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1、Batman Nets Police will arrest criminals by firing nets instead of guns.Forget smoking No smoking will be allowed within a future citys limits. Smoking will be possible only outside cities, and outdoors.Forget the malls In the future all shopping will be done online, and catalogues will have voice c

2、ommands to place orders.-Telephones for life Everyone will be given a telephone number at birth that willnever change no matter where theylive.Recreation All forms of recreation, such as cinemas, bowling , softball , concertsand others, will be provided free of charge by the city.Cars All cars will

3、be powered by electricity, solar energy or wind, and it will bepossible to change the colour of cars at theflick of a switch.Telesurgery Distance surgery will become common as doctors carry out operations from thousands of miles away, with each city having its own telesurgery outpatient clinic .Holi

4、days at home Senior citizens and people with disabilities will be able to goanywhere in the world using high-tech cameras attached to their head.Space travel Travelling in space by ordinary citizens will be common. Each city will have its own spaceport.Cultural CornerFamous Last WordsNot all predict

5、ions come true. Many of them are wrong, and some are very wrong. Here are just a few of the bad predictions people made in the twentieth century about the twenty-first century:AIRPLANESNo flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.Orville Wright, 1908.COMPUTERSI think there is a world marke

6、t for maybe five computers.Thomas Waston, chairman of IBM, 1943.CLOTHESThirty years from now people will be wearing clothes made of paper which they will be able to throw away after wearing them two or three times.Changing Times Magazine, 1957.MEN ON THE MOONWith the first moon colonies predicted fo

7、r the 1970s, work is now in progress on the types of building required for men to stay in when theyre on the moon.Arnold B. Barach in The Changes to Come, 1962.THE BEATLESWe dont like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.ROBOTS IN THE HOUSEB

8、y the year 2000, housewives will probably have a robot shaped like a box with one large eye on the top, several arms and hands, and long narrow pads on the side for moving about.New York Times, 1966.KEYSBy the mid-1980s no one will ever need to hide a key under the doormat again, because there wont

9、be any keys.Computer scientist Christopher Evans,The Micro Millennium, 1979.Module 2 ReadingGetting Around in BeijingTaxisTaxis are on the streets 24 hours a day. Simply raise your hand, and a taxi appears in no time. They are usually red, and they display the price per kilometre on the window. You

10、should check the cab has a business permit, and make sureyou ask for a receipt.Buses and trolleybusesPublic transport provides a cheap way to get around in Beijing. There are 20,000 buses and trolleybuses in Beijing, but they can get very crowded. Its a good idea to avoid public transport during the

11、 rush hour （6:30 a.m. 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m.）. Fares are cheap, starting at 1 yuan. Air-conditioned buses cost more.Buses numbered 1 to 100 are limited to travel within the city centre. Higher numbers have destinations in the suburbs. Tourists shouldnt miss the 103 bus which offers one of

12、 the most impressive routes, past the Forbidden City and the White Pagoda in Beihai Park. If you get on a double-decker bus, make sure you sit upstairs. Youll have a good view of the rapidly changing city.Most buses run from about 5:00 a.m. to midnight. However, there is also a night bus service, pr

13、ovided by buses with a number in the 200s.MinibusesMinibuses with seats for 12 passengers offer an alternative to expensive taxis and crowded public transport in some areas. They run regular services and follow the same routes as large public buses. And in a minibus you always get a seat even in rus

14、h hours.UndergroundThere are four underground lines in Beijing, and several lines are under construction. Trains are fast and convenient, but rush hours can be terrible. A one-way trip costs 3 yuan. Station names are marked in pinyin. The underground is open from 5:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.PedicabsTouri

15、sts like these human-pedalled tricycle taxis, but they can be expensive. You should talk to the driver, and make sure you know the price before you begin the journey, for example, if it is per person, single or return. Tricycles are worth using if you want to explore the narrow alleys （hutong） of ol

16、d Beijing.The London Congestion ChargeBeijing isnt the only city with traffic problems. You can get stuck in a traffic jam anywhere in the world. The worst problems occur in cities which are growing fast, such as Sao Paolo in Brazil and Lagos in Nigeria. But even cities in developed countries such a

17、s the US suffer. Los Angeles, which was built with the motor car in mind, and is famous for its six-lane highways, is now theUSAs most congested city.In Europe most capital cities were planned and built before cars, and city centre traffic jams have been part of daily life for a long time. The situa

18、tion in central London,where drivers spent fifty percent of their time in queues, became so bad that the local government decided to do something about it. In February 2003 the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, introduced a congestion charge a tax for cars entering the centre of the city.The idea is

19、 simple: every car coming into the centre has to pay 5 a day. Drivers can pay the charge at any of 10,000 pay points in the capital before 10 p.m. As the carscome into the centre, video cameras record their registration numbers, and these arechecked with a list of drivers who have paid the charge fo

20、r that day. People who do notpay the charge will face a fine of 80. Most Londoners are not happy with the idea. They agree that London has a trafficproblem, but the congestion charge is expensive, and limits their freedom .But does the congestion charge work? A survey carried out at the end of 2003

21、suggests it does. After only six months, traffic coming into central London was reduced by about 30 percent, and journey times by 15 percent. More people used public transport to get to work, and bicycles were suddenly very popular. Whats more, central London shops did not lose business even though

22、there were fewer cars.But there are a few people who think the charge should be much higher, for example rich businessmen who work in the city centre and can easily afford it. This would keep even more cars out of central London, and the roads would be nearly empty. However, there are no plans to in

23、crease the charge.Module 3 ReadingGreetings Around the WorldIf you say the word communication, most people think of words and sentences. Although these are very important,we communicate with more than just spoken and written words. Indeed, body positions are part of what we call body language. We se

24、e examples of unconscious body language very often, yet there is also learned body language, which varies from culture to culture.We use body language when we are introduced to strangers. Like other animals, we are on guard until we know it is safe to relax. So every culture has developed a formal w

25、ay to greet strangers, to show them we are not aggressive. Traditionally, Europeans and Americans shake hands. They do this with the right handthe strongest hand for most people. If our right hand is busy greeting someone, it cannot be holding a weapon. So the gesture is saying, I trust you. Look, I

26、m not carrying a threatening weapon. If you shake hands with someone, you show you trust them. We shake hands when we make a deal. It means, We agree and we trust each other.Greetings in Asian countries do not involve touching the other person, but they always involve the hands. Traditionally in Chi

27、na, when we greet someone, we put the right hand over the left and bow slightly. Muslims give a salaam, where they touch their heart, mouth and forehead. Hindus join their hands and bow their heads in respect. In all of these examples, the hands are busy with the greeting and cannot hold a weapon.Ev

28、en today, when some people have very informal styles of greeting, they still use their hands as a gesture of trust. American youths often greet each other with the expression, Give me five! One person then holds up his hand, palm outwards and five fingers spread. The other person raises his hand and slaps the oth