大学英语第四册课件Unit 2 Smart Cars
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Book 4 Unit Two Smart Cars智能汽车 (1)
e.g. The little boy sent up the way his father walked and made everyone laugh. 这小男孩模仿他父亲走路的样子,大家都笑了起来。
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(1).cause to depart
send away
send off = (1). post 邮寄 (2). see off 为...送行;送别 e.g. A great crowd gathered at the station to send the football team off.
send on = (1). post or dispatch, repost 转寄;转送,转交
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e.g. Coal can be converted to gas. e.g. His mother has converted to Catholicism. e.g. The sofa is converted into a bed *convertible : a convertible sofa, convertible currencies
使离开;送走 (2) .dismiss ，discharge or fire遣走,解雇
e.g. He sent his son away to school in America. e.g. The boss sent little Jack away on some pretext or other.
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1) send out
v. transmit (a signal,etc.) by radio waves; give sth. out; produce sth.用 (无线电波等) 发送（信号等）
Unit-2-Smart-Cars课文+翻译+练习
Smart CarsMichio Kaku1 Even the automobile industry, which has remained largely unchanged for the last seventy years, is about to feel the effects of the computer revolution.智能汽车米其奥·卡库即便是过去70年间基本上没有多少变化的汽车工业，也将感受到计算机革命的影响。
2 The automobile industry ranks as among the most lucrative and powerful industries of the twentieth century. There are presently 500 million cars on earth, or one car for every ten people. Sales of the automobile industry stand at about a trillion dollars, making it the world's biggest manufacturing industry.汽车工业是20世纪最赚钱、最有影响力的产业之一。
目前世界上有5亿辆车，或者说每10人就有1辆车。
汽车工业的销售额达一万亿美元左右，从而成为世界上最大的制造业。
3 The car, and the roads it travels on, will be revolutionized in the twenty-first century. The key to tomorrow's "smart cars" will be sensors. "We'll see vehicles and roads that see and hear and feel and smell and talk and act," predicts Bill Spreitzer, technical director of General Motors Corporation's ITS program, which is designing the smart car and road of the future.汽车及其行驶的道路，将在21世纪发生重大变革。
大学英语第四册课件Unit 2 Smart Cars
Alert
• (vt.) warn sb. that there mayபைடு நூலகம்be danger, trouble, etc. (used in the pattern: alert sb.; alert sb. to sth.) • Why weren’t the police alerted? • The teacher alerted the students to the danger of swimming in the river. • The manager alerted the staff to the crisis facing the company. • The other usages of alert
Convert
• Change from one form to another (followed by into/to) • The signal will be converted into digital code. • Solar cooking requires a dark pot to absorb the sun’s rays and convert them into heat energy.
Lucrative
• Producing much money; profitable • Many ex-army officers have found lucrative jobs in private security firms. • We made a lucrative business deal with the American company on rice imports.
Hazard
• A thing that can be dangerous or cause damage; a danger or risk • Smog developed into a major health hazard by the 20th century. • The research has confirmed that tobacco smoke presents a hazard to health.
(完整版)Unit2SmartCars课文+翻译+练习
Smart CarsMichio Kaku1 Even the automobile industry, which has remained largely unchanged for the last seventy years, is about to feel the effects of the computer revolution.智能汽车米其奥·卡库即便是过去70年间基本上没有多少变化的汽车工业，也将感受到计算机革命的影响。
2 The automobile industry ranks as among the most lucrative and powerful industries of the twentieth century. There are presently 500 million cars on earth, or one car for every ten people. Sales of the automobile industry stand at about a trillion dollars, making it the world's biggest manufacturing industry.汽车工业是20世纪最赚钱、最有影响力的产业之一。
目前世界上有5亿辆车，或者说每10人就有1辆车。
汽车工业的销售额达一万亿美元左右，从而成为世界上最大的制造业。
3 The car, and the roads it travels on, will be revolutionized in the twenty-first century. The key to tomorrow's "smart cars" will be sensors. "We'll see vehicles and roads that see and hear and feel and smell and talk and act," predicts Bill Spreitzer, technical director of General Motors Corporation's ITS program, which is designing the smart car and road of the future.汽车及其行驶的道路，将在21世纪发生重大变革。
CET-B4-Unit2(newest) Smart Cars 全新版大学英语综合教程(第二版)第四册英语课件
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Formulated (套式的) conclusion:
• Weighing the merits/benefits and demerits / defects of high-tech, I am inclined to believe that the conveniences/benefits of science and technology far outweigh the problems produced by high-tech to serve. The best policy is to regulate/make full e of modern science and technology appropriately so as to maximize its advantages and minimize its disadvantages.
