短篇科幻故事英语

Today, in the rapid development of information technology is becoming more and more important. In the future, every family can have a robot, the robot can help people do many things. For example, to care for children, cleaning, laundry cooking. Robots also very environmental protection, can use hydrogen as raw materials, no pollution to the environment, and very practical. The life of people will become more and more convenient.

A Day of life in 2040 It is seven o'clock in the morning when I wake up on April 4,2040. My wife is still sleeping. I hurry up for I have an important meeting at nine o'clock in Tianjin. I tell my Robot to prepare the breakfast, and I go to take a shower. When I come out of the bathroom, my breakfast is ready on the dining table. I eat the food and feel that I still prefer my wife's cooking to the Robot's. I wish she could teach our Robot how to cook better.At seven thirty, I walk out of my villa① and pull out my office type Shanghai. I set the destination and the arriving time, and then begin to work for the meeting. The traffic has changed beyond people's imagination. You no longer have to worry about traffic jams or accidents though on the highway you see no traffic lights or police. Cars which are going at 180 kilometers an hour are all computer-programmed②.…The meeting is over, and I am tired. I walk out to breathe the fresh spring air. The flowers smell nice, and the birds are singing happily. My thoughts turn back to 60 years ago when the government was busy developing the economy and little attention was given to the polluted surroundings, the air, the water, the sea animals, etc. But now everything has changed. All the factories have moved underground. The chimneys have become something of the past.In the afternoon, I fly to Lanzhou to meet Mr. Tom Peterson who is in charge of the Space Immigration Center. As soon as I got off the plane, I walk into a beauty saloon③ to get refreshed④. My trip to Lanzhou is brief but fruitful. Tom says my wife and I will be permtitted to move to the moon if we pass the health examination. Immediately I call my wife to tell her the good news. From a small screen I can see she is as excited as I am. I am even more overjoyed when I am told on the phone that I will be welcomed home with a delicious dinner cooked by my wife HERSELF.①早上7点你醒了，妻子还在睡觉。你赶紧起床，因为9点钟在天津有一个重要会议。②你让机器人去准备早饭，你自己去冲了个澡。冲完澡，早饭已做好了。你吃着饭，觉得还是妻子做得好吃。③你走出别墅，开出办公型上海牌轿车，定好目的地和到达时间就出发了。时速180公里，公路很畅通。④开完会，你觉得很累。你步出会议室，呼吸着新鲜的空气。花儿香，鸟儿唱，一派美景。⑤你的思想返回到60年前：政府忙于发展经济，很少关心环境污染。但如今呢，一切都变了，工厂迁到地下，烟囱没有了。⑥下午，你飞往兰州去会见负责太空移民中心的 Tom Peterson 先生。你一下飞机就走进漂亮雅致的大会客室。⑦汤姆说，如果你和妻子通过体检，就可以迁往月球。你把消息通过可视电话告知妻子，她高兴极了。她说等你回家吃她亲手做的可口的晚饭呢。

My Favorite Book 我最喜欢的书 My favorite novel is which is written by Jules Verne.The author was born in France and devoted himself to literature and wrote several scientific romances,which gained him the name——Father of Modern Science Fiction”. 我最喜欢的小说是由儒勒·凡尔纳写的.作者出生在法国,致力于文学写作并写了很多科幻小说,使他赢得“——现代科幻小说之父”之称. This is a book of science fiction which tells us an exciting story about an English gentleman,Mr.Phileas Fogg,who makes a bet with his clubmates and manages to travel around the world in eighty days.It gives us a vivid description of the many difficulties and incidents which happen on his journey. 这是一本科幻小说,讲述了一个激动人心的英国绅士的故事,福格先生和他的队友打赌,在八十天环游世界.它生动的描述了他旅途中的遇到的许多困难和时间. From this story,we can see the author's deep love for the sea,travel and adventure,which played a vital role in his life.We are also astonished and convinced by his fertile imagination and scientific and geographical knowledge. 从故事中我们可以看到作者对于海洋,旅游和冒险的热爱,这在他的一生当中扮演了很重要的角色.我们也对他丰富的想象力,科学、地理知识感到很吃惊和折服.

