2 . What will the future school look like is difficult to make clear, but most experts agree that the school will be electronic in the future.

“Present-day schools will no longer exist in the next century,” says a report in The Age. “At that time, future schools will become community-style centers, which run seven days a week, 24 hours a day.” At the same time,computers will surely become a central part of the school in the future.

According to The Age, the distant learning will be popular and students will listen to teachers on computers. Going into classrooms on their computers, students will study at any time, which is very easy for them. However, it is necessary for students to go to the actual school in order to develop some social skills.

The Seashore Primary School is an imaginary school in the future created by the Education Department of Australia. At this school, all the teachers and students have laptop computers. Teachers check messages and call students back on a special telephone system and students use telephones to search for information or speak to their experts who teach their lessons. Besides, all the lessons are related to all sorts of subjects and all the students have their own learning plans created by teachers.

As one headmaster says, a laptop computer is students' library. data storage as well as the bridge to a wider world. Technology has changed the emphasis of future learning. Thus, we'll pay more attention to the learning of kids rather than the teaching.

1. What can we infer from the second and third paragraphs?

A．Present-day schools are more practical than future schools.

B．Students can't have discussions in future schools.

C．Future schools will be open to students all the time.

D．The number of teachers in future schools will become larger.

2. What will the future school be like?

A．It has fewer desks and chairs.

B．Students study at a set time.

C．It has no teachers and books.

D．Students will go to actual school when necessary.

3. According to the passage, the Seashore Primary School________.

A．was built by the Education Department of Australia

B．is not a real school, but a virtual school at present

C．is very popular among teachers and students in Australia

D．is a successful example of the future school in the world

4. What's the author's attitude to the future school?

A．Objective.

B．Supportive.

C．Critical.

D．Contradictory.

3 . Smart cities are coming. And you can be sure that hackers (黑客) won’t be very far behind. We’ve already gotten a glimpse of that future, as cities across the globe start to use technology to connect their services and people in ways that were science film just a few years ago. They are using sensors to collect data — such as traffic, garbage collecting, and road conditions —and then using that data to deliver services to more people and more efficiently.

But this rush to become a smart city has a major weakness: The more connected a city is, the easier it is to cyber-attacks. Hackers have, in recent years, effectively held cities hostage through ransom ware (赎金器), sometimes damaging critical systems for months at a time. The damage can cost millions to repair, as Baltimore and Atlanta have discovered.

And this is just the beginning. As cities add connectivity to their streetlights, power grids, dams, transit lines and other services, they are adding more targets that are possible to be hacked. What’s more, as additional information on people is collected, officials worry the result —lots of data could attract nation-states or terrorists who could use the data to launch physical and cyber war.

What cyber security lesson can’t be taught in this hack? For example: Don’t open email attachments from unfamiliar sources; don’t click on unrecognized links; don’t leave sensitive information visible on the walls or surfaces of your office.

But let’s just stick to the most important lesson: The information you share on social media can be used to profile and target you, whether that’s by engineering click bait (点击诱饵) aimed at your particular interests, guessing your password based on your birthday or figuring out your schedule and travels so that an intruder can access your home or office.

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1. What did people use to think of smart cities?

A．It was the product of science.	B．It was sure to be popular.
C．It existed in imagination.	D．It improved people’s life.

2. What does the author intend to do in Paragraph 3?

A．Introduce the harm of hackers.

B．Show the danger of a smart city.

C．Add some background information.

D．Summarize the previous paragraphs.

3. What is officials’ attitude to big data?

A．It is convenient to provide service.

B．It is certain to bring about progress.

C．There are actually potential dangers.

D．There’s competition in high technology.

4. What does the underlined word "profile" in Para.5 mean?

A．Describe.

B．Protect.

C．Impress.

D．Fund.

4 . What do you use your fridge for: It can not only keep your food cold, but also make ice and freeze food. But in the future smart fridges may do much more than you can think. They may tell you what food is inside, what food you need, what food is healthy for you, and even shop for you, too!

Some companies are making online fridges which have a computer screen on the door. And it can be very useful that the computer is linked to a supermarket through the Internet. For example, when you finish your orange juice, you can put the empty juice carton (纸盒包装) near the computer screen. The computer reads the bar code on the juice carton. Then it orders more orange juice from the supermarket. You can also use the computer screen to order other things from the supermarket. The computer screen has a series of things that are in the store. You can choose what you need. The supermarket will send the food to your home.

Companies are making other kinds of “smart” appliances (电器), too. There is a new kind of microwave oven (微波炉) which has a computer memory. It can remember 365 different cookbooks. There is also a smart mixer that can remember cookbooks. Even it can test ingredients for you!

Of course, sometimes these smart appliances don’t work. When they do, they will tell you. And then they can call someone to fix them, too!

1. Your fridges can do the following things except                .

A．keep food warm	B．make ice
C．keep food cold	D．freeze food

2. What’s the meaning of the underlined word “linked” in paragraph 2?

A．prepared	B．connected
C．offered	D．formed

3. Which is not true?

A．The oven can call someone to fix itself when it doesn’t work.

B．The oven can store 365 cookbooks.

C．The mixer can test ingredients for you.

D．The mixer can help you clean the kitchen.

4. What is the main idea of the text?

A．Online fridges have a computer screen on the door.

B．Fridges of the future will order food from the supermarket.

C．Smart appliances, like online fridges, can be very helpful.

D．People won’t have to go to supermarkets to buy food in the future.

5 . Up until a few decades ago, our expectation of the future were largely positive. Science and technology would cure all the ills of humanity, leading to lives of satisfaction and opportunity for all.

Now the utopia (乌托邦) has grown unfashionable, as we have gained deeper appreciation of the range of threats facing us, from natural disasters to deadly flu to climate change. You might even be tempted to assume that human beings have little future to look forward to.

But such negative attitude doesn’t make sense. The fossil record shows that many species have existed for millions of years- so why shouldn’t we? Take broader look at our species’ place in the universe, and it becomes clear that we have an excellent chance of surviving for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years.

So what does our deep future hold? Perhaps it may be easier to think about the question in long time periods than about the more immediate future. The potential evolution of today’s technology, and its social consequences, is astonishingly complicated, and it’s’ perhaps best left to science fiction writers and futurologists (未来学家) to explore the many possibilities we can merely imagine. That’s one reason why we have launched Arc, a new publication dedicated to the near future.

But take a longer view and there is a surprising amount that we can say with considerable assurance. As so often, the past holds the key to the future: we have now identified enough of the long-term patterns shaping the history of the planet, and our species, to make evidence-based forecasts about the situations in which our future generations will find themselves.

This makes the negative predictions of our future seem more likely to be temporary and unreliable. To be sure, the future is not all rosy. But we are now knowledgeable enough to reduce many of the risks that threatened the existence of earlier humans, and to prevent the lot of those to come.

1. What used to inspire our expectation of the future?

A．Our desire for lives of satisfaction.

B．Our faith in science and technology.

C．Our awareness of potential risks.

D．Our belief in equal opportunity.

2. Which of the following is true according to Paragraph 4?

A．Are limits the range of futurological studies.

B．Technology offers solutions to social problem.

C．The interest in science fiction is on the rise.

D．Our near future is comparatively hard to predict.