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Futurologists predict that life will probably be very different in 2050.
TV channels will have disappeared. Instead, people will choose a program from a “menu” and a computer will send the program directly to the television. Today, we can use the World Wide Web to read newspaper stories and see pictures on a computer thousands of kilometers away. By 2050, music, films, programs, newspapers, and books will come to us by computer.
Cars will run on new, clean fuels and they will go very fast. Cars will have computers to control the speed and there won’t be any accidents. Today, many cars have computers that tell drivers exactly where they are. By 2050, the computer will control the car and drive it to your destination. Space planes will take people halfway around the world in 2 hours. Today, the United States Space Shuttle can go into space and land on Earth again. By 2050, space planes will fly all over the world and people will fly from Los Angeles to Tokyo in just 2 hours.
Robots will have replaced people in factories. Many factories already use robots. Big companies prefer robots—they don’t ask for pay rises or go on strike, and they work 24 hours a day. By 2050, we will see robots everywhere—in factories, schools, offices, hospitals, shops and homes.
Medical technology will have conquered many diseases. Today, there is equipment that connects directly to the brain to help people hear. By 2050, we will be able to help blind and deaf people to see and hear again.
Scientist will have discovered how to control genes(基因). Scientists have already produced clones(克隆) of animals. By 2050, scientists will be able to produce clones of people, and decide how they look, how they behave and how clever they are. Scientists will be able to do these things, but should they?
小题1:
According to the passage, the following can be realized today EXCEPT __________.
A.reading newspapers on a computer |
B.making a space shuttle go into space and land on Earth again |
C.creating cloned animals |
D.choosing TV programs freely from a “menu” |
We can learn from the passage that some big companies prefer robots to human workers, because human workers __________.
A.can work 24 hours a day | B.often ask for more pay |
C.are not clever enough | D.are often late for work |
From Paragraph 5 we can infer that __________.
A.there will be no blind and deaf people by 2050 |
B.few diseases will attack people by 2050 |
C.equipment is connected directly to the brain to help people hear today |
D.medical technology will be more effective by 2050 |
What is the author’s attitude towards the cloning technology?
A.The author does not support the use of cloning technology. |
B.The author thinks human cloning is impossible. |
C.The author does not really support the idea of human cloning. |
D.The author is quite excited about human cloning. |
答案
小题1:D
小题1:B
小题1:D
小题1:C
解析
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试题【By 2050Futurologists predict that life will probably be very different in 2050.T】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Is it true that children learn a foreign language more efficiently than adults? On the contrary, research studies suggest that the opposite may be true. One report, on 2,000 Danish children studying Swedish, concluded that the teenagers learned more, in less time, than the younger children. Another report, on Americans learning Russian, showed a direct improvement of ability over the age range tested; that is, the ability to learn increased as the age increased, from childhood to adulthood.
There are several possible explanations for these findings. For one thing, adults know more about the world and therefore are able to understand meanings more easily than children. Moreover, adults can use logical(逻辑的) thinking to help themselves see patterns in the language. Finally, adults have more self-discipline (self-control) than children.
All in all, it seems that the common idea that children are better language learners than adults may not be a fact, but a myth.
小题1:The main idea of the passage is that .
A.teenagers are more difficult to teach |
B.Danish teenagers can learn Swedish faster than younger children |
C.adults are more logical than children |
D.the ability to learn languages increases with age |
A.at an early age | B.when they reach their twenties |
C.at an old age | D.after they become young men |
A.harder | B.more efficiently | C.more slowly | D.more carefully |
A.adults have more self-discipline |
B.adults like to play more than children |
C.adults have more knowledge than children |
D.adults accept new things more easily than children |
A.adults know more about the world. | B.adults can use logical thinking |
C.adults have more self-discipline. | D.adults can read better. |
One of the most popular outdoor training programmes in both the US and Britain is Outward Bound(户外训练).It was founded in 1941 in Wales and attracts hundreds of thousands of adventurous types every year. The courses are intended to broaden minds through experiences that build confidence, self-esteem(自尊)and character.As well as specialist courses such as canoeing,leadership skills and sailing,participants can take part in week long adventure training camps which include a host of sports and survival training education skills.
Michael Williams,an American student,took part in an Outward Bound course last year.He said:“We learned lots of first aid skills,lots of natural history ,lots of environmental facts, and participated in a wildlife preservation programme.Beyond that,my favorite skills learned were sailing and rock climbing.”Courses can last up to 40 days and are open to anyone over the age of 14.Students must be in general good health,but do not need to be experienced in outdoor-sports.There is no selection process;everyone is welcome,although new participants are advised to pick a course matching their physical capacity.Most of the British courses take place in the Brecon Beacons in Wales.Another similar organization is the UK Survival School,which includes courses on learning to 1ive with the environment, sailing and winter survival.On a basic survival weekend students will learn how to get water and food, how to make fire and cook with it,to find and build a shelter,control survival life support,how to cross rivers.Send off a distress signal,and to use compasses(指南针)by day and night.
