2 . Recently, the magazine Big Think asked top minds from a variety of fields to comment on what the future holds 40 years from now. The result is as follows.

It’s likely that by 2050 the majority of the people in the world will live in urban (城市的) areas, and will have a much higher average age than people today. Cities theorist Richard Florida thinks urbanization will reinvent the education system of the United States, making our economy less real estate (房地产) driven and erasing(消除) the divisions between home and work.

And rapidly advancing technology will continue ever more rapidly. Cities of the future won’t look like “some sort of science-fiction fantasy”, but it’s likely that technological advances and information overlays (VR and AR) will greatly change how we live. Self-driving cars will make the roads safer and provide faster transports. A larger version of driverless cars－driverless trucks － may make long-distance drivers out of date.

Some long view predictions are completely dire. Environmentalist Bill McKibben says that if we don’t make great progress in fighting global warming, it’s likely we could see out-of-control rises in sea levels, huge crop shortfalls, and wars over limited freshwater resources.

In terms of how we will eat, green markets founder and “real food” supporter Nina Planck believes that there will be more small milk processing plants, and more regional food operations and we’ll be healthier as a result. New York Times feature writer Mark Bittman thinks that people will eat fewer processed foods, and eat foods grown closer to where they live. And Anson Mills farmer Glenn Roberts thinks that more people will be aware of the “ethical(道德的) responsibility” to grow and preserve land-raised farm systems.

1. What may happen by 2050?

A．Most people will live in cities.	B．The aging population will drop.
C．Home education will become a trend.	D．The economy will be driven by real estate.

2. What do we know about technology in the future?

A．It will give cities a science-fiction appearance.

B．It will greatly change the way people live.

C．It will lead to an increase in the number of cars.

D．It will ensure faster transports with fast cars.

3. What does the underlined word “dire” in the fourth paragraph mean?

A．Interesting.

B．Daring.

C．Terrible.

D．Creative.

4. What does Mark Bittman think of foods in the future?

A．People will eat healthier and fresher foods.

B．Land-raised farm systems will be improved.

C．There will be more regional food operations.

D．Food supplies will become more limited than before.

3 . 学校校园网站英文栏目开展题为“喜迎二十大，谈家乡十年变化”征文活动。请根据以下内容投稿：
1.生态环境；
2.生活学习条件；
3.精神面貌。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.题目已为你写好。

The great changes in my hometown in the past decade

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4 . If you had asked me then if I would accept a job as a restaurant critic for The New York Times or others, I would have replied, “Definitely not! ” This was partly because I did not want to think of myself as an ambitious sort. Working in restaurants was honest labor, and anyone could see that. Writing about them for the mainstream press was not.

However, the renewing was fun, so much fun that when mainstream publishers started paying me for my opinions, I didn’t do the decent (体面的) thing, and before I knew it, I had stopped cooking professionally. Then I stopped cooking altogether. “She’s joined the leisure class.” my friend said.

I disarmed my critics by inviting them along; nobody I knew could afford to eat out and nobody refused. We went with equal amounts of guilt and pleasure, with a feeling that we were stepping onto the playgrounds of the rich.

We knew we didn’t belong to these grand restaurants. We always got the worst table, and since I didn’t own a credit card, I had to pay in cash. The year turned into two and three, and more. Then, I got a credit card as well as good clothes. I was writing for increasingly prestigious (声誉高的) publications. Meanwhile, a voice inside me kept whispering, “How could you?”

The voice is still there, never coming to a stop. When I receive weekly letters from people who think it is unacceptable to write about $100 meals while half the world is hungry, the voice rings right along, “They’re absolutely right, you elitist (精英) pig is not”. When it asks, “When are you going to grow up and get a real job?”, it sounds a lot like my mother.

It is just at that moment that I tell the voice to shut up because I realize all I’m doing with my life is telling rich people where to eat and how much the world has changed.

Yes, there are still restaurants where rich people go to remind themselves that they are different from you and me, but there are fewer and fewer of them. Going out to eat used to be like going to the opera; today, it is more like going to the movies.

Therefore, everyone has become a critic and I couldn’t be happier with this. The more people pay attention to what and how they eat, the more accustomed they become to their own senses and the world around them. As A. J. Liebling once said, all it really takes to be a restaurant critic is a good appetite.

1. What can we know from the first two paragraphs?

A．The author was too honest to work as a restaurant critic.

B．The author found it hard to work for the mainstream press.

C．The author didn’t think highly of the job as a restaurant critic.

D．The author wasn’t able to renew the work as a professional cook.

2. How did the author feel about eating out?

A．She felt like eating out with the rich.

B．She refused to eat out with the critics.

C．She had a mixed feeling about eating out.

D．She got much fun from being invited to eat out.

3. What does the author want to tell us by saying “The year turned into two, and three, and more.”?

A．She stayed in the career as a professional cook for years.

B．She took up the job of writing as a restaurant critic for years.

C．It took a long time for the publications to increase their prestige.

D．It was years before her application for a credit card got approved.

4. What changes have taken place to American restaurants?

A．Restaurants make people confused about their social status.

B．Rich people can get special treat in some restaurants.

C．Ordinary people have become accustomed to fancy restaurants. o

D．Restaurants have become affordable to common people.

5. Which of the following statements will the author probably agree with?

A．Eating out is not a privilege of the rich.

B．There is no need for restaurant critics at all.

C．The writer is getting tired of her current job.

D．Good appetite makes a good restaurant critic.

