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課文：

The applications

Potential uses for this kind of virtual reality are both fun and practical. Full-immersion video games would make the player’s experience more realistic and exciting.

Virtual reality can also be used in education. Astronomy students, for example, could explore 3-D models of outré space. Medical students could study the human body and even practice surgery using digital models. This would let them improve their skills without endangering real patients.

application：應用、應用程式、申請
potential：潛在的、可能的、潛能
practical：實踐的、實際的
astronomy：天文學
surgery：外科（手術、醫學）
endangering：危及、危害
en-：使…
endangered：瀕臨絕種的

Doctors might use virtual reality to guide robots to perform surgery. This could make the surgery both faster and safer. Doctors could even perform surgery from a different location.

Ordinary people’s ideas may also change because of virtual reality. Participants in one study played a virtual-reality game being represented by an image of a person of a different race. The studies suggested that this experience reduced prejudice. This new technology reminds people that we may look different on the outside, but we are all the same inside.

As virtual-reality technology continues to develop, virtual worlds might just transform life in the real one.

ordinary：通常的、平常的
represent：描繪、象徵、作為…代表
race：競賽、人種、民族
prejudice：偏見
pre-：事先
jud：評斷
prejudice against：對…有偏見
transform：徹底改變、使徹底改觀、改變、轉換、改造
trans-：穿越、越過

文法：
as … continues to …, … might just …（當…持續不斷…，…也許會…）

特別補充：
attend：出席、靜態且被動的參與
attendee：出席者
attendant：服務員
participate：主動且積極的參與
participant：參與者