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Parts of A Car:
windscreen wiper windscreen sunroof boot
bonnet
sidelight
hubcap bumper headlight number plate foglight indicator
door
wing
tire
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Parts of A Car:
Impact of Science & Technology
Merits:
• First of all, the access to information may be the most critical requirement of all people, and technology has facilitated the sharing of information and the storage and delivery of information, thus making more information available to more people. • change life styles, ideas and human relationships • improve life quality with the application of new inventions or the use of new medicine • enhance the major social productivity • develop the civilization and enable humans to get away from ignorance • provide a comfortable, convenient and easier life for human being 13 in the modern world…
大学英语综合教程4Unit 2 Smart Cars
• 概念车是汽车中内容最丰富、 最深刻、最前卫、最能代表 世界汽车科技发展和设计水 平的汽车。概念车也是艺术 性最强、最具吸引力的汽车. 概念车分为两种，一种是设 计概念模型。一种是能跑的 真正汽车 第二种比较接近于批量生产， 技术已步入试验并逐步走向 实用化,一般在5年左右可成 为投产的新产品。 第一种汽车虽是更为超前的 设计，但因环境、科研水平、 成本等原因，只是未来发展 的研究设想。
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Smart Cars Text Organization
• Part One—(Paras 1-3) • Part Two—(Paras 4-9) • Part Three—(Paras 10-13)
Language points In part one
Lucrative • (L4): adj. producing much money syn.—profitable • lucrative business / market / contract / job • The lobbies of Baghdad's five-star hotels are packed with businessmen fighting over lucrative contracts.
• eliminate a need/possibility/risk/problem - The credit card eliminates the need for cash or checks. - Select the superior and eliminate the inferior (survival of the fittest) 优胜劣汰
Automobile Brands
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1. What is “blind spot” ? 2.What is the Global positioning system? 3.What is an atomic clock? 4.What is an automated driver?
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Answers : 1.A blind spot must be a portion of the road behind a car, which a driver can not observe from the rearview mirror 2. Global positioning system is a service linked with a satellite. They make it possible to determine your location on the earth to within about a hundred feet. 3. Atomic clock vibrates at a precise frequency, according to the laws of the quantum theory. 4. An automated driver is a plan calls for computers, aided by thousands of three-inch magnetic spikes buried in the highway, to take complete control of the driving of cars on heavily trafficked roads. Cars will be bunched into groups of ten to twelve vehicles, only six feet apart, traveling in unison, and controlled by computer
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Answers : 1.A blind spot must be a portion of the road behind a car, which a driver can not observe from the rearview mirror 2. Global positioning system is a service linked with a satellite. They make it possible to determine your location on the earth to within about a hundred feet. 3. Atomic clock vibrates at a precise frequency, according to the laws of the quantum theory. 4. An automated driver is a plan calls for computers, aided by thousands of three-inch magnetic spikes buried in the highway, to take complete control of the driving of cars on heavily trafficked roads. Cars will be bunched into groups of ten to twelve vehicles, only six feet apart, traveling in unison, and controlled by computer
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Terms of roads:
Underground / subway Light rail (elevated railway) Inner-ring road Outer-ring road Elevated road; viaduct Over-pass Mag-lev train: Magnetically levitated train
Part Division of the Text
Parts 1 2 3 Para 1-3 4-9 10-13 Main Ideas
The prospect of future smart cars and smart highways.
