大学英语综合教程unit课件
柠檬水的作用-博士自杀
Smart Cars
一Writing style :
expository
Characteristic :
grimly scientificalness and
clear
写作体裁：说明文 特点：严格的科学性，条理清晰。
二
、
中心思想
：The computer revolution is
set to turn
smart cars that can see
,hear,feel,smell,talk and drive on
their own
into a reality.(
计算机革命正致力于把智能汽车能看到，听到，
感觉到，闻
到，说话，自己开车到一个现实。）
Part One Paras
1-3：
New technology will have a
dramatic impact on cars
and
highways in the 21st century.
Part Two
Paras 4-9 ：
With the aid of advanced
technology, smart cars will be so designed
that they can help eliminate traffic
accidents, determine their own precise
locations and warn of traffic jams.
Part Three Paras 10-13 ：
GPS and will make it
possible to build smart
highways, which
will benefit us in more than
one way.
三
、
overview标题以及课文中出现的短语，模块
名言警句等
1. in the
past 在过去
2、compliment sb on 称赞，恭维
3. so
much good 如此好的
4. come to mind 意识到
5、 as
we see 正如我们看到的
6、 manage to do 成功的做某事
7.
express your opinion 表述你的观点
8. drive on one’s
own 自动驾驶
9. turn it into a reality 使…..成为现实
10. the last seventy years 最近7年
11. the
most lucrative and powerful industries
最赚钱和最有冲
击力的产业
12. make it 使成为…..
13. in
the twenty-first century 在21世纪
14. the key to
……的重点
15. Approximately 40,000 people
are killed each year in the United
States in
traffic accidents.每一年在美国有将近40，000的人
死于交通事故。
16. the number of ….的数量
17. fully half of
近一半
18. come from drunk drivers 酒后驾车
19.
refuse to start up 拒绝发动
20、get be stuck in
(sth)停留，被阻塞
21、blind spot 盲区
22、locate
your car precisely 准确定位你的车
23、at any given
time 在任何给定的时间内
24、be poised to do 做好准备做某事
25、attempt to do 试图做某事
26、be poised to
做好准备随时做。。。。
27、manufacture navigational
systems
28、blind individuals 盲人
29、walking sticks 手杖
30、remote
control 远程控制
成产导航系统
31、alert cars to traffic jams and
obstructions
警报汽车交通阻塞
32、take
complete control of 完全控制
33、heavily
trafficked roads 繁忙的交通
34、the price of
…… drop to 价格下降到。。
35、a penny a
piece 一张一便士
36、an environmental boon
环境的福音
37、 With the price of microchips
dropping
38、drastically , future applications
of GPS are
virtually limitless.
39、
随着芯片价格大幅度下降，未来GPS的应用几乎是无限制的。
40、 The list
of potential uses is endless.
其潜在的应用是无穷无尽的。
41、 Promoters of this
computerized highway have great
hopes for
its future.
这种计算机化的公路的倡导者对其未来抱有很大的希望。
42、 an alternative to highway expansion
公路扩建的替代方法
重点表达
1、计算机革命the computer revolution
2、制造业manufacturing industry
3、长途司机long-
distance driver
4、被严重低估be grossly
underestimated
5、威胁生命的重大隐患life-threatening
hazard
6、解决问题cure the problem
7、积极的影响have
a positive impact
8、转换成无线电信号 be tuned to
radio signals
9、在任何一个特定时间at any given time
10、量子理论法则the laws of the quantum theory
11、精确的频率precise frequency
12、发出无线电信号send
out a radio signal
13、换算出be converted into
14、导航能力 navigational capability
15、几乎无限virtually limitless
16、手杖walking
sticks
17. 遥控remote control
18.
潜在的应用potential use application
19. 要求 call
for
20. 完全控制take complete control of
21.
被编成组be bunched into groups
22. 一齐行驶travel in
unison
23. 对环保有利environmental boon
四、课文中的难重点
1、Even the automobile industry
,which has remained
largely unchanged for the
last seventy years,is about to
feel the
effects of the computer revolution.
即便是过去70
年间基本上没有多少变化的汽车工业，也将感受到计算机革命的
影响。
2、Sales of the automobile industry stand at
about a
trillion dollars,making it the world's
biggest manufacturing
industry.汽车工业的销售额达一万亿美元左右，从而成为世界上
最大的制造业。
3、The key to tomorrow’s “smart cars” will be
sensors. 明
天的关键的“智能汽车”将使传感器。
4、The member
of people that are killed or badly injured in
car accidents is so vast that we don't even
bother to
mention the newspapers
anymore.在汽车事故中死亡或严重
受伤的人数太多，我们已经不屑在报纸上提及。
5、Smart cars have already been built which can
monitor
one's driving conditions
nearby.能监控行车过程以及周围行车
状况的智能汽车已经建造出来。
6、Should you make a serious driving
mistake.,change
lanes when there is a car in
your
computer would sound an immediate
warning.
