The speed of change is becoming increasingly fast.How should we do to keep up with it？Let’s take deep breath and try to sense the good things the future have to offer.The job areas will be most affected by technological changes. Jobs in farming，coal mining and heavy industry are decreasing when the service industry，the media and information technology are booming up. Without doubts，the number of jobs in IT will multiply.There are also many other important changes take place.The job is getting more and more flexible.Similar，companies will change to be more various.Good communication skills will be extremely importance.New technology is the driving force behind these rapid changes，but don’t get left behind.
2 . What will future schools look like in 100 years? Imagine future schools in which students are totally engaged in a class. They are concentrating on working together to solve real-world problems. They are self-driven and are coming up with amazing ideas on the spot. They are concerned with each other’s well-being as part of a team. Their concerns reach far beyond the classroom to others all over the globe.
The school of the future will be an amazing melting pot of different peoples coming together to solve real-world problems.
Will they even be called “schools” in the future?
The teacher-student relationship is changing. Teachers are acting more as helpers rather than keepers of all knowledge. Students are driving their own education to the path that they feel best fits them. In the future, employers may not be as concerned with a diploma. They’ll look more at cases and examples of how students contribute to solving real-world problems. They’ll want to know how well they work in a team.
What will problem-solving look like in the future?
Information from the Internet is accessible everywhere and at unimaginable speeds. Kids are connected to news around the world in real time. Imagine someone could put out a request to the global community to help solve an issue in their own community! Classes can adopt an issue and work with other classes around the world in real time to create solutions.
What will information look like in the future?
It’s already everywhere. Users can get flooded by the constant flow of information. The need to understand what is true and what is not is important. The flipped classroom (翻转课堂) has already completely changed lecture-based lessons. It presents interesting content to students before they even come to class. They can access the Internet as many times as they want to review the lessons.
1. What is the key message of the first paragraph?| A．The things students will do in the future school. |
| B．The situation where students will be in the future. |
| C．The attention students will pay to in the classroom. |
| D．The methods students will use to study in the classroom. |
| A．Respect. | B．Patience. | C．Teamwork. | D．Concern. |
| A．Teachers encourage students to develop leadership. |
| B．Students are really relaxed with their heavy study. |
| C．The employers value students’ diplomas most. |
| D．Students have the right to choose the most suitable lessons. |
| A．To help students to improve the problem-solving ability. |
| B．To provide the lessons for students to study before or after class. |
| C．To help students to keep in contact with the outside world. |
| D．To help students to understand the most difficult content. |
1. What will life be like in the future?
| A．People will hold online meetings virtually. |
| B．More visits are needed to the doctor. |
| C．A few people will go to an office. |
| A．How tall today's buildings are. |
| B．How different the smartphone would be. |
| C．How the Internet would change our lives. |
| A．Order online. | B．Print at home. | C．Design by ourselves. |
| A．What life will be like in 100 years. |
| B．Where to go on holiday in the future. |
| C．How the 3D technology will help us. |
4 . Over the next decade, technology will decimate more jobs in many professions.
Some robots already cost less to operate than the salaries of the humans they replace, and they are getting cheaper. Boston Consulting Group predicts that, by 2025, the operating cost of a robot that does welding (焊接) will be less than $2 per hour, for example. That’s more affordable than the $25 per hour that a human welder earns today in America.
Uber and many other companies are working on developing cars and trucks that don’t need a driver in the driver’s seat. According to the American Trucking Associations, approximately 3 million truck drivers were employed in the United States in 2010, and 6. 8 million others were employed in other jobs relating to trucking activity. So roughly one of every 15 workers in the country is employed in the trucking business. We could be talking about millions of jobs disappearing in the early 2020s.
And then there is the “Gig Economy (零工经济)” that has some businesses moving toward part-time, on-demand employment. Uber has already done this to taxi drivers, and other technology companies are doing it to a wide range of jobs. A study by Intuit predicted that, by 2020, 40% of American workers will be self-employed, and that full-time jobs will be harder to find. We are talking about 60 million people in this category. The problem is that not only do such part-time workers lack reliable full-time jobs and sick pay, but they can’t enjoy health insurance and longer-term benefits.
The measures to be taken are to raise trade barriers. But closing the doors to foreign trade won’t bring jobs back. It will only slow the global economy and hurt American exports, shrinking the U. S. economy and accelerating job loss.
1. The underlined word “decimate” in Paragraph 1 can be replaced by “______”.| A．make someone interested in | B．equip someone for |
| C．wipe out | D．bring back |
| A．Robots will become smarter and smarter. |
| B．Uber’s labor cost will be lower and lower. |
| C．More and more truck drivers will be needed. |
| D．Taxi drivers can enjoy more health insurance. |
| A．It may be flexible. |
| B．It may offer sick pay. |
| C．It is full of adventure. |
| D．It is always well-paid. |
| A．Welcoming foreign trade. |
| B．Offering more part-time jobs. |
| C．Using fewer robots to stop job loss. |
| D．Developing more new technologies. |
| A．To show technology advances in our daily life. |
| B．To prove technologies cause low incomes. |
| C．To introduce what the Gig Economy is. |
| D．To warn the Gig Economy is coming. |
5 . Can you imagine waking up each day in a house that is
It is a commonly accepted fact that
So, where does this leave the many countries in the world
Inventive architects may have come up with a
6 . Olaf Stapledon wrote a book called First and Last Men, in which he looked millions of years ahead. He told of different men and of strange civilizations, broken up by long “dark ages” in between. In his view, what is called the present time is no more than a moment in human history and we are just the First Men. In 2,000 million years from now there will be the Eighteenth or Last Men.
