1 . When I was a boy growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s, we had a milkman delivering milk to our doorstep. His name was Mr. Basille. He wore a white cap and drove a white truck. As a 5-year-old boy, I couldn’t take my eyes off the coin changer fixed to his belt. He noticed this one day during a delivery and gave me a quarter out of his coin changer.
Of course, he delivered more than milk. There was cheese, eggs and so on. If we needed to change our order, my mother would pen a note — “Please add a bottle of buttermilk next delivery” — and place it in the box along with the empty bottles. And then, the buttermilk would magically (魔术般) appear.
All of this was about more than convenience. There existed a close relationship between families and their milkmen. Mr. Basille even had a key to our house, for those times when it was so cold outside that we put the box indoors, so that the milk wouldn’t freeze. And I remember Mr. Basille from time to time taking a break at our kitchen table, having a cup of tea and telling stories about his delivery.
There is sadly no home milk delivery today. Big companies allowed the production of cheaper milk, thus making it difficult for milkmen to compete. Besides, milk is for sale everywhere, and it may just not have been practical to have a delivery service.
Recently, an old milk box in the countryside I saw brought back my childhood memories. I took it home and planted it on the back porch (门廊) . Every so often my son’s friends will ask what it is. So I start telling stories of my boyhood, and of the milkman who brought us friendship along with his milk.
1. Mr. Basille gave the boy a quarter out of his coin changer to __________.A.show his magical power | B.pay for the delivery |
C.satisfy his curiosity | D.please his mother |
A.He wanted to have tea there. | B.He was a respectable person. |
C.He was treated as a family member. | D.He was fully trusted by the family. |
A.Nobody wants to be a milkman now. | B.It has been driven out of the market. |
C.Its service is getting poor. | D.It is not allowed by law. |
A.He missed the good old days. | B.He wanted to tell interesting stories. |
C.He needed it for his milk bottles. | D.He planted flowers in it. |
2 . Holding the large and heavy “brick” cellphone he’s credited with inventing 50 years ago,Martin Cooper talks about the future.
Little did he know when he made the first call on a New York City street from a heavy Motorola prototype(原型)that our world would come to be encapsulated on a sleek glass sheath where we search,connect,like and buy.
Cooper says he is an optimist. He believes that advances in mobile technology will continue to transform lives but he is worried about risks smartphones pose to privacy and young people.
“My most negative opinion is we don’t have any privacy anymore because everything about us is now recorded someplace and accessible to somebody who has enough intense desire to get it,” the 94-year-old said in an interview in Barcelona at MWC, the Mobile World Congress, the world’s biggest wireless trade show, where he was getting a lifetime award.
Cooper sees a dark side to the advances, including the risk to children. One idea, he said, is to have“various Internets intended for different audiences.”
Cooper made the first public call from a handheld portable telephone on a Manhattan street on April 3,1973,using a prototype device his team at Motorola had started designing just five months earlier.
Cooper used the Dyna-TAC phone to famously call his opponent at Bell Labs, owned by AT&T. It was literally the world’s first brick phone,weighing 2.5 pounds and measuring 11 inches.
Cooper spent the best part of the next decade working to bring a commercial version of the device to market.
The call helped kick-start the cellphone revolution (革命).
Cooper said he’s “not crazy” about the shape of modern smartphones. He thinks they will develop so that they’ll be “distributed on your body,” possibly as sensors“measuring your health at all times.”
Batteries, he said, might be replaced by human energy.The body makes energy from food,he argues, so it could possibly also power a phone.Instead of holding the phone in the hand, for example, the device could be placed under the skin.
1. What does the underlined part “a sleek glass sheath” in paragraph 2 refer to?A.A smartphone. | B.A Motorola prototype. |
C.A “brick” cellphone. | D.An original cellphone. |
A.Most negative. | B.Very subjective. |
C.Doubtful and Disapproving. | D.Optimistic but also concerned. |
A.They should be provided with a different Internet from adults. |
B.They should have easy access to various Internets. |
C.They should be introduced to different audiences. |
D.They should use various Internets for learning materials. |
A.By body sensors. | B.By human body. |
C.By solar energy. | D.By advanced batteries. |
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5 . Japanese automaker Toyota has announced its “Woven City” plan, which aims to create a “smart city of the future". It will be a “living laboratory” for technologies including self-driving systems, high-speed internet connectivity to link major information and communication systems.
The main streets in Woven City will be divided for different purposes. One part will be used for faster vehicle traffic. Another will be designed for people riding bicycles. The third part will be used for walking. To move people through the city, only fully-autonomous, zero emission Toyota vehicles will be allowed on the roads. In and throughout Woven City, Toyota e-Palettes will be used for transportation and deliveries.
The city will be fully sustainable(可持续的),with buildings made mostly of wood to cut carbon footprint to the minimum. The rooftops will be covered with solar panels to produce power in addition to power produced by H2 fuel cells. Houses will be equipped with the latest AI technologies, such as in-home robotics to assist with daily work and to check people' s health, Both neighborhood parks and a large central park for recreation and social gatherings are designed to bring the people together.
Toyota plans to populate the city with Toyota Motor Corporation employees and their families, visiting scientists and industry partners. The plan is for 2, 000 people to start, adding more as the ;project develops.
“Building a complete city from scratch, even in a small size like this, is a unique chance to develop future technologies. With people, buildings and vehicles all connected and communicating with each other through sensors, we will be able to test connected AI technology in both the virtual(虚拟的) and the physical areas to maximize its potential,” said Akio Toyoda,president of Toyota Motor Corporation.
