1 . H. G. Wells, born in 1866, was trained as a scientist, a pioneer among his literary contemporaries, and was perhaps the most important figure in the genre (类型) that would become science fiction. Writers in this tradition have a history not just of imagining the future as it might be, but of inspiring others to make it a reality.     1    .

Audio book, Airplane, and Television

Wells imagined forms of future entertainment. In When the Sleeper Wakes (1899), residents use fantastic forms of technology like audio books, airplanes and television sets.

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Visitors to The Island of Dr. Moreau(1896) meet odd creatures created by the mad man doctor in human-animal hybrid experiments that may predict the age of genetic engineering.     3    , though today human immune systems (免疫系统) still ultimately reject such efforts.

Lasers(激光)

Martians in The War of the Worlds(1898) give off what Wells called a Heat Ray.     4    . It would be more than six decades before Theodore Harold Maiman fired up the first operational laser in 1960, but military thinkers had been hoping to weaponize (使…武器化) the conceptual laser before it was proven practical, .

Atomic Bombs(原子弹)

    5     . The atomic bombs he introduces in The World Set Free(1914) fuel a war so disastrous that its survivors are moved to create a unified world government to avoid future conflicts.

A．Genetic Engineering

B．Directed-energy Weapons

C．It can burn enemies with a noiseless flash of light

D．It is often a warning about the consequences of technology

E．Here are some of the incredible Wells predictions that have come true

F．Wells recognized the damaging power that might be created by this weapon

G．Scientists are working towards the possibility that animal organs could save human patients

2 . It’s 6 A.M., and the alarm clock is ringing earlier than usual. It’s not a malfunction (故障): the smart clock scanned your schedule and adjusted because you’ve got that big presentation first thing in the morning. The electric car is ready to go, charged by the solar panels on your roof. When you get home later, there’s an unexpected package waiting. You open it to find cold medicine. Turns out, health sensors embedded (嵌入) in your bathroom detected signs of an upcoming illness and placed an order automatically.

That, at least, is the ideal design of the smart home that exists 10 years out. But a decade from now, we’ll dip into the Internet of Things (IoT) totally.

A range of technological developments will drive smart—home technology well beyond what’s available on store shelves today. Innovations in AI stand to change almost everything in our lives. You might already be using some kind of AI—powered voice—assistant device to get the latest news or weather forecast every morning. IoT company Crestron, for example, is working on software that follows a person’s habits, like which music they want to hear in the morning or which lights they want to be on at a certain time of day. Then, once it gets the hang of a user’s preferences, it automatically plays just the right playlists or makes the lights less bright before bedtime.

All this learning that the smart home of the future will be doing may raise privacy concerns. In 2016, hackers took over hundreds of thousands of secure IoT devices, then used them to send fake Internet traffic, the incident broke Internet connections for a moment throughout parts of North America and Europe. A bill put forth by Virginia Senator Mark Warner would push the government to set up minimum security requirements for smart devices used by federal agencies; such requirements could eventually become standard for the industry at large.

You’re more likely than not to end up in a connected home one day, whether you mean to or not. Ultimately, people will come to see smart—home technology as essential as electricity, refrigeration or air-conditioning. People will rely on it.

1. What is the purpose of paragraph 1?

A．To reveal people’s busy life in ten years.

B．To display pollution-free homes in ten years.

C．To show how people will cure illness in the future.

D．To describe how smart the home can be in the future.

2. What can AI do in the future?

A．Push your preferences towards green living.

B．Play your favorite songs with voice control.

C．Provide the latest news and weather automatically.

D．Make home devices function according to your habits.

3. What does the author want to tell us by the event in 2016?

A．The IoT devices were of low quality.

B．The government made a law because of it.

C．Security problems from smart devices were urgent.

D．Hackers were common in North America and Europe.

4. What does the author think about the smart home in the future?

A．It’s electrical and reliable.	B．It’s attractive and necessary.
C．It will not need much designing.	D．It will not be affected by evil hackers.