There’s no doubt that the future is coming.
 Self-service Store | Imagine walking into a store, you see neither staff nor cashier (收银员). Well, you may have entered Tao Cafe-the 24-hour self-service convenience store. By scanning their QR code (二维码), shoppers are followed with cameras for facial recognition. Digital systems will be able to “watch” and “remember” shoppers selection. When they are ready to leave, they go through two checkout door. Then the bills will automatically (自动地) be paid. The checkout machine can recognize goods even when shoppers put them in pockets or bags. So it is almost impossible to steal things from the store. |
 Electric Cars | As people pay more and more attention to the problem of pollution and greenhouse gases, electric cars might become more popular. More carmakers, including Audi and Volvo, will have electric powered cars on the road in 2019. And by 2025, almost every sixth car sold in the world will be electric. Many countries are calling on people to buy clean-energy cars. They believe these cars can help lower the need of oil and reduce air pollution. |
 Smart City | A smart city is a city where high technology not only serves the citizens, but also learns from them. There will be more information connections, between people, between people and things and between things. Data (数据) from the connections will be collected automatically. Developers can use this data to provide better services for people. For example, if people point a phone toward a nearby bus stop, the phone shows all bus lines that serve the stop and their arrival times. |
1. What can shoppers do in Tao Cafe?
| A．Shoppers can only do their shopping during the day. |
| B．Shoppers need the cashiers' help to check out after shopping. |
| C．Shoppers can even check out without taking goods out from bags |
| D．Shoppers can steal goods easily because there is no staff at all |
| A．Electric cars can help reduce greenhouse gases. |
| B．About 60% of the cars will be electric by 2025. |
| C．Only Audi and Volvo can make electric cars now. |
| D．All the countries support people to use the electric cars. |
| A．People will have to collect the information by themselves. |
| B．High technology will both serve the citizens and learn from them. |
| C．The bus stop will show you all the bus lines and the arrival times. |
| D．There will only be connections between people and things. |
| A．Everyone may prefer the self-service stores. |
| B．More families may own the electric cars. |
| C．Clean-energy cars may take the place of ordinary cars. |
| D．The world will be smarter and problems will be fewer. |
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【推荐1】Technology is developing fast and it has become an important part of our life. Then what will the world be like in the future?
3D food will be both delicious and nutritious (有营养的).
Scientists believe that we just need to turn on a printer in the kitchen and then we can enjoy our favorite food whenever we like.
5G network will allow many more people to get information.
Underwater cities will provide more space.
Space tour will be a piece of cake. For us common people on the earth, the dream of traveling around space will come true. In the coming years, space craft will be as popular as buses, trains and planes.
| A．But with 4G network, it takes a few minutes. |
| B．We can leave our home and enter space to take an adventure. |
| C．We can use 3D printers to print some basic materials. |
| D．The earth is becoming more and more crowded. |
| E．Big companies like China Mobile and China Unicom have started to offer 5G. |
| F．It will be difficult to take a space trip. |
 | There won’t be much land, so there will be big cities underwater, and we will travel in submarines（潜艇）。I want to live in an underwater house with glass walls. I will see fish swimming around！ |
 | There will be many parks and enough green space because people will take the environment more seriously. People will live a happy and healthy life. Maybe people will have a much healthier diet and enjoy fresh food every day. |
 | I think computers will be very small in the future. We will put them in our clothes and use our voices to control them. We’ll meet our teachers and friends in a cool virtual（虚拟的）place to learn about the world.  |
 | I think the earth will become a cleaner place in the future because we will drive cars with the energy（能源）from the sun. What’s more, perhaps cars will be very fast, and some cars can even fly in the air.  |
| A．by car | B．by plane | C．by ship | D．by submarine |
| A．Lara. | B．Bob | C．Jenny. | D．Jim |
| A．what the world will be like | B．how fast cars will fly |
| C．where people will get fresh food | D．how much land there will be |
【推荐3】There will be a kind of new cars in the future. People will like this kind of small cars better than the big ones. The car is as small as a bike. But it can carry two people in it. Everybody can drive it easily, just like riding a bike. Even children and old people can drive them to schools or parks.
If everyone drives such cars in the future, there will be less pollution in the air. There will be more space for all the cars in cities, and there will also be more space for people to walk in the streets.
The little cars of the future will cost less money to buy and to drive. These little cars can go only 65 kilometers an hour, so driving will be safer. The cars of the future will be fine for going around the city, but they will not be useful for a long trip.
This kind of cars can save a lot of gas (汽油). They will go 450 kilometers, and then they have to stop for more gas. They are nice cars, aren’t they?
1. What will this kind of new cars in the future be like?| A．Much more expensive. | B．Much smaller. |
| C．Much bigger. | D．Much faster. |
| A．450 kilometers | B．260 kilometers | C．130 kilometers | D．65 kilometers |
| A．cheaper than | B．more expensive than | C．as cheap as | D．as expensive as |
| A．To get more water. | B．To get more gas. | C．To have a rest. | D．To get more oil. |
| A．This kind of new cars can save much gas. |
| B．Driving little cars will be less polluting. |
| C．These little cars will be useful for a long trip. |
| D．These little cars can make more space for other cars and people. |
