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【题目】What will our future look like? As for the future home, cookers will be set so that you can cook a complete meal at_the_touch_of_a_switch. Television will give the information on prices at the nearby shops as well as news and enjoyment. Visionphones will bring pictures as well as sound to telephone conversation. Machines will control temperature, lighting, enjoyment and gardening, etc. At work, robots will take over most jobs and working hours will fall to under 30 hours a week. Holidays will get longer. Six weeks will be the holidays every year.

What most shocks us is that in the future it will be possible to use virtual reality(虚拟现实)to bring the dead back to life. People will drag out their old and boring home movies and choose a relative to bring back to life. The visual will be combined with records about that person to create a virtual relative. Then the family can have a chat with that relative, keep it running, and live with it. The experience will be like living with a ghost.

【1】This passage is mainly about________.

A．what our future life will be like

B．how machines help us with our life

C．what the use of robots will be

D．how to live with a ghost

【2】The underlined words “at the touch of a switch” in the first paragraph mean________.

A．when you are beside the switches of the cookers

B．on touching the cookers

C．the moment you turn the cookers on

D．as soon as you touch the cookers

【3】It's true that in the future________.

A．people will enjoy their holidays for 42 days a year

B．robots will do everything for man

C．people will see instead of hearing each other when they are talking on the visionphone

D．none of the above

【4】In the future, machines can do the following except that________.

A．machines can control people's body temperature

B．machines can control lighting

C．machines can do gardening

D．machines can give people enjoyment

【5】As for the dead in the future, ________.

A．they can come back to life and become real persons

B．people can use virtual reality to bring them back to life

C．they will become ghosts and come back

D．the family can't chat with them

Answer 1

【答案】【1】A

【2】C

【3】A

【4】A

【5】B

【解析】【1】主旨大意题。根据第一段第一句话可知这篇文章是对未来生活的描述。

【2】词义理解题。switch意为“开关”， at the touch of a switch意为“一碰开关”，也就是一打开厨具。

【3】细节理解题。根据第一段最后一句话“Six weeks will be the holidays every year.”可知每年人们会有6个星期也就是42天的假期。

【4】细节理解题。根据第一段第五句话“Machines will control temperature, lighting, enjoyment and gardening, etc.”可知B、C、D三项正确；文中提到机器能控制温度，而不是人的体温。

【5】细节理解题。根据最后一段可知：在将来，人们会使用虚拟现实的技术把已故的人的影像带入现实生活，并且可以与之谈话等。由此可知，并不是死去的人真的又活了过来或者变成了鬼魂。