1 . You are just waking up in the spring of 2030. Your Internet of Things (IoT) bedroom opens solar-powered e-windows and plays gentle music while your smart lighting displays a montage (蒙太奇) of beachfront sunrises from your recent vacation.
Your shower uses very little water or soap. It recycles your grey water and puts the extra heat back into your home’s integrated operating system. While you dress, your artificial intelligence (AI) assistant shares your schedule for the day and plays your favourite tunes.
You still start your day with caffeine but it comes from your IoT refrigerator which is capable of providing a coffeehouse experience in your home. A hot breakfast tailored to your specific nutritional needs (based on chemical analysis from your trips to the “smart toilet”) is waiting for you in the kitchen.
When it’s time to leave, an on-demand transport system has three cars waiting for you, your spouse and your kids. On the road, driverless cars and trucks move with mathematical precision, without traffic jams. Accident rates are near zero.
On route, you call your R&D team, who are wrapping up a day’s work in Shanghai. Your life-sized image will be projected, making your colleagues see you as if you were sitting with them. It’s a bit surreal (超现实的) for them to see you in the morning light given that it’s dark on the Bund, Shanghai’s water-front, though the novelty fades after a few uses.
You review the day’s cloud-based data from your Shenzhen manufacturing centre your pilot project in San Diego, and your QA team in Melbourme. The massive datasets are collected in realtime from every piece of equipment and have been beautifully summarized by your company’s AI. All these facilities are closely maintained and operated via a skilled predictive analytics platform. Pleased with the team’s progress, you end the call and ease into a good book.
This is the future and it will be here sooner than you think.
1. What will happen when you dress yourself according to the text?A.Your breakfast is ordered and served. | B.E-windows open quickly. |
C.Your favourite songs are played. | D.Your schedule is sent to your boss. |
A.Produced specially. | B.Made in advance. |
C.Mixed similarly. | D.Changed randomly. |
A.Because you did it beforehand. | B.Because you were on the scene. |
C.Because your images are wrapped up. | D.Because your life-sized picture is projected. |
A.Why We Need AI Assistants | B.How Life Will Be in the Future |
C.How AI Helps Us Succeed | D.How AI Does Meaningful Work |
A.Rice fields. | B.Childhood memory. | C.Game playing. |
In the near future, we
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When I was a little boy, I see a science fiction film. It was about the future world, in that the way people lived was so astonished. What made I especially surprised was that they could drive cars in the sky! Since now, I have been curious the future world. Just about 100 years ago, flying in the sky seemed impossible, but now we can travel around a world by plane. With the latest achieve in technology, we can deal with most of our problem. Now we can even pay our bills online. I believe that the future world will become a much more nicer place than what it is.
In the future, we
1. When did the man build the first computer?
A.In junior high school. |
B.In senior high school. |
C.At the university. |
A.In a school. |
B.In a company. |
C.In a store. |
A.Interesting. |
B.Dangerous. |
C.Wonderful. |
A.The making of computers. |
B.The past of computers. |
C.The future of computers. |
7 . We don’t know how different our life will be in the future. We can only try to imagine it.
At first we think about human relationships. In the year 2050, we will use computers almost every day. We will be making new friends through the Internet even our husbands or wives will be met in this way. It will be much faster and easier for us. On the other hand, our relationships with people won’t be as important as they are today -- we will feel a little lonely.
Computers will also help us in many other activities in 2050. For example, they will be used by the children at school to make their learning easier. In addition, there will be much more other machines which will play a similar role as computers, like robots which will do the housework for us.
Spending holidays will also be completely different. Travelling to other planets or to the moon will be available for everyone. Means of transport will, of course, change, too. We will be using solar-powered cars, which will be much more environmentally friendly.
We could expect that the faster technological progress would lead to a more polluted environment. But it isn’t true. We will pay more attention to the environment protection. Scientists will probably find cures for many dangerous diseases, like cancer or AIDS. Therefore, our surroundings as well as our health will be in better condition.
Although we can’t predict the exact changes which will be made in the world, we often think about them. We worry about our and our children’s future; we have expectations, hopes as well as fears. But I think we should be rather sanguine about our future. We should be happy and believe good things will happen.
1. Why will people probably feel a little lonely in 2050?A.The number of people will become much smaller. |
B.There will be less face-to-face communication. |
C.People won’t like making friends with each other. |
D.People won’t communicate with each other much often. |
A.Computers will do all the things for human beings. |
B.How people will use computers to communicate with each other. |
C.Machines like computers and robots will help people a lot. |
D.How people will use robots to do the housework. |
A.Disappointed. | B.Surprised. |
C.Curious. | D.Optimistic. |
A.How people will communicate in the year 2050. |
B.What our life will be like in the year 2050. |
C.How people will travel and spend their holidays in the year 2050. |
D.What high technology will appear in the year 2050. |
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Man has been interesting in robots for quite some time. Scientists is always inventing new and better robots, what will play an important role in our future lives.First, smarter robots will help ourselves do housework. They will take over housework such as preparing meals, washing dishes and sweep the floor. Second, robots are also able do some other work. Third, robots will be our friends. They will not only be good listeners and they will also offer us good advise.In conclusion, robots will be more and much intelligent and will benefit from us in many ways.
From: Diana
To: George
Subject: Plans for the future
Dear George,
It’s great to hear from you. Thanks for the birthday card!
You asked if I have been thinking a lot about the future now that I’m 17. The answer is yes! Things change so quickly, don’t they? I mean, in just a year’s time, I
What are you hoping to do in the future? Tell me about your plans.
Kind regards,
Diana
A.The vision phone had better be shut off. |
B.A convenient life can be enjoyed at home. |
C.People make a smart phone with much ease. |
D.Robots may replace people in the workplace. |