2 . 本期校报英文版的主题是时光胶囊，请你写一篇短文以My Time Capsule为题投稿，简要介绍你放入时光胶囊的科技产品和你对未来的期待。
注意：1．词数80左右；2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
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3 . 假定你是李华，下周五你班准备召开一次有关职业生涯规划(career planning)的班会，请你结合自己的实际情况用英语写一篇发言稿。内容如下:
1. 你理想的职业；
2. 你相关的优势；
3. 你将如何实现你的理想。
注意:1. 词数100词左右；
2. 适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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4 . What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A．Married life.

B．Future plans.

C．Dream schools.

5 . Do you want to travel back in time? What about traveling into the future? There’s an easy way to do it.

One way you can make a time travel journey is by writing a letter to your future self to be opened in the future. To your future self, the letter will be a visit to the past. What can be gained by writing a letter to yourself? It depends on how good your letter is. You have the chance to say something to your future self. What would you want to communicate? You’ll be able to talk to yourself 5, 10, 15 years down the road. There may be instructions for your future self, or you may have goals that you will want to check up on.

There are a lot of things you could include in your letter or letters to yourself. The more you include, the better the letter will be to you. Here are some ideas of things to include in your letter:

Your thoughts and feelings about life, religion, politics, society, etc; Your feelings for your family; Your likes and dislikes; Your dreams; The type of person you want yourself to become...

Be creative with what you put in your letter. Include a picture of yourself or family to show the period from which the letter came.

You can store your letter in a number of different ways. You can give your letter to a friend or family member to keep and mail to you. If you can get others to take part, have them write letters to themselves as well and ask someone to be the letter holder until it’s time to send the letters. You can also use a service online to store your letter and e-mail it to you.

Make the most of your letter writing, and you’ll help your future self make the most of the present.

1. How can you travel into the future?

A．By traveling back in time.

B．By writing a letter to your future self.

C．By opening a letter from the past.

D．By paying a visit to the future.

2. If you want to gain more in the future, what should you do?

A．Have the chance to say something to your future self.

B．Talk to yourself 5,10,15years down the road.

C．Write more about instructions for your future self.

D．Include as many things as possible in your letter.

3. Why had you better put a picture in your letter?

A．To check up on your goals.

B．To prove your feelings for your family.

C．To show the time when the letter was written.

D．To find out your thoughts and feelings now.

4. Which could be the best title for the passage?

A．How to Write a Letter to Your Future Self.

B．What to Communicate with Your Future Self.

C．What to Include in a Letter to Your Future Self.

D．How to Make the Most of Your Letter.

6 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Experts have started working on    1     unbelievable project to make a robot made by NASA act like a human.

    2    (name) Valkyrie, the robot looks like a woman and may be used to explorer Mars one day. It       3     (invent) by NASA scientists to compete in the DARPA Robotics Challenges(DRC). It is 1.9 meters tall and    4     (weight) 125 kilograms. It comes with a series    5     cameras, sonar, and other sensors spread across its body to help it move around.

Valkyrie is powered by a battery on its back, which can keep it     6     (operate) for an hour. It can walk on    7       (it) own, pick up objects and control many objects and tools,    8    is part of the requirements for the DARPA challenge.

The machine can walk on two legs and perform basic    9     (move) at present. However, the team from Scotland’s Edinburgh University wants to give it       10     (many) skills. It is hoped that the new and improved robot will work along with astronauts in space.

7 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. How is the newly printed house different from previous ones?

A．It was printed in pieces.

B．It was made from waste materials.

C．The whole thing was printed at once.

2. How much does the printed 400-square-foot house cost in California?

A．$ 5,000.

B．$10,000.

C．$15,000.

3. Where were ten houses printed in just 24 hours?

A．In China.

B．In Russia.

C．In the United States.

4. How do engineers think the new technology could be used?

A．To put buildings on Mars.

B．To recycle old materials.

C．To construct buildings on the moon.

8 . What will man be like in the future-in 5,000 or even 50,000 years? We can only make guesses, but we can be sure that he will be different from what he is today, for man is slowly changing all the time.

Let us take an example. Man, even five hundred years ago, was shorter than he is today. Now, on average（平均），men are about three inches（英尺）taller. Again, in the modern world we use brains a great deal. Even so, we still make use of only about 20% of the brain’s capacity（容量）.As time goes on, however, we shall have to use our brains more and more, and eventually we shall need larger ones! This is likely to bring about a physical change to the head, especially the forehead, will grow larger.

Nowadays our eyes are used very often. In fact, we use them so much that they become weaker and we have to wear glasses. But over a very long period of time it is likely that man’s eyes will grow stronger.

On the other hand, we tend to make less use of our arms and legs. These, as a result, are likely to grow weaker. At the same time, however, our fingers will grow more sensitive because they are used a great deal in modern life.

But what about hair? This will probably disappear from the body altogether in course of time because it does not serve a useful purpose any longer. In the future, then, both sexes are likely to be bald（光头的）.

Perhaps all this shows that future man will not be a very attractive being to look at! This may well be true. No matter how great the change is, future man will still have a lot in common with us.

