新视野大学英语读写教程听力 第一册 unit09a_new

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[00:-1.00]1. Your Future
[00:-2.00]The future does not determine itself.
[00:-3.00]The actions of the present determine the future.
[00:-4.00]Edward Cornish, editor of  "The Futurist" magazine
[00:-5.00]published by the World Future Society, says:
[00:-6.00]"The responsibility we have for the future
[00:-7.00]begins when we recognise that we ourselves create the future
[00:-8.00]that the future is not something imposed upon us by fate
[00:-9.00]or other forces beyond our control.
[00:10.00]We ourselves build the future both through what we do
[00:11.00]and what we do not do."
[00:12.00]2. Your Brain
[00:13.00]Your brainwaves may be checked to see whether you are busy,
[00:14.00]tired or doing your work properly.
[00:15.00]Psychologist Arthur F. Kramer tested volunteers working on arithmetic problems.
[00:16.00]He could predict their performance
[00:17.00]from the strength of the brain's electrical activity measured through the head.
[00:18.00]The future? Bosses could measure brain activity to learn worker quality.
[00:19.00]Frequent computer analyses could tell whether workers,like air traffic controllers,
[00:20.00]are seeing all activity clearly enough to monitor it properly.
[00:21.00]3. Your Doctor
[00:22.00]More and more,
[00:23.00]doctors will use visual information about your condition from computers,
[00:24.00]instead of textbooks, for diagnosis and treatment.
[00:25.00]Home computers will enable you to answer interactive questions about your health
[00:26.00]and show the alternative results should you act in a certain way.
[00:27.00]4. Your Car
[00:28.00]Cars will be almost entirely controlled by computers.
[00:29.00]To pay for costs, cars will be billed for using high-speed toll roads.
[00:30.00]Computers will record the passage of the car
[00:31.00]and automatically take the money from the owner's computer bank account.
[00:32.00]Computers will show drivers maps of districts the car is crossing
[00:33.00]on a small screen in the car.
[00:34.00]Computers will diagnose any problems with the engine.
[00:35.00]Computer connections will list the nearest places of repair,
[00:36.00]tell the cost of new parts and the place where they can be bought.
[00:37.00]5. The Computer-Home
[00:38.00]More than half of the home computers sold in the United States in recent years
[00:39.00]will become essential to home life in the West.
[00:40.00]Future tasks computers already do at home include:
[00:41.00]Computers turn on the lights,heating and essential household services
[00:42.00]before people arrive home from work.
[00:43.00]Computers control cooking, hot water, security.
[00:44.00]Computers enable homework assignments to be done with worldwide resources,
[00:45.00]using sites like museums and science facilities around the world.
[00:46.00]Homework help can come equally from the local library,
[00:47.00]or libraries and databases in places as far apart as New York and London,
[00:48.00]or from teachers and fellow students around the globe.
[00:49.00]Many shoppers order groceries at home through Internet suppliers
[00:50.00]and have purchases delivered.
[00:51.00]6. The Workplace
[00:52.00]The changing face of work and the workplace
[00:53.00]is one of the most widespread influences in Western society.
[00:54.00]Women now form more than half the workers;
[00:55.00]the percentage is rising as they start up small businesses of their own,
[00:56.00]often working from home.
[00:57.00]People are changing careers on average every ten years now,
[00:58.00]instead of staying in a job for life.
[00:59.00]Increases in information
[-1:00.00]and knowledge-based businesses are reducing levels of middle management.
[-1:-1.00]Top managers get all the information needed to work together with front-line staff.
[-1:-2.00]Specialists are becoming more important than general workers.
[-1:-3.00]7. The Environment
[-1:-4.00]Protection of the environment used to be the concern of special groups.
[-1:-5.00]Now governments and businesses realise bad air and water pollution affect everyone,