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5.doc

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5its a friday morning in the year 2030, and youre 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 drive you. its 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 youre wearing, and pick up yesterday mornings newspaper. printed on reusable electronic paper, it immediately 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.your wristwatch (手表) videophone suddenly rings. your best friends face appears on the screen asking what youre 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 researchers who are now developing these think so. these g