1 . Future means a time that is not yet here. It can be a short time from now or a long time from now. Scientists think that many wonderful things may come true in our future life.
Are you wondering whether there’ll be televisions in the future?
What about driving cars in the future? Well, a very small child probably will be able to drive a car. Computer systems will hold each car on the right road to get wherever the “driver” wants to go.
A.What about the food of the future? |
B.In the future, life will be the same as we live today. |
C.People will suffer from serious hunger in the future. |
D.And it probably will be impossible for car accidents to happen. |
E.Now let’s see what the wonders are that may appear in the future. |
F.The future televisions will be totally different from what they are. |
G.But maybe the most wonderful surprise in the future will be weather control. |
2 . Back in 1930, one economist predicted that with technological change and improvements in productivity, we’d only be working 15 hours a week by now. But while working hours have
So when some predicted that automation would create an extra amount of
Besides making us work longer hours from home, COVID-19 bas also
There are
Those whose work falls outside the caring, cleaning or creative field will still work in future, just
A.declined | B.increased | C.continued | D.kept |
A.disagree | B.compete | C.cooperate | D.identify |
A.working | B.tough | C.leisure | D.active |
A.fantasy | B.influence | C.threat | D.impression |
A.joy | B.cash | C.ambition | D.pressure |
A.attend to | B.lead to | C.appeal to | D.add to |
A.Otherwise | B.Still | C.Furthermore | D.Therefore |
A.speeded up | B.followed up | C.prepared for | D.planned for |
A.overwork | B.labour | C.automation | D.science |
A.dreams | B.models | C.expectations | D.exceptions |
A.cause | B.cease | C.survive | D.undergo |
A.caring | B.cleaning | C.curing | D.coaching |
A.assist | B.exist | C.believe | D.understand |
A.hardly | B.differently | C.unfortunately | D.probably |
A.lost | B.recovered | C.substituted | D.created |
1.规划内容;2.规划理由;3.实现途径。
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My Plan for the Future
My senior year is coming to an end. It is high time for me to think about my future plan.
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Have you ever forgotten to lock the door of your house or switch off the TV? These kinds of things often happen to us,
Your home will learn your daily routine and
This smart technology is not
5 . Our future selves used to be a riddle. Now, thanks to social media filters (滤镜), we can stare them right in the face. People fell in love with TikTok this month to share themselves “aging” in real time using a filter “time travel”. Set to a sad song, the effect shows the user’s face slowly getting older, complete with wrinkles (皱纹) and sunspots.
Camera filters that age you have been around for years. But advancements in AI are making the results more real. Doctor Aleksandra Brown said the TikTok time travel filter does well in guessing how a given face would age.
As we get older, our facial skin thins, fat dissolves (溶解) and gravity pulls everything downward. Not everyone is pleased about this. One of Brown’s friends didn’t like watching time fly past. She couldn’t stand watching herself age 50 years in 15 seconds-could life really go by that fast? Brown cried herself after using the aging effect on her own young daughter. She won’t live to see her daughter get that old, she pointed out.
For other people, the time travel filter brought up unexpected positive feelings. Actor Jonathan Bennett shared a video saying his own filtered face recalled happy memories of his late father. Nicole Loehle, a 24-year-old in New Jersey, tested the effect with her boyfriend. It gave her a new viewpoint, she said, she could imagine the relationship lasting into their old age.
There’s no correct way to age. But it’s important to remember that no one can stop time or undo its effects. “I keep trying to view aging as a gift.” Brown said, “Some people don’t get to age, unfortunately?”
1. What can people do with the filter “time travel”?A.Find their partners. | B.See their aging faces. |
C.Experience others’ lives. | D.Guess their future success. |
A.Reminders of the good old days. | B.Reasons for using the aging effect. |
C.Reflections on close personal relationships. | D.Responses to the aging effect of “time travel”. |
A.It’s good to watch time fly past. | B.The “time travel” needs advancements. |
C.Not everyone is fortunate enough to get old. | D.TickTok invented the first app with aging effect. |
A.TikTok’s “time travel”: slowly or quickly | B.TikTok’s “time travel”: backward or forward |
C.TikTok’s “time travel”: to enjoy or to suffer | D.TikTok’s “time travel”: to develop or to drop |
1.简要介绍AI(应用、影响等);
2.你认为未来人们该如何与AI共存。
注意:
1.词数80左右;
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Thanks for your listening!
1. 写信目的;
2. 你未来的职业和工作内容(与未来科技相关),如机器人设计师、发明家或新时代医生等;
3. 简短地给现在的自己建议与寄语。
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Dear Me,
I’m YOU in 10 years!
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Best regards!
Me in 10 years
1.设想一下未来地球的自然环境展望;
2.解释原因。
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Our Environment in the Future
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9 . One day, you might be ordering your favorite pizza from a robot.Researchers at a university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, are working on creating a pizza-making robot.
“Robots are basically preprogrammed to repeat the same actions over and over,” says David Held, a robot expert from Carnegie Mellon University, and one of the members of a pizza-making team.But making pizza has challenges.For instance, the flour (面粉) will become squishy when meeting water, with a shape that can change in many ways.Also, pizza-making requires many steps—such as rolling and cutting—and several tools, including a rolling, a knife and so on.In what order should the steps be done? Which tools should be picked, and when? “If you need to do a cooking task, there are several levels that you have to reason about,” Held says.Once people get the hang of it, “We don’t even need to think about exactly how we’re doing it- it sort of just happens.But robots can’t really “understand what to do on their own”.
To start, the team used a computer to consider how a robot could lift, fatten, gather, move and cut dough (生面团).The method has two levels of robotic reasoning: one that thinks how it should approach the overall task, and the other that thinks how it should move its “hands” to perform each action.The result was better than with the usual programming techniques.“We got a little bit closer to the right shape than the former methods,” Held says.“‘But there’s still a lot of room for improvement.”
For now, people will continue to make pizza the old-fashioned way: with their own hands.Sill, a pizza-making robot is a good goal.And if a robot could deal with dough, it could also work with other objects that can change shapes.“You can imagine robots helping in hospitals, or robots that clean up toys in day cares,” Held says.“The general goal is to eventually have robots that can help with whatever the task may be.”
1. What does the underlined word “squishy” in paragraph 2 mean?A.Soft. | B.Dirty. | C.Plain. | D.Precious. |
A.Separating flour from water. |
B.Doing all the steps in order. |
C.Using several tools at once. |
D.Repeating the same actions. |
A.Methods of moving a pizza. |
B.Problems with pizza making. |
C.Improvements to the pizza robot. |
D.Suggestions on how to make pizza. |
A.They will help humans in different fields. |
B.They will replace humans to do all the work. |
C.They will do better than humans in day cares. |
D.They will do whatever task as well as humans. |
I still remember last winter, when I