1 . What will the future be like? Will the world be greener and more beautiful? Will people live more happily and more conveniently? Probably people will lead a better life.
The Spring Festival, the most important Chinese holiday when everyone returns home has caused headaches for millions of Chinese. More than 2 billion people travel at the same time, making getting travel tickets and the journey arduous. But in several decades, the Spring Festival travel may not be a problem at all. China plans to build more than 120,000 kilometers of railway and a fast transportation network that will serve 90% of the population.
And because most of China will be cities, people will not have to go to other places to find jobs, so it will no longer be a problem. In the future, new information about timely events will be sent by humans or even robots to personal web tools through the Internet. That means only digital (数字化的) newspapers can be seen. Readers can discuss topics with journalists and editors. Information will move faster.
Oil is running out faster than expected. But scientists have found something else for oil as fuel. Coal, natural gas, solar power, nuclear power and even water can take the place of oil as sources (来源) of energy.
Schools will go electronic. Everything will be in the computer and students will not need to bring books to school. They will find information on the Internet. A computer will be the students’ library, schoolbag and connection to the outside world. There will be robot teachers, who will check homework on computers and communicate with the students’ parents through emails. And school buses will be like spaceships, comfortable and safe.
However, what can the future actually become? It remains to be seen.
1. What does the underlined word “arduous” in paragraph 2 probably mean?| A．Possible. | B．Necessary. | C．Difficult. | D．Boring. |
| A．Traditional newspapers will disappear completely. |
| B．Transportation networks will be in severe situations. |
| C．Sources of new energy will be very hard to discover. |
| D．People will be in face of having fewer jobs to take up. |
| A．Students will be free of homework. | B．Computers will play a key role in it. |
| C．Students will travel into space daily. | D．It is much more colorful than before. |
| A．Worries on Life in the Future | B．A Great Lifestyle in the Future |
| C．Ways to Succeed in the Future | D．Predictions on Life in the Future |
2 . What will the future school look like is difficult to make clear, but most experts agree that the school will be electronic in the future.
“Present-day schools will no longer exist in the next century,” says a report in The Age. “At that time, future schools will become community-style centers, which run seven days a week, 24 hours a day.” At the same time,computers will surely become a central part of the school in the future.
According to The Age, the distant learning will be popular and students will listen to teachers on computers. Going into classrooms on their computers, students will study at any time, which is very easy for them. However, it is necessary for students to go to the actual school in order to develop some social skills.
The Seashore Primary School is an imaginary school in the future created by the Education Department of Australia. At this school, all the teachers and students have laptop computers. Teachers check messages and call students back on a special telephone system and students use telephones to search for information or speak to their experts who teach their lessons. Besides, all the lessons are related to all sorts of subjects and all the students have their own learning plans created by teachers.
As one headmaster says, a laptop computer is students' library. data storage as well as the bridge to a wider world. Technology has changed the emphasis of future learning. Thus, we'll pay more attention to the learning of kids rather than the teaching.
1. What can we infer from the second and third paragraphs?| A．Present-day schools are more practical than future schools. |
| B．Students can't have discussions in future schools. |
| C．Future schools will be open to students all the time. |
| D．The number of teachers in future schools will become larger. |
| A．It has fewer desks and chairs. |
| B．Students study at a set time. |
| C．It has no teachers and books. |
| D．Students will go to actual school when necessary. |
| A．was built by the Education Department of Australia |
| B．is not a real school, but a virtual school at present |
| C．is very popular among teachers and students in Australia |
| D．is a successful example of the future school in the world |
| A．Objective. | B．Supportive. | C．Critical. | D．Contradictory. |
3 . We don’t know how different our future will be in the future. We can only try to imagine it.
At first we think about human relationship. In the year 2050, we will use computers almost every day. We will be making new friends through the Internet—even our husbands or wives will be met in this way. It will be much faster and easier for us. On the other hand, our relationships with people won’t be as important as they are today—we will feel a little lonely.
