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Unit 4
A glimpse of the future
Developing ideas Writing
Learning objective
To understand the main idea and specific information about a sci-fi story and write a continuation of it.
What is a sci-fi story mainly made up of
Revision
Strategy
Continuing a sci-fi story
Make inferences
Sometimes a passage does not say something directly. However, you can figure it out by looking at the clues in the passage.
Read the story and answer the questions.
1. What happened to the prison and what was the cause
2. What kind of job do you think Carolyn has
3. Are there any sentences that might foreshadow what will happen next Underline them.
There was a prison breakout, caused by faulty robotics.
She might be a prison governor.
Yes, like the sentences that Todd said in paragraph 5 and the last sentence.
Think about what will happen next, based on the examples of foreshadowing you have plete the notes to plan the rest of the story.
本写作要求续写科幻故事。科幻故事一般有环境、人物、情节以及文学的艺术性。在体裁上属于记叙文，情节的发展多以时间、地点的转移为线索。
写作时注意记叙文的六要素，即时间、地点、人物、事情的起因、经过（通常包括事情的发展和高潮）和结果。
续写时人称和时态也应与原文保持一致；针对本篇，人称是第三人称，时态以过去时为主。
1. 要以原文内容为起点，展开想象，合理推测情
节的发展，写出故事情节的发展和变化；
2. 内容要有明确的中心或主题，做到合情合理、
真实生动；
3. 要在主要人物思想行为、性格特点、语言特点
和风格上与原文保持一致。
4. 注意前后照应，防止自相矛盾，要与上文紧密
联系，使上下文融为一体。
Setting
Time: __________________________________________
Place: __________________________________________
Characters
_________________________________________________
Plot
_________________________________________________
Ending
_________________________________________________
Now continue the story.
参考范文
Carolyn had a long commute to the prison, even by aircar. When she arrived everything seemed normal, except for a robot lying at the front gate, motionless. It’s an old model, she thought. They broke down now and again. She passed through the gate, nothing that everything else was apparently in order.
But just as she closed her office door behind her, a loud alarm sounded. Carolyn’s blood froze.
She had only ever heard that sound during drills. It can’t be! She thought. A general systems failure! She looked out of the reinforced glass of her office window into the prison below. Sure enough, the robots were out of control. Most had stopped moving at all. Some spun aimlessly around and around. But others were randomly operating things, including the cell gates, and she could see prisoners rushing out to freedom. “grab the robots’ weapons and run!” shouted the prisoner.
Carolyn opened her bag and reached for her emergency call device. Her heart sank as she realised she had left it at home. I need to call in the police, she thought. But how Without the device, she couldn’t communicate. Nothing in the prison would work properly now.
There was a voice behind her. “Looking for one of these ”
Carolyn gasped. “Julius!” There was her second-in-command, holding an emergency caller in his hand. “What are you doing in my office ”
“It should be my office!” snarled Julius. “I’ve worked here for forty years … and the City Commissioners gave you the job as prison governor! But now you’ll pay. You’ll all pay! I can make every robot in every prison in the city go crazy. The prisoners will escape, and the city will burn!”
Then the door burst open, and the room was suddenly flooded with riot police. And there was … Todd!
“I took the aircar over here to bring you this, ” he said quietly, winking as he pushed the emergency call device secretly into her hands. “I could see there was trouble, so I activated it to call in the police.”
“It was Julius,” said Carolyn, watching the police bundle Julius out of the door. “he’s gone mad.”
“Sure,” said Todd. “But now we know how easy it is to cause a mass robot breakdown. You’ll have to write a report. Make some recommendations to upgrade the robots.”
“I know.” Carolyn slid from Todd’s hug and walked towards the door. She could see the police rounding up the prisoners. “But right now, I’ve got a prison to run.”
Share your story with your partner. Make comments on his or her story and see whether the language style is consistent.
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