What will the world of tomorrow look like? Many people today believe that technology is going to help solve some of the most difficult problems we have on the earth today. New technology may solve old problems, and it may also create new ones. No technology is perfect. Each has advantages and disadvantages, as these three examples.
When we dream about the future, many of us think that we will be able to fly to the skies in our own personal flying car. We could fly at a speed of 480 km per hour, avoiding traffic lights and busy roads. However, if the flying cars become popular, there will be problems with traffic control.
3D printing is another new technology for the future. 3D printers are already used to make life-size models of car parts, and man-made body parts, such as ears. As we move into the future, 3D printing will change the way we make things and the way we treat sick people. The disadvantage is that such a machine is very expensive.
People are trying to make a robotic suit. This is an electronic suit. It allows people to lift heavy objects and walk a long way. It might help people walk again after an illness or an accident. However, one disadvantage at the moment is the cost.
Looking ahead, it is easy to imagine a future. We will be able to fly to work, print out a new pair of shoes or lift a car above our heads. Although there are some problems to solve before all of this is possible, we can certainly dream of a world. In this world, technology makes people’s life easier and safer. It can solve some of the most difficult problems we have today.
1—2题完成句子；3—5题简略回答问题。1. New technology may
2. If the flying cars become popular, there will be problems with
3. What is the disadvantage of 3D printers?
4. What might the robotic suit help people do after an illness or an accident?
5. Do you look forward to your future life? What will it be like?
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What do you use the Internet for? According to a recent national report, the top three purposes of using the Internet for Chinese children are “learning”, “listening to music” and “playing games”. As many as 88.9 percent of children said they often use the Internet to study.
How are today’s young people using online resources (资源)? We talked with some teenagers and found the young people are really good at improving themselves by looking up the online world.
“I love using Duolingo to learn different languages,” said 14-year-old Zhang Enqi from Tianjin. Duolingo is an App where users can learn foreign languages in a fun way. “The teachers are very cute cartoon figures (人物), which makes the learning process fun. They encourage me to learn and compete with friends, just like playing a game,” Zhang said.
Li Shuhe, a 14-year-old from Shanxi, used wikiHow a lot. “The website has over 160,000 articles that teach you how to solve all kinds of problems. It even teaches you how to have fun by yourself, which I find quite creative and useful,” Li said.
In the face of the rich learning materials (材料), you could be easily distracted (注意力分散的)when you study online. So self-control is really important. At the same time, the school and parents need to pay attention to developing the children’s digital literacy (数字素养). That will stop the young people from being misled (误导) by wrong or harmful information.
1题完成句子；2、3题简略回答问题；4题找出并写下全文的主题句；5题将文中画线句子译成汉语。
1. About 88.9 percent of children often use the Internet to
2. What does Zhang Engi use Duolingo to do?
3. What does Li Shuhe think of wikiHow?
4.
5.
【推荐2】Nano-robots (纳米机器人)
In 2050, a small cloud floats (漂浮) through the air in a hospital room. In the room, a patient experiencing great pain from cancer(癌症), lies on a table. The cloud covers the patient's body and fills her lungs (肺). The cloud is not smoke or steam. It is made of millions of microscopic robots called nano-robots. These tiny robots move from cell (细胞) to cell in the patient's body, killing the cancer cells.
Fighting cancer with nano-robots is only an idea today, but scientists say that it would be possible in the future. Using nano-robots for good purposes such as fighting with disease or repairing the environment may be the solution to many of today's problems.
However, nano-robots could be a dangerous risk as well. Since nano-robots are so tiny, they will have to work in large teams of many thousands to many millions. For this reason, nano-robots will have to be programmed to build themselves. Scientists will not have the ability to build millions of nano-robots one by one. This ability to reproduce is making some scientists worried. What if something goes wrong in the programming? Quite a lot of crazy nano-robots would be far worse than any disease. Some people think that if they get out of control, nano-robots could kill the world.
What should be done? Should we continue researching nano-robots or should we search for other methods? This is one of the many difficult decisions that we have to make in the future.
1、2题完成句子；3题简略回答问题；4题找出并写下第三段的主题句；5题将文中画线句子译成汉语。
1. Scientists say that
2. Why do nano-robots have to work in large teams?
3. What ability of the nano-robots worries the scientists?
4.
5.
Have you ever wondered what animals are talking about? With the development of AI（人工智能）, we may be able to understand their languages!
In Professor Karen Bakker’s new book, The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants, she talks about how AI is helping us to make an animal version（版本）of Google Translate.
All around the animal kingdom（王国）, there are sounds that we can hardly pick up and decipher（破译）. Elephants, for example, talk with each other using infrasound（次声波）—far below our human hearing range. Coral in the ocean also sends sound waves to attract（吸引）baby coral to safer areas to grow. This is surprising as coral doesn’t have any ears! Scientists have placed listening equipment（设备）into these environments to pick up the sounds humans cannot hear.
After the sounds are recorded, AI can study their meaning. For example, Israeli researchers used AI to translate bats’ 15, 000 calls. They found that more than 60 percent were arguments（争吵）about four things: food, sleep positions（姿势）, invasion（侵犯） of personal space, and unwanted advances（求爱）.
This technology can not only understand the animals but also communicate back to them. For example, bees use dances to communicate. A research team in Germany, therefore, put the bee language AI system into a robot bee. They asked the robot to create a dance routine（路线）to tell the bees where the nectar（花蜜）was.
With the All around the animal kingdom, there are sounds that we can hardly pick up and decipher. After the sounds are recorded, AI can study their |
A trip to space
by Jerry
10 October 2053
I’m so happy! Tomorrow I’ll be one of the first students to travel into space. The spaceship will leave the Earth at 9 a. m. (A)它将带我们去月球. I can’t wait!
