Номер 2, страница 177 - гдз по английскому языку 10 класс учебник Юхнель, Наумова

2. a) Read the technological predictions below and match them with four pictures in ex. 1. Were your predictions correct?

Surfing From Space

Space tourism has become a reality. American company Virgin Galactic has already booked flights for 330 people who want to fly into space. It is predicted that by 2025 about 15,000 people will fly into space every year.

These advances will almost certainly give rise to new extreme sports. By 2022 daredevils (or celebrities that want to give their career a boost) will try to ride a surfboard from space, through the atmosphere, and then fly past a beach in California before landing on the ocean and then surfing back to the beach.

At the start of the flight, they will be wearing a space outfit but as they get lower and the air becomes warmer, they can start removing the equipment. The world's media will watch and report on every move as they throw each piece away, and watch the pieces quickly burn up.

Using Nanobots

By 2025 miniature nanobots will be built to travel through your blood stream to anywhere in your body to repair damage. Also, nanobots will be used when you are sick. When you have an upset stomach, you will swallow a very small cherry tasting robot which will travel through your stomach taking video of the mess.

It will be set up like a video game, so you can control the trip. Then you can replay the video to help a doctor diagnose your problem.

At an Edmonton hospital, the Royal Alex, a wireless pill is already being used to take photographs of the inside of a patient. The patient swallows the capsule which then travels through the body taking 2 pictures per second. The data is analysed by a computer.

Duplicated People

Over the next 20 to 50 years, people will be using robots to do most work. It will become harder to tell the difference between the human and the machine. All body parts will be replaceable. A computer will function like the human brain with the ability to feel.

Maybe by 2050, we will be able to create a machine duplicate of ourselves and the scientists will find a way to transfer our mind (including our memories and thoughts) to the new body. Then we can choose to live for as long as we want.

Naturally, there will be a food problem as duplicates will be running around all over the place. Your most advanced duplicate will be designed to eat garbage and really enjoy it.

A Ring Tone Vehicle

In 2022, people will be driving the new battery powered vehicle which will run in silence. But the vehicle owners will soon start missing the noise. People stop noticing their car. In the summer of 2014, worries were finally expressed that electric cars have a safety problem because they don't make noise.

The designers will add loud noises to the 2024 model. So, the driver can punch a button to get noise, like a ring tone. They will be able to select: a rocket sound, a flock of turkeys, a herd of elephants, a railway train, etc.

b) Which of the texts are humorous? Which one is the technology of yesterday – something that already exists? Which of the inventions is the most important?

c) Look at the first prediction again. What are the tenses of the verbs in bold? Find more examples of Future Continuous in the other predictions.

d) What schemes illustrate Future Continuous? (See pages 302–304.)

A. now

B. now

d) Какие схемы иллюстрируют Future Continuous?

Ответ:

B and E

Перевод:

B и E