1 . 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.

2 . Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.

Search for a Human Face for Robots

Looking for a $130,000 payday? Geomiq, a British engineering and manufacturing firm is searching for a “kind and friendly” face to be the face of a robot once it goes into production. “This will entail（需要）the selected person’s face being reproduced on potentially thousands of versions of the robots worldwide,” Geomiq says in a blog post about the project.

Robots have been at the forefront of technology for decades, and are widely considered the future of our technological advancement. With the number of adults over 85 expected to triple by 2050, according to some estimates, robots designed to keep the elderly company are becoming increasingly common.     1    

They do things like responding to voice commands, offering proactive（积极主动的）notifications and advice and letting relatives monitor conditions at home. There is still a long way to go but new robotic products are coming into fruition all the time. Geomiq says the robot line has been in the works for five years and will result in a companion for seniors.

The designer has noted in an interview with a select press pool that they can’t release too many details at this stage.     2     The designer has also stressed that unsuccessful candidates will not be contacted. The company says the need for anonymity（匿名）is due to the secretive nature of the project. However, it believes the robot will soon be “readily available” to the public and hopes the campaign will create extra buzz ahead of its eventual release. “We know that this is an extremely unique request, and signing over the licenses to your face is potentially an extremely big decision,” Geomiq said.

    3     The designer has said that the project has been in development for five years, and in that time frame taken on investment from some independent venture capitals as well as a top fund based in Shanghai. the company says the robots’ purpose will be to act as a “virtual friend” for elderly people and is set to go into production next year.

The blog past doesn’t share age or gender parameters（参数）.     4     Candidates who make it to the next phase will get full details on the project. “The secrecy,” Geomiq says, “is due to non-disclosure agreement it’s signed with the robot’s designer and investors.”

A．A technology company wants to buy the rights to use someone’s face for its robots.

B．It just asks people who want to license their face to submit a photo via email for     the chance at $130,000.

C．It is a once - in - a - while opportunity for the right person.

D．They also serve a practical purpose.

E．The company is privately - funded.

F．However, ideal candidates will be given the specifics of the project.

3 . 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.

4 . What will man be like in the future--in 5000 or even 50,000 years from now? We can only make guesses, of course, but we can be sure that he will be different from what he is today, for man is slowly changing all the time.

Let us take an obvious example, Man, even five hundred years ago, was shorter than he is today. Now, on average, men are about three inches taller. Five hundred years is a relatively short period of time, so we may assume that man will continue to grow taller. Again, in the modern world we use our brains a great deal. Even so, we still make use of only about 20% of the brain’s capacity. As time goes on, however, we shall have to use our brains more and more, and eventually we shall need larger ones! This is likely to bring about a physical change too: the head, in particular the forehead, will grow larger.

Nowadays our eyes are in constant use. In fact, we use them so much that very often they become weaker and we have to wear glasses. But over a very long period of time it is likely that man's eyes will grow stronger.

On the other hand, we tend to make less use of our arms and legs. These, as a result, are likely to grow weaker. At the same time, however, our fingers will grow more sensitive because they are used a great deal in modern life.

But what about hair? This will probably disappear from the body altogether in course of time because it does not serve a useful purpose any longer. In the future, then, both sexes are likely to be bald (光秃的).

Perhaps all this gives the impression that future man will not be a very attractive creature to look at! This may well be true. But in spite of all these changes, future man will still have a lot in common with us. He will still be a human being, with thoughts and emotions similar to our own.

1. The passage mainly tells us that ________.

A．humans needn't wear glasses in the future.

B．man's life will be different in the future.

C．future man will look quite different from us.

D．man is growing taller and uglier as time passes.

2. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

A．future life is always predictable (可预测的)

B．human beings will become less attractive in the future

C．less use of a bodily organ (器官) may lead to its degeneration (退化)

D．human beings hope for a change in the future life

3. Future man will be similar to us in ________.

A．Colour and height	B．size and appearance
C．thought and observation	D．thought and emotion

5 . Directions:Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
最近，在一本英文旅游杂志上刊登了国际空间站(TSS-- International Space Station)将在2020年对游客开放的信息（见下表)。如果有可能（具备足够的时间和金钱)，你是否会去争取成为第一批游客。请谈谈你的理由。
Information About the Trip to ISS
Number of visitors 2 every year
Length of stay 30 days (at most)
Cost $ 27000 per night (stay)
$ 40 million (transport)
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6 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

How Much of the Jetsons' World Has Become a Reality?

