1 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

In the near future, we will be living in smart homes,     1     will provide us with a more comfortable environment. For example, AI controls will respond     2     voice commands, so you just say what you want and the home system     3    (obey). This smart technology is not a fantasy. Nevertheless, it will take some years before most new homes begin to use it.

2 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

In the not too distant future, we will control just about everything     1    (automatic) in our smart homes. Your lights will come on     2    (instant) you enter the door along with your favourite music or TV programmes. These smart homes will provide us with a sense of     3    (secure) and provide a more comfortable environment to live in. They can warn you early on if there is something abnormal or if you have a critical illness and potentially save your life. This smart technology is not a fantasy and many innovations will be available.

4 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

There is no doubt that humankind dreams of making Mars our second home. However, sending people there will require all the skills, courage and     1     (intelligent) of the human race. While the Moon can be reached within days, it would take months to reach Mars,     2     (travel) through dangerous solar radiation. And even if the first settlers do reach Mars safely, staying alive will be     3    daily challenge, but as proved by the Biosphere experiment, not impossible.

As early as the 1980s, scientists were building Biosphere 2 in the Arizona desert. It consisted of a closed space    4     people, animals and plants could live together. The “closed” concept meant that the space was designed     5     (function) with its own oxygen, food and water, needing nothing from the outside world.     6     the two-year experiment was not a success, it did provide us with a better understanding of how humans might be able to live on another planet. More recently, scientists     7     (succeed) in growing a variety of plants in an environment similar to that on Mars. That     8     (definite) is a big step forward.

For now, human settlement of Mars is still     9     (decade) away. In the meantime, scientific research shows that the planet Earth is getting     10     (warm). This change is having a terrible effect on the biosphere.

5 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Get ready and you will enjoy a space travel. The sky outside your spacecraft is mostly black. The planet you’re looking for is 4. 65 billion    1    (mile) away. Almost no light    2    (reach) it. Suddenly you see a glow (暗光) in the    3     (distant). As you approach, it becomes bigger and stranger. The light    4     (shine) ahead of you is bright pink. Getting closer, you realize    5    is giving off this glow. It's a magenta (紫红色的) planet!

    6    (name) GJ 504b, the planet is made of pink gas. It's similar to Jupiter, a giant gas planet in our own solar system. But GJ 504b is four times more    7     (mass). At 460°F, it’s the temperature of a hot oven, and it’s the planet’s intense heat that causes it to glow.

You stop your spacecraft to take     8    close look. The sky turns pink as you enter GJ 504b’s atmosphere. Since GJ 504b is made of gas, it has no solid surface. So you can fly right inside the planet, in    9    the gas envelops you like a thick fog. As you go    10    (deep), the gas begins to get darker. If you keep going down, your spacecraft could melt from the heat. You get away from this pink world and back into the darkness of outer space.

6 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式(不多于3个单词)。

Li Qiang was taking up the prize to travel to 3008 AD. It was his first time that he     1    (travel) to space. So he was unsettled for the journey. Luckily, his guide, Wang Ping, was also his friend and gave him much help.

    2     (transport) by Wang Ping’s parents’ company, he arrived in the future in a time capsule. At first, he found it hard     3     (tolerate) the new surroundings and his head ached     4     lack of fresh air. Wang Ping hurried him to a small room for     5     rest and then they each collected a hovering carriage driven by computer. Soon Li Qiang could fly as     6     (swift) as Wang Ping.     7     he lost sight of Wang Ping because of too many carriages     8     (fly) by in all directions. Wang Ping was swept up into the center of them. After a while Li Qiang caught up with him.

Arriving at a strange-looking house, Wang Ping showed Li Qiang into a large room. The wall of the room was made of trees. The leaves of the trees provided     9     with much-needed oxygen. After having a meal and a bath, Li Qiang found himself     10     (exhaust) and then he slid into bed.

7 . Cloning has always been with us and is here to stay. It is a way of making     1     exact copy of another animal or plant. Cloning plants is straightforward while cloning animals is very complicated. The process of cloning is a difficult task     2    (undertake) Many attempts to clone mammals failed. But finally the determination and patience of the scientists paid     3     in 1996 with a breakthrough-the cloning of Dolly the sheep.

At first the fact     4     she seemed to develop normally was very encouraging. Then came the     5    (disturb) news that Dolly had become seriously ill, which made cloning scientists cast down. Meanwhile, Dolly’s appearance raised a storm of     6    (object) and had a great impact on the media and public imagination.     7    (apparent) it became controversial. Although at present human egg cells and embryos     8    (need)for cloning research are hard to obtain, newspapers wrote of evil leaders     9    (hope) to clone themselves to attain their ambitions. Religious leaders also raised moral questions. Some countries reformed their legal systems and     10    (forbid) research into human cloning, but others like China and the UK, continued to accumulate evidence of the abundant medical aid that cloning could provide.