Pychologists have confirmed what writers have always believed: that books are literally the stuff of dreams. A survey has confirmed that readers of Iris Murdoch or JK Rowling are more likely to have bizarre dreams than people deep into a history ofPychologists have confirmed what writers have always believed: that books are literally the stuff of dreams. A survey has confirmed that readers of Iris Murdoch or JK Rowling are more likely to have bizarre dreams than people deep into a history of the crusades. People with a taste for fiction experienced dreams that contained more improbable events, and their dreams were more emotionally intense. The survey also found that people who read thrillers were no more likely to have nightmares. But those with a weakness for science fiction were rather more likely to wake up suddenly with a cold sweat. The study, according to Mark Blagrove, of the University of Wales, is perhaps the first experiment to determine a link between the waking world and dreams. Dr Blagrove and colleagues distributed 100,000 questionnaires about sleep patterns and literary tastes, and got more than 10,000 replies. They found that 58% of all adults had experienced at least one dream in which they were aware they were dreaming ?nbsp;and that women could recall more dreams than men. Older people seemed to dream less and have fewer nightmares. Around 44% of children said their dreams were affected by the books they had been reading. "Children who report reading scary books have three times the number of nightmares as children who don't," said Dr Blagrove. 心理学家证实了作家们一直以来的信念：书籍的确是梦的素材。 一项调查证明，读爱丽丝·默多克或是罗琳的作品的人比钻研十字军东征史的人更容易做怪梦，而小说爱好者的梦带有更强烈的感情色彩，其中包含的奇异事件也更多。调查还发现读恐怖小说的人并不一定会多做噩梦，而喜欢科幻小说的人却更容易带着一身冷汗惊醒。 按照威尔士大学的马克·布拉格罗夫的说法，这项研究可能是考察梦与现实之间关系的第一次实验。布拉格罗夫博士和他的同事发出了10万份关于睡眠型态与阅读趣味的调查问卷并收到了超过1万份回复。 他们发现成人中有58%做过至少一次这样的梦：在其中他们知道自己在做梦。他们还发现女性能比男性记起更多的梦境。老年人的梦似乎要少一些，也更少做噩梦。 大约44%的孩子说他们正在阅读的书籍影响到了他们的梦境。布拉格罗夫博士说：“正在读吓人的书籍的孩子做噩梦的次数是那些没读孩子的3倍。” ====================================================================英语短文：星球大战重返银幕 核心提示： Star Wars Returns to the Screens星球大成重返银幕IN THIS ARTICLE： One of the biggest blockbuster movie series， the Star WStar Wars Returns to the Screens星球大成重返银幕IN THIS ARTICLE： One of the biggest blockbuster movie series， the Star Wars cycle created by George Lucas， has returned to the screen， with the prequel titled Star Wars： Episode 1－－The Phantom Menace。Once， when a movie was successful there used to be a sequel， a follow－up film destined to build on the popularity of its predecessor and extend the life of the story at the box office。Now there is the prequel。 After the success of the great Star Wars trilogy－－Star Wars （1977）， The Empire Strikes Back （1980） and Return of the Jedi （1983）－－producer George Lucas has come up with the movie which preceded the famous story of good and evil forces battling it out across the galaxy。This preceding movie，orprequel， Star Wars： Episode 1－－－－The Phantom Menace （1999） sets the scene for the Star Wars trilogy， with the introduction of characters such as the all－seeing old man of wisdom， Obi－Wan Kenobi， and the evil Darth Vader。When Star Wars was introduced in 1977， it set new standards。 Writes film critic Colin Hogg： ‘A long， long time ago in a galaxy far away，‘ begins ‘Star Wars‘， the ‘Gone With the Wind‘ of science fiction movies， the epic that made the stars in the sky the stars of the movie screen and did more than any other film to bring that ‘other world‘ out there in the darkness into the hearts and minds of a generation。本文简介：由乔治卢卡斯创造的、耗巨资拍摄的最宏大的电影系列之一《星球大战》故事又回到了银幕上。这部前传名叫《星球大战：第一集－－－－幽灵的威胁》。－－－－编者一旦一部影片成功了，往往就会有一部续集出现，这部紧随其后的电影注定是建立在前一部影片的名气之上并在票房收入方面延续该故事生命的。现在则有了前传。在了不起的《星球大战》三部曲－－－－《星球大战》（1977），《帝国反击战》（1980）和《杰迪的归来》（又译：《武士的归来》（1983）－－－－成功之后，制作人乔治卢卡斯又推出了一部新片，讲述的是银河系善恶力量决一胜负的这个著名故事之前的故事。这个之前的故事，或称前传，《星球大战：第一集－－－－幽灵的威胁》（1999）以介绍诸如洞悉一切的智慧老人、奥比温肯诺比和恶魔达思威德等人物为《星球大战》三部曲作了铺垫与衔接。当《星球大战》在1977年初次面世的时候，它树立了一些新标准。电影评论家科林霍格写道：很久很久以前，在遥远的银河系上开始的星球大战，是科幻电影中的飘，是使太空中的群星成为银幕上明星的史诗，没有任何一部电影像它这样将那个在黑暗中的另一个世界带进一代人的心里和意识中。