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Everyone    1     (complain) about being stuck in traffic. It is quite possible that the future city will have no traffic at all. H. G Wells, in his book The Sleeper Awakes, tells something about the traffic. In the streets of that future London there will be no vehicles. The city    2     (provide) with moving roads. One side of the road travels    3     one direction; the other side move    4     opposite way. Anyone who wants to go to another part of the city steps on the moving “way” and sits on one of the seats until he arrives. He has none of the troubles    5     a private car brings with it: whether there is enough petrol, whether the tyres are all right, where to park it. The moving way was always at his service, always moving    6     (silent) along, always ready    7     (take)him to his destination. That city of the future has no traffic jams.

To link up the    8     (vary)cities, vehicles driven by atomic power will pass along highways    9     (divide)into two main groups of lanes. Each group will consist of several lanes, some for slow traffic, some for fast.     10     (crossroad)will not exist on these highways, but will be replaces by bridges and junctions(交叉口). Where these highways enter cities, ports and other built-up areas, they will pass through underground tunnels.

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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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Artificial Intelligence (AI) could help promote the development of material science and accelerate the invention of new materials, according to Chinese experts. “Many core technologies that need breakthroughs in China are related    1     the material science, and AI could help in these areas.” Zhao Zhongxian, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS),     2     won China’s top science award, said at a science forum     3    (open) in Dongguan, Guangdong Province.     4    (tradition) methods for material composition analysis are time-consuming(耗时的) and expensive.     5     takes an average of 10 years to develop materials and 20 years for production. With AI, the development and application cycle of new materials is expected     6     (short) by more than half.

Wang Weihua from the Institute of physics under CAS said AI is changing the way new materials are discovered. Through machine learning of material data, AI could outperform many material scientists     7     make a more efficient prediction of new materials. The fast development of AI also needs support from the material science. With emerging intelligent robots, wearable medical devices and IoT systems(物联网系统)， future smart sensors     8     (require) good sensitivity, flexibility and stability.

AI and material science are     9    (close) related, and material research could offer a solution for AI–related sensitive components, Zhao said. As for what the future with AI technology will be like,     10     (let) us wait and see.

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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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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.

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A company     1     (name) “Future Tours” transported Li Qiang and his friend Wang Ping     2     (safe) into the future in a time capsule. They climbed in through a small opening and soon the journey     3    (complete). They were still on the earth but 1,000 years in the future.

Confused by the new surroundings, Li Qiang was hit by a lack of fresh air. Li Qiang chose     4     hovering carriage driven by computer and began     5    (move). There were so many carriages     6     he lost sight of Wang Ping. A few minutes     7    (late), Li Qiang caught sight of Wang Ping.

    8    (arrive) at a house, he was surprised to see tree     9    (leaf) surrounding the house and they provided the house with much-needed oxygen.     10     a good dinner, Li Qiang felt exhausted, so he slid into bed and fell fast asleep.

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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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What will the city of the future look like? No one knows for sure, and making predictions is a risky business. But one thing is certain － they are going to get bigger before they get smaller. In the future, care for the environment will become very important as earth’s natural resources run out. We will use lots of     1    (recycle) materials, such as plastic, aluminum, steel, glass, wood and paper, and we will waste fewer natural resources. We will also have to rely more on     2     (alternate) energy, such as solar and wind power. All this seems certain     3     there are plenty of things about city life in the future which are not certain.

To find out    4    young people think about the future of urban life, a teacher at    5     university in Texas in the United States asked his students to think how they would run a city of 50,000 people in the year 2015. Here are some of the ideas they had:

Garbage ships To get rid of garbage problems, the city will load huge spaceships with waste materials and send them towards the sun,     6     (prevent) landfill and environmental problems.
Forget smoking No smoking will be allowed within a future city’s    7     (limit). Smoking will be possible only outside cities, and outdoors.
Batman Nets Police will arrest     8    (crime) by firing nets instead of guns.
Telephones for life Everyone will be given a telephone number at birth     9     will never change wherever they live.
Recreation All forms of recreation, such as cinemas, bowling, softball, concerts and others will be provided free     10     charge by the city.
Cars All cars will be powered by electricity, solar energy or wind, and it will be possible to change the colour of cars at the flick of a switch.

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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.