For most of our readers, The Jetsons may be an unfamiliar name. However, for many Americans born in or before the 1980s, it is a name we fondly remember. The Jestsons was a popular cartoon that featured a family living in an advanced world     1    people settle in houses built in the sky, work only three days a week and drive flying cars that resemble flying saucers. While sky-high houses and three-day workweeks don’t appear to be on the horizon, other visions of the future     2    (turn) into practical realities.

Flying cars have been on the minds of scientists and inventors for decades. They are part of a typical imaging of the future fast-paced and luxurious,     3    (allow) us to speed through the skies. As     4     (see) in The Sky’s No longer the Limit, this flight of fancy may soon be a reality in Dubai. Aiming     5     (become) the world’s most advanced city, Dubai is currently testing the first-ever flying taxi.

    6     money still exists in its current cash-based form in The Jetsons, people today are looking toward a world where even cash is out-of-date. Bitcoin is a type of digital money that has taken the world by storm. Since its introduction, the money’s price     7     (increase) to rates as high as US$ 19,000. This, however, may not predict well for the future of digital currency, as experts warn that Bitcoin is a bubble and     8     crash soon. It’s possible that some dreams of the future may still be     9     our reach.

Other more probable technologies already exist, for example, future flying eye hospitals in A Hospital with Wings, unusual-engineered folding paper in Clever Folding and the population of endangered corals(珊瑚) in Lab-Bred Coral to the Rescue, etc. All these show     10    humans are already capable of. So, what else could the future have in store for us?

7 . The European Space Agency(ESP) wants to build a village on the moon, said Woerner, the head of the agency, in a video interview posted on its website on March 21.

“I would like to build a base station on the moon, meaning that it’s an open station...for different states around the globe,” Woerner said to Euronews. He said the village could replace the International Space Station(ISS) in the future, which will be ended in 2024. In December Nexgen Space, a consultant(咨询) company for NASA, said that a lunar refueling station could “reduce the cost to NASA of sending humans to Mars by as much as $10 billion per year.”

According to the ESA’s plan, starting from the early 2020s, robots will be sent to the moon to begin building different facilities(设备), followed a few years later by the first humans to live there. Instead of bringing expensive resources from Earth, the moon’s natural resources like metal and frozen water could be used to build the village.

Having a lunar base could be challenging because of space radiation(辐射), meteorite(陨石) and extreme temperatures from 123℃ to 153℃, according to CNN. But Woerner said these risks could be made smaller by choosing the right locations on the moon.

“If we go into the shadow on the moon, we’ll have places where we don’t have the radiation... At the South Pole, we can find water,” he said.

Right now, the moon village is just an idea. But as the BBC said, there is a growing interest in returning to the moon and the idea will be taken seriously.

“Inside all of us there is something that goes beyond being practical,” Woerner said. “We like to discover. This is humankind and this is what brings us into the future.”

1. What is most likely to happen after robots finish building different facilities?

A．Humans will be sent to Mars.

B．Humans will be sent to live on the Moon.

C．Expensive resources will be sent to the moon.

D．International Space Station(ISS) will be ended.

2. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT a risk for living on the moon?

A．It is too hot to live there.

B．There is too much radiation.

C．It’s too far away from the earth.

D．There may be rocks landing from outer space.

3. Based on the last paragraph, what may be the reason for humans to build a moon village?

A．Humans are very practical.

B．Humans want to experience the future.

C．Humans don’t like to stay in the same place.

D．Humans are nature-born to explore the unknown.

4. Which of the following best describes the purpose of this passage?

A．To inform.

B．To analyze.

C．To persuade.

D．To criticize.

8 . Directions: after reading the passage below, fill in blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; For the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Could we have zero deaths on our roads?

Cars that can think for themselves have clear advantages     1     flesh-and-blood drivers. They don’t get drunk or drowsy, daydream or get distracted by mobile phones.