Features of future smart cars The building of smart highways
3. The car, and the roads it travels on, will be revolutionized in
the twenty-first century. The key to tomorrow‘s ―smart cars‖ will be sensors. ―We‘ll see vehicles and roads that see and hear and feel and smell and talk and act,‖ predicts Bill Spreitzer, technical director of General Motors Corporation‘s ITS program, which is designing the smart car and road of the future. Part I (p1~3) --The impact of new technology on cars and highways of future
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Eliminate
• Remove, esp. sb./sth. that is not wanted or needed; get rid of :eliminate sth. (from sth.) • The Chinese government approved a new plan to eliminate illiteracy by 2006. • The curriculum ignored the interests of children and so eliminated the children’s motivation. • If you think you may be allergic to a food or drink, eliminate it from your diet.
Satellite
• An electronic device that is sent into space and moves round a planet • The first artificial satellite was launched in 1957. • Engineers have developed many kinds of satellites, each designed to serve a specific purpose or mission.
In the air
• In the earth’s atmosphere; uncertain, not yet decided • There is a peculiar smell in the air. • Hundreds of birds suddenly rose in the air. • Our plans are still in the air. • Cf. on the air • The other phrases of air
Lucrative
• Producing much money; profitable • Many ex-army officers have found lucrative jobs in private security firms. • We made a lucrative business deal with the American company on rice imports.
Unit 2 Smart Cars
• Turn sth. into / become a reality • Her dream of being a college student has turned into a reality. • Working at home and communicating with fellow workers via their PCs has become a reality for some.
Manufacture (1)
• Make goods on a large scale using machinery • Britain now manufactures approximately/about 40 per cent of Europe’s desktop computers. • Ford has been manufacturing cars for nearly a hundred years.
They make it possible.
• Pay attention to the structure v. + it+ adj. to do • The other usages of it
To within about a hundred feet
• • • • • Double prepositions The other examples of the same structure Come out from behind the door/tree Climb out from under the bed Put your book on the desk instead of in it.
Frequency
• The rate at which sth. happens or is repeated, usu measured over a particular period of time • My computer broke down with increasing frequency. • Fatal road accidents have decreased in frequency over recent years. • Fluency
Alert
• (vt.) warn sb. that there may be danger, trouble, etc. (used in the pattern: alert sb.; alert sb. to sth.) • Why weren’t the police alerted? • The teacher alerted the students to the danger of swimming in the river. • The manager alerted the staff to the crisis facing the company. • The other usages of alert
ห้องสมุดไป่ตู้azard
• A thing that can be dangerous or cause damage; a danger or risk • Smog developed into a major health hazard by the 20th century. • The research has confirmed that tobacco smoke presents a hazard to health.
Vibrate
• (cause sth. to) move rapidly and continuously backwards and forwards; shake • The whole house vibrates whenever a heavy truck passes. • Microwave ovens operate by agitating the water molecules in the food, causing them to vibrate, which produces heat.
Start up
• Begin or begin working, running, happening, etc. • Peter looked in his mirror and started up the engine. • Put the key in the ignition and start the car up. • The other phrases of start
Lane
• A division of a road, street, or highway wide enough for a single line of motor vehicle • The newly-built highways have two lanes for each direction of travel. • There are many different types of road, from multi-land freeways and expressways to two-way country roads.
Vapor
• A mass of tiny drops of moisture forming a cloud or mist • Pure steam is a dry and invisible vapor. • The atmosphere always contains some moisture in the form of water vapor.
Prototype
• The first model or design of sth. from which other forms are copied or developed • Bell uttered to his assistant the words, “Mr. Watson, come here; using a prototype telephone. • Toyota released its small-car prototype in 1947.
Monotonous
• Dull and never changing or varying; constant and boring • In the 1970s we had a monotonous diet of rice and vegetables. • Robots are used in repetitive, monotonous tasks in which human performance might degrade over time. • Tedious, tame, tiring
Send out
• Transmit (a signal, etc.) by radio waves • The yacht sent out a distress signal which was picked up by a passing steamer. • The other phrases of send
Manufacture (2)
• To invent an untrue story, excuse etc. • If the media can manufacture stories like this, then who are we supposed to believe? • You’ll have to manufacture a good excuse if you don’t go to your sister’s wedding.