1 . Do you know what will happen in the future? Life in the twenty-first century will be very ________ , I suppose. Many changes will take place, but ________ will the changes be?

As we all know the population in the earth is growing ________. There will be a great many ________ in the world and most of them will live ________ than people in the twentieth century.

Computers will be much smaller and ________ and there will be at least one in every ________. And ________ studies will be one of the important subjects in school then.

People will work ________ and they will have more free time for taking exercise, reading, watching TV and traveling all over the world. ________ will be much easier and cheaper. And many more people will go to ________ countries for holidays.

There will be changes in our ________, too. May be no one will eat meat every day. Instead, they eat more fruit and vegetables without pollution. Maybe people will be ________. Work in the future will be different, too. ________ and hard work can be done by robots. Because of this, ________ people will not have enough work to do. This will be a problem.

2 . More than a decade ago, I wrote a letter to myself—A Letter to My Future Self._________, I put it away and completely forgot about it. It wasn’t until 16 years later that I _________ it again. I decided to open it. This is _________ it said:

Dear Sherri,

When _________ this letter, you will be 32. At the age of 18 I have so many hopes and _________ about where you’d be, what you’d be doing and with whom you’d _________your life.

Right now, I hope that you have _________ to many countries and maybe even settled down _________ in Australia doing some research in the field of _________. I hope you’re married to the man of your dreams. The man of mine is Gwynn. You’ll __________ have two children of your own—a girl and a boy.

If everything goes __________ plan, you’ll be living in Australia in a big house with Gwynn and your two beautiful __________. Hopefully you have a career __________ the medical field, maybe doing research in genetics. However, if things doesn’t __________ as planned, I wish you all the love, __________ and joy in the world.

Live long, be happy and __________ life!

Love Sherri “18”

After reading it, I find it __________ to see how the dreams of a young girl could come true. I’m curious if you have __________ written anything to your future self. If you haven’t, will you __________ me in writing a letter now to yourself 10 years from now? It’s an interesting __________.

3 . I am an imaginative girl. I have always been ___________ about the future just like the great novelist, Liu Cixin.

What will life be like in the future? What will happen to humans and other living things? When I was a little girl, I often thought about these questions and drew __________ of my imaginary future life in my album.

How will people in the future __________? Perhaps there will be cities underground, in the air or in the sea, where there will be new kinds of __________ like underground express trains, airships and undersea trains. With __________ technology, we may even be able to fly on a broom, just like Harry Potter.

Living conditions will also certainly ____________ . Just imagine such a house in __________ it feels like spring all year because of an intelligent thermostat. All complicated and boring chores will be________   by a robot.

As for travel, it may be possible to travel through time and space freely. What if there were time machines to travel to any time in history? If I could __________a time machine, I would go to the age of dinosaurs and take them to the __________. By that time, more and more people would __________ dinosaurs as pets—you might even see people walk dinosaurs in the streets.

Maybe one day, riding flying dinosaurs to fly to schools in cities in the sky will be common. All kinds of creatures will work and play with us. What a harmonious world it will be!

However, as science and technology __________, pollution may become more serious, and then people will need to __________ new planets to live on. At the same time, human beings may __________become too dependent on science and technology, but I’m __________ that we can solve these problems step by step.