1 . You get up in the morning and look into the mirror. You look young. In 2040, many people can live to be about 150 years old. So at the age of 40, you’re not old at all. And your parents look the same age as you!
You say to your shirt, “Turn red.” It changes from blue to red. In 2040, “smart clothes” can change the color or style as you like.
You walk into the kitchen. You pick up the milk, but you hear the voice, “You shouldn’t drink that!” Your fridge remembers the information about the milk. It knows that the milk is not fresh. In 2040, every household appliance (家用电器) is like your servant.
It’s time to go to work. In 2040, cars drive themselves. Just tell your “smart car” where to go. On the way, you can call a friend with your watch. Such “smart technology” is all around you. So will all these things come true? “All these will come true, and maybe even better.” says a scientist. I am looking forward to the new life.
1. How do “you” look in the mirror in 2040?| A．Young. | B．Fat. | C．Handsome. | D．Beautiful. |
| A．The servant. | B．The watch. | C．The milk. | D．The fridge. |
| A．They will run in the sky. | B．They can talk with humans. |
| C．They won’t need drivers. | D．They won’t need gas. |
| A．People won’t get old. |
| B．People can call their friends with a watch. |
| C．People don’t need to have breakfast. |
| D．People don’t need to wear clothes. |
| A．It will be much better than now. | B．It will be as good as now. |
| C．It will be as hard as now. | D．It will be much worse than now. |
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4 . “How are you feeling, Klinker?” Dr. Blooper asked his new robot. “Well, I can see out of one eye,” said Klinker. “I can hear out of one ear. But my left shoulder keeps falling down, my belly has a hole in it, one knee feels funny, and my fingers are missing something at the ends. Otherwise, I feel fine.”
Dr. Blooper laughed. “ I have made a list of your missing parts,” he said. “When I have finished my experiment, I will buy them. Then you will be finished, and I will let you see yourself in the mirror.” Dr. Blooper went into the next laboratory.
After a few minutes Klinker began to feel bored. He looked at the list. Suddenly he had an idea. “I will surprise Dr. Blooper and buy these things myself,” Klinker said.
Klinker came to the store. He chose a small blue ball and a toy drum and gave them to the clerk. “Please charge these to Dr. Blooper,” he said. Then he chose a knife with a sharp blade(刀片), ten long steel nails and a small red button. “This is going to be easy,” he said. “One thing is for sure ---I have a good brain. If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.”
When Klinker got back, he had an idea.“I will put all my parts together by myself,” he said. “What a surprise Dr. Blooper will have!” After he finished, he was about to look in the mirror when Dr. Blooper walked into the room. He stared at Klinker. “No wonder you are so surprised,” said the happy robot. “I have finished myself. I have an eyeball, a shoulder blade, fingernails, a belly button, and a kneecap. But I still don't feel quite right.”
Dr. Blooper patted Klinker on the head. “I will fix you right away,” he said. “I think I will adjust your brain, just a little.”
1. The first two paragraphs suggest that ________.| A．Dr. Blooper needed to experiment on Klinker. | B．Klinker lost something in the experiment. |
| C．Klinker was in fact an unfinished robot. | D．Klinker worked as an assistant in the lab. |
| A．refused to pay for things he bought. | B．went secretly out of the laboratory. |
| C．chose everything he needed carefully. | D．was confident of his intelligence. |
| A．was still unsatisfied with himself. | B．felt proud in front of the mirror. |
| C．was surprised at his own image. | D．went to greet Dr. Blooper gladly. |
5 . The home of the future won't be completely different and we will be living in houses and flats just as we do today. But people will want to shape their homes to match their dreams. No two homes will be the same. People will be able to buy "house kits" containing a basic house structure, with movable walls, doors and windows. They will put together the different parts to create the home they want.
Many jobs that we do today will disappear, others will still exist but will change and new jobs will be created. Skilled workers such as builders, gardeners and electricians won't disappear because machines can't replace them. Teachers will still exist because students need human contact. But they will be using modem technology in class more and students will be working more at home. The medical technology revolution and space travel will create new jobs which we can only imagine today.
Space holidays will develop in the future, but these holidays won't be for everyone because they won't be cheap. Short space trips will develop first; then space hotels will orbit the earth where it will be possible to have a longer vacation. By the end of the next century, there will have been holiday centres on the moon with leisure facilities（休闲设施）for families.
