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 . At the doctor’s office, first I log onto a computer to announce my presence. Then I wait until a robotic nurse _______ me into the examination room. Soon, in steps the doctor, who also is a robot. He records my _______, does a few calculations and then _______ out a prescription（药方）. Having swiped（刷）the credit card at a machine on the way out, I return home without having come across another human being. This scene is my horrible _______ of the future, which hasn’t come to pass- _______ not yet now.

I really do like many aspects of _______. I have no desire to write my columns on a hand-operated typewriter or wash my dresses in the stream. I’m a big _______ of air conditioners in summer and heat in winter. But I don’t want machines to _______. When I call my dentist’s office and on the line actually get a human being, I am _______. When I call the airport and get the lady-computer who ________ asking me to report myself, I want to scream. When I see the slow occupation of self-service check-out stations at the supermarket, I feel like shouting, “When it ________ cashiers（出纳员）, make mine humans, please!”

After all, a human cashier might ________ that a bag of flour is leaking and get you a replacement. Real-life cashiers may have a ________ word for an elderly person struggling to get that last penny out of her purse. Even more than that, they often take an interest in particularly cute children, which can ________ a young mother’s day. I don’t want to go back to the Stone Age, but I’m also ________ about a completely computerized world, where face-to-face communication is ________ by swiping credit cards and feeding numbers. Self-service check-out stations and computerized voices can be efficient and they often get the job done just fine. But they lack a(n)________ so vital to everyday life. It is something that urges us to ________ others a smile, a hug or a prayer, which may be ________ what they need at that moment. Call it the spirit, the soul or the heart. It is something that no ________ will ever have.

3 . 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.

4 . 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！”