I Have Seen Amazing Things
Modern Inventions of the 31st Century
Only to be seen on the Space Station
communication
Waste Disposal
Manufacturing
invention
Use the information from the reading
passage to fill in this poster for the Space
Station.
a waste machine
thoughtpad
manufacturing robots
advantages
1
2
disadvantages
efficient
Environmentally friendly
Thoughts must be clear or messages may be mixed up
1 no waste
2 no pollution
3 no environ
mental damage
1 disposes of all waste
2 turns them into three grades of useful material
People must live on a space station to monitor the robots
None
instant
n. = a moment of time
I will be back in an instant.
Not for an instant did I believe he had lied.
not for an instant=not at all
The instant I saw him I knew he was the man the police were looking for.
the instant/moment/second=as soon as
adj. 1) happening or produced at once,
immediate 立即的
I took an instant dislike to him.
instant coffee/noodles
instant need for sth
The government should attend to people's instant need for houses.
greedy
adj.
= badly desire for food or wealth, especially in large amounts
Grandet, who is a greedy miser, is even mean to his own daughter.
Don't be so greedy, leave some of the food to the rest of us.
be greedy for sth
be greedy to do sth
The plants are greedy for water.
The little boy, greedy for the toy, asked his mother to buy it.
He is greedy to gain power.
swallow
vi. (1)cause or allow (especially food or drink) to go down the throat
Taking pills is easy; just put them in your mouth and swallow.
vt.(2)accept (an insult, etc) plaint
She called you a liar. Are you going to swallow( infml)that?
He swallowed all the blame without saying anything.
If one thing is swallowed up by another, it es part of the first thing and no longer has a separate identity of its own.
During the 1980s monster publishing houses started to swallow up panies.
She was swallowed up by the crowd and we lost sight of her.
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