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 . Tom and Fred were talking about the year 2050.

“What will _____ be like in the year 2050？”asked Tom.

“I don’t know，”said Fred.“What do you think？”

“Well，no one knows.But it is _____ to guess，”said Tom.“In the year 2050 everybody will _____ a pocket computer.The computer will give people the _____ to all their problems.We shall all have telephones in our pockets，_____．And we’ll be able to talk to our friends all over the world.Perhaps we’ll be able to _____ them at the same time.Machines will do _____ of the work，and people will have more _____．Perhaps they will work only two or three days a week.They will be able to land on the moon by spaceship and spend their holidays there.”

“I’m very _____ to hear that.I hope to fly to the moon.And I hope I’ll be able to live ______，”said Fred，“Won’t that be interesting？Just like a fish！”