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The Future of Technology

William, a businessman, arrives in a foreign airport. He doesn’t show his passport. Instead, a machine in the wall reads the computer chip(芯片)in his arm. This contains information about him: his name, age, and I.D number. He exits the airport, and a car door opens when it “sees” him. The car takes him to his hotel. His room “knows” he has entered the building and it “reads” his body. He is cold, so the room becomes warmer. William then watches a business presentation on a video wall. When he takes a bath, the presentation “follows him and continues ”on the bathroom wall. Finally, the room plays music to help him sleep. It turns off the music when it “sees” him sleeping.

William doesn’t exist, and none of this is real. But it might be soon. “In five to ten years, computing and communications are going to be free and everywhere, in your walls, in your car, on your body,” says Victor Zue, leader of Project Oxygen.

Project Oxygen has one big idea: to create better relationships between machines and people. The dream is that computer will learn to understand what people want.

So, what changes will there be at work? Firstly, the building will know where everyone is, all the time. You want to talk to someone? Type the person’s name on the nearest computer. It will show you a map of the building and exactly where this person is. You then call this person, who picks up the nearest telephone, also shown on the computer. If he or she is busy with a client(客户)or in a meeting, the computer will tell you.

Is all this really possible? Visit the Siebel Center, Illinois and see for yourself: computers in the doors and walls, cameras everywhere, the technology of the future, but here today.

1.William doesn’t show his passport because ________.

A. his information can be read by a machine

B. he doesn’t need a passport in that airport

C. he is not required to show his passport

D. only a man from foreign country needs to show his passport

2.The computer chip in William’s arm contains his information except ________.

A. his name B. his age

C. his job D. his I.D. number

3.The dream of Project Oxygen is that computers will ________.

A. show you where the person is you are calling

B. let you pick up the nearest telephone

C. show you a map of every building

D. learn to understand what people want

4.In the Siebel Center, Illinois, ________.

A. computers are everywhere

B. the technology of the future is there today

C. there are cameras in the doors and walls

D. the future technology will be there in 5-10 years

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The coyote (丛林狼), that clever animal of wide-open spaces, has come to the nation’s capital. In fact, coyotes have spread to every corner of the United States, changing their behaviors to fit new environments and causing researchers to deal with a troublesome new kind of creature: the city coyote.

The coyote originally lived in the middle of the continent. One of its most obvious characters is its smartness, which has made the animal a notorious (臭名昭著的) pest. Hunters trapped, shot and poisoned more than a million coyotes in the 1900s. It’s still one of America’s most hunted animals. Yet the coyote has survived. How has the coyote shown this extraordinary ability? “I guess if you wanted to use one word, it’d be ‘plasticity’,” says Eric Gese, an expert at Utah State University. Coyotes can live alone, in pairs, or in large packs like wolves; hunt at night or during the day; occupy a small region or an area up to 40 square miles; and live on all sorts of food, from lizards and shoes, to ants and melons.

Unbelievably people helped coyotes increase when they killed most of the wolves in the United States. The spreading of coyotes into city areas, though, is recent. They travel at night, crossing sidewalks and bridges, running along roads and ducking into culverts (钻入涵洞) and underpasses. No one knows why coyotes are moving into cities, but experts explain that cleverer, more human-tolerant (不怕人的) coyotes are teaching urban survival skills to new generations.

Occasionally, coyotes might attack human beings. There have been about 160 attacks on people in recent years. Therefore, people have been consistently told not to feed coyotes or leave pet food unsecured. That, plus a large trapping program in the neighborhood, has cut down on the coyote population.

1.The underlined word “plasticity” in Paragraph 2 refers to ________.

A. the ability to fit the environment

B. notorious smartness

C. hunting ability

D. being human-tolerant

2.The aim of the passage is to ________.

A. tell people how to fight against coyotes

B. tell us why the coyote is the most hunted animal

C. supply the reason why the coyote is a kind of notorious pest

D. explain how the coyote has spread to and survived in cities

3.According to the passage, coyotes ________.

A. originally lived in the west of the continent

B. sleep during the day but look for food at night

C. are teaching survival skills to their younger generations

D. suffered a population decrease because people killed wolves

4.According to the passage, to cut down on the coyote population, people are advised to ________.

A. leave pet food securedB. keep coyotes in small regions

C. force coyotes to live aloneD. avoid using trapping programs

阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

There was a poor widow, ________ Radha. Every day before starting her work at the Spin-wheel,she said prayers ________. Once she read her ________ which exhorted (感化、激励) the work of mercy and she took it to ________.

“My good God,” she ________, “how can I do good to others? I have nothing but my spin-wheel, which ________ hardly my daily bread. Winters are fast approaching and the ________ here in my room freezes my fingers that I can hardly ________. I have not paid my ________ and I have to beg myself in the street.”

She thought still there is ________ she can do. She remembered then that a ________ of hers was very sick in bed. “I’ll ________ her today,” Radha said to herself. “I can spin in her house and I shall ________ have chance of giving her some ________." She took two apples from the cupboard—two apples, which were given to her — and went on her way.

When her sick friend saw her, she was overcome with ________. “My dear Radha," she said, “I have recently inherited (继承) a small ________. Would you like to stay here to ________ me? You would ________ the money that you pay in rent and with your spinning and my small inheritance, we could live without any worries.”

Radha ________ the offer very willingly and that same day she moved to her friend’s house where, for the first time after so long she was able to spend a ________ night with no worries.

1.A. nameB. namedC. namingD. to name

2.A. absentlyB. bravelyC. religiouslyD. painfully

3.A. willsB. poemsC. lettersD. prayers

4.A. identityB. heartC. heavenD. church

5.A. addedB. commandedC. escapedD. cried

6.A. devotesB. organizeC. sellsD. earns

7.A. coldB. warmthC. shelterD. sunshine

8.A. liveB. spinC. readD. dig

9.A. billsB. dinnerC. rentD. fare

10.A. nothingB. everythingC. anythingD. something

11.A. friendB. lawyerC. relativeD. neighbor

12.A. missB. callC. visitD. cure

13.A. slightlyB. certainlyC. eventuallyD. hardly

14.A. insuranceB. comfortC. wealthD. disaster

15.A. upsetB. sadnessC. joyD. shock

16.A. situationB. apartmentC. diseaseD. fortune

17.A. look afterB. deal withC. play withD. depend on

18.A. collectB. attackC. saveD. ignore

19.A. acceptedB. providedC. praisedD. objected

20.A. restfulB. darkC. coldD. reliable

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