【正文】 Supplementary Reading After Reading Detailed Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading Before Reading Unit 2 Smart Cars B R _ main Listening Comprehension Warmup Questions Background Information Supplementary Reading After Reading Detailed Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading Before Reading Unit 2 Smart Cars B R _ An English Song _main Listening Comprehension Thinking Before Listening Thinking While Listening Listening and Speaking Supplementary Reading After Reading Detailed Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading Before Reading Unit 2 Smart Cars B R _ An English Song _main Background Information Automobile Industry Global Positioning System Intelligent Transportation System Supplementary Reading After Reading Detailed Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading Before Reading Unit 2 Smart Cars B R _ Thinking Before Listening Thinking Before Listening The title of the passage you are going to listen to is “Cars of the Future”. Write down three questions about cars of the future. Supplementary Reading After Reading Detailed Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading Before Reading Unit 2 Smart Cars B R _ Thinking While Listening Thinking While Listening Listen to the passage and find out if it answers the questions you asked in Exercise 1. Supplementary Reading After Reading Detailed Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading Before Reading Unit 2 Smart Cars What kind of car will we be driving in 2022? Rather different from the type we know today, with the next 20 years bringing greater change than the past 50. Their vision is of a machine with three wheels instead of four, electrically powered, environmentally clean, and able to drive itself along “intelligent” roads equipped with builtin power suppliers. Future cars will pick up their fuel during long journeys from a power source built into the road, or store it in small quantities for traveling in the city. Instead of today’s seating arrangements — two in front, two or three behind, all facing forward — the 2022 car will have a versatile interior with adults and children in a family circle. B R _ Thinking While Listening1 Supplementary Reading After Reading Detailed Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading Before Reading Unit 2 Smart Cars This view of the future car is based on a much more sophisticated road system, with strips built into motorways to supply power to vehicles passing along them. Cars will not need drivers, because puters will provide safe driving control and route finding. All the driver will have to do is say where to go and the puter will do the rest. It will bee impossible for cars to crash into one another. The technology already exists for the car to bee a true automobile. B R _ Thinking While Listening2 Supplementary Reading After Reading Detailed Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading Before Reading Unit 2 Smart Cars clean driving: electrically powered, environmentally clean safe driving: controlled by puter more fortable: a versatile interior with the adults and children in a family circle B R _ Listening and Speaking Listening and Speaking Listen to the passage again and say what changes will make driving: — cleaner? — safer? — more fortable? Tips: Supplementary Reading After Reading Detailed Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading Before Reading Unit 2 Smart Cars B R _ Warmup Questions 1 Warmup Questions 1. What do you think is the most profitable and powerful industry of the 20th century, puter, automobile, petroleum or airplane? 2. What do you think will be the most profitable and powerful industry in the 21st century, munication, astronautics, biology or construction? 3. What is the greatest invention in the world so far? Supplementary Reading After Reading Detailed Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading Before Reading Unit 2 Smart Cars B R _ Warmup Questions 2 4. If you could afford a car, would you buy one? Which brand would you like to have? Supplementary Reading After Reading Detailed Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading Before Reading Unit 2 Smart Cars B R _ Automobile Industry 1 Automobile Industry The automobile industry is one of the most important industries in the world, affecting not only economies but also cultures. It provides jobs for millions of people, generates billions of dollars in worldwide revenues, and provides the basis for a multitude of related service and support industries. Automobiles revolutionized transportation in the 20th century, changing forever the way people live, travel, and do business. Between 1886 and 1898, about 300 automobiles were built, but there was no real established industry. Supplementary Reading After Reading Detailed Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading Before Reading Unit 2 Smart Cars A century later, with automakers and auto buyers expanding globally, automaking became the world’s largest manufacturing activity, with more than 53 million new vehicles built each year worldwide. Automobile manufacturers are among the largest panies in the world. These corporations are often multinational. These panies often share parts, or use parts made in foreign factories. The . automobile industry produced million vehicles in 1999. The three major automobile manufacturers in the United States—General Motors Corporation, Ford Motor Company, and Daimler Chrysler AG—provide three fourths of the industry’s total direct employment in the United States. B R _ Automobile Industry 2 Supplementary Reading After Reading Detailed Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading Before Reading Unit 2 Smart Cars B R _ Global Positioning System 1 Global Positioning System Global Posit