forever.

　　Ⅰ.Fast­reading

　　1．Write down the main idea of the text.

　　The text is about some predictions about the future life.

　　2．Skim the text and write out the main of each part.

　　Part 1 (Para. 1): What will the city of the future look like?

　　Part 2 (Para. 2－12): How will the students run a city in the future?

　　Ⅱ.Careful­reading

　　Choose the best answer according to the text.

　　1．Which of the following belongs to alternative energy?

　　A．Water.　　　　B．Petrol.

　　C．Solar. D．Natural gas.

　　2．Why will care for the environment become very important in the future?

　　A．Because earth's natural resources run out.

　　B．Because we will use lots of recycled materials, such as plastic, aluminum, steel, glass, wood and paper.

　　C．Because we will waste fewer natural resources.

　　D．Because we will also have to rely more on alternative energy.

　　3．What can we know about the life of the future?

　　A．Earth's alternative energy will run out.

　　B．Fewer natural resources will be wasted.

　　C．People will have to rely more on natural energy.

　　D．The cities are going to get smaller and smaller.

　　4．Which of the following is TRUE about the city of the future?

　　A．The city will send garbage to other planets.

　　B．All shopping in the future will be free of charge.

　　C．Everyone will easily change his telephone number.

　　D．It will be convenient for ordinary people to travel in space.

　　答案：1～4　CABD

　　Ⅲ.Study­reading

　　Analyze the following difficult sentences in the text.

　　1．All this seems certain, but there are plenty of things about city life in the future which are not certain.

　　[句式分析]　本句是由but连接构成的并列句，在后一分句中含有一个which引导的定语从句修饰先行词things。

　　[尝试翻译]　所有这些似乎是一定的，但是关于未来的城市生活，有很多事情是不确定的。

　　2．To find out what young people think about the future of urban life, a teacher at a university in Texas in the United States asked his students to think how they would run a city of 50,000 people in the year 2025.

　　[句式分析]　本句是一个复合句。To find out ... 不定式短语作目的状语， 其中what从句作find out的宾语； 主句是a teacher asked his students to think ... in the year 2025，其中to think how ...不定式短语作宾语补足语，how引导的从句作think的宾语。

　　[尝试翻译]　为了了解年轻人对未来城市生活的想法，美国得克萨斯州的一位大学教师让他的学生们思考他们将如何管理2025年一座拥有5万人口的城市。

　　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.

　　[句式分析]　该句的主句为Distance surgery ...，而as doctors carry out ...为时间状语从句，with each city having ...为with复合结构作原因状语。

[尝试翻译]　医生在几千英里以外为病人动手术的远程治疗成为常事，因为每个城市