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1、（全新版）大学英语综合教程第四册 Unit 2 Smart CarsI. Warm-up activities Task 1: Free writing (5minutes) Continue to write the sentence by giving your reasons for not driving a car. “Even if I could afford a car, I would not actually want to drive one because” I. Warm-up activities Task 2: Discussion The topic of th
2、e unit we are going to study today is “Smart Cars”. Discuss the following questions with your partner: In your opinion, what is a smart car? What will the cars of the future be like? I. Warm-up activitiesTask 3: Topic-related Listening You are going to listen to a passage entitled “Cars of the Futur
3、e”. Write down some important features about cars of the future. Tips: - cleaner: electrically powered, environmentally clean - safer: controlled by computer; impossible for cars to crash into each other - more comfortable: a versatile interior with the adults and children in a family circle What ki
4、nd of car will we be driving in 2010? Rather different from the type we know today, with the next 20 years bringing greater change than the past 50. Their vision is of a machine with three wheels instead of four, electrically powered, environmentally clean, and able to drive itself along “intelligen
5、t“ roads equipped with built-in power suppliers. Future cars will pick up their fuel during long journeys from a power source built into the road, or store it in small quantities for traveling in the city. Instead of todays seating arrangements - two in front, two or three behind, all facing forward
6、 - the 2010 car will have a versatile ( 多功能的) interior (内部) with adults and children in a family circle. This view of the future car is based on a much more sophisticated road system, with strips built into motorways to supply power to vehicles passing along them. Cars will not need drivers, because
7、 computers will provide safe driving control and route finding. All the driver will have to do is say where to go and the computer will do the rest. It will become impossible for cars to crash into one another. The technology already exists for the car to become a true automobile.General MotorsRobot
8、s perform repetitive, high-precision operations 24 hours a day without fatigue. Robots on this automobile assembly line weld body parts together. The General Motors Corporation uses about 16,000 robots to weld, assemble, and paint automobiles.A Navstar Satellite A total of 24 GPS satellites orbit ov
9、erhead and provide accurate positioning and navigation information for both military and civilian use. Solar cells power each satellite and its atomic clocks. Antennas on a satellite continuously transmit timing information from the clocks. The signals can be picked up and processed by a GPS receive
10、r to determine exact location and altitude.GPS SystemThe Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) is a network of 24 satellites in orbit around the earth that provides users with information about their position and movement. A GPS receiver computes position information by comparing the time it takes
11、 for signals from three or four different GPS satellites to reach the receiver. Compound DictationThe automobile industry is one of the most important industries in the world, 1) _ not only economies but also cultures. It provides jobs for millions of people, generates billions of dollars in worldwi
12、de 2) _, and provides the basis for a multitude of 3) _ service and support industries. Automobiles revolutionized 4) _ in the 20th century, changing forever the way people live, travel, and do business. Between 1886 and 1898, about 300 automobiles were built, but there was no real established indus
13、try. A century later, with automakers and auto buyers 5) _ globally, automaking became the worlds largest manufacturing activity, with more than 53 million new 6) _ built each year worldwide. 7) _. These companies often share parts, or use parts made in foreign factories. 8) _. The three major autom
14、obile manufacturers in the United States-General Motors Corporation, Ford Motor Company, and Daimler Chrysler AG-provide three fourths of the industrys total direct employment in the United States.Keysaffecting revenues related transportation expanding vehicles Automobile manufacturers are among the
15、 largest companies in the world. These corporations are often multinational. The U.S. automobile industry produced 16.8 million vehicles in 1999.Part One Paras 1-3Part Two Paras 4-9 Part Three Paras 10-13 Text OrganizationNew technology will have a dramatic impact on cars and highways in the 21st century. With the aid of advanced technology, smart cars will be so designed that they can help eliminate traffic accidents, determine their own precise locations and warn of traffic