Paper won't exist in the future. Instead, there will be e-paper which people will be able to use over and over again. This will develop in order to save natural resources. E-newspapers and e-magazines will replace traditional newspapers and magazines and we will download information and news articles from the Internet every day onto our reusable paper.
The laws of physics tell us that the earth is going to disappear some time in the future. This isn't going to happen tomorrow but scientists predict that it will happen in five billion years when our sun explodes. We will have to explore the universe and find another home. At some point in the distant future, either we stay on the earth and die with it, or we leave and move to another planet. There won't be any other choice.
1. Homes of the future will .| A．be completely different from those of today |
| B．be very similar to our homes |
| C．all be different from one another |
| D．be movable as you want |
| A．Skilled workers will face great challenges. |
| B．The future will witness job changes. |
| C．Technology will totally replace workforce. |
| D．An unimaginable life will come into being. |
| A．become a very common way to spend holidays |
| B．be the best holiday options for families |
| C．attract a lot of people |
| D．be still only for very rich people |
| A．it will be a symbol of fashion |
| B．it won't waste natural resource |
| C．it will be cheaper to produce |
| D．it will be convenient to carry |
6 . Have you ever forgotten to lock the door of your house? Or, have you ever forgotten to switch off the TV or computer?
Intelligent controls
Today, we have to use switches for your lights, and remote controls for our TVs and air conditioners. In the future, we will be using advanced technology every day for automatic control of just about everything in our home. You will no longer have to think about turning switches on and off yourself.
Regular Health Checks
In addition, your smart home will be monitoring your health for you every day. Your bed, for example, will record how well you sleep every night.
No more disasters
This smart technology is not a fantasy.
| A．Natural disasters happen all the time |
| B．It will also be checking your body weight |
| C．These kinds of things happen to us all the time |
| D．Many of these new inventions are already available |
| E．The smart technology is being widely-used in our daily life |
| F．Your home will also learn your daily schedule and preferences |
| G．Smart homes will be able to prevent serious damage from accidents |
7 . My dad works with green technology. Last summer, he was sent to a small town called Gaviotas in Colombia. He decided to take me with him. At first I wasn’t too keen. What was I going to do in the middle of nowhere, in a country where I couldn’t even speak the language? And anyway, what was so special about Gaviotas?
My dad told me that Gaviotas was an example of how people could live without destroying the environment. This got me a bit more interested, so I did some research. I found out that Gaviotas was founded in 1971 by a group of scientists and artists. They had decided to build a completely new town in the remote, war-worn eastern Colombia where there was nothing.
When we eventually arrived, I was amazed by how green it was and my dad explained that they had replanted millions of trees. There were many different species of birds flying about and flowers everywhere. I was beginning to like it. My dad’s contact in Gaviotas has a son exactly my age Ricardo. He speaks really good English and so for the next week he was my guide to this amazing place. The first thing he pointed out to me was all the fantastic technology that had been invented there. Ricardo told me that they produce 70% of all their own energy and food with very little waste. The trees they planted more than compensate for any greenhouse gases they emit（排放）.
But Gaviotas is not a success just because of its green technology, it’s also a model for how people can live more peacefully together. Every family gets a free home, free meals and free schooling for the children. So there is no poverty. People get on well with each other. It’ s fantastic.
I was really sad to leave Gaviotas, but now I have a new dream: I hope that 20 years from now, we’ll all be living in towns like Gaviotas.
1. What can best describe the author's feeling at the very beginning?| A．Annoyed. | B．Uninterested. |
| C．Guilty. | D．Worried. |
| A．Bare and war- stricken. | B．Green and efficient. |
| C．Modern but polluted. | D．Small but advanced. |
| A．Paragraph 2. | B．Paragraph 3. |
| C．Paragraph 4. | D．Paragraph 5. |
| A．How scientists and artists founded Gaviotas. |
| B．How people in Gaviotas avoid waste. |
| C．Gaviotas is famous for its green technology. |
| D．Gaviotas is an ideal model of community. |
8 . In the online world, it’s very difficult to talk to Chinese people without using emojis. However, did you know that people in different age groups have totally different preferences for choosing their emojis? The result is based on a report released by Tencent’s WeChat, China’s most popular messaging app, on its official weibo account on Wednesday.
