The City of the Future

Learning paper2 Intensive reading
Learning aims: to learn the passage and master a general idea
Importance and difficulty: sentences and no matter + what/when----and with + 宾语+宾补
Ⅰ.Read the passage on page2 The city of the Future
1. Decide which topics are mentioned in it and pick them out.
1.)alternative energy 2.) environment 3.) entertainment 4.) crime 5.) traffic 6.) weather 7.) shopping 8.) schools 9.) public services
Ⅱ.Read the first paragraph and do the following exercises.
1.Who knows for sure what the city of the future will look like?

2.What is certain about the city of the future?

3.What materials can be recycled?

4.What alternative energy is mentioned?

5.Why will it become very important to care for the environment?

6.Which sentence has the seam meaning as the one below?
No one knows certainly,and predicting the future is not a wise thing to do.

7.They are going to get bigger before they get smaller. (translate)

8.There are plenty of things about city life in the future which are not certain. (定语从句)(translate)

Ⅲ.Read the rest of the passage and answer the questions.
1.Why did the teacher ask his students how to run a city of 50000 in 2025?

2.Where will garbage ships go?

3.Who will Batmam nets catch?

4.Where won’t people be allowed to smoke?

5.How will people go shopping?

6.What number will people keep for life?

7.What won’t people have to pay for?

8.How will senior citizens and the disabled go anywhere in the world?
Ⅳ.Dicussion :
1. Which prediction in this passage will come true first? And which one is the most useful?

2.What will the city of the future look like in your opinion?

Ⅴ.Learn the following sentences by heart.
1．To get rid of garbage problems, the city will load huge spaceship with waste materials and send them towards the sun, preventing landfill and environmental problems. 为了摆脱垃圾问题的困扰，城市将会用巨型飞船装载废弃材料，朝太阳发射，这样做防止了垃圾填埋和环境问题。
To get rid of garbage problems 不定式作目的状语
To find out what young people think about the future of urban life, a teacher -------
1)______________,(为了赶上第一班车) he got up very early.
2)----Why are they pulling down the houses?
------_____ a new parking lot（停车场）
A. Build B. To build C. Building D. Built
2. Everyone will be given a telephone number at birth that will never change no matter where they live.每个人一出生就会给一个电话号码，将来无论他们居住在哪儿，这个电话号码都不会改变。that will never change为定语从句。先行词为________.
no matter where they live 让步状语从句。
No matter +where/when/how /who/ which/ what 无论哪儿，无论何时，无论怎么，无论谁，无论哪个，无论什么。
1) The old tower must be saved, _______ the cost is.
A.no matter how B no matter what
C. no matter which D. no matter where
2) You can eat food free in my restaurant _____ you like.
A no matter when B. no matter where
C. no matter what D. no matter how
_____ much I study, I find these exercises difficult.
A. no matter how B. no matter when
D. no matter which D. no matter who
3. Distance surgery will become common as doctors carry out operations from thousands of miles away, with each city having its own telesurgery outpatient clinic.随着每个城市拥有自己的远程手术门诊部，医生将能在千里以外实施手术，远程手术将会变得十分普通.
with/without +宾语+ 宾补（+doing/to do/done/adj/adv/prep短语）
With a lot ________(do), he can’t help you now.
With his work _______(do), he went out to play.
With so much noise _______(go), I can’t fall sleep.
He likes sleeping with the windows ________(open)
Zhoukai went out without a jacket _____(没穿).
I have a robot shaped like a box with a large eye ________(头顶上).
4. 警察逮捕罪犯时，将会向罪犯射出网状物而不是用枪。

5．在未来城市范围内禁止吸烟。