According to the leaders,such adventures are “an awakening, an exploration into the unknown.”Outward Bound believes that participants will “use mind and body traveling some of the Earth’s roughest wilderness areas.”
小题1:In Britain and the United States,survival courses are popular with .
A.old people | B.young people | C.dangerous people | D.weak people |
A.participants can make friends with others |
B.participants can visit some places of interest |
C.participants can experience different adventures |
D.participants can learn how wonderful nature is |
A.learning first aid skills | B.collecting facts of environment |
C.rock climbing and sailing | D.preserving wildlife |
Millions of dollars have been used in developing special chemicals to help dismiss the spills and to clean up the animals, beaches, and land spoiled by the oil.Unfortunately, when many of these chemicals are used, more damage is caused to the environment, especially to lives in the sea.
Of all of today’s environmental disasters, an oil spill may actually be one of the least serious.Although oil is poisonous, it is a natural material.In the end, it breaks down naturally.There are, of course, long-term effects, but it is usually more serious in the short term.
Nature by itself works better than chemical materials, but when there is a spill we demand that governments act immediately with as much hi-tech knowledge as possible.In 1967 the tanker Torrey Canyon sank off the Sicily Isles near the coast of England and spilled 120,000 tones of oil into the ocean.If you go there today, you will find it hard to see any sign that it ever happened.
Governments seem to accept the risk of transporting millions of tons of oil by ship every day so that we can fill up our cars and drive around and cause even more environmental damage.Interestingly, the biggest companies in the world produce cars, and the next biggest supply the gasoline to make them run!
We should be thinking more about reducing our dependency on oil.Governments should be encouraging research into new technologies, such as cars run by solar power(太阳能), electricity, hydrogen, and so on.Much of this research has, in the past, been held back by the oil, gas, and coal.
If the world’s millions of cars were 10% more efficient(高效的)— and the industry could easily produce cars at least twice as efficient — we would need many fewer tankers crossing the oceans each year.If this happened, the risks of oil spills would be reduced, and the air we breathe would be cleaner and fresher, too.
小题1:What is the passage mainly talking about?
A.Oil tanker accidents. | B.Oil spills pollution. |
C.What oil pollution is. | D.How to reduce oil pollution. |
A.By giving a description. | B.By making an argument. |
C.By giving an example. | D.By drawing a diagram. |
A.Transportation depending more on oil. |
B.Poisonous oil breaking down naturally. |
C.Millions of tons of oil spilling into the sea. |
D.More environmental damage being caused. |
A.We should develop new technologies to cut oil use |
B.Tankers should not be allowed to sail near the coastlines. |
C.We should build safer oil tankers in the near future. |
D.Countries should build more oil pipelines under the sea. |
The 25 of a ‘body clock’ should not be too 26 since the lives of most living things are controlled 27 the 24-hour night-and-day cycle(循环). We feel 28 and fall asleep at night and become 29 and energetic during the day. If the 24-hour cycle is 30 most people experience unpleasant 31 . For example, people who are not 32 to working at night can find that 33 of sleep causes them to 34 badly at work.
35 the daily cycle of sleeping and 36 , we also have other cycles which 37 longer than one day. Most of us would 38 that we feel good on some days and not so good on 39 ; sometimes our ideas seem to flow and at other times, they 40 do not exist.
小题1:
A.anxious | B.careful | C.able | D.proud |
A.around | B.inside | C.between | D.on |
A.rise | B.supply | C.use | D.movement |
A.showing | B.treating | C.changing | D.making |
A.idea | B.opinion | C.story | D.invention |
A.difficult | B.exciting | C.interesting | D.surprising |
A.from | B.over | C.by | D.during |
A.dull | B.dreamy | C.tired | D.peaceful |
A.regular | B.excited | C.clear | D.lively |
A.shortened | B.disturbed | C.reset | D.troubled |
A.moments | B.senses | C.feelings | D.effects |
A.used | B.allowed | C.expected | D.prevented |
A.miss | B.none | C.need | D.lack |
A.show | B.perform | C.manage | D.control |
A.With | B.Except | C.As well as | D.Rather than |
A.waking | B.moving | C.living | D.working |
A.repeat | B.remain | C.happen | D.last |
A.believe | B.agree | C.realize | D.allow |
A.others | B.the other | C.all other | D.other |
A.only | B.just | C.still | D.yet |
小题1:
What does the phrase “green shoots” mean in “Green shoots have begun to appear in different markets”?
A.Signs of recovery. | B.High prices. |
C.Environmental protection. | D.Change in policy. |
Fill in the blank in the sentence “I can’t believe this is Joshua—he’s ______ since we last met!”
A.shot out | B.shot through | C.shot up | D.shot down |
When you are talking about unimportant things, we say you are ______.
A.shooting yourself in the foot | B.shooting the breeze |
C.shooting your mouth off | D.shooting questions at somebody |
Choose a word to complete the sentence “The ______, which killed a policeman and wounded a passer-by, was reported to have lasted only 13 seconds.”
A.shooter | B.shoot | C.shot | D.shooting |
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