1 . Let us suppose it is now about A. D. 2060. Of course things have changed and life is very _____ .

Voyages to the moon are being made every day. It is as _____ to take a holiday on the moon today as it was for the people in the 1960s to take a holiday in Europe. At a number of _____ on the moon, many hotels have been built. The hotels are air-conditioned _____ In order that everyone can _____ the beautiful scenery on the moon, every room has at least one picture window. Everything imaginable is provided for the _____ of the young and the old.

What are people _____ now? People are still eating food. They haven’t yet started to take the electrical current or nuclear power as their _____ of energy directly. They may do this some day. But many kinds of foods now come _____ pill form, and the food that goes into the pill continues to mainly ______ green plants.

______ there are several times as many people in the world today as a hundred years ago, most of our planet’s surface has been filled. The deserts are ______ regularly with water and crops are no longer destroyed by pests (害虫). As a result, the ______ is always good.

Farming, of course, is very highly ______ Very few people have to work on the farm; it is possible to ______ the farm by just ______ a few buttons now and then.

People are now largely vegetarians (素食主义者). You see, as the number of people ______, the number of animals decreases. Therefore, people have to be vegetarians. And we are ______ both in our bodies and in our minds for we know the causes of diseases and pain and the ______ to them, and it is possible to ______ diseases.

Such would he our life in 2060.

2 . What will man be like in the future — in 5,000 or even 50,000 years from now? We can only make _____, of course, but we can be sure that he will be different from what he is today, for man is slowly _____ all the time.

Let us take an obvious _____. Man, even five hundred years ago, was shorter than he is today. Now, on average, man is about three inches taller. Five hundred years is a relatively short period of time, so we may _____ 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 (能力). As time goes on, _____, we shall have to use our brains more and more, and _____ we shall need larger ones! This is likely to _____ a physical change to the head, and in particular the forehead, which will grow larger.

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

On the other hand, we have a (n) ______ to make less use of our arms and legs. They, ______, are likely to grow weaker. At the same time, however, our fingers will grow more sensitive ______ they are used a great deal in modern life.

Another we are ______ about is our hair. This will ______ from the body altogether in the course of time because it does not ______ a useful purpose any longer. In the future, then, both sexes are likely to be bald (秃顶的).

Perhaps all this gives the ______ that future man will not be a very ______ creature to look at! This may well he true. All the same, ______ all these changes, future man will still have a lot in ______ with us. He will still be a human being, with thoughts and ______ similar to our own.