Unit1 Section Ⅰ Reading，Listening and Thinking（教师用书word）-2022-2023学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第四册【精讲精练】人教版

What will life in the future be like？Will it be much better than it is now？And what will we be able to do 10，20 or 30 years later？Let's just close our eyes and think! Genetic Engineering(基因工程) Genetic engineering will help us create the perfect human.Babies will grow up to do slam dunks like Yao Ming. Also，we will be able to mix plants and animals! But do you want your dog to be a tree? Long­living People(人人万岁) Over the next 20 to 50 years，it will become harder to tell the difference between a human and a machine.All body parts will be replaceable.We will then be able to make fake(假的) people. We will make a copy of ourselves，so we will appear to be alive long after we are dead.A few decades later，people will find ways to transfer their spirit to the new body. Nanobots(纳米机器人) We will be able to build nanobots to travel through our body.Also，nanobots will be used when we are sick. For example，when we have a stomachache，we will swallow a very small robot and it will travel through our stomach，taking a video of what's happening there.Then we can show the video to help the doctor diagnose our problem. 根据短文内容回答问题： Which of the predictions in the passage do you think will come true in the future? Why？(no more than 30 words) 答案　The prediction about nanobots.Big robots have been used in our life and workplace，so with the development of advanced technology，nanobots to be swallowed will appear. Section Ⅰ　Reading，Listening and Thinking Ⅰ.重点单词 基础单词 1．　fiction　 n．小说；虚构的事 2．　ridiculous　 adj.愚蠢的；荒谬；荒唐的 3．　integrity　 n．诚实正直；完整；完好 4．　dignity　 n．庄重；庄严；尊严 5．　absurd　 adj.荒谬的；荒唐的 6．　suspend　 vt.悬；挂；暂停；暂缓 7．　dismiss　 vt.让(某人)离开；解散；解雇；消除 8．　whereas　 conj.然而；但是；尽管 拓展单词 1．　satisfaction　 n．满意；满足；令人满意的事物→　satisfy　 vt.使满足；使满意→ 　satisfying/satisfactory　 adj.令人满意的→　satisfied　 adj.满意的 2．　appointment　 n．预约；约会；委任→　appoint　 v．任命，委派→　appointed　 adj.约定的，指定的