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advances in biogeic engineering. On a broader scale, one thinks of man39。 s success in harnessing new forms of energy from steam power through oil to nuclear power. Yet, nature has often hit back in unexpected ways to these attempts to tame it. New forms of Appendix I 98 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 e. 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. (154 words) Unit 2 ■ Part I PreReading Task Script for the recording: What will the world be like in five hundred years39。 time? A thousand years39。 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 pla and avoiding using up all its resources, he ends by wondering whether man will still be around in the future. It39。 s enough, as he says, to make even God shake his head. Here is the song: In the Year 2525 Zager amp。 Evans In the year 2525 If man is still alive If woman can survive They may find 9^ Appendix I In the year 3535 Ain39。 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 Ain39。 t gonna need your teeth, won39。 t need your eyes You won39。 t rind a thing to do Nobody39。 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 Ain39。 t gonna need no husband, won39。 t need no wife : You39。 ll pick your son, pick your daughter .too From the bottom of a long black tube . In the year, 7510 . If God39。 s ain39。 he ought to make it by then。 Maybe he39。 ll look around himself and say Guess it39。 s time for the Judgment Day1 . In the year 8510 God39。 s gonna shake his mighty head . He39。 ll either say I39。 m pleased where man has been Or tear it down and start again In the year 9595 I39。 m kinda wondering if man39。 s gonna be alive He39。 s taken everything this old earth can give And he ain39。 t put back nothing 1 the Judgment Day: the end of the world, the time of God39。 s final judgment of all people Appendix I 95 Now it39。 s been 10,000 years Man has cried a billion tears For what he never knew Now man39。 s reign is through But through the eternal night The twinkling of starlight So very far away Maybe it39。 s only yesterday Part II Text A 39。 l Text Organization Parts Paragraphs Main Ideas Part One Paras 13 New technology will have a dramatic impact on cars and highways in the 21st century. Part Two Paras 49 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. Part Three Paras 1013 GPS and telematics will make it possible to build smart highways, which will benefit us in more than one way. 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 one39。 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. Vocabulary I. 1. 1) expansion 3) vapor 2) manufacturing 4) take control of : . j ■ 96 Appendix 1 6) satellite 8) magic 10)in the air 12)approximately 14)monotonous 2)stand up for 4)making up for 6)play up play up 8)take on take on With regard to the recent flood of corporate scandals, some professors from Stanford and Harvard say they will incorporate Enron39。 s realworld lessons into their classroom work. Our vacation was a disaster: the food was terrible, and the weather was awful as well. As 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 make the cars. Medical evidence shows that smoking and lung cancer are correlated. Expanded use of puter technology, development of stronger and lighter materials, and research in/into pollution control will produce better, and smarter automobiles. In the 1980s the notion that a car would talk to its driver was science fiction。 by the 1990s it had bee a reality, more or less. Presently automobile panies such as GM and Nissan are poised to launch new advertising campaigns for their smart cars. Sounds are 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 are more visible at night and are used in some locations to mark lanes and other significant places on the road. What39。 s more, automated vehiclecontrol technologies are presently under development to improve highway safety. These devices are mounted in the veh。