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In case we couldn't live on Earth one day, scientists put     1    Plan B that we will explore Mars to see if we could live on it. Mars     2    (fascinate) people since ancient times. Films     3    (relate) to Martian exploration have been made. Governments and     4    (organisation) are educating the public on the Red Planet. Besides, we have been sending unmanned spacecraft to Mars. But,     5    (send) people there will require all the skill, courage and intelligence of the human race. According to the Biosphere 2 experiment, although people     6    (stay) alive on Mars is not impossible, human settlement of Mars is still     7    (decade) away. Now, human activity causes our planet to get     8    (warm) and warmer,     9    has a terrible effect on the biosphere. Before we find another planet to live     10    , we need to take much better care of the only planet we have.

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People have long dreamt of a car that flies through the sky. However, of the world′s more than 100 flying car projects, only a handful has succeeded with a person    1    board. Tomohiro Fukuzawa and his team in Japan′s SkyDrive have recently carried out a successful test flight of a vehicle carrying a person. In a video    2    (show) to reporters last week, a vehicle that looked like a motorcycle with propellers (螺旋桨) lifted up to two meters off the ground. It    3    (fly) in circles in a protected area for 4 minutes.

If the flight time can be extended to 30 minutes, the car will have more possibilities. Unlike airplanes and helicopters, “electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles”    4    (design) to offer quick point-to-point personal travel. They can do away with    5    (have) to deal with airports, traffic jams and the cost of paying for pilots. Possible uses for connecting faraway    6    (region) and providing transportation in disasters have also been noted.

Tomohiro Fukuzawa heads    7    SkyDrive effort. He hopes the flying car can be made into a real-life product by 2023. The Japanese government speaks    8    (high) of the futuristic project. The goal is to expand the flying car′s    9    (commerce) use by the 2030s.

Experts compare the excitement about flying cars to that of the days    10    the aviation industry got started with the Wright Brothers and the auto industry with the Ford Model T.

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Our world may     1     (fill) with driverless cars in the near future. But     2     will we communicate with them if there’s nobody in the driver’s seat?

At present, drivers can make gestures like     3     (nod) when they let us cross the street.     4     of course, self-driving cars don’t have this ability.

US carmaker Ford and its partner Virginia Tech     5     (try) to solve this problem. The team is testing a method     6     uses light signals. For example, a slow blinking (闪烁的) light shows the car is coming to     7     stop, and a rapidly flashing light tells passers-by that the car is about to speed up.

    8     (test) the method on real roads, the team has designed a special suit that looks like a car seat. When a driver wears it, it appears as if the car is driverless.

The team     9     (success) collected more than 1,500 hours of data, recording how people interacted (互动) with a “driverless” car. Ford says it plans to share the data     10     11 other carmakers, which should lead to a signaling system to be used in every driverless car.

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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.

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Just like every technology, 5G is set to be a huge deal.The wireless technology     1     (expect) to power self-driving cars, smart     2     (city) and networked robots.    3     (researcher) from King’s College London have looked at everything from music     4     medicine.

The team is working towards using       5     technology to transfer physical skills across networks and creating what they are calling the “Internet of Skills”.

Furthermore, 5G will     6     (hopeful) allow a surgeon with virtual reality equipment     7     (work) on the other side of the world via a robot.They will use haptic (触觉的) gloves,     8     will allow the surgeon to sense motion and pressure when     9     (operate) on a patient and can get instant feedback via the gloves.

Meanwhile, Dohler, a professor of wireless communications at King’s College, does not expect this to happen overnight and     10     (believe) it could take the   “Internet of Skills” another decade before it is fully functional.

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5G is developing, but most of us aren't really sure what it is or the reason     1     we need it. A big part of the reason is that 5G means more than one thing. If you ask different people, you     2    (provide) with different answers.

Experts believe that 4G is on     3     way out. In 2020, the U.K. is expected to use 5G. At present, it is unknown exactly what influence 5G will have on people's life but it is widely thought that 5G will     4     (definite) be faster than any generation of networks we have used previously.

Work will likely become much easier as 5G will allow quicker downloads and a better ability to work online even if there is no wi-fi connection. With the     5     (develop) of 5G, driverless cars will be able to communicate     6     other vehicles, which can reduce road accidents by about 10%, One of the most     7     (impress) things will be that people can see which seats on a train are accessible to     8     (they) when it arrives at the station.     9     (get) around the world will also be more convenient.

A number of     10     (company) are now working on bringing 5G to the market. It remains to be seen how much of the country 5G will cover and whether everyone will be able to benefit from it.

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The Future Life on Mars

Compared with the life we    1    (live) on the earth now, the future life on Mars will be     2    (total) different.

Firstly, without pollution on Mars, people will be able to drink cleaner water    3     breathe fresher air, so they will be    4    (health).The food on Mars will be different from     5     food now. People will just take    6    (pill) and drink man-made juice instead of eating bread and meat. Secondly, people will travel back to the earth or to other planets for sightseeing     7     spaceship. Additionally, there will be no    8    (fix) school and classrooms. Children will just fly to    9    classroom in the school spaceships. And people won’t work in factories or companies. They can stay at home,     10    ( work) with computers.

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3D printing and virtual reality are cool, but when are we going to be able to clone ourselves? It'd be fantastic for    1    （we）to send our clone off to school or work and sit back and do    2    we really want to do. There have been important advances in cloning in the last several decades, leading to the    3    （success）cloning of various animals. So far, however, there    4    （be）no human clones.

In large part, cloning has been    5    victim of pop culture to the degree that the general public has grand notions of what it will be like. There is no    6    （possible）of cloning a grown version of ourselves in a matter of hours or days（like you see in the movies）.

    7    （general）, we already have the tools to make cloning happen today; we just have some moral problems     8    （overcome）before the world won't raise major alarms at scientists cloning someone. That leaves the question     9    us then, the general public, do you think cloning is okay? Would you clone a lost loved one to bring them back, or if you found yourself unable to have kids, would you clone yourself? These are the questions we must answer first before we succeed in    10    （create） human clones.

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What do top minds from various fields think about     1     life will be like in 30 years? Mathematical biologist Joel Cohen says that the majority of the people in the world will live in urban areas. According to Bill Mitchell, director of MIT’s Smart Cities research group, by 2050 self-driving cars     2     (make) the roads safer, providing more efficient transports. To find out more about the predictions of future life, at nine o'clock tomorrow morning, I     3     (attend) a seminar held by the Future World Forum.