Have you ever thought of what the world will be like in the future?
First, transportation will be very easy and comfortable. There will be no roads for cars or buses on land, and there will be no cars or buses that use fuel. Electricity will be used everywhere. In fact, we all use a kind of flying car to go from one place to another. It is faster than a plane. But much smaller. It is only for one or two people.
Second, we will have many kinds of robots to do most of the work we do now. There are robots to work in factories; there are robots to cook food for us; there are robots to carry heavy things for us, and so on. All we need to do is to tell them what we want to do.
Third, the air and water will be much cleaner. They will be as clean as they were hundreds of years ago. Because there will be far fewer people, and electricity rather than fuels will be used. Everyone will live a happy and healthy life.
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Life in 2050
The Hotel Whale
The Hotel Whale is built under the water. It is (A) ________ the shape of a whale. This hotel has 50 bedrooms, a cafe and a shopping centre.
Mrs Peng: “When we were staying at the hotel recently, my children watched the fish outside their bedroom window. They were never bored!”
Forever Green Houses
These houses are both “green” and “smart”. (B) 房子外面有玻璃. Heat is held under the glass and is then used as energy for each house. In the bathroom, your medicine cupboard is connected to your doctor’s computer. In the kitchen, your smart fridge tells the supermarket’s computer when you need more food.
Mr Yu: “When we were living in our old house, we were using more energy. I would (C) of course recommend Forever Green Houses to my friend. (D) Everyone will be satisfied with them.”
The CJ3
The CJ3 is (E) ________ new type of hydrogen car. The hydrogen in the car is mixed with oxygen from the air to make electricity for the car. The CJ3 has an electronic map and is driven by a computer. You tell the computer where you (F) would like to go. Then you sit back and relax as the car takes you there.
Mr Hu: “While I was driving my old car, I was polluting the city. Now, with the new technology in my CJ3, I’m helping protect the environment.”
1. 在文中 (A) 和 (E) 的空白处填入适当的单词：2. 将文中画线部分 (B) 译成英语：
3. 写出文中画线部分 (C) 和 (F) 的同义词或近义词 ：
4. 将文中画线部分 (D) 改写为：
5. 从文中找出 “Forever Green Houses”和“The CJ3”主要是靠什么来控制：
We all know the strange feeling of watching the time change on a clock. You never really see it change because the hands move so slowly. But, of course, the time is changing all the time.
Human faces, like clock faces, are also changing. And like clocks, the changes take place too slowly to be noticed. Over many thousands of years, though, huge changes are possible. For example, the human brain is three times as large as it was thousands of years ago. Our faces became fatter, and began to think more.
If our heads became larger in the past, how will things change in the future? Unlike the changes of a clock face, the changes in human faces are very difficult to predict(预测). One of the main reasons for this is the way in which we can now control parts of nature. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, all changes were natural, but now we can actively choose paths for our own evolution(进化).
A US artist named Nickolay Lamm has recently offered an idea. It is what human faces may one day look like. The designs, inspired（受启发)by his conversations with the scientist Alan, show humans with larger heads and eyes. In particular(特别的), Lamm predicts the forehead may be larger because of increasing usage of the brain.
Just a few hundred years ago, most humans were working in the fields. However, nowadays more and more people receive education. These are just predictions, and no one can be sure how human beings will become in the future. But with such huge changes in our environments, it seems likely(很可能)that we will not look the same in the future.
Changes to human | |
Similarity between the changes to the clocks and human faces | ※ They both keep ※ The changes are too ※ Over the time, it is |
Examples of human faces changes in the | ※ The human brain has become lager since thousands of years ago. ※ Human faces became |
What human faces may look like in the fixture | ※ It is ※ A US artist, Lamn, shows humans with ※ He predicts that because humans |
Conclusion | ※ How human beings will become is in our environment are likely to make humans look very different. |
【推荐3】What will life be like in the future? I think it will be more convenient（方便的）.
（A）________ will be very popular. Every family will have a robot. They will help us do what we can’t do or don’t want to do, such as looking after children and the old people, clean the house and washing the clothes.
People will be able to build new homes on other planets（星球）. At that time, we can get to the Moon by spaceship（宇宙飞船）for holiday.（B）It won’t take us a long time to get to the Moon. And it will be interesting to talk with the spacemen（宇航员）. There will be lots of hotels, shops and parks in the Moon.
We won’t have real money at all. Everyone will have a kind of watch. The watch is like a little bank. It has all our money. We can use the watch to buy everything we want. And（C）it is also a telephone. We can talk to our friends all over the world. And we can see（D）them on the watch at the same time.
