Номер 3, страница 61 - гдз по английскому языку 8 класс рабочая тетрадь Комарова, Ларионова

Unit Six.

Reading.

Exercise three.

From sci-fi to reality.

We saw space tourism in the nineteen sixty-eight film two thousand and one, A Space Odyssey. It was an incredible idea. But soon, Virgin Galactic will travel into space.

The company is making special passenger spaceships. Trips will start in a year or two and tickets will cost two hundred thousand dollars.

In nineteen fifty-six, Philip K. Dick wrote a novel called The Minority Report. Tom Cruise acted in the film version in two thousand and two. When Cruise used his Iris to prove his identity, we thought it was a crazy idea. But in a few years' time, biometric security will be normal. We will use our fingerprints, voices, and eyes to log onto internet pages or buy things online.

In the film two thousand and one, A Space Odyssey, there was a self-aware computer called Hal nine thousand. It started as a friendly machine, but then decided to kill some astronauts in order to protect its programs. By twenty nineteen, self-aware computers like Hal nine thousand will be common.

In the nineteen eighty-seven television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, we first saw a holodeck, a virtual reality room with a hologram projecting images and sounds. Later, we saw holodecks in X-Men, Power Rangers, and Futurama. The Japanese are working on a machine to project smells. Holodecks will be part of our everyday lives in the next decade.

Some experts say that most homes will have domestic robots by twenty twenty, and that by twenty twenty-five, people will buy more robots than cars. We saw examples of domestic robots in television series like Lost in Space, nineteen sixty-five.

Domestic robots will do housework, gardening, cooking, and will help children with their homework.