题目内容
Part One: Cloze test.
Complete the blanks with the words or phrases in our textbook.
The City of the Future
What will the city of the future look like? No one knows 1 , and making predictions is a risky business. But one thing is certain --- they are going to get bigger before they get smaller. In the future, care for the environment will become very important 2 earth’s natural resources 3 . We will use lots of recycled materials, such as plastic, aluminium, steel, glass, wood and paper, and we will waste fewer natural resources. We will also have to 4 more
5 alternative energy, such as solar and wind power. All this seems certain, but there are plenty of things about city life in the future which are not certain.
To find out what young people think about the future of urban life, a teacher at a university in Texas in the United States asked his students to think how they would run a city of 50,000 people in the year 2025. Here are some of the ideas they had:
Garbage ships To 6 garbage problems, the city will 7 huge spaceships with waste materials and send them towards the sun, preventing landfill and environmental problems.
Batman Nets Police will arrest criminals by firing nets instead of guns.
Forget smoking No smoking will be allowed within a future city’s limits. Smoking will be possible only outside cities, and outdoors.
Forget the malls In the future all shopping will be done online, and catalogues will have voice commands to place orders.
Telephones for life Everyone will be given a telephone number at birth 8 will never change 9 where they live.
Recreation All forms of recreation, such as cinemas, bowling, softball, concerts and others will be provided 10 by the city.
Cars All cars will 11 by electricity, solar energy or wind, and it will be possible to change the colour of cars at the flick of a switch.
Telesurgery Distance surgery will become common as doctors carry out operations from thousands of miles away, with each city having its own telesurgery outpatient clinic.
Holidays at home Senior citizens and people with disabilities will be able to go anywhere in the world using high-tech cameras 12 their head.
Space travel Travelling in space by ordinary citizens will be common. Each city will have its own spaceport.
1. for sure 2. as 3. run out 4. rely 5. on 6. get rid of 7. load 8. that 9. no matter 10. free of charge 11. be powered 12.attached to
【解析】略
一How did you do on the test?
一Not so well. I ________ much better but I misread the directions for Part One.
A.could do | B.could have done |
C.must have done | D.should do |
Where have all the boys gone?You may be able to find them in the gym, at work or hanging out, but there’s one important place where boys are underrepresented, and the problem seems to be getting worse. These days, at high school graduation ceremonies, there are a lot more girls than boys.
In fact, every year, 10 percent more girls graduate from high school than boys. “I think that there’s a tendency to focus on boys as problems at this point, rather than recognize that boys have problems,” says Joanne Max, PhD. Experts say the problems start in grade school, where there’s often an emphasis on sports instead of reading, for example. “I think that with boys there’s some idea that it’s not masculine(男子汉的)to read,” says Rob Jenkins, an English professor.
There’s also a shortage of male teachers as role models. “I think boys need role models, so if you’re a boy and you don’t have a dad in your home and then you have one male teacher and it’s your athletic coach then I don’t think you have a message that education is very important,” says Carol Carter, another expert. In addition, classrooms often have too little activity and too much passive listening, which is not conducive(有益的)to boys’ learning.
Experts say parents can fight back in many ways. Read to your sons early and often; show by your actions that you value their education. Ask them about their schoolwork, offer help, drop by their classroom and finally, appeal to their competitive spirit: challenge them to do better and help them understand that their future depends on it.
【小题1】The underlined part “one important place” in Paragraph 1 refers to “______”.
A.classrooms | B.factories |
C.high school graduation ceremonies | D.gyms |
A.reading is more important than sports |
B.it is shameful for boys to read |
C.boys should not work as a teacher |
D.boys lack the gift for reading |
A.parents play an important role in education |
B.athletic coaches contribute a lot to education |
C.lack of male teachers affects boys’ attitudes to school work |
D.classrooms lack enough activities that are suitable for boys |
A.often read to their sons when they are young |
B.keep an eye on their sons’ studies at school |
C.encourage their sons to compete with others |
D.prevent their sons from taking part in sports |