Human error causes over 90 percent of these collisions. Driverless cars, which     2     sense other vehicles on the road as well as obstacles and lane markings(车道标记), are already proving much safer than human-driven cars. In trials of Google’s autonomous Prius fleet in Silicon Valley in California, the only accidents     3    (cause) by human error. How are innovations like these designed? And how safe is it    4     (put) your life in the hands of an autonomous vehicle that makes all your decisions for you?

Driverless cars use a mix of GPS, cameras, complex scanners and sensors to detect vehicles, traffic signals, curbs, pedestrians and    5     obstacles. “A central computer system analyzes the data to control acceleration, steering and braking,” says Olivier Sappin, VP of Transportation & Mobility at Dassault Systèmes—the software company whose 3D EXPERIENCE platform and industry solutions are used by motor manufacturers to design, produce and maintain driverless cars. The software can simulate different eventualities(可能发生的事情) to ensure safety on the road—and the results can be incorporated （被包含）into the design and production process.

As well as     6    (detect) their surroundings using ultra-sophisticated mapping systems, future cars will be able to communicate with each other,     7    (allow) as many cars as possible to fit on the roads.    8     (connect) vehicles will feature safety warnings that alert drivers of potentially dangerous conditions—impending(迫在眉睫的) collisions, icy roads and dangerous curves.

Experts say it’s not the technology holding us back, but legal and practical issues such as who is responsible in the case of an accident, urban planning and the security of car computer systems.     9     these details are worked out, and motor manufacturers have used sophisticated software tools to eliminate all potential problems, it won’t be long     10    we’re all a lot safer on the roads.

9 . 文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在此处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出修改的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在其下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从十一处起）不计分。

I often imagine what I will be in the future. I desire to work as a computer program designer, for I am crazy about designing computer programs and had won first prize in software designing contests three time. Besides, I find it excited to work out a program for which is beneficial to our life. What makes us satisfied with this job is because it will provide me with flexible time. As result, I can spare time to keeping my family company. No matter how hardly it is, I will ever give up halfway.

10 . When he was a kid, Alex Vardakostas began working in the grill (烧烤店) alongside adult employees. He estimates he has cooked 50,000 burgers (汉堡包).

Now, Vardakostas co-owns a burger joint called Creator, in San Francisco, California. But he doesn’t stand over a grill flipping burgers, and neither do his employees. At Creator, burgers are cooked and assembled entirely by machine. And because it costs less to maintain the machine than to pay a kitchen’s worth of employees, burgers cost less.

Creator is just one example of a growing phenomenon: Automation is taking over more and more jobs. That means work is done by machines or computers instead of people.

According to a report from McKinsey Global Institute, about 800 million people could be forced out of their jobs by 2030, McKinsey predicts that as technology improves, some tasks will be done more quickly or cheaply by machine, so businesses will install robots or computer programs to perform them.

Some jobs are more likely to be automated than others. Machines can do jobs that have three characteristics: They are routine, repetitive, and predictable. Some of these jobs pay low wages and require little education. But others pay well and demand an advanced college degree. Taxi drivers, cashiers, lawyers, and doctors all perform some tasks that can be done by machines.

So what jobs are safe from automation? Answers include coming up with new ideas or work that involves interacting with other people and building relationships, Jobs in engineering, science, the arts,therapy, and nursing are examples.

At Creator, Vardakostas hired people to do just that kind of work. Instead of repetitive burger prepping, workers interact with customers and advise them on flavor pairings, like mushroom sauce with pickles and onion jam. “In our world at Creator, all the work is creative and social,” Vardakostas says. “And I think that is what we’re going to see more of the future.”

1. What’s the difference between Creator and a traditional restaurant?

A．There is neither worker nor waiters at Creator at all.

B．The price of burgers at Creator is higher than that of a traditional one.

C．The number of owners of Creator is larger than that of a traditional one.

D．Some work is done by machines instead of humans at Creator.

2. What does the report from McKinsey Global Institute predict?

A．More working opportunities have to be created.

B．More cheap machines will be invented.

C．A lot of people will lose their jobs.

D．Humans will have difficulty in running business.

3. Why does the author mention Creator?

A．To introduce the topic of the text.

B．To increase the plot of the story.

C．To introduce a modern restaurant.

D．To make an advertisement for Vardakostas.