Computers will also help us in many other activities in 2050. For example, they will be used by the children at school to make their learning easier. In addition, there will be much more other machines which will play the same role as computers, like robots which will do the housework for us.
Spending holidays will also be completely different. Traveling to other planets or to the moon will be possible for everyone. Means of transport will, of course, change, too. We will be using solar-powered cars, which will be much more environmentally friendly(环保).
Some of us may think that the faster technological progress would lead to a more polluted environment. But it isn’t true. We will pay more attention to protecting the environment. And, scientists will probably find cures for many dangerous diseases, like cancer or AIDS. Then, our surroundings as well as health will be in better condition.
Although we can’t predict（预测）the exact changes which will be made in the world, we often think about them. We worry about our and our children’s future; we have hopes as well as fears. But I think we should be rather sanguine about our future. We should be happy and believe good things will happen.
1. Why will people probably feel a little lonely in 2050?| A．Because the number of people will become much smaller. |
| B．Because there will be less face-to-face communication. |
| C．Because people won’t like making friends with each other. |
| D．Because people won’t communicate with each other much often. |
| A．that computers will do all the things for human beings |
| B．how people will use computers to communicate with each other |
| C．that machines like computers and robots will help people a lot |
| D．how people will use robots to do the housework |
| A．The relationship between people will be more important than today. |
| B．The way of spending holidays will be the same as that of today. |
| C．It won’t be difficult for people to travel to other planets. |
| D．Our environment will be much more polluted with a growing number of cars. |
| A．disappointed | B．surprised |
| C．sad | D．optimistic |
1. 有的人会到月球上度假；
2. 某些科学家会在海底生活；
3. 通过网络在家工作。
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5 . I arrive at the doctor’s office and then wait until a computer voice calls me into the examination room. A robotic nurse
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When I call my dentist’s office and actually get a human being on the line, I am
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| A．rushes | B．marches | C．steps | D．dashes |
| A．signals | B．symptoms | C．sculptures | D．symbols |
| A．leave | B．pay | C．mourn | D．bow |
| A．past | B．present | C．future | D．history |
| A．commerce | B．agriculture | C．literature | D．technology |
| A．sponsor | B．partner | C．opponent | D．fan |
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| A．brighten | B．darken | C．strengthen | D．widen |
| A．turning | B．stretching | C．resisting | D．struggling |
| A．urgent | B．artificial | C．efficient | D．consistent |
| A．Nevertheless | B．Because | C．Otherwise | D．Therefore |
| A．body | B．spirit | C．mode | D．routine |
| A．everything | B．nothing | C．anything | D．something |
| A．smile | B．call | C．laugh | D．stare |
6 . 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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With the development of science and technology, intelligent robots will be wide used in the future. In families, robots will help people do some housework and taking care of the elderly, babies and patients. In addition to these task, robots will even be able to play the chess and do exercise with people. In factories, robots will be used to perform some dangerous jobs avoid accidents.
Robots will change our future life by many ways, that will make it more colorful and comfortable. Therefore, we shouldn’t depend on intelligent robots too much, for they were made to help humans rather than replace us. As helpers of humans, robots should be used proper.
8 . I log onto a computer at the doctor’s office to say I have arrived and then wait until a voice calls me into the examination room. There, a robotic nurse
I should say I really do like many aspects of
When I call my dentist’s office and actually get a human being on the line, I am
After all, human cashiers sometimes
Even more than that, real-life cashiers often take an interest in particularly cute children, which can
Machines can be
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| A．tears | B．directs | C．follows | D．separates |
| A．worker | B．nurse | C．doctor | D．cleaner |
| A．signals | B．symptoms | C．words | D．symbols |
| A．at most | B．at last | C．at least | D．at intervals |
| A．economy | B．agriculture | C．literature | D．technology |
| A．cut in | B．pass by | C．take over | D．go away |
| A．annoyed | B．thrilled | C．discouraged | D．disappointed |
| A．smiling | B．laughing | C．shouting | D．weeping |
| A．machine | B．human | C．animal | D．plant |
| A．give | B．remind | C．bargain | D．buy |
| A．brighten | B．darken | C．strengthen | D．widen |
| A．turning | B．happening | C．describing | D．struggling |
| A．urgent | B．efficient | C．frequent | D．consistent |
| A．But | B．Because | C．Otherwise | D．Therefore |
| A．everything | B．nothing | C．anything | D．something |
9 . Future means a time that is not yet here. It can be a short time from now or a long time from now. Scientists think that many wonderful things may come true in our future life.