根据短文内容完成下列各题。
1. 将（A）处填入一个或两个合适的单词。
2. 将（B）句翻译成汉语。
3. 文中（C）（D）分别指代: it
4. 列举出文中watch 能干的两件事情。
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5. 请给短文拟一个恰当的英文标题:
【推荐1】Is it hard for you to get up early and get ready for classes? Some students at Winter Park High School just quickly get up and go to class in their own bedrooms. Of course, their teachers and classmates do not see them because all their class work is on the computer.
The Florida High School, the state’s only on-line school, has 250 students who are taking classes at home by computers.
“I’m a lot more comfortable at home,” said Luke Levesque, a 16-year-old who is taking a computer class on line. He thinks (A) the school’s computer lab is so noisy that he can’t study well. “Home is much better,” he says.
Students in this first on-line program take classes in math, American government, chemistry, computer, and Web-page design. They also have to go to regular (正规的) school to attend other classes.
When a student is ready to begin in class, he or she (B) ________ the computer, reads the teacher’s instructions, and begins working on the lesson for the day. What happens if a student has a question for the teacher? Or the teacher wants to say something about the work a student is doing? The student and the teacher talk to each other every day through email or by telephone.
Is it easy for students to cheat on tests (考试作弊) when they’re working at home? (C) The teachers have already thought about this. They make students take their final exams in person in the classroom.
“You see most of the same things on-line that you see in a regular classroom,” says teacher Linda Hayes.
If this first on-line program goes well, in three years Florida High School students will be able to take all their classes by computer. When that happens, students will be able to get their high school diplomas (毕业证书) without having to (D) 走进教室.
阅读短文，然后按要求完成下列小题。
1. 将画线部分 (A) 改写成：the school’s computer lab is2. 在 (B) 的空白处填入一个适当的词语：
3. 将画线部分 (C) 译成汉语：
4. 将画线部分 (D) 译成英语：
5. 在短文中找出能够说明主题的短语：
【推荐2】Animal behavior (行为) is an interesting and attractive study. Scientists research the ways animals use to look for food. They study how animals protect themselves from their enemies, and which animals kill other animals for food. All of this helps us understand how useful animals can be.
Each country or culture raises some animals for food. In the United States, people mainly eat meat from cows, chickens and pigs. In other countries, people might raise sheep or buffalo for meat. These differences come in part from weather and other environmental conditions. People around the world eat all kinds of fish and shellfish from oceans and rivers. In some countries, people don’t always choose some animals for food while in other countries such animals may become people’s favorite food, such as dogs.
In West Africa, animals provide humans with more than food. They have been helping people do daily work for thousands of years. Horses, oxen, and other work animals pull heavy things. Elephants, camels, and other animals carry people and things from place to place. Carrier pigeons (信鸽) have been used to send messages.
People also receive health benefits (利益) from animals. For example, dogs and cats can help calm people down. This is helpful for people fighting illnesses. Animals can also reduce stress, helping people to draw their attention to learning new information, such as reading. When people are walking their dogs or horses, it encourages exercise.
Animals and humans share space on Earth, so keeping a healthy relationship with animals around us is in our best interest.
根据短文内容回答问题(每小题答案
1. What do scientists research the animal behavior for?
2. Why do different countries raise different animals for food?
3. Which animals can help people pull heavy things from the passage?
4. What is Paragraph 4 mainly about?
5. What are animals like in your eyes?
【推荐3】Welcome to The Film Review Programme！Today we're reviewing some of this week's new films. Let's start with this week's likely hit，Jungle Fever. Some of you may remember last year's TV documentary film about a family of tigers in India. Well，this is an unusual cartoon based on that programme and I can report that it's great fun for people of any age.
Don't miss Swim！，a comedy which takes a look at learning to swim as an adult. It's about a 20—year—old man who wants to join his friends when they swim in the lake near his home. So, he goes to the local pool to take lessons. Be prepared to laugh until it hurts！
And now it's competition time，so I hope you've listened carefully and made some notes！If you want to enter this month's competition，just go online and answer the ten questions in our quiz. Go to www. movies.com and select your answers.
Last month，we gave out free restaurant tickets as a prize—this time we're offering cinema tickets which you can use at a choice of exciting places.
You must complete your entry by May 28th. Make sure you've finished by 2：00 pm when the competition closes. We'll announce the winners on May 30th—and if you're lucky，the prize will be yours by the second week in June. Good luck and goodbye！
1. What kind of programme is it?2. Which film is probably the most successful one this week?
3. How many films have they reviewed in today's programme?
4. The film Swim isn't a funny film，isn't it？
5. How can you enter this month's competition？
6. Do you want to take part in the competition？Why or why not？
