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词 prediction predict (v.)＋­ion→构成名词 definitely definite (adj.)＋­ly→构成副词 optimistic optimism (n.)去m＋­tic→构成形容词 colonist colony (n.)去y＋­ist→构成表示人的名词 　　Ⅲ.补全短语

　　1．look out　　　小心；当心

　　2．for a start 首先

　　3．on the way out 即将被淘汰；即将过时

　　4．come true 实现

　　5．get married 结婚

　　6．in progress 在进行中

　　7．throw away 扔掉

　　1．[教材原句]I am too busy enjoying my life now to worry about the future!

　　我现在太忙于享受生活，以至于没有时间担心未来。

　　[句型点拨]too ... to ..."太......而不能......"。

　　[佳句赏析]妈妈，我太累了再也走不动了。难道你不知道我们已经走了将近三个小时了吗？我确实需要休息一下！

　　Mom, I am too tired to walk. Don't you know that we have been walking for nearly three hours？I do need a rest!

　　2．[教材原句]So in ten years I hope I will either be working in a hospital or as a doctor with my own surgery.

　　因此十年后，我希望要么在医院里工作，要么做一名拥有自己的诊所的医生。

　　[句型点拨]either ... or"或者......或者"，连接主语时，谓语动词的单复数采取"就近原则"。

　　[佳句赏析]我不是把它放在桌子上了， 就是放在抽屉里了。

　　I left it either on the table or in the drawer.

　　3．[教材原句]Not all predictions come true.

　　并不是所有的预测都变成了现实。

　　[句型点拨]not all表示部分否定。

　　[佳句赏析]我没有完全读他的书，但从我读的这本判断，我认为他是一个很有希望的年轻人。

　　I haven't read all of his books, but judging from the one I have read, I think he is a very promising young man.

　　Famous Last Words

　　Not all predictions come true. Many of them are wrong, and some are very wrong. Here are just a few of the bad predictions people made in the twentieth century about the twenty­first century：

　　AIRPLANES

　　"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris."

　　Orville Wright, 1908.

　　COMPUTERS

　　"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."

　　Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.

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