Are you wondering whether there'll be televisions in the future?
What about driving cars in the future? Well, a very small child probably will be able to drive a car. Computer systems will hold each car on the right road to get wherever the "driver" wants to go.
The future should be a wonderful time in which to live. But the time you are living in now was also “a wonderful future” to the people who lived 100 years ago.
| A．But maybe the most wonderful surprise in the future will be weather control. |
| B．In the future, life will be the same as we live today. |
| C．Now let’s see what the wonders are that may appear in the future. |
| D．And it probably will be impossible for car accidents to happen. |
| E．What about the food of the future? |
| F．People will suffer from serious hunger in the future. |
| G．The future televisions will be totally different from what they are. |
10 . The village of Okere Mom-Kok was destroyed during the Ugandan Civil War in the 1980s. Now, pupils at the early childhood centre are noisily having a break, and a market is coming to life, as is local beer making, in what has become known as Okere City.
Okere City began in 2019.It has a school, a clinic, and a community hall that also serves as a nightclub.Electricity and clean water are available to everyone.
Ojok Okello started the project of Okere City with an investment（投资） from his own pocket to change the destroyed village of 4,000 people.The development expert had worked for several charities but grew sad seeing projects fail because communities weren’t involved in decisions about their own future.When he returned to Okere Mom-Kok to visit relatives, he decided to create a project that was truly led by the people who lived there.
Okere now produces income.Every project, from the school to the local bar, can fund itself, something that has been possible because the project is being built not as a charity, but as a social enterprise（事业）, Okello says.
This year, after local people said they needed a way to make money, Okello began to experiment with processing shea nuts（加工乳木果）, which locals collect and turn into butter for cooking.Soon, Okere Shea Butter arrived on the market.
Okello says the thought came to him when watching the movie Black Panther, as he sat under a shea tree one afternoon.“I realised that we have this important natural resource and we were not using it,” Okello says.“I thought, in the movie Wakanda and Black Panther had vibranium and this shea tree could be our vibranium.So I invest everything within my means into it.”
Once a week an investment club meets in the community hall.Member’s dues（会费） are carefully recorded before being offered as loans（贷款） to members who need them.When borrowers repay the loan, the cycle continues.
“This style of banking plays a big role because it’s uniquely African,” Okello says.“It’s been about community, patience, and long-term investment.”
1. What is the village of Okere Mom-Kok like now?| A．It’s lively. | B．It’s a wasteland. |
| C．It’s in poor condition. | D．It’s a tourist attraction. |
| A．It was built as a charity. |
| B．It was created by poor villagers. |
| C．It has cost little money up to now. |
| D．It includes the community in decision-making. |
| A．Making shea butter. |
| B．Protecting shea trees. |
| C．Directing a film about shea trees. |
| D．Attracting investment in shea nuts. |
| A．It is important to local people. |
| B．It will take a long time to improve. |
| C．It will be used in other communities. |
| D．It mainly encourages short-term investment. |
| A．Okere City was rebuilt successfully due to several charities started by Ojok Okello. |
| B．A nightclub lies in the community hall of the Okere City now. |
| C．Pupils at the early childhood centre find it hard to have a break because the environment it noisy. |
| D．Ojok Okello made full use of vibranium as Wakanda and Black Panther did. |