Specifically, for users who were born in the 2000s, their favorite WeChat emoji would probably be the widely used “facepalm”, rumored to be based on the famous Hong Kong movie star Stephen Chow. They also may be a night owl without much sleep, while iced beverages and desserts are their cup of tea.
For China’s post-90s WeChat users, they are likely to get out of bed later in the morning compared with other groups, and the emoji “face with tears of joy” may rule their online social life. Also, their reading materials have shifted from entertainment and gossip three years ago to the current relationship and lifestyle pieces.
For those born in the 1980s, their tastes have remained the same, as they are still fond of reading news on national affairs. And “smiling widely” is their emoji of the year.
WeChat users born in the 1970s are called the optimistic group, who like to use the emoji “laughing quietly” and go through their moments frequently every day. Their bed time usually takes place around 11:30 pm.
Users over 55 are the early-bird group with rich entertainment activities in WeChat platforms, such as looking through moments, reading and shopping. They like to cheer up other age groups, so their favorite emoji is “giving a thumbs-up”.
The report also indicates that WeChat boasts more than 1.08 billion active users with 45 billion messages being sent and 410 million calls getting through the app each day in 2018. In addition to covering users’ socializing, WeChat has gradually come into our daily lives. Compared to the year before, people used WeChat 4.7 times more to purchase public transport tickets, and 2.9 times more to pay for medical expenses. Also, the app was used 1.5 times more over the previous year to pay for meals, with Beijing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen ranked as the top three cities in dining purchases through WeChat.
1. Which of the following emojis do users born in the 1980s prefer to use according to the passage?A． | B． | C． | D． |
| A．They are likely to get out of bed late in the morning. |
| B．They like to give a thumb up to cheer up other age groups. |
| C．They prefer to read materials about entertainment and gossip. |
| D．They are called the optimistic group and usually go to bed at about 11:30 pm. |
| A．By following time order | B．By inferring |
| C．By listing numbers | D．By analyzing cause and effect |
| A．Various meanings of emojis. |
| B．A wonderful way to send messages |
| C．Wise adoptions of emojis |
| D．Emoji usage reveals your age group |
9 . Far away, in a forest outside Oslo, Norway, 1,000 newly planted trees are growing. When the trees are full-size, they will be cut down and used to make paper. The paper will be used to make copies of an unusual book. The book will contain 100 stories by 100 authors written over the course of 100 years.
Scottish artist Katie Paterson began the project last year. “We’re asking one writer a year to submit a story,” Paterson said. Subject, style, and length are up to the author, However, it is 100 years later that the stories can be revealed.
What’s the point of asking authors to write stories that readers alive today will never get to enjoy? “The project is a lot about the imagination,” she says. “It’s about thinking about the future and developing an artwork that’s not just for now but for a future generation.”
Paterson got the idea for the project while drawing tree rings in a notebook. Each ring in a tree’s trunk represents one year of growth. That inspired her to create a project that ties the present with the future. The idea seemed so far that she set it aside. But a few years later, Paterson had the opportunity to take part in a program called Slow Space. Organizers were looking for projects designed to unfold over time. Paterson’s was one of three selected.
The first work for the book was completed this year. The manuscript(手稿) is being held at Oslo’s public library, where a special room house the growing collection of stories.
“More and more paper books are phased out,” Paterson says. She notes that Oslo’s library has had thousands of digital books. Hopefully, she says that she expects the future generations will be excited enough to shout, “Look! They’re paper books!”
1. What’s the purpose of the project according to Paterson?
| A．Protecting the forest. |
| B．Setting up a library. |
| C．Leaving behind some paper books for future generations. |
| D．Encouraging more authors to create more wonderful works. |
| A．Inspired by tree rings. |
| B．Inspired by the library. |
| C．Inspired by the ecological environment. |
| D．Inspired by the program of Slow Space. |
| A．Lit up. | B．Dying out. | C．Coming to life. | D．Passed down. |
| A．the stories inside the book will remain secret until 2115 |
| B．the stories inside the book will be selected among many |
| C．the book will record the biggest events during 100 years |
| D．the book will be held in the form of both paper and digital |
