Close your eyes and imagine you are living in the next two centuries or more. You’ll be living in a world filled with smart robots, which will be helping you to take care of your children, or your elderly parents in your home. You’ll live much longer thanks to the medicine made by genetic (基因的) science. And mankind may be going farther in space than ever before ––you will be living on the moon or Mars.

How should we view the changes that wait for us in the future? Should we be optimistic about the years ahead, or worried about what the future holds? Some scientists and experts are having a discussion about how technology, science and society will develop in the future.

“I’m looking forward to the day when more technology will come to my life,” says John Searle, a professor at the University of California Berkeley Philosophy, “because I think further research in such areas as genetics, physics, chemistry and medicine will help us to overcome poverty, improve health, and

make life longer.”

Hugh Herr, at MIT’s Biomechatronics Group, considers very powerful weapons (武器) as concern (担心) over the future. Another is the growing role of technology in our lives. “Machines taking over what humans do is not a good thing,” Herr says.

That is a similar concern shared by Daniela Cerqui, a social and cultural scientist. “I am afraid that the long-term future we are building will have no space left for human beings,” says Cerqui. “The main values of our society are related to information that must progress as quickly as possible, and computers are much better than humans in these tasks.”

60. The first paragraph mainly tells us ________.

A. how science will develop in the next two centuries 

B. how people will live in a modern society  

C. what life would be like in the future  

D. what computers will bring to our society

61. What is John Searle’s attitude towards the future of technology?

A. Worried.    B. Optimistic.   C. Uncertain.   D. Disappointed.

62. The underlined word “That” in the last paragraph refers to______.

A. the poverty problem in the future           

B. machines taking over what humans do

C. the technology of weapons

D. the health problem of humans

63. What would be the best title for the passage?

A. The future––full of hope or concern?

B. Great changes will take place in the future

C. The relationship between technology and humans           

D. The role of robots and computers in the future

 

阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子。

1.这对老夫妻结婚至今已有五十年了。(marry)

This old couple ____________________________ for fifty years.

2.今早我收到了一份结婚请柬，所以这个周末我要去参加婚宴。(attend)

I got an invitation to a wedding this morning, so I will ____________________________ this weekend.

3.我决心申请一份奖学金。(apply)

I made up my mind to ____________________________.

4.她的儿子正在动手术，她很担心他。(operate)

Her son ____________________________. She is worried about him.

5.很显然由于金融危机，许多产业正面临着倒闭。(it)

____________________________ many industries are going to close down because of the global financial crisis.

 

完成句子

阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号后。

例：We      (起床)before dawn.It was still dark outside.(get)

答案：got up

71.Only if people of all the countries are united ________（我们才能解决）the existing problems in the world.(solve)

72. ________（油漆成）red,the building stands out among the rest and looks very attractive.(paint)

73. ________(不会用)a computer makes it more difficult for him to do his academic research.(use)

74.The news ________（房价将要下跌）has caused many people to sell their houses at lower prices.(fall)

75.After she completes the project,she’ll have ________（没什么要担心的）.(worry)

76.Mr.Johnson insisted that the problem worthy of attention ________(讨论)at the meeting.(discuss)

77.My mother was so proud of all ________（我所做的）that she rewarded me with a trip to Beijing.(do)

78.Last night’s TV news said that by then the death of the missing people ________（未证实）yet.(prove)

79.It’s said that they have swum to the island from the continent,but they ________（不可能做到）because the ocean in between is too wide.(do)

80. ________(正如我们强调的那样)many times,“serve the people”is our first policy.(stress)

 

第四部分：

第一节：短文填词。(共l0小题；每小题1分，满分10分)

阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1)汉语提示；2)首字母提示；3)语境提示，在每个空格内填人一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确、拼写正确。

Dr.Carl wight is an expert on the_________(环境)。He       76___________

speaks to our r__________,“It is clear that in the next 77___________

few years the Earth’s c________ is going to change.I’m 78__________

afraid tht this probably means that many kinds           

of animals,such as the South China tiger,are going 

to ______(消失)soon.Changes in climate are                79__________

going to certainly _________(影响) people’s lives too.  80__________

Because of g_______ warming,the sea has already          81__________

destroyed parts of Britain.It is o_______that this       82__________

_________(破坏) will become more dangerous in            83___________

the future.We have to take i_________action,or          84___________

I_________(担心)that life on Earth will get worse.”    85___________

 

“REMOVE from friends.”
This is no ordinary button. One click and I have the power to erase a person from my life.
In late fall, I had around 400 friends on Facebook. Today, I have 134.
Click. Make that 133.
When Facebook first entered my life in 2005, I panicked（恐慌、担心） that my friend count was too low. If I wasn’t properly connected, how would anyone see my clever quote(引语)? Who would wish me a happy birthday? I accepted and sent out friend requests without a second thought and soon accumulated 391 friends.
There is an appeal to being able to communicate with someone or just “thumbs(拨动手指) up” a photo rather than make real conversation.
“It’s comforting and it’s easy,” said Larry Rosen, a psychology professor at California State University, who studies the way people communicate online.” There’s a sense of belonging in it. It’s a sense of community in a generation where community has sort of (有点)disappeared.”
However, I don’t talk to half of these people in the online community. There are some I would avoid if I met them on the street.
Click. 132.
I decided to rid my account of any “friend” that…well, wasn’t. Sound easy? You try it.
Look at who you’re dealing with: family, friends, classmates, crushes(爱恋的对象), acquaintances…
With every click of the “Remove from friends” button, you risk burning a bridge, losing a contact and missing an opportunity. So every time I go to click the button, my heart hurts.
However, I’m not the only one who has experienced a Faceboook friend refreshing. The New Oxford American Dictionary announces its “Word of the Year” each year, and last year, “unfriend” made the cut (入围) (though I’ll still stick with “defriend”).
When I started my mission(任务), a few friends joined. Most were surprised by how easily they could cut hundreds of connections without thinking twice.
“Oh my God, I defriended like 600 people today. I feel so good!” my friend Sarah messaged.
Dana, a close friend from high school, and I battled it out to see who could get our counts lower. She wins at 123.
To some, it’s poor “netiquette(网络礼仪)” to defriend. But to me, it’s the stage of life when we hold onto the people who count, the people who impact you.
【小题1】According to the article, what happens when you click the “Remove form friends” button?

A．A message is sent out to your online friends.

B．You accept someone as your online friend.

C．You send out a friend request to people.

D．The number of your online friends is reduced.

【小题2】The writer worried about her friend count in 2005 because ______.

A．no one would wish her a happy birthday

B．it was the first time she had made friends online

C．she had only 391 online friends at that time

D．she was eager to make connections

【小题3】What is Larry Rosen’s opinion?

A．People living in the same area are closely connected in everyday life.

B．Communication online helps people feel they are members of a group.

C．It’s easy for people to make and break new friendships online.

D．Today’s young people spend nearly all their time communicating online.

【小题4】Which of the following is the best description of the underlined sentence?

A．I made new friends online while I removed some old ones.

B．Some friends cut the number of their online friends just like I did.

C．We competed to see who could remove the most online friends.

D．When someone removed me from a friends’ list, I removed him/her.