What might the future be like? Here are some predictions: things to come, things to go.

The Spring Festival, the most important Chinese holiday when everyone returns home, has caused headaches for millions of Chinese. More than 2 billion people travel at the same time, making getting travel tickets and the journey difficult. But in 28 years, Spring Festival travel may not be a problem at all. China plans to build more than 120,000 kilometers of railway and a fast transportation network that will serve 90% of the population by 2020. And because most of China will be cities, people will not have to go to other places to find a job, so it will no longer be a problem.

Newspaper will come to an end in 2043. In the future, digital(数字的) newspapers will be sent to personal web tools through Internet. Readers can discuss topics with journalists and editors. Information will move faster.

Oil is running out faster than expected. But scientists have found something else for oil as fuel(燃料). Coal, natural gas, solar power, nuclear power and even water can take the place of oil as sources of energy(能源).

Schools will go electronic(电子化). Computers will be important and popular among the students. Everything will be in the computer and students will not need to bring books to school. They will find information on the Internet. A computer will be the students’ library, schoolbag and connection to the outside world. There will be robot teachers, they will check homework on computers and communicate with the students’ parents through e-mail. And school buses will be like spaceships, comfortable and safe.

1. More than 2 billion people have a hard time returning home during                .

2.The newspapers will disappear                .

3.               is not mentioned in the passage as sources of energy.

4.From the passage we can know                 in the future.

5.What’s the main idea of the last paragraph?                 .

_________, what’s your telephone number ?

   A. On the way    B.In the way      C.To the way   D.  By the way.

The cleaners should not be looked down on and they are angels of the city _________.

A. in some ways                  B. all the way              C. on the way                   D. by the way

___ of years ago, life was much harder than it is today. People didn’t have modern machines. There was no modern medicine,_ _.

Life today has brought new_____. One of the biggest is pollution of our drinking water. __ pollution makes us talk louder and become angry more easily. Air pollution is the most serious kind of pollution. It’s bad to all living things in the world. Cars, planes and factories all pollute our air every day. Sometimes the polluted air is so thick that it is like a quilt_____ a city. This kind of quilt is called smog.

Many countries are making rules to fight pollution. Factories must now clean their water before it is thrown away, and they mustn’t blow dirty____ into the air.

We need to do many other things. We can put waste things in the dustbin and not throw it on the ground. We can go to work ___ or with our friends in ____ car. If there are fewer people driving, there will be ___ pollution.

Rules are not ___ .Every person must help to fight pollution.

1.A. Hundred        B. One hundred         C. Hundreds       D. Two hundreds

2.A. also            B. as well              C. too            D. either

3.A. problems        B. questions            C. styles          D. inventions

4.A. Noise           B. Dirty paper          C. Litters         D. Water

5.A. around          B. on                 C. through        D. over

6.A. noise            B. smoke             C. water          D. wind

7.A. by foot          B. on bus             C. by bus          D. by the bus

8.A. same            B. the same           C. a same         D. different

9.A. fewer           B. less                C. a few          D. more

10.A. much          B. many               C. good          D. enough