1 . We don’t know how different our life will be in the future. We can only try to imagine it.

At first we think about human relationships. In the year 2050, we will use computers almost every day. We will be making new friends through the Internet even our husbands or wives will be met in this way. It will be much faster and easier for us. On the other hand, our relationships with people won’t be as important as they are today -- we will feel a little lonely.

Computers will also help us in many other activities in 2050. For example, they will be used by the children at school to make their learning easier. In addition, there will be much more other machines which will play a similar role as computers, like robots which will do the housework for us.

Spending holidays will also be completely different. Travelling to other planets or to the moon will be available for everyone. Means of transport will, of course, change, too. We will be using solar-powered cars, which will be much more environmentally friendly.

We could expect that the faster technological progress would lead to a more polluted environment. But it isn’t true. We will pay more attention to the environment protection. Scientists will probably find cures for many dangerous diseases, like cancer or AIDS. Therefore, our surroundings as well as our health will be in better condition.

Although we can’t predict the exact changes which will be made in the world, we often think about them. We worry about our and our children’s future; we have expectations, hopes as well as fears. But I think we should be rather sanguine about our future. We should be happy and believe good things will happen.

1. Why will people probably feel a little lonely in 2050?

A．The number of people will become much smaller.

B．There will be less face-to-face communication.

C．People won’t like making friends with each other.

D．People won’t communicate with each other much often.

2. What does paragraph 3 mainly tell us?

A．Computers will do all the things for human beings.

B．How people will use computers to communicate with each other.

C．Machines like computers and robots will help people a lot.

D．How people will use robots to do the housework.

3. What does the underlined word “ sanguine” in the last paragraph most probably mean?

A．Disappointed.	B．Surprised.
C．Curious.	D．Optimistic.

4. What does the text mainly talk about?

A．How people will communicate in the year 2050.

B．What our life will be like in the year 2050.

C．How people will travel and spend their holidays in the year 2050.

D．What high technology will appear in the year 2050.

3 . 2050 seems a long way away, but it is not impossible to predict the future though. With the speed we are moving now so many amazing things are going to happen in the future. So where is technology going in the future?     1    .

◇The Internet will be free for everyone.

The Internet is really a key driver these days. But it is not free for everyone yet. There have already been attempts like Facebook’s Free Basics.     2    , there is a very strong possibility that the Internet will be free for everyone in the future.

◇Personal airplanes will be used widely for short journeys.

With the increasing population, it is not very hard to predict that common methods of transportation will not be enough.     3    , so in this case personal airplanes will be a handy method of transportation for common people. Of course, there will be proper air traffic control for these personal airplanes.

◇Most cancers will be treated successfully.

    4    . It will be a huge achievement in the history of medical science. Many studies are already showing a trend (趋势) towards this.

◇    5     .

There will be great achievements in space research. In the year 2050, humans will be able to live on Mars. We will receive more intelligent signals from space. Chances are we will be able to find the next Earth — like planet.

A．Though it hasn’t happened yet

B．Let’s start our predictions

C．The world’s population will cross 9. 6 billion

D．What do you think of my predictions of 2050

E．Humans will live on other planets

F．There will be much heavier traffic on the road

G．The number of deaths caused by cancers will be greatly reduced

4 . 假如英语课上老师要求同学们交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处错误。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

When I am a little boy, I saw a science fiction film. It was about the future world, in that the way people lived was so astonished. What made I especially surprised was that they could drive cars in the sky! Since then, I have been curious the future world. Just about 100 year ago, flying in the sky seemed impossible, but now we can travel around a world by plane. With the latest achieve in technology, we can deal with most of our problems. Now we can even pays our bills online. I believe that the future world will become a much more nicer place than what it is.

5 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(/\)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词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(从第11处起)不计分。

Man has been interesting in robots for quite some time. Scientists is always inventing new and better robots, what will play an important role in our future lives.First, smarter robots will help ourselves do housework. They will take over housework such as preparing meals, washing dishes and sweep the floor. Second, robots are also able do some other work. Third, robots will be our friends. They will not only be good listeners and they will also offer us good advise.In conclusion, robots will be more and much intelligent and will benefit from us in many ways.

6 . 阅读短文和问题，根据短文内容回答问题，注意答案词数要求。

What will the home of the future look like? A team of architects in Hong Kong say that city homes will be tiny(极小的), as populations continue to grow and space becomes more expensive.

They have designed ‘spaceflats’ with just 30 square meters in size as the houses in the following years. These flats have several small rooms: a living room, a bathroom and a bedroom, as well as a balcony. But everything is carefully planned to make good use of the limited(有限的)space.

The living room is the main room of the flat. It can be used as an office, a kitchen or even a second bedroom. There is a sofa that can be changed into a bed. The dining table can be changed into a computer desk. And if not needed, both the sofa-bed and the table can be folded(折叠) and put away. There is a flat-screen TV which can also serve as a computer monitor. In one corner of the room, a small cooker, a microwave oven and a mini-refrigerator are hidden out of sight. The other rooms are small but practical(实用的). The bathroom contains a toilet and a shower. The double bed in the bedroom can also be a sofa, if necessary. The balcony has enough room for two people to sit and enjoy the view from the block of flats. All the rooms have high ceiling(天花板)to provide as much storage(贮藏) space as possible, while the flat has large windows to let in plenty of sunlight.

