英语_课本_8A_Unit06_Lifu inthe future

【B】

Lin Dong: Can you imagine visiting the Great Pyramids of Egypt on a school day in the future?
Lu Yao : It won’t be possible unless I cut school and fly to Egypt.
Lin Dong: No, you don’t need to. Just put on your AR headset and you are ready to go. With an AR headset, it feels like you’re really there!
Lu Yao: Then I will travel to Egypt any time I want.
Lin Dong: I think the way people travel will change a lot in the future.
Lu Yao: I agree. We’ll probably travel much faster and with more fun.
Lin Dong: If I visit Egypt in the future, I’ll circle around the pyramids in a jetpack like a “rocket man”!
Lu Yao: I hope you don’t have a fear of heights!

【C】Future living

Lin Dong is reading an excerpta from a science fiction novel.
C1 Predicting Look at the title and the picture below, and discuss: How will life in 2095 be different?
C2 Read the excerpt.
While visiting the Museum of Natural History, Eric (the narrator) accidentally sends himself and his friend Sam from the year 1995 into 2095 with a time-travel guide from his uncle.
As this excerpt begins, they are running away from a security robot, and Uncle Joe time-travels to the future to help them.

 

A journey to 2095
The museum doors opened, and we rushed out. The street was full of people floating about one foot above the ground. Buildings towered into the clouds. Countless cars and lines of people snaked around high above us.
“Look! Everyone has a small disk on them,” said Sam. “It must be the antigravity diskb. People have figured out how to fly!”

“Stop talking! Run!” I shouted, seeing the robot coming our way. Just then, Uncle Joe appeared, along with two girls looking strangely familiar.

“Come with us,” said one girl. She put flying disks on us, and we followed her to a building unbelievably tall. The door opened at her voice. She put her hand over a shining handprint on the wall, and in five seconds we were brought to her home about five miles above the city.

“You must be hungry. Try some Vitagorp and Unicola,” she said, offering us something like dried dog food and some pill-like plastic balls. “Who are you?” I asked.

“I’m Erica. This is Sammy. We were named after our great-grandfathers Eric and Sam.”
“You are our great-grandchildren! Unbelievable!” I said.

“We must bring the flying disk technology back to 1995. Then we’d become great inventors!” Sam cut in.
“The antigravity power comes from BHT, a chemical discovered in a breakfast accident,” said Sammy. “What accident?” asked Sam. “And who found out BHT could make things fly?”

“You did,” said Sammy. “We can’t tell you more. The time-travel guide says anyone travelling through time with too much information from another time blows up.”

“I knew! Don’t tell me another word,” shouted Sam. “But how can we go back? Could you help, Uncle Joe?”
“Sure. That’s why I’m here,” Uncle Joe smiled, holding up his time-travel watch.
“We’re saved!” shouted Sam.

(Adapted from The Time Warp Trio 2095 by Jon Scieszka)