全新版大学英语综合教程B4U2(文本)(精品).doc

全新版大学英语综合教程第四册Integrated Course Book 4 Unit 2Listen to the recording two or three times and then think over the following questions:1. According to the song, will the world be a better or a worse place in a few hundred years' time?2. Will the use of drugs to change the way we think and feel be common in the future?3. What does the song writer feel about the future? Is he optimistic or not?4. Do you share the views of the song writer about the effects of modern science and technology on man in the future?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, "from the bottom of a long black tube." Given that man seems to pay so little attention 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 & EvansIn the year 2525If man is still aliveIf woman can surviveThey may findIn the year 3535Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no liesEverything you think, do, and sayIs in the pill you took todayIn the year 4545Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyesYou won't find a thing to doNobody's gonna look at youIn the year 5555Your arms are hanging limp at your sidesYour legs got nothing to doSome machine is doing that for youIn the year 6565Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wifeYou'll pick your son, pick your daughter tooFrom the bottom of a long black tubeIn the year 7510If God's a-comin' he ought to make it by thenMaybe he'll look around himself and sayGuess it's time for the Judgement DayIn the year 8510God's gonna shake his mighty headHe'll either say I'm pleased where man has beenOr tear it down and start againIn the year 9595I'm kinda wondering if man's gonna be aliveHe's taken everything this old earth can giveAnd he ain't put back nothingNow it's been 10,000 yearsMan has cried a billion tearsFor what he never knewNow man's reign is throughBut through eternal nightThe twinkling of starlightSo very far awayMaybe it's only yesterdayText A Smart cars that can see, hear, feel, smell, and talk? And drive on their own? This may sound like a dream, but the computer revolution is set to turn it into a reality. 能看、能听、有知觉、具嗅觉、会说话的智能汽车？还能自动驾驶？这听起来或许像是在做梦，但计算机革命正致力于把这一切变为现实。

Smart Cars Michio Kaku 1 Even the automobile industry, which has remained largely unchanged for the last seventy years, is about to feel the effects of the computer revolution. 智能汽车 米其奥·卡库 即便是过去70年间基本上没有多少变化的汽车工业，也将感受到计算机革命的影响 2 The automobile industry ranks as among the most lucrative and powerful industries of the twentieth century. There are presently 500 million cars on earth, or one car for every ten people. Sales of the automobile industry stand at about a trillion dollars, making it the world's biggest manufacturing industry. 汽车工业是20世纪最赚钱、最有影响力的产业之一。

目前世界上有5亿辆车，或者说每10人就有1辆车汽车工业的销售额达一万亿美元左右，从而成为世界上最大的制造业 3 The car, and the roads it travels on, will be revolutionized in the twenty-first century. The key to tomorrow's "smart cars" will be sensors. "We'll see vehicles and roads that see and hear and feel and smell and talk and act," predicts Bill Spreitzer, technical director of General Motors Corporation's ITS program, which is designing the smart car and road of the future. 汽车及其行驶的道路，将在21世纪发生重大变革。

未来“智能汽车”的关键在于传感器我们会见到能看、能听、有知觉、具嗅觉、会说话并能采取行动的车辆与道路，”正在设计未来智能汽车和智能道路的通用汽车公司ITS项目的技术主任比尔·斯普雷扎预言道 4 Approximately 40,000 people are killed each year in the United States in traffic accidents. The number of people that are killed or badly injured in car accidents is so vast that we don't even bother to mention them in the newspapers anymore. Fully half of these fatalities come from drunk drivers, and many others from carelessness.。