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英语文章

第一篇：英语文章NEWSCASTER:Humanscanbeimpatientsometimes.Wejustcan'twaittoseewhatwillhappeninthefuture,sowe'reconstantlytryingtopredictit.Wouldn'tyouliketoknowwhattheworldwillbelikeintheyear2100?Willtechnologyhavechangedpeople'slivesforthebetterorworse?Whoknows?NEWSCASTER:Butit'sfuntoimagine..We'regoingtolookatthreepeoplefromhistorywhodidjustthat,visionarieswhoseimaginationswerefaraheadoftheirtimeandwhosepredictions,althoughnotalwaysaccurate,werecertainlyalwaysinteresting.LeonardoDaVinciismostfamousforworksofartsuchastheMonaLisaandtheLastSupper.However,DaVinciwasn'tjustapainter,hewasalsoanengineer,amusician,abiologist,awriter,amathematicianandaninventor.Despitelivinginthesixteenthcentury,DaVinciwasabletopredictsomeofthetwentiethcentury'smajorinventions,eventhoughitwouldhavebeenimpossible,atthetime,tohavebuiltthem.NEWSCASTER:Bystudyingtheflightofbirds,DaVincidesignedrudimentary（基本的，初步的）'flyingmachines''which,inthetwentiethcentury,wouldbecomeairplanes,hanggliders（滑翔机）andhelicopters（直升机）.Inhiseffortstohelpdefendthecitiesinwhichhelived,hecameupwiththeideaofatank,amachinegunandacannon（大炮）.Fourhundredyearslater,astheIndustrialRevolution（工业革命）completelychangedthefaceofthewesternworld.HGWellshadonlytolookaroundhimtothinkofthepossibleimplicationsforthefuture.RegardedastheFatherofScienceFiction,Wellsbecamefamousforhisfuturistic（未来主义的）stories,suchasTheWaroftheWorlds,inwhichMartiansattackLondon,orTheTimeMachine,aboutamanwhotimetravelstotheyearAD802701.NEWSCASTER:Itwasinhis1901bookAnticipations（预测，期待）,however,thatHGWellsmadehismorerealistic,andaccurate,predictionsaboutthefuture.Hewrote,forexample,thatinthefutureeverycountryintheworldwouldhavehugehighwaysonwhichthousandsofcarsandtrucksdrovebackandforth.Thispredictionhascertainlycometrue.AnotherwriterwhopredictedtheimpacttechnologywouldhaveontheworldwasPhilipK.Dick.NEWSCASTER:Sincehisdeathin1982,Dickhasbecomefamousduetomanyofhisstoriesbeingmadeintosciencefictionmovies.InthefilmBladerunner,forexample,robotswholookjustlikehumans,begin