1 . 亲爱的同学们，2023 如约而至。金虎辞旧，玉兔迎新。请尽情畅想一下自 己三年后的生活吧!
注意：1.词数 100 左右。
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯;
3.开头语已经为你写好，不计入总词数。
I often imagine what my life will be like in three years.
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2 . Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
假设你是浦润中学高三学生李青，你校校刊上的“展望未来”栏目正在征文，请以“50年后的学校”为题写一篇文章投稿。你的稿件必须包括：
描述50年后的学校里的一个场景；谈谈现在的你置身其中的感受。
(注：文中不得出现真实的姓名及学校名称。)
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3 . Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words in the box. What do you think of the problem mentioned in the passage?

available       critical        innovation        integrate potential        prediction       prospect          remote

There are many    1     about what the future will be like, but no one really knows for sure. We do know that there will be many new     2    in technology, though. These new advances will make thousands of new products    3     that no one has yet even thought about. With this, however, there is a     4    new problem which we do not have now: the gap between the technologically rich and the technologically poor. Not everyone may have the money to    5     new technology into their lives, and some people living in    6     areas may not have access to     7    new technology. In light of such    8    , many people are already working hard to make new technology cheaper and easier to buy so that everyone might benefit from it.

4 . Up until a few decades ago, our visions of the future were largely—though by no means uniformly—glowingly positive. Science and technology would cure all the ills of humanity, leading to lives of fulfillment and opportunity for all.

Now utopia has grown unfashionable, as we have gained a deeper appreciation of the range of threats facing us, from asteroid strike to epidemic flu and to climate change. You might even be tempted to assume that humanity has little future to look forward to.

But such gloominess is misplaced. The fossil record shows that many species have endured for millions of years—so why shouldn’t we? Take a 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. Look up homo sapiens (智人) in the “Red List” of threatened species of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and you will read: “Listed as Least Concern as the species is very widely distributed, currently increasing, and there are no major threats resulting in an overall population decline.”

So what does our deep future hold? A growing number of researchers and institutions are now thinking seriously about that question. For example, the Long Now Foundation has its flagship project a mechanical clock that is designed to still be marking time thousands of years hence.

Perhaps willfully, it may be easier to think about such lengthy timescales than about the more immediate future. The potential evolution of today’s technology, and its social consequences, is dazzlingly complicated, and it’s perhaps best left to science fiction writers and futurologists to explore the many possibilities we can conceive (构想). 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 descendants (后代) will find themselves.

This long perspective makes the pessimistic view of our prospects seem more likely to be a passing fad (狂热). 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 improve the lot of those to come.

1. Our vision of the future used to be influenced by ________.

A．our desire for lives of fulfillment	B．our faith in science and technology
C．our awareness of potential risks	D．our belief in equal opportunity

2. The IUCN’s “Red List” suggests that human beings are ________.

A．a sustained species	B．a misplaced race
C．a threat to the environment	D．the world’s dominant power

3. What can we learn from Paragraph 5?

A．Arc helps limit the scope of futurological studies.

B．Technology offers solutions to social problem.

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

D．Our immediate future is hard to imagine.

4. To ensure the future of mankind, it is crucial to ________.

A．explore our planet’s abundant resources	B．adopt an optimistic view of the world
C．draw on our experience from the past	D．control our ambition to reshape history

7 . 你校英语俱乐部将举办主题为“未来的新型城市”的英语沙龙活动。请根据下列要点，发挥自己的想象力，用英语写一篇发言稿。
1. 新型城市产生的原因;
2. 新型城市的运作模式。
注意：1. 词数100左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯;
3. 开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数。

Good morning, everyone. I’m glad to share my view on “the new city in the future”.

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Thank you!

8 . Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize in no more than 60 words the main idea of the passage and how it is illustrated. Use your own words as far as possible.

English in the Third Millennium

Two thousand years ago English did not exist. A thousand years ago it was a language used by less than two million people. Now it is the most influential language in the world spoken by more than a billion people on the planet, as their first second or third language. English currently dominates science, business, the mass media and popular culture. For example, 80% of emails on the Internet are in English. But where will English be at the end of the third millennium?

One view is that English is going to become even more important as a global language dominating the world’s trade and media while most other languages will become localized or just die out. At present over half the world’s 6500 languages are in danger of extinction. Another view is that English is already breaking up, as Latin did into several languages. There are already dictionaries of the 'New Englishes’ such as Australian English full of words that a British English speaker would not recognize.

Hopefully, neither of these things will happen. Although different varieties of English will continue to develop around the world, standard English will survive for international communication. In addition, the frightening prospect of a culturally uniform world totally dominated by one language is impossible. Already, other languages are fighting back against the iron grip of English on the Net. Governments around the world are also starting to protect smaller languages and recognize the importance of cultural and linguistic diversity. English will probably stay in control for a long time, at least while the USA remains the top superpower, but it definitely won’t become the only language in the world

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9 . 假定你是李华，某英文报社正在举行题为“科技改变我们的未来生活”的征文活动，要求同学们想象科技将如何改变我们的生活环境、工作和休闲方式，请根据你的畅想用英语写一篇短文。
注意：1.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
2.词数120左右。
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