1. The passage mainly tells us that________.

A．man’s life will be different in the future

B．future man will look quite different from us

C．man is growing taller as time passes

2. Which parts of man mentioned in the passage will change EXCEPT________.

A．weight and ears

B．brain and height

C．arms and legs

3. The change in the man’s size of the forehead is probably because________.

A．he makes use only 20% of the brain’s capacity

B．the other 80% of his brain will grow with time

C．he will use his brain more and more as time goes on

4. The underlined word “sensitive” means________ in Chinese.

A．纤细的

B．灵敏的

C．笨拙的

5. What is TRUE about a human being in the future?

A．He may be hairless because hair is no longer useful.

B．He has smaller eyes and wears better glasses.

C．His fingers grow weaker because he doesn’t have to make use of them.

9 . What if the car waiting patiently behind a parked bus is a driverless or autonomous vehicle(AV)? Will this robot car be able to understand what you mean when you flash your lights or madly wave your hands? Its sensors could decides that it’s only safe to overtake when there’ no oncoming traffic at all. On a busy road at school home time, this may be never leading to increasingly angry passengers and increasingly angry driers queuing behind.

And how will a robot car driving out from a T-junction into oncoming traffic be able to make the necessary eye contact with a human driver? These safety-first robot cars could become victims of their own politeness and end up being bullied and ignored by aggressive, impatient humans. This, at any rate, is one of the conclusions to be drawn from research carried out by Dr Chris Tennant of the psychological and behavioral science department at the London School of Economics. His Europe-wide survey finds that nearly two-thirds of drivers think machines won’t have enough common sense to interact with human drivers. And more than two-fifths think a robot car would remain stuck behind our parked lorry for a long time.

“If you view the road as a social space, you will consciously negotiate your journey with other drivers. People who like that negotiation process appear to feel less comfortable engaging with AVs than with human drivers,” says Mr. Tennant in his report. Of course, humans are always skeptical about new technologies of which they have little experience. That skepticism usually decreases with usage, however. And even many skeptics accept that emotionless AVs could cause fewer accidents than we humans, with our tendency to road anger, tiredness and lack of concentration. A statistic often repeated is that human error is responsible for more than 90% of accidents. But 70% of the 12,000 people Mr. Tennant and his team interviewed agreed that: “ As a point of principle, humans should be in control of their vehicles.” An even greater proportion-80%-thought an autonomous vehicle should always have a steering wheel.

1. According to the text, an autonomous vehicle______.

A．is controlled by a robot	B．waits shorter than other cars
C．judges traffic by drivers online	D．recognizes angry human drivers

2. Dr. Chris Tennant found in his study that autonomous vehicles_______.

A．won’t interact with human drivers

B．avoid passing T-junctions ahead of time

C．drive in the same ways as a human driver

D．may suffer from impatient human drivers

3. What can we infer from the text?

A．Autonomous vehicles will be less social

B．Autonomous vehicles are safer than generally expected

C．Human drivers have been replaced by autonomous vehicles

D．Human drivers are willing to interact with autonomous vehicles

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．An autonomous car takes a test run

B．What is driverless technology like?

C．Say no to the coming driverless trend

D．Would you bully a driverless car or show it respect?

10 . Do you want to live another 100 years or more？Some experts say that scientific advances will one day enable humans to last tens of years beyond what is now seen as the natural limit of the human life span.

“I think we are knocking at the door of immortality(永生),”said Michael Zey，a Montclair State University business professor and author of two books on the future. “I think by 2075 we will see it and that's a conservative estimate（保守的估计）.”

At the conference in San Francisco，Donald Louria,a professor at New Jersey Medical School in Newark said advances in using genes as well as nano technology（纳米技术）make it likely that humans will live in the future beyond what has been possible in the past. “There is a great push so that people can live from 120 to 180 years,” he said. “Some have suggested that there is no limit and that people could live to 200 or 300 or 500 years.”

However, many scientists who specialize in aging are doubtful about it and say the human body is just not designed to last past about 120 years. Even with healthier lifestyles and less diseases, they say failure of the brain and organs will finally lead all humans to death.

Scientists also differ on what kind of life the super aged might live." It remains to be seen if you pass 120, you know; could you be healthy enough to have good quality of life？" said Leonard Poon，director of the University of Georgia Gerontology Centre." At present people who could get to that point are not in good health at all."

1. By saying “we are knocking at the door of immortality”, what does Michael Zey mean?

A．they believe that there is no limit of living

B．they are sure to find the truth about long living

C．they have got some ideas about living forever

D．they are able to make people live past the present life span

2. What is Donald Louria's attitude towards long living ?

A．people can live from 120 to 180 years

B．it is still doubtful how long humans can live

C．the human body is designed to last past about 120 years

D．it is possible for humans to live longer in the future

3. What does the underlined word "it" in Paragraph 4 refers to?

A．a great push	B．the idea of living from 200 to 300 years
C．the idea of living beyond the present life span	D．the conservative estimate

4. What would be the best title for this text？

A．Living Longer or Not	B．Science，Technology and Long Living
C．Healthy Lifestyle and Long Living	D．No Limit for Human Life