人教全日制普通高中英语（必修）高二上06

[00:07.39]A:Hello,greetings from the future!
[00:12.85]My name is Mekanika,and I live in the year 3044.
[00:20.30]Well,that's what you would call it,we call it the year 58 AL.
[00:28.06]AL means¹ after leaving.
[00:32.91]You see,58 years ago people in the earth
[00:39.26] decided² that they had to do something to save the people on the planet³.
[00:45.04]There were so many people on the earth
[00:49.19]and there were so much pollution,
[00:53.24]that the only way to keep the planet from dying⁴ was to send people into space.
[00:59.48]My family was one of the chosen ones.
[01:04.24]About 1/3 of the earth population was left back home.
[01:09.80]And the rest of us went into space.
[01:13.95]We're now living in a new city on the planet Mars⁵.
[01:19.20]Life here is very nice,and we are happy in our new home.
[01:25.37]We still keep in touch with the people on earth,
[01:29.50]and some of us go back for short visits.
[01:33.86]The earth is better now,
[01:37.10]and the people back home are doing their best to clean up the planet.
[01:42.84]I was born here on Mars,and I've never been to earth.
[01:48.77]My grandparents and parents tell me about the earth
[01:54.23] and it sounds like a beautiful place.
[01:58.31]When my science teacher told me
[02:02.28]that we could use our schools time machine to send messages to the past.
[02:08.73]I wanted to send one to you,and tell you about the life here.
[02:14.61]Part Two  Every morning I have to get up at 2:00.
[02:21.87]That probably sounds very strange to you,
[02:26.73]but you see,we have a different time system here.
[02:32.69]We divide the day into eight parts,
[02:37.23]two o'clock in the morning here on Mars
[02:41.36]is almost likes six o'clock on the earth.
[02:45.62]I eat breakfast with my family before I go to school.
[02:51.49]The food here is different from your food.
[02:56.95]We eat pills⁶ and drink juice to stay healthy.
[03:02.23]My history book says that you ate something called "bread",
[03:08.29]and even ate meat from other animals,that sounds very strange to me.
[03:16.34]We don't eat any animals here,and I've never even seen bread.
[03:22.81]At 3:30 I catch the school spaceship,and fly to class.
[03:30.36]We don't have schools in class rooms,
[03:34.44]we need our learning⁷ guides,you called them teachers,
[03:40.00]in different placesand solve problems together.
[03:45.96]I love school,my friends are wonderful,
[03:51.92]and I like to think about the world in new ways.
[03:56.67]I also like creating things with my mind box,you called it a computer.
[04:04.92]I'm very interest in what you call painting and singing.
[04:10.96]Can you please tell me more about what they are?
[04:15.50]I've read about your life in my history book,
[04:19.87]but it's difficult to understand how you lived such a long time ago?
[04:26.42]Could you please write to me and tell me about your life?
[04:31.78]Thank you.I have to get back to work,
[04:36.64]I have a test in Mars geography next week. So I need to prepare for it.
[04:43.72]Best wish. Mekanika.
[04:54.58]Work Book  Unit 6  Listening
[05:01.95]You are going to listen to a news broadcast⁸ for Saturday,the 14th of April,2035.
[05:10.70]There are three news stories.
[05:14.33]Here is the news for Saturday,the 14th of April.
[05:19.06]The first group of Chinese tourists have returned from the moon.
[05:24.41]The group of 25 tourists
[05:28.67]landed last night at the space research⁹ center in Qinghai province.
[05:35.23]They had been in space for one week.
[05:38.89]Their trip included visits to three different places on the moon.
[05:44.66]Each of the tourists paid one and a half million yuan for the trip.
[05:50.41]A new speed record has been set for the underground railway
[05:55.87]that joins Chengdu and Xi'an.
[06:00.31]The railway was completed last year.
[06:04.43]Yesterday a train reached the speed of 821 kilometers per¹⁰ hour.
[06:11.59]The train was carrying 1,200 passengers.
[06:16.76]The journey¹¹ of 842 kilometers took one hour and 11 minutes

[06:24.63]A new type of lemon tree for cold countries has been developed by the agricultural¹² research service of Liaoning province,
[06:33.27]where research has been going on for seven years.
[06:38.45]A new lemon tree will be growing cold parts of China.
[06:43.59]Normal lemon trees
[06:46.65]are killed when the temperature falls below 0 degree centigrade

1 means   

n.方法，手段，折中点，物质财富

参考例句：

• That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
• We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。

2 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

3 planet   

n.行星

参考例句：

• Neptune is the furthest planet from the sun. 海王星是离太阳最远的行星。
• Rubbish, however, is only part of the problem of polluting our planet. 然而, 垃圾只是我们这个星球的污染问题的一个方面。

4 dying   

adj.垂死的，临终的

参考例句：

• He was put in charge of the group by the dying leader.他被临终的领导人任命为集团负责人。
• She was shown into a small room,where there was a dying man.她被领进了一间小屋子，那里有一个垂死的人。

5 Mars   

n.火星，战争

参考例句：

• As of now we don't know much about Mars.目前我们对火星还知之甚少。
• He contended that there must be life on Mars.他坚信火星上面一定有生物。

6 pills   

n.药丸( pill的名词复数 )；药片；口服避孕药；讨厌鬼

参考例句：

• The most widespread drug addiction is to alcohol,tobacco,and sleeping pills. 上瘾最多的东西是酒、烟和安眠药。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The death was adjudged a suicide by sleeping pills. 该死亡事件被判定为服用安眠药自杀。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 learning   

n.学问，学识，学习；动词learn的现在分词

参考例句：

• When you are learning to ride a bicycle,you often fall off.初学骑自行车时，常会从车上掉下来。
• Learning languages isn't just a matter of remembering words.学习语言不仅仅是记些单词的事。

8 broadcast   

n.广播，播音；v.播撒（种子），广播；（无线电或电视）广播；播送，播放

参考例句：

• The speech will be broadcast nationwide.这次讲话将在全国广播。
• That news was broadcast this morning.那消息是今早广播的。

9 research   

n.探索；调查；研究 vt./vi.调查；研究

参考例句：

• Research has shown that women live longer than men.调查表明女性比男性寿命长。
• The research group is ready to start its work.这个研究小组已准备好随时开始工作。

10 per   

prep.每，每一，根据，按照；由，经，以，靠

参考例句：

• These apples cost 40 pence per pound.这些苹果每磅40便士。
• The truck was traveling under fifty miles per hour.那辆卡车以每小时不到五十英里的速度行驶着。

11 journey   

n.旅行，旅程；路程

参考例句：

• She will give up this journey.她将放弃这次旅行。
• The journey home was great fun.回家的旅程非常有趣。

12 agricultural   

adj.农业的；农艺的

参考例句：

• He was trained for gardening at the Agricultural College.他在农业大学学园艺。
• France once was an agricultural country.法国曾是个农业国。