5 . For those who make journeys across the world, the speed of travel today has turned the countries into a series of villages. Distances between them appear no greater to a modern traveler than those which once faced men as they walked from village to village. Jet plane fly people from one end of the earth to the other, allowing them a freedom of movement undreamt of a hundred years ago.

Yet some people wonder if the revolution in travel has gone too far. A price has been paid, they say, for the conquest (征服) of time and distance. Travel is something to be enjoyed, not endured (忍受). The boat offers leisure and time enough to appreciate the ever-changing sights and sounds of a journey. A journey by train also has a special charm about it. Lakes and forests and wild, open plains sweeping past your carriage window create a grand view in which time and distance mean nothing. On board a plane, however, there is just the blank blue of the sky flying the narrow window of the airplane. The soft lighting, in-flight films and gentle music make up the only world you know, and the hours progress slowly.

Then there is the time that is spent being “processed” at a modern airport. People are conveyed (运输) like robots along walkways; baggage is weighed, tickets produced, examined and produced yet again before the passenger move again to another waiting area. Journeys by rail and sea take longer, yes, but the hours that are devoted to being “processed” at departure and arrival in airports are luckily absent. No wonder, then, that the modern high-speed trains are winning back passengers from the airlines.

Man, however, is now a world traveler and cannot turn his back on the airplane. The working lives of too many people depend upon it; whole new industries have been built around its design and operation. The holiday maker, too, with limited time to spend, patiently endures the busy airports and limited space of the flight to gain those extra hours and even days, relaxing in the sun. Speed controls people’s lives; time saved, in work or play, is the important thing—or so we are told. Perhaps those first horsemen, riding free across the wild, open plains, were enjoying a better world than the one we know today. They could travel at will, and the clock was not their master.

1. What does the author try to express in Paragraph 1?

A．Travel by plane has speeded up the growth of villages.

B．The speed of modern travel has made distances relatively short.

C．The freedom of movement has helped people realize their dreams.

D．Man has been fond of travelling rather than staying in one place.

2. According to Paragraph 3, why are passengers turning back to modern high-speed trains?

A．Because they pay less for the tickets.

B．Because they feel safer during the travel.

C．Because they can enjoy higher speed of travel.

D．Because they don’t have to waste time being “processed”.

3. What does the last sentence of the text mean?

A．They would enjoy free and relaxing travel.	B．They needed the clock to tell the time.
C．They preferred travelling on horseback.	D．They could travel with their master.

4. What is the main idea of the text?

A．Air travel benefits people and industries.

B．Train travel has some advantages over air travel.

C．Great changes have taken place in modern travel.

D．The high speed of air travel is gained at a cost.

6 . 课文填空

Today, we have to use switches for our lights, knobs for our appliances, and remote controls for our TVs and air conditioners. In the future, we will be using a    1     technology every day for automatic control of just about everything in our home. The future home will use integrated sensors to t    2     when you leave home each morning, and then go into an energy­efficient mode all by i    3    . You will no longer have to think about turning switches on and off yourself. Your home will also learn your d    4     routine and preferences, so everything will be r    5     for you when you get home each evening. Your lights will come on the i    6     you enter the door along with your f    7     music or TV programmes, and you will find your dinner already p    8     for you. All controls will r    9     to voice commands, so if you want to change your routine, you just say aloud w    10     you want and the home system will obey.

8 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线( \ )划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

With the fast development of science and technology, our studies are sure to change great. As for us, lifelong learning is the must in the future. First, we can study in anywhere in the future, not just at school. For example, we can have various online class from the best teachers without leaving our home, make our learning more convenient. Besides, there will have more tools like Ding-ding and Wechat help us study. We will have no exams at school as all of us students can study easily and do that we have a gift for. Learning will also be delightful for all of us. Every time I look forward to the future, I can’t feel more exciting because many kinds of possibilities were waiting for me.

9 . Modern inventions have speeded up people’s lives amazingly. Motor cars ________ a hundred miles in more than an hour, aircraft cross the world within a day, while computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of ________ seems never-ending. Every year motor cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boasts(吹嘘) of ________ precious seconds in handling tasks.

All these save time, but at a cost. When we lose or ________ half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the uncomfortable feeling known as jet-lag(时差). Our bodies feel that they have been ________ behind in another time zone. Again, spending too long at ________ results in painful wrists(手腕) and fingers. Mobile phones also have their dangers: too much use may transmit harmful ________ into our brains.

However, how do we ________ the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, or so it seems. We are so used to constant activity that we find it ________ to sit down and do nothing or even just one thing at a   ________ . Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen ________ to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into another world.

There was a time when some people’s lives were devoted simply to the cultivation(耕作) of the ________ or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking there; their lives went on at a much gentler pace. There is much that we might envy about a ________ of life like this. Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestors ________ . Modern machines have ________ people from that primitive(原始的) existence.

1.

A．explore

B．get

C．cover

D．fly

2.

A．speed

B．time

C．product

D．distance

3.

A．wasting

B．losing

C．saving

D．spending

4.

A．earn

B．drop

C．miss

D．gain

5.

A．left

B．come

C．forgotten

D．felt

6.

A．ships

B．airplanes

C．computers

D．cars

7.

A．prevention

B．radiation

C．combination

D．damage

8.

A．control

B．handle

C．do

D．deal

9.

A．uncomfortable

B．easy

C．difficult

D．good

10.

A．second

B．day

C．year

D．time

11.

A．actively

B．quietly

C．quickly

D．curiously

12.

A．surface

B．water

C．land

D．island

13.

A．way

B．view

C．pathway

D．point

14.

A．expressed

B．charged

C．inspired

D．faced

15.

A．freed

B．remained

C．kept

D．cleared