“Spaceflats” are wonderful and now being tested in a building in Hong Kong. It is believed that “spaceflats” will be improved to be our future homes.

1. Hlow many rooms does a “spaceflats” have?(不多于2个单词)
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2. List 2 kinds of kitchen equipment(设备)in the flat.(不多于6个单词)
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3. How can we deal with the sofa-bed and table if we don’t need them? (不多于8个单词)
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4. What will be the title for the passage?(不多于5个单词)
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5. What do you think can be added to the spaceflat to make it more perfect? (大约40 词)
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8 . Given how valuable intelligence and automation are, we will continue to improve our technology if we are at all able to. At a certain point, we will build machines that are smarter than we are. Once we have machines that are smarter than we are, they will begin to improve themselves. The concern is really that we will build machines that are much more competent than we are. And the slightest divergence (分歧) between their goals and our own could destroy us.

Just think about how we relate to ants. We don’t hate them. We don’t go out of our way to harm them. In fact, sometimes we take pains not to harm them. We step over them on the sidewalk. But whenever their presence seriously conflicts with one of our goals, we will kill them without hesitation. The concern is that we will one day build machines that, whether they’re conscious or not, could treat us with similar disregard.

The bare fact is that we will continue to improve our intelligent machines. We have problems that we desperately need to solve. So we will do this, if we can. The train is already out of the station, and there’s no brake to pull. If we build machines that are more intelligent than we are, they will very likely develop in ways that we can’t imagine, and transcend us in ways that we can’t imagine.

So imagine we hit upon a design of super intelligent AI that has no safety concerns. This machine would be the perfect labor-saving device. It can design the machine that can build the machine which can do any physical work, powered by sunlight, more or less for the cost of raw materials. So we’re talking bout the end of human labour. We’re also talking about the end of most intellectual work. So what would apes like ourselves do in these circumstances?

But the moment we admit that information processing is the source of intelligence, we have to admit that we are in the process of building some sort of god. Now would be a good time to make sure it’s a god we can live with.

1. Why does the author mention ants in Paragraph 2?

A．To compare intelligent machines to ants.

B．To show improved machines will get away from us.

C．To stress the presence of machines does conflict with our goals.

D．To explain future intelligent machines could treat us without mercy

2. What does the underlined word “transcend” in Paragraph 3 mean?

A．Disable.

B．Inspire.

C．Disappoint.

D．Outpace.

3. How is the passage mainly developed?

A．By making comparisons.

B．By giving assumptions.

C．By showing valid evidence.

D．By analyzing statistics

4. Which of the following statements can best summarize the author’s viewpoint towards Al?

A．Human beings will no doubt be destroyed by AI in the future

B．Super intelligent AI will put an end to human labour eventually.

C．We should keep the development of AI within humans’ control.

D．Human beings should stop the development of super intelligent AL.

9 . 假定你是李华，你校要举行一次英语演讲比赛，话题是“畅想未来生活”。假设你已报名，请你用英语写一份演讲稿准备参加比赛。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.开头已为你写好。

Hello, everyone! I am glad to be able to give a talk about the future life and study here.

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10 . Forecasting the technological future is difficult. Back in the 1980s, the thought of carrying around a small, portable phone seemed to belong in the world of science fiction. Then in the 1990s, imagining a phone that would allow you to surf the Internet something that didn’t even exist until 1990 was unheard-of. Today, smartphones can surf the Web, run applications and play games,and those with a near field communication (NFC) chip can act as a way to make purchases. And they can still make phone calls, too.

So what will phones look like in 2050? Based upon phone customer behavior, I imagine the future phones will rely more on combiningour physical lives with our digital lives. They probably won’t be similar to the ones we’re reusing now. They’ll be built into other devices and products. Imagine a pair of glasses that can display a digital overlay on top of your physical surroundings.

I don’t think video chat is taking off despite services like Skype and FaceTime. Rather, the trend seems to be toward asynchronous (非同步的) communication. That means the two or more people in a conversation complete a discussion over time.

We might even see the phone part of phones disappear. Recent phone customer behavior suggests that texting is a more popular way to communicate than telephone calls. Future phones will need a way to display messages but don’t necessarily include voice communication.

Since we’re talking about 2050 here, there’s even the possibility that research into brain-computer interfaces (脑机接口) will have reached a point in which we won’t need a physical screen or microphone at all. Electronics could be built into clothing. You’d link the devices to an interface connected to your brain and post messages just through thought. I’d be a form of telepathy (心灵感应).

But what do you think? Will we be wearing devices that let us communicate easily? Or will we be carrying around the iPhone 47 and answering texts between games of Angry Birds? Let us know your predictions.

1. What will future phones be like according to the author?

A．Texting may disappear.

B．NFC chips can be used for purchasing.

C．Phones will combine our lives with our work.

D．Phones may be built into other products.

2. With the development of brain-computer interfaces,                      .

A．we may send messages just through thought

B．phones can be connected directly to your brain

C．clothing may be made into the screen of phones

D．telepathy between people and animals may come true

3. From the text, we know that          .

A．people started surfing the Internet in the 1980s

B．we will be carrying around the iPhone 47 in 2050

C．the author’s prediction about phones is based on phone customer behavior

D．the author is negative about the development of brain-computer interfaces

4. Which column of the newspaper does the passage come from?

A．Economy.	B．Science.
C．Health.	D．Entertainment.