The Moon is (B) around 380,000 kilometres from the Earth, so it’ll take us about four days to get there. There’s no gravity in space, (C) ________we’ll all be able to float around in the spaceship. We’ll have to tie ourselves to our beds so that we won’t float away in our sleep! (D) Without gravity, our bodies may get weak, so we’ll have to do exercises every day.
When we arrive, I’m going to walk on the Moon. I’ll have to wear a spacesuit to help me (E) ________ because there’s no air on the Moon. I’m going to take as many(F) photos as I can, that is, if my camera still works up there …
1. 将文中画线部分(A)译成英语：2. 写出文中画线部分(B)和(F)的同义词：
3. 在文中(C)和(E)的空白处填入适当的单词：
4. 将文中画线部分(D)改写为：
5. 从文中找出两个天体名称：
【推荐2】What will you do if you get five million? Different people give different answers.
Sally: If I get five million, I want to do business. I will do a lot of things for my family. For me nothing is more important than my family. I will buy a new house for them and travel around the world.
Joe: If I have five million. I will use the money to do everything I like. First, I will use two million to open my own shop. And I will use another two million to buy some new houses. In the future, the houses which I buy will become more expensive, and I will sell them to other people. Finally, I will use one million to buy some presents for my family and my best friends.
Anna: If I have five million, I will put three million in the bank and spend two million. I will visit Paris, London and New York. I will eat delicious food, play games, and build a house with a swimming pool.
Jack: I will buy an island if I have five million. Then I will be the king of the island. I will invite my friends to my island.
根据短文内容，回答下列问题。
1. Who will do business if he/she gets five million?
2. What will Anna do if she gets five million?
3. What will Joe do with the last one million if he gets five million?
4. Where will Anna visit if she gets five million?
5. Will Jack buy an island if he has five million?
My name is Bob. Many people ask me what my favorite invention is. I find it very hard to answer the question, because there are so many things. However, I have chosen a pen. Don’t you think it’s surprising?
To most people, a pen is very boring, but to me, it stands for possibility (可能). You can write a novel or a song, record information, or draw a picture.
A pen is like the beginning of something amazing (令人惊喜的) to me. Every day, I write a new page with my pen, and I am slowly making a path (路) for my future. Maybe I will be a scientist and change the world with my discoveries. Maybe I’ll become a musician and touch people’s hearts with my music. Or perhaps I will be a writer and move people through words.
There are so many possibilities about what I will do with my life in the future, but I know that with the pen in my hand, I will write a good future for myself. Tell me what future you will write for yourself.
1. What’s the writer’s favorite invention?2. How may people feel after they know the writer’s choice?
3. Musicians can’t touch people’s hearts with their music, can they?
4. Who does the writer think can move people through words?
5. Will the writer write a good future for himself?
【推荐1】“USA? Britain? Which country is better to study in?” We often hear such discussions. As China opens its door, it is a dream for many Chinese students to study abroad. They want to learn about the outside world.
It’s true that studying abroad can help students develop themselves. Their foreign language skills will be improved and it may be easier to find jobs.
But there are problems that should be considered. Language is the first. Students must spend a lot of time learning another language. Students must also learn to live without parents’ care and deal with all kinds of things they haven’t had to do before. When they have to take care of themselves, it is hard for students to study well. Finally, studying abroad brings a heavy burden（负担）to the family. For most Chinese parents, the cost of studying abroad is very high. But is it worth it?
We know that there are many famous people who have achieved success through their hard work in China. So when you wonder which country is better to study in, think again.
1. What’s the first problem if Chinese students study abroad?2. Why do many Chinese students want to study abroad?
3. Do you want to study abroad? Why or why not?
England is a country in Europe. It is not too hot in summer or too cold in winter. And the hottest month is July. The coldest months are January and February. The weather in England is very changeable(变化无常的). It can be sunny, rainy, or windy at any time of a day. It’s raining when you get up in the morning, but it can be sunny or windy in the afternoon.
In England, people like talking about the weather. If it is cloudy now, someone will say the weather is bad. You may say it will be sunny after a while, and he or she will think you are very friendly.
In England, stores open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Monday to Friday. On weekends, stores open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. If you want to go to the parks, you can get there at any time of the day. But please think about when you buy the things and where you can go. In England, you can take the bus, the subway or the taxi to go anywhere. Welcome to England!
1. Which month is the hottest in England?The hottest month in England is
2. How’s the weather in England?
The weather in England is
3. What do people like talking about in England?
In England, people like talking about
4. When do stores open on weekends in England?
On weekends, stores open
5. How can you get anywhere in England?
In England, you can
A lot of people are crazy doing shopping through the Internet now. Why is it so popular? There are some reasons. First, more and more people have their own computers and their computers can be joined with (连接) the Internet. So it is possible for many of them to do shopping through the Internet. Second, shopping through the Internet can save them some money and a lot of time. Third, they don’t need to go to the shop themselves. Because of these good facts, few people refuse it.
On the other hand, some people don’t like this new way of shopping. They are worried about the safety of shopping online. Customers (顾客) can only see the pictures of productions (商品) on the Internet. And they can’t enjoy the pleasure of buying things in large supermarkets or some wonderful stores.
But I think more and more people will like this new kind of shopping in the future.
1、2题完成句子；3～5题简略回答问题。1. Many people are crazy doing shopping through
2. Shopping online can save
3. Shopping online is so popular. How many reasons are mentioned (提到) in the passage?
4. What are some people worried about?
5. Do you like going shopping through the Internet? Why or why not?
