最新15篇文章贯通英语四级词汇MP3 Unit14-Part6

[00:00.00]Transportation

[00:02.17]Will we float over highways

[00:05.13]or drive on the road surface

[00:06.99]as we do now?

[00:08.74]Will the cost of a gallon

[00:10.82]of fuel still be our concern?

[00:13.33]What will our vehicles

[00:15.52]look like? Will the profile

[00:17.60]of our automobiles 1 look like 

[00:19.57]the shape of a space age aircraft?

[00:22.30]Will the notion of using

[00:24.50]paint to protect the car’s exterior 2

[00:26.58]be obsolete 3? Perhaps the coating

[00:30.18]on the car will give

[00:31.82]a durable 4 shine and we

[00:33.47]will never need to

[00:35.00]wax or polish it.

[00:36.42]What kind of battery will

[00:38.72]we use to power our car?

[00:40.90]Will we still have a mechanic

[00:43.21]repair our car at

[00:44.73]a service garage or will

[00:47.14]robots that are computerized do it?

[00:49.66]Will the motor be powered

[00:52.17]by a new kind of petroleum 5

[00:54.25]product or by hydrogen?

[00:56.11]Will the cars still be

[00:58.30]equipped with horns as

[00:59.94]a warning signal or will

[01:01.36]a new device be available?

[01:03.22]Will there be a gauge 6

[01:05.63]to warn us if our speed

[01:07.60]is too fast or will

[01:09.57]radar be used to guide

[01:11.10]the car so that driver error

[01:13.29]is no longer a concern?

[01:15.26]Electronics

[01:18.21]Will we be able to

[01:20.95]play any musical instrument

[01:22.48]such as a guitar easily

[01:24.34]with a process the machine

[01:26.30]teach us? Will other media,

[01:29.37]such as movies, be interactive 7?

[01:31.45]Will we have access

[01:33.75]to opticaldiscs that can

[01:36.04]be played by laser?

[01:37.57]Digital images will more

[01:39.66]closely imitate reality.

[01:41.74]They will be so realistic

[01:44.69]that it will be virtually

[01:46.33]impossible to tell them

[01:47.75]from the real thing.

[01:48.85]Our enjoyment 8 of watching

[01:51.03]a video will be enhanced

[01:52.89]by the quality of the images.

[01:54.42]Will we have equipment

[01:57.38]capable of manipulating ideas,

[01:59.89]eliminating the need for journalists

[02:02.30]to write and edit 

[02:03.62]the news?Will computer software

[02:06.13]be available to modify

[02:07.77]what we type so that our errors

[02:10.29]are corrected automatically?

[02:12.15]Will computer hardware include

[02:15.65]massive a mounts of memory

[02:17.83]that will allow us to

[02:19.69]file an enormous amount of material?

[02:22.21]Will we be in the habit

[02:25.27]of carrying a small device

[02:26.81]with us that can be

[02:28.45]used as a cell phone,

[02:29.65]a fax, a microphone and

[02:31.95]an internet connection?

[02:34.45]Summary

[02:36.86]Look at the world around you

[02:39.05]and consider some of

[02:40.58]the concepts discussed in

[02:42.22]this document. Careful observation

[02:45.50]will lead you to the conclusion

[02:48.12]that many of these things have

[02:50.97]already happened. I urge you

[02:53.92]to reread each paragraph

[02:56.33]of this article to see

[02:58.52]if perhaps they are all

[03:00.60]things that are available somewhere

[03:02.57]in the world currently.

[03:04.21]If that is the case,

[03:06.50]then you will agree that

[03:07.71]the future is now