You’ll always be _______ whenever you want to visit us.

We had hoped that you would be able to visit us, but you _____.

My Uncle Dave posed an interesting question to my wife and me when he came to visit us the other day. He asked: “What do you think the world will be like in 50 or 100 years, in terms of technology and society and so on?”

He says he asks many of the people he meets this question to see what their thoughts are. His point is that no one really knows. I mean, in 1945, could people have even imagined surfing the net or sending e-mails as we do? No way. And the pace of technological innovation(创新) is incredible (难以置信的). We’re on a more different curve than we used to be.

One thing I’m looking forward to is real software agents. There is so much information out there, but I want something that can help me find what I really want. For instance, in about ten years, I think, there will be no longer recorded music, and there will be some big databases from which you can download music onto your hard drive or whatever. At that point, there will be so much music to choose from and you’ll be able to sample things before you buy them. But the question will be how I find what I’m looking for and how I do find the music that might interest me. Or more generally, how do I find information that I want without spending all the time myself surfing the net? How do I find people who are like-minded (具有相似目的), with whom I might really want to communicate? I want to find those people but it’s hard to do. In the future I think that one will be able to build a community of like-minded people who live all over the globe. It’s going to be very interesting, I think.

1.No one really knows what the future will be like because _____.

2.The function of the first paragraph is to _____.

3.The writer is looking forward to some real software agents so as to _____.

4.The best title of this passage should be _____.

如无错误，在右边横线上画一个勾（∨）；如有错误，则按下列情况改正：此行缺一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在右边横线上写出该加的词。此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在右边横线上写出改正后的词。注意：原行没有错的不要改。

My aunt lives in a village far from my town.

　　Last year she came to visit us brought me a                  ___________

little dog for my birthday present. It was a little black             __________

dog with white spots on. It was so lovely that I                   _________

liked it at once. Every day after school I played the                       _________  

dog and it gave me much more pleasure. I was glad                ___________

to have it as my company. One day the dog went away        ___________

and never came back again. All my families were out searching        __________

for it but it was nowhere to found. How I worried           _________

about it all those days. A week later a letter came about         _________

my aunt saying that the little dog had returned                ___________

We ______ that you would be able to visit us, but you did not.

  A. hope  B. hoped  C. had hoped   D. are hoping