Experts say smart cities, like Toyota's“Woven City”,will greatly improve our living conditions.
1. What is the “e-Palette” in paragraph 2?A.An intelligent robot, | B.A driverless car. |
C.An autonomous bike. | D.A slow vehicle. |
A.All the houses are built with wood only. | B.Only Toyota workers live there. |
C.It is designed to hold 2,000 people, | D.Just green power is used in the city. |
A.He is not satisfied with the small size of the city. |
B.It is difficult to build a complete city of the future. |
C.The city is a good platform to test future technologies. |
D.Toyota is committed to improving the living conditions. |
A.What Does a “City of the Future" Look Like? |
B.Can Toyota's Woven City Become a Reality? |
C.Toyota's Plan for a “City of the Future" |
D.New Technologies for Future Cities |
6 . In 2017,the United Arab Emirates announced its ambition to colonize Mars within the next 100 years. But architects are already imagining what a Martian city might look like-and planning to recreate it in the desert outside Dubai.
Mars Science City was originally scheduled to cover 176,000 square meters of desert-the size of more than 30 football fields-and cost approximately 135 million dollars. To create a space for Dubai's Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) to develop the technology needed to colonize Mars,architects Bjarke Ingels Group were asked to design a prototype of a city suitable for sustaining life on Mars-and then adapt it for use in the Emirati desert.
For this unique commission,the architects first had to overcome the immense challenges of creating a design to make the severe environment of Mars habitable. Mars has a thin atmosphere and no global magnetic field,so there's little protection from harmful radiation. Temperature is another problem-the average on Mars is a chilly 63 degrees C. The thin atmosphere also means there's little air pressure,so liquids quickly evaporate into gas; despite freezing temperatures,an unprotected human's blood would boil on Mars.But according to Jonathan Eastwood,director of the Space Lab at Imperial College London,the biggest challenge in terms of a sustained presence on Mars is not the engineering or scientific challenge,but the human and personal one.More researches need to be done to test the effects of isolation on mental and physical health of astronauts.
The MBRSC hopes that,in future,such research could take place in Mars Science City.This is going to be our platform where we can develop the science and the technology that will help us in our future missions to Mars,said Adnan AlRais,Mars 27 Program Manager at MBRSC."We want to come up with a totally new facility that will help the international community.”
1. What information can you get about the Martian city?A.It is planned to be completed in the next 100 years. |
B.It occupies more than 30 football fields of Dubai. |
C.It has been put into use in the desert outside Dubai. |
D.It serves as a prototype for sustaining life on Mars. |
A.A thin atmosphere exposes people to harmful radiation. |
B.High temperature makes unprotected human's blood boil. |
C.Little air pressure causes liquid to turn into gas quickly. |
D.A long period of isolation may affect physical health. |
A.Positive | B.objective | C.critical | D.skeptical |
A.The research on the effects of living on Mars. |
B.A Martian city designed for the desert outside Dubai. |
C.The United Arab Emirates' ambition to colonize Mars. |
D.The challenges of surviving the inhabitable environment of Mars. |
7 . Do you want to live another 100 years or more?Some experts say that scientific advances will one day enable humans to last tens of years beyond what is now seen as the natural limit of the human life span.
“I think we are knocking at the door of immortality(永生),”said Michael Zey,a Montclair State University business professor and author of two books on the future. “I think by 2075 we will see it and that's a conservative estimate(保守的估计).”
At the conference in San Francisco,Donald Louria,a professor at New Jersey Medical School in Newark said advances in using genes as well as nano technology(纳米技术)make it likely that humans will live in the future beyond what has been possible in the past. “There is a great push so that people can live from 120 to 180 years,” he said. “Some have suggested that there is no limit and that people could live to 200 or 300 or 500 years.”
However, many scientists who specialize in aging are doubtful about it and say the human body is just not designed to last past about 120 years. Even with healthier lifestyles and less diseases, they say failure of the brain and organs will finally lead all humans to death.
Scientists also differ on what kind of life the super aged might live." It remains to be seen if you pass 120, you know; could you be healthy enough to have good quality of life?" said Leonard Poon,director of the University of Georgia Gerontology Centre." At present people who could get to that point are not in good health at all."
1. By saying “we are knocking at the door of immortality”, what does Michael Zey mean?A.they believe that there is no limit of living |
B.they are sure to find the truth about long living |
C.they have got some ideas about living forever |
D.they are able to make people live past the present life span |
A.people can live from 120 to 180 years |
B.it is still doubtful how long humans can live |
C.the human body is designed to last past about 120 years |
D.it is possible for humans to live longer in the future |
A.a great push | B.the idea of living from 200 to 300 years |
C.the idea of living beyond the present life span | D.the conservative estimate |
A.Living Longer or Not | B.Science,Technology and Long Living |
C.Healthy Lifestyle and Long Living | D.No Limit for Human Life |
1. 你理想的职业;
2. 你相关的优势;
3. 你将如何实现你的理想。
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Human beings has been interested in robots for quite some time. Scientists are always inventing new and better robots, that will play an important role in our future lives.
First, smarter robots will help us for the housework. They will take over jobs such as preparing meals, washing dishes, and sweep the floor. So we will have much free time to have a fun than before. Second, robots will be helpful for our work. They will do all the heavy and dangerous work, and help out in hospitals, schools and offices. Third, robots will be your friends. Whenever we felt sad, lonely or upset, we can have a chat with a robot. Robots will not only be good listeners but they will also offer us good advices.
In conclusion, robots will be more and more intelligent and we will benefit it in many ways.