million miles.

　　And Venus which has a minimum distance from us of only about 24 million miles.

　　Mars and Venus are also the only two planets which do not appear to be overwhelmingly hostile.

　　However, they are much more remote than our one natural satellite, the Moon, which moves around the Earth at a mean distance of less than a quarter of a million miles.

　　C2. Now listen again. Write down the numbers which correspond to the information given to you.

1 advertising   

n.广告业；广告活动 a.广告的；广告业务的

参考例句：

• Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
• The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。

2 telexes   

用户电报( telex的名词复数 )； 电传系统； 经用户电报发或收的消息； 电传收发机

参考例句：

• It'sends up to800 telexes a day, mostly as confirmation for transactions. 它为它的1375个客户的其中50个客户维护184个电传帐号。
• Several telexes arrived this morning. 今天上午收到了几份电传。

3 dome   

n.圆屋顶，拱顶

参考例句：

• The dome was supported by white marble columns.圆顶由白色大理石柱支撑着。
• They formed the dome with the tree's branches.他们用树枝搭成圆屋顶。

4 domes   

n.圆屋顶( dome的名词复数 )；像圆屋顶一样的东西；圆顶体育场

参考例句：

• The domes are circular or ovoid in cross-section. 穹丘的横断面为圆形或卵圆形。 来自辞典例句
• Parks. The facilities highlighted in text include sport complexes and fabric domes. 本书重点讲的设施包括运动场所和顶棚式结构。 来自互联网

5 Saturn   

n.农神，土星

参考例句：

• Astronomers used to ask why only Saturn has rings.天文学家们过去一直感到奇怪，为什么只有土星有光环。
• These comparisons suggested that Saturn is made of lighter materials.这些比较告诉我们，土星由较轻的物质构成。

6 Uranus   

n.天王星

参考例句：

• Uranus is unusual because it is tilted.天王星非常特殊，因为它是倾斜的。
• Uranus represents sudden change and rebellion.天王星代表突然性的改变和反叛。

7 Neptune   

n.海王星

参考例句：

• Neptune is the furthest planet from the sun.海王星是离太阳最远的行星。
• Neptune turned out to be a dynamic,stormy world.海王星原来是个有生气、多风暴的世界。

8 Pluto   

n.冥王星

参考例句：

• Pluto is the furthest planet from the sun.冥王星是离太阳最远的行星。
• Pluto has an elliptic orbit.冥王星的轨道是椭圆形的。