However, most of our ideas about the future are really very short-sighted. Perhaps we can see some possibilities for the next fifty years. But the next hundred? The next thousand? The next million? That’s much more difficult.
When men and women lived by hunting 50,000 years ago, how could they even begin to picture modern life? Yet to men of 50,000 years from now, we may seem as primitive in our ideas as the Stone-Age hunters do to us. Perhaps they will spend their days gollocking to make new spundels, or struggling with their ballalators through the cribe. These words, which I have just made up, have to stand for things and ideas that we simply can’t think of.
So why bother even to try imaging life far in the future? Here are two reasons. First, unless we remember how short our own lives are compared with the whole human history, we are likely to think our own interests are much more important than they really are. If we make the earth a poor place to live because we are careless or greedy or quarrelsome, our grandchildren will not bother to think of excuses for us.
Second, by trying to escape from present interests and imagine life far in the future, we may arrive at quite fresh ideas that we can use ourselves. For example, if we imagine that in the future men may give up farming, we can think of trying it now. So set you imagination free when you think about the future.
1. A particular mention made of Stapledon’s book in the opening paragraph .| A．serves as a description of human history |
| B．serves an introduction to the discussion |
| C．shows a disagreement of views |
| D．shows a popularity of the book |
| A．human history is extremely long |
| B．life has changed a great deal |
| C．it is useless to plan for the next 50 years |
| D．it is difficult to tell what will happen in the future |
| A．tools used in farming | B．ideas about modern life |
| C．unknown things in the future | D．hunting skills in the Stone Age |
| A．serve the interests of the present and future generations |
| B．enable us to better understand human history |
| C．help us to improve farming |
| D．make life worth living |
What will people die of 100 years from now？-If you think that is a simple question，you have not been paying attention to the revolution that is taking place in bio-technology（生物技术）. With the help of new medicine，the human body will last a very long time. Death will come mainly from accidents，murder and war. Today's leading killers，such as heart diseases，cancer，and aging itself，will become distant memory.
In discussion of technological changes，the Internet gets most of the attention these days. But the change in medicine can be the real technological event of our times. How long can humans live？Human brains were known to decide the final death. Cells（细胞）are the basic units of all living things，and until recently，scientists were sure that the life of cells could not go much beyond 120 years because the basic materials of cells，such as those of brain cells，would not last forever. But the upper limits will be broken by new medicine. Sometime between 2050 and 2100，medicine will have advanced to the point at which every 10 years or so，people will be able to take medicine to repair their organs（器官）. The medicine，made up of the basic building materials of life，will build new brain cells，heart cells，and so on---in much the same way our bodies make new skin cells to take the place of old ones.
It is exciting to imagine that the advance in technology may be changing the most basic conditional human existence，but many technical problems still must be cleared up on the way to this wonderful future.
1. What are the present major killers according to the writer？（no more than 5 words）2. Why are scientists sure that the life of cells cannot go much beyond 120 years？（no more than 10
words）
3. What does the underlined sentence mean in Paragraph 2？（no more than 10 words）
4. How can future humans live longer？（no more than 10 words）
5. If humans can live longer in the future，do you think it is bad or good for the society？And why？（no more than 20 words）
8 . As I enter my 40s, I’ve noticed many of my parents’ generation think social networking is something they are simply unable to understand. They fear that, should they try, they will somehow get it wrong; they will say the wrong thing, do the wrong thing or behave in a way that causes embarrassment. But there are some secrets of social media for them to consider.
Here’s the first secret: everyone feels this way. I recently met a young actor who was complaining that her work demands that she join Microblog, but she always feels like she doesn’t have anything smart to say. It’s the same resistance (抵制). I hear from the older generation, who, however, have somehow believed that age is the barrier (障碍), rather than the differences of personal taste.
Here’s the second secret: everybody uses it for more or less the same reasons. Older generations often sign up to stay in touch with children and relatives. We talk about this kind of communication like it’s some old-fashioned activity, but it is exactly why younger people use social media. The truth is that most people use social media to gently keep an eye on one another, to see how those they care about are doing without needing to ring them up on the phone every night.
And this is the last secret: everyone gets to use them in their own way. Newcomers—younger and older—who worry about “getting it right” are thinking that there’s a right way to get them. But actually there isn’t. Personally, I talk a lot on Microblog. And some people post nothing and they use social media every day as readers. Social media companies would rather see people decorating their networks with pictures and posts, but there’s no rule against being a fly on the wall. It’s also a fine way to get involved.
Were quick to forget that the web wasn’t invented by 13-year-olds; it was created by today’s seniors. I’d never try forcing those with no interest in social networks to use Microblog. But don’t let the talk of age divides put you off. There’s nothing to stop the older generation from joining in the network their own generation created.
1. What’s the author’s purpose of writing this passage?| A．To share with us his personal experience using social media. |
| B．To explain why the old generation don’t use social media. |
| C．To free the old generation from fearing using social media. |
| D．To tell us a few secrets of social media that he discovered. |
| A．people who prefer reading online books |
| B．people who cause trouble to others |
| C．people who post many fancy pictures |
| D．people who simply observe others’ posts |
| A．They believe they may be trapped in embarrassing situations. |
| B．They have no particular interest in social networking. |
| C．They prefer staying in touch with relatives in real life. |
| D．They have no idea which contents to post online. |
A． | B． |
C． | D． |
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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? |
1. What will happen in 2022?
| A．A new space lab will be built. |
| B．The first space hotel will open. |
| C．Astronauts will live in the space hotel. |
| A．Two. | B．Four. | C．Six. |
| A．Cook food. | B．Watch movies. | C．Have a video chat. |
| A．Relaxing. | B．Dangerous. | C．Expensive. |