如果你发生
重大行车失误(如变道时有车辆在你“盲点”内)，计算机立即会发出
警报。
7、At the MIT Media Lab,a prototype is already
being built
which will determine how sleepy
you are as you
drive,which is especially
important for long-distance truck
drivers. 在麻
省理工学院媒介实验室，已制造出能测知你行车时
有多少睡意的样车，这对长途卡车司机意义尤其重大。
8、The monotonous, almost hypnotic process of
staring at the
center divider for long hours
is a grossly underestimated,
life-threatening
hazard. To eliminate this, a tiny camera
hidden in the dashboard can be trained on a
driver’s face
and eyes.
单调的，长时间的盯着分中心几乎能催眠
的过程是被严重低估，危
及生命的危险。为消除这一微小的照相机，隐藏在仪表板可以训练
一个
司机的脸和眼睛。
9、Sensors in your car tuned to
radio signals from orbiting
satellites can
locate your car precisely at any moment and
warn of traffic jams.
你车上的无线电信号调谐的传感器从轨道
卫星可以随时精确地确定你汽车的交通拥堵和警告。
10、They make it possible to determine your
location on
the earth to within about a
hundred feet.他们使它能够确定
你的位置在地球上在大约100英尺。
11、Since the speed of light is well known, any
delay in receiving
the satellite’s signal can
be converted into a distance.
由于光的
速度是众所周知的，在接收卫星信号时的任何延迟可以被转换成
一个距离
12、Some of them locate a car’s position by
correlating the rotations in
the steering
wheel to its position on a
map.。他们中的一些人找到车
的位置相关联的旋转方向盘在地图上的位置
13、We
already have twenty-four Navstar satellites
orbiting the earth ,making up what is called
the Global
Pointing
System.。我们已经有24颗环绕地球运行的导航卫星，
组成了人们所说的全球卫星定位系统。
14、With the price of microchips dropping so
drastically,future applications of GPS are
virtually limitless.
随着微芯片价格的大幅度下降，未来对全球卫星定位系统的应用
几乎是无限的。
15、On an eight-mile stretch of Interstate 15
ten miles
north of San Diego,
在圣迭戈北部15州际公路十英里八英里。
16、GPS is actually but
part of a large movement,called
which will
eventually attempt attempt to put
smart cars
on smart highways. 全球卫星定位系统其实只是
叫做“远程信息学”的这一更大
行动的一部分，这一行动最终将把智
能汽车送上智能高速公路。
17、The plan
calls for computers,aided by thousands of
three-inch magnetic spikes buried in the
highway,to take
compete control of the driving
of cars on heavily trafficked
roads.这一计划要求计算机在
公路上埋设的数千个3英寸长的磁
钉的协助下，在车辆极多的路段完全控制车辆的运行。
18、By 2010, telematics may well be
incorporated into one of
the major highways in
the United States. 2010，远程信息技
术很可能被纳入美国的一条主要公路。
5、课后问题
important was the automobile
industry in the
twentieth century
The automobile industry ranks as among
the most
lucrative and powerful industries of
the twentieth
century.
2. What will happen
to cars and roads in the
twenty-first century
The car, and the roads it travels on, will be
revolutionized in the twenty-first century.
3、Why does the author say the key to
tomorrow’s“smart cars”will be sensors
“We’ll see vehicles and roads that see and
hear and
feel and smell and talk and act,”
4、How would sensors help reduce traffic
fatalities
It can sense if a driver is
drunk via electronic sensors
that can pick up
alcohol vapor in the air, and refuse
to start
up the engine.
5 What is the function of the
radars hidden
in the bumpers
Small radars
hidden in the bumpers can scan for nearby
cars.
6、How will a smart car alert a
driver who
feels drowsy
a tiny
camera hidden in the dashboard can be trained on a
driver’s face and eyes. If the driver’s
eyelids close for a certain
length of time and
his or her driving becomes erratic, a
computer
in the dashboard could alert the driver.
7、What makes it impossible for smart cars
to determine their approximate location
the Global Positioning System.
8、What are
the prospects for applications
of GPS
Blind individuals could use GPS sensors in
walking sticks,
airplanes could land by remote
control, hikers will be able to
locate their
position in the woods—the list of potential uses
is
endless.
9、What is
“telematics”expected to achieve in
increasing
the efficiency and safety of highway
transportation
GPS is actually but part of
a larger movement, called
“telematics,”
10、What are traffic engineers doing on
Interstate 15 close to San Diego
On an
eight-mile stretch of Interstate 15 ten miles
north of San
Diego, traffic engineers are
installing an MIT-designed system
which will
introduce the “automated driver.”
11、What hopes to promoters of the smart
highway have for its future
By 2010,
telematics may well be incorporated into one of
the
major highways in the United States. If
successful, by 2020, as
the price of
microchips drops to below a penny a piece,
telematics could be adopted in thousands of
miles of highways
in the United States.
12、What are the advantages of smart
highways
This could prove to be an
environmental boon as well, saving
fuel,
reducing traffic jams, decreasing air pollution,
and serving
as an alternative to highway
expansion.