SB4 MODULE 1  The City of the Future（一空一词）
_____ will the city of the future look like? No one knows for sure, and ______(make)predictions is a ______(冒险的)business. But one thing is certain—they are going to get bigger before they get smaller. In the future, care for the environment will become very important as earth’s _______  _______（自然资源） run out. We will use lots of ______  ______（循环材料）, such as plastic, aluminium, ______（钢）, glass, wood and paper, and we will waste fewer ______  ______（自然资源）. We will also have to rely more on ________  ________（可替换能源）, such as ______（太阳的）and wind power. All this seems certain, but there are plenty of things about city life in the future ______ are not certain.
To find out _____ young people think about the future of ______（城市的）life, a teacher at a university in Texas in the United States asked his students to think how they would ______（经营）a city of 50,000 people in the year 2025. Here are some of the ideas they had:
Garbage ships To ____  ______  ____（消除） garbage problems, the city will ______ (装载)huge spaceships with _____ _______ （废弃材料）and send them towards the sun, _______（prevent） landfill and __________(环境) problems.
Batman Nets Police will _______  _______ （逮捕罪犯）by firing nets instead of guns.
Forget smoking No smoking will be allowed within a future city’s _______（限制）. Smoking will be possible only outside cities, and outdoors.
Forget the malls In the future all shopping will be done online, and catalogues will have voice _______(指令) to ________  _______（预订）.
Telephones for life Everyone will be given a telephone number _____　______（出生时）______ will never change _______  ________ where they live.
Recreation All forms of _______（娱乐）, such as cinemas, bowling, softball, concerts and others, will be provided______  ______  _____（免费） by the city.
Cars All cars will be ______ (提供动力)by electricity, ______  _______（太阳能） or wind, and______ will be possible to change the colour of cars ____the______ （轻按）of a ______（开关）.
Telesurgery Distance _________(外科) will become common as doctors _______ ________ _______（做手术）from thousands of miles away, with each city having ______own _________（远程外科） _______ （门诊病人）clinic.
Holidays at home ______ ______（老年公民）and people with ______ （残疾）will be able to go anywhere in the world ______(use) high-tech cameras ______(attach) to their head.
Space travel _______(Travel) in space by ordinary_______ （公民） will be common. Each city will have its own ________(太空站).
 
 
SB4 MODULE 2 Getting Around in Beijing（一空一词）
Taxis
Taxis are on the streets 24 hours a day. Simply raise your hand, _______ a taxi _______(出现) ____  ______ _____(立刻). They are usually red, and they ______(显示) the price per kilometre on the window. You should ______(确认) the cab has a business ______(许可证), and make sure you ask for a ______(收据).
Buses and trolleybuses
Public ________(交通) ________（提供） a cheap way to _____  _____(四处走动) in Beijing. There are 20,000 buses and trolleybuses in Beijing, but they ______(可能) get very ______（拥挤）. It’s a good idea to _____(避免) public _______(交通) during the _____(冲) hour (6:30 a.m.–8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.–6:30 p.m.). _______(票价)are cheap, ________(start) at 1 yuan. __________(空调的) buses ______(花钱) more.
Buses _______(number) 1 to 100 are______(限制) to travel within the city centre. Higher numbers have _______(目的地) in the _________(郊区). Tourists shouldn’t miss the 103 bus _______ offers one of the most _______ _______(令人印象深刻的路线), past the ________ City and the White Pagoda in Beihai Park. If you get on a ________(双层的) bus, make sure you sit upstairs. You’ll have a good ______（观看）of the _____  _______（快速变化地） city.
Most buses run from about 5:00 a.m. to midnight. However, there is also a night bus service, ______(provide) by buses with a number in the 200s.
Minibuses
Minibuses with seats for 12 passengers offer an _______(选择)_____ expensive taxis and crowded public ________(交通)  in some areas. They run _______  ________(有规则的服务) and ______ the same_____(路线)as large public buses.
Underground
There are four underground lines in Beijing, and several lines are ________ _________(在建设中). Trains are fast and ____________(方便), but rush hours can be terrible. A one-way trip _____(花钱) 3 yuan. Station names are ______(标有) in pinyin. The underground is open from 5:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Pedicabs
Tourists like these human-pedalled “______(三轮) taxis”, but they _______ be expensive. You should talk to the driver, and make sure you know the price before you begin the journey, for example, if it is per person, ________(单程的) or return. ____________(三轮车) are ______  ______(值得被用) if you want to ______(探索) the ______(狭窄的) alleys (hutong) of old Beijing.
 
SB4 MODULE3 Greetings Around the World（一空一词）
If you say the word “_____________“(交流), most people think of words and sentences. Although these are very important, we ______________(交流) with more than just spoken and _______（书面的） words. Indeed, body _________(姿势) are part of _______ we call “body language”. We see examples of ______(无意识的) body language very often, yet there is also “learned” body language, ___________ ______(变化)from culture to culture.
We use “learned” body language when we____________（introduce） to ____________（陌生人）. Like other animals, we are ______  _______（警惕的） until we know it is safe to relax. So every culture has developed a ____________（正规的）way to ______(问候)____________（陌生人）, to show them we are not _______(攻击的). ________(传统), Europeans and Americans shake hands. They do this with the right hand—the strongest hand for most people. If our right hand is busy  ____________（陌生人）______(问候) someone, it cannot be holding a ______(武器). So the ________(手势) is saying, “I ______(信任)you. Look, I’m not ______(拿,携带) a ________  ______(威胁性的武器).” If you shake hands with someone, you show you ______(信任) them. We shake hands when we _______ a ____ （达成协议）. It means, “We agree and we ______（信任）each other.”
________(问候) in Asian countries do not ________(牵涉到) touching the other person, but they always

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