What will things be like in the year 2080? No one knows. But it is
fun to have a guess at it.
Let"s make this a story about you in the year 2080. Our story will be
about one day only.
You wake up at seven in the morning. You get dressed. Guess what the
clothes are made of? Paper? Glass? Or something we don"t even know
about today.
The breakfast is no work to fix. Why? The food may be ready for
eating. Now you start for work. But you don"t go by car. You step onto
a moving sidewalk. It moves you along to a train station. There you take
a train. How will it run? On one rail high over the street? Or will it ride
in air? Three o"clock comes. Your work is done for the day. " I"ll call
John , a friend of mine , " you say.
John answers the picture phone. You and he can hear and see each
other.
"What shall we do this Saturday?" you ask. " Shall we put on
our rocket belts and take a short trip? Or shall we go for a ride in a flying
boat?"
John may say , "I want to ride in a rocket ship ! Let"s fly to the
moon ! "
B. Nobody knows
C. Scientists have found out
D. Only a few clever people know
B. heavier than
C. stronger than
D. different from
B. sleeping
C. cooking
D. traveling
B. a bus
C. a car
D. a plane
B. easily
C. with much difficulty
D. in a car
What do you think my lives will be like in ten years? Maybe it"s very
colorful. After 1.____ (graduate) from college ,l can begin 2. (work).
I wan to be a computer programmer, because I like working with
computers.It 3. (be) an exciting job.
Of course,l will get 4. (marry) and have a baby.I hope I have
a daughter. Girls are much quieter than boys, and they had better wear
clothes 5.____of cotton,in which they 6. (feel) comfortable and look
more beautiful.
Also,I hope 7.____(move) to New York. It"s a modern city and is
less polluted than the city I live in now. The best thing is that I 8.____
(buy)a nice car and go out often with my family and friends.I want to
make a lot of money and 9.____(spend) it on vacations in some big
places. What do you think? Isn"t that 10. (surprise)?
" ___2___ are you going?"
"I don"t know. I just want to catch a ___3___ and see what it will be like at the end. "
"I"m afraid you"ll see ___4___ there. Why don"t you enjoy the sights on the way?"
"How can I do that while my heart"s __5___ ?"I asked sadly. My best friend had left me.
The woman seemed to understand my feeling. "Don"t cry,little girl. I"ve had a similar experience to you. Thirty-five ___6___ ago,my husband left our three children and me. I was deadly sad. I decided to kill
myself and the children, so I took __7___ to the sea. __8__, they seemed to know what would happen,
so they __9___ loudly. Their cry suddenly woke me __10___. How could I __11___ my hope to live
for one of life"s problems? After that, I worked hard to raise the children. Now they all live ___12___
and one of them has his own family. "
Then the woman gave me a ___13___,"We should never wait for the door to ___14___ before us. We should find the key to the _15____ or try to find another way. "
The bus came and I got on it with a smile.
( )2. A. What
( )3. A. train
( )4. A. nothing
( )5. A. smiling
( )6. A. days
( )7. A. her
( )8. A. So
( )9. A. laughed
( )10. A. in
( )11. A. give away
( )12. A. happily
( )13. A. cry
( )14. A. open
( )15. A. classroom
B. How
B. bus
B. everything
B. breaking
B. weeks
B. them
B. Or
B. talked
B. out
B. give up
B. sadly
B. shout
B. close
B. office
C. Where
C. boat
C. something
C. singing
C. months
C. him
C. Besides
C. spoke
C. up
C. get up
C. badly
C. hit
C. lock
C. door
D. When
D. plane
D. anything
D. dancing
D. years
D. it
D. However
D. cried
D. down
D. stand up
D. hopelessly
D. smile
D. mend
D. shop
A friend of mine was fond of (喜欢) drawing a horse. He drew the horses very well, but he always
began at the tail (尾巴). Now it is the western rule to begin at the head of the horse , that is why I was
surprised. It struck me that it could not really make any dilference whether the artist begins at the head
or the tail or the belly (肚子) or the foot of the house, if he really knows his business. And most great
artists who really know their business do not follow other people"s rule. They make their own rules.
Every one of them does his work in a way peculiar (奇特的) to himself, and the peculiarity means only
that he finds it more easy to work in that way.
Now the very same thing is true to literature (文学). And the question, "How shall I begin?" only
means that you want to begin at the head instead of beginning at the tail or somewhere else. That is, you
are not yet experienced (有经验的) enough to trust to your own powers. When you become more
experienced you will never ask the question, and I think that you will often begin at the tail. that is to say,
you will write the end of the story before you have even thought of the beginning.
1. A friend of the writer"s drew the horses _____.
A. very well
B. in the way of western rule
C. in the way of his own rule
D. all of the above
2. The writer was surprised because _____.
A. the artist began to draw at the head of the horse
B. the artist began to draw at the tail of the horse.
C. the artist made his own rule
D. the artist did not follow other people"s rule
3. You are not yet experienced because _____.
A. you don"t know where to begin
B. you want to begin at the head instead of beginning at the tail
C. you always ask the question.
D. you do not trust to your own powers
4. When you become more experienced you will _____.
A. never ask the question
B. often begin at the tail
C. write the end of the story
D. think of the beginning
5. The passage tells us _____.
A.how to draw a horse
B. how to write a story
C. how to make our own rule
D. to believe in our own powers
Paris.We"ll have a sightseeing tour of the city and we"ll also visit __2__ of the famous places like the
Eiffel Tower and the Louvre. From Paris we"ll travel down to the south of France near Marseilles
__3__ boat.We"ll spend five clays there.
Last year we __4__ by coach, but we found that the journey was too long and we didn"t have enough
time to do __5__. So this year we will go by train. I will provide more information about the schedule
later.There __6__ students on the trip. We will travel in three groups and there will be three teachers
with each group. I will go with Group One.
I__7__ that everyone on the trip will have a good time, but please remember that it is an educational
__8__ not a holiday. There will be __9__ for swimming and other sports, but we are going to France to
study French culture and to use the French language as __10__ as possible.
( ) 2. A. all
( ) 3. A. by
( ) 4. A. go
( ) 5. A. everything
( ) 6. A. will have
( ) 7. A. want
( ) 8. A. tour
( ) 9. A. some time
( ) 10. A. many
B. one
B. in
B. goes
B. anything
B. will be
B. wish
B. trip
B. sometime
B. much
C. both
C. take
C. went
C. something
C. have
C. would like
C. journey
C. sometimes
C. little
D. some
D. on
D. are going
D. nothing
D. are
D. hope
D. visit
D. some times
D. few
Mr and Mrs Wilson and their children were going to begin their holiday one day, and they must be at
the airport at eleven forty in the morning. "It will take us half an hour to get there in the car, "Mr Wisson
said. "So we must get there before eleven o"clock. Don"t be late."
At ten minutes to eleven, they were busy doing things, but Mrs Wilson didn"t. She was sitting quietly
in a chair in the garden, enjoying the sun.
Her husband and children were very surprised. Why wasn"t she busy too? Mrs Wilson answered,
"Well, before I went to bed last night, I moved all our clocks and watches ahead (提前) twenty minutes.
So now we can go to the airport quietly without worrying about being late."
( ) 1. The Wilson family had to be ready by 11:00, because they had to go to a town.
( ) 2. At ten fifty, Mr Wilson and the children were all very busy.
( ) 3. And at ten fifty Mrs Wilson was quite busy doing things.
( ) 4. Mrs Wilson moved all clocks and watches ahead twenty minutes.
( ) 5. Mr Wilson and the children were angry that Mrs Wilson wasn"t busy.
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