【正文】 light was going to the was built long ago by the Norman invaders of AD !This solid stone, square tower had remained standing for one thousand the buildings had expanded around it, it remained part of a royal palace and prison her great surprise, Zhang Pingyu found the Queen39。s jewels guarded by special royal soldiers who, on special occasions, still wore the fourhundredyearold uniform of the time of Queen Elizabeth followed St Paul39。s Cathedral built after the terrible fire of London in looked splendid when first built!Westminster Abbey, too, was very contained statues in memory of dead poets and writers, such as just as she came out of the abbey, Pingyu heard the famous sound of the clock, Big Ben, ringing out the finished the day by looking at the outside of Buckingham Palace, the Queen39。s house in , she had so much to tell her friends!The second day the girl visited Greenwich and saw its old ships and famous clock that sets the world interested her most was the longitude is an imaginary line dividing the eastern and western halves of the world and is very useful for passes through Greenwich, so Pingyu had a photo taken standing on either side of the last day she visited Karl Marx39。s statue in Highgate seemed strange that the man who had developed munism should have lived and died in only that, but he had worked in the famous reading room of the Library of the British the library had moved from its original place into another building and the old reading room was she was thrilled by so many wonderful treasures from different cultures displayed in the she saw many visitors enjoying looking at the beautiful old Chinese pots and other objects on show, she felt very proud of her next day Pingyu was leaving London for Windsor Castle.“Perhaps I will see the Queen?” she wondered as she fell : Read the passage and answer these questions: built the Tower of London? When was it built? guarded the Queen’s jewels? What kind of clothes did they wear? was St Paul’s Cathedral built? did Westminster Abby contain? she visit the Big Ben? did Zhang Pingyu finish the first day in London? could Pingyu see in Greenwich? interested her most in Greenwich? What kind of line is it? places did she visit on the third day? seemed strange to her? made her thrilled?Unit 3 Life in the future ReadingFIRST IMPRESSIONS Spacemall: liqiang299A@15/11/3008(Earthtime)Dear Mum and Dad，I still cannot believe that I am taking up this prize that I won last have to remind myself constantly that I am really in AD about the journey, I was unsettled for the first few a result, I suffered from “Time lag”.This is similar to the “jet lag” you get from flying, but it seems you keep getting flashbacks from your previous time I was very nervous and uncertain at , my friend and guide, Wang Ping, was very understanding and gave me some green tablets which helped a for their expertise, his parents39。 pany, called “Future Tours”, transported me safely into the future in a time can still remember the moment when the space stewardess called us all to the capsule and we climbed in through a small seats were fortable and after a calming drink, we felt sleepy and closed our capsule began swinging gently sideways as we lay relaxed and few minutes later, the journey was pleted and we had was still on the earth but one thousand years in the would I find? At first my new surroundings were difficult to air seemed thin, as though its bination of gases had little oxygen by a lack of fresh air, my head as I tried to make the necessary adjustment to this new situation, Wang Ping appeared.“Put on this mask,” he advised.“It39。ll make you feel much better.” Hehanded it to me and immediately hurried me through to a small room nearby for a felt better in no I was back on my feet again and following him to collect a hovering carriage driven by carriages float above the ground and by bending or pressing down in your seat, you can move Ping fastened my safety belt and showed me how to use I could fly as fast as , I lost sight of Wang Ping when we reached what looked like a large market because of too many carriages flying by in all was swept up into the centre of at that moment I had a “time lag” flashback and saw the area again as it had been in the year AD realized that I had been transported into the future of what was still my hometown!Then I caught sight of Wang Ping again and flew after at a strangelooking house, he showed me into a large, bright clean had a green wall, a brown floor and soft the wall movedit was made of trees!I found later that their leaves provided the room with muchneeded Wang Ping flashed a switch on a puter screen, and a table and some chairs rose from under the floor as if by magic.“Why not sit down and eat a little?” he said.“You may find this difficult as it is your first time travel relax, since there is nothing planned on the timetable you39。ll be ready for some visits.” Having said this, he spread some food on the table, and produced a bed from the he left, I had a brief meal and a hot , I slid into bed and fell fast news later from your loving son，Li QiangUsing LanguageI HAVE SEEN AMAZING THINGSMy first visit was to a space station considered the most modem in as an enormous round plate, it spins slowly in space to imitate the pull of the earth39。s was an exhibition of the most uptodate inventions of the 31 st guide(G)showed us around along a moveable :Good morning to all our visitors from we39。re going to examine one of the latest forms ofmunication among our space more typists working on a typewriter or puter!No more postage or postcodes!Messages can now be sent using a “thoughtpad”.You place the metal band over your head, clear your mind, press the sending button, think your message and the next instant it39。s 39。s stored on the “thoughtpad” of the 39。s quick, efficient and environmentally only limitation is if the user does not think his or h