高中英语人教版高二下06

[06:17.29]We still do many of the thins you did,but we do them differently.
[06:23.82]For example,we now have e-friends to help us and keep us company.
[06:32.46]An e-friend is a machine that looks just like a human being.
[06:39.12]It can walk and talk and can do almost everything we human beings do.
[06:46.18]My e-friend is a lot like me and we have lots of fun together.
[06:53.13]She helps me with my homework and we often go swimming.
[06:59.19]She is programmed to take care of me if anything happens,
[07:04.83]so I always feel safe when we are together.
[07:09.19]She can also send me messages,just like old-fashioned e-mail,
[07:15.96]and I can download information from her memory.
[07:20.92]It's great to have an e-friend.
[07:25.07]I am never lonely and I always have someone to talk to.
[07:30.53]We don't think about the world and reality in the same way you did either.
[07:37.06]You used computer programmes to imitate the real world
[07:42.92]and called it "virtual reality".
[07:47.49]In the year 3044,we use computer programmes that can imitate the world
[07:55.53]and people so well that we can see them,hear them,touch them,talk to them,
[08:03.68]and feel them they are just like the real world and real people.
[08:10.74]This may sound absurd to you,but if you think about it a little,
[08:17.11]it may not seem so strange after all.
[08:21.76]For example,
[08:24.92]if you use a telephone that changes a person's voice into ones and zeroes,
[08:32.65]as a digital phone does,
[08:36.31]you still think that the voice you hear is "real",don't you?
[08:42.27]you can recognise a person's voice on the phone
[08:47.44]and you can hear if the person is happy,sad,interested,etc.
[08:55.17]If you use a cellphone that shows a picture of the person you are speaking to,
[09:02.12]that image is "real" too.
[09:06.19]In the year 3044,we can see more than just a picture;
[09:12.96]we see a lifelike model of the person.
[09:18.24]Sometimes it is difficult to tell what is "real" and what is an image.
[09:25.29]I would like to tell you about life in the year 3044,
[09:32.06]but I have to send my e-friend to clean up my room.
[09:37.62]Maybe some day I will be able to travel back in time and visit you.
[09:44.46]Sincerely,Mekanika
[09:49.22]Work book
[09:55.98]Unit 6  Integrating skills
[10:01.63]Reading WHERE IS THE FUTURE GOING?
[10:06.90]Our work habits have changed a lot over the past thirty years.
[10:13.25]While our parents may have expected to stay in one job,
[10:18.68]with one company,for their whole life,
[10:23.33]we are faced with the possibility of changing jobs and even careers several times.
[10:30.31]Our understanding of education,
[10:34.44]work and society is different from that of earlier generations.
[10:40.47]It is not only the way we work and view the job market that has changed;
[10:46.64]many of today's jobs will either disappear or change in the next ten years or so.
[10:54.50]People in the future will still need food,of course,
[10:59.64]but the way we produce food will not be the same.
[11:04.61]Small farms that use old methods
[11:09.47]will be replaced by large farms with high efficiency.
[11:14.64]The good news for small farmers
[11:19.50]is that there will also be opportunities for new kinds of farming,
[11:24.96]for example farms that grow organic food and environ men tally friendly food.
[11:32.61]As people become more educated and care more about what they eat,
[11:39.06]the need for specialised products will grow
[11:43.74]and a new market will open up for farmers.
[11:48.28]Marketing people for large companies will find that the need for their services
[11:55.05]is not as strong as it once was.
[11:59.18]Companies can now take care of most of their business through the Internet
[12:05.34]and other communication channels.
[12:09.47]Fortunately,buyers and sellers have skills that will be useful in the future.
[12:17.44]Because they know how to predict what consumers want to buy,
[12:23.08]they can find new jobs in areas such as marketing and product design.
[12:28.96]There are others who may be able to use the skills they have today