When we talk about the ways of traveling, different people may have different ideas. Some think
that trains are the best but others think ships, or cars or planes are better. I think each of them has
advantages and disadvantages.
     Traveling by train is slower than by air, but it is more comfortable. There are comfortable seats
and dining-cars. You can talk to people and enjoy the beautiful sceneries through the windows. The
train to some people is just like a big moving party.
     Some people prefer to travel by sea. Ships are not so fast as trains or planes, but traveling by sea
is a very pleasant way to spend a holiday. You can go to parties and movies on the ship, and enjoy
the blue sky and water. You may think you are the king of the world when you are on the board.
     Some people like to travel by car. You needn't be in a hurry to arrive on time as you travel by
train, ship or air. You can travel as far as you like and shop wherever you with. That is to say, you
enjoy more freedom of choices while traveling by car than by any other means.
     Other people like to travel by air. Although it may cost more than the other ways, it can save
much time, and it is more convenient to travel by air if you go abroad. That is why traveling by air
is popular for business people and students who study abroad.

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1. If you travel by train, you can _________.      

A. make friends with different people
B. rest in the sleeping-cars
C. look out of the windows
D. A, B and C  

2. When you feel you are the king of the world, you are __________.      

A. sad                          
B. tried                          
C. excited and happy  
D. hungry 

3. When people go abroad, they usually take _________.      

A. a plane                                                        
B. a car or a boat
C. a boat or a train                                            
D. a train  

4. How many ways of traveling are mentioned in the passage?  

A. Five.                       
B. Four.                        
C. Three.                    
D. Two.   

5. What does the writer want to tell us in this passage?    

A. He wants to tell us that planes and trains are very fast.
B. He wants to tell us the characteristics of four different ways of traveling.
C. He wants to tell us that traveling in the past was impossible.
D. He wants to tell us that he likes traveling.

        What will things be like in the year 2080? No one knows. But it is
fun to have a guess at it.
        Let's make this a story about you in the year 2080. Our story will be
about one day only. 
      You wake up at seven in the morning. You get dressed. Guess what the
clothes are made of? Paper? Glass? Or something we don't even know
about today.
      The breakfast is no work to fix. Why? The food may be ready for
eating. Now you start for work. But you don't go by car. You step onto
a moving sidewalk. It moves you along to a train station. There you take
a train. How will it run? On one rail high over the street? Or will it ride
in air?  Three o'clock comes. Your work is done for the day. " I'll call
John , a friend of mine , "  you say.
        John answers the picture phone. You and he can hear and see each
other.
       "What shall we do this Saturday?"  you ask. " Shall we put on
our rocket belts and take a short trip? Or shall we go for a ride in a flying
boat?"
       John may say , "I want to ride in a rocket ship !  Let's fly to the
moon ! "

1.         what things will be like in the year 2080.  

A. Some people know    
B. Nobody knows    
C. Scientists have found out    
D. Only a few clever people know 

2. In the year 2080 the clothes we wear will be         those we are wearing now.  

A. the same as          
B. heavier than    
C. stronger than        
D. different from  

3. You may not need to spend any time         in the year 2080.      

A. eating                  
B. sleeping      
C. cooking                
D. traveling  

4. You will take         to go to work.      

A. a special train        
B. a bus      
C. a car                
D. a plane  

5. Probably you can travel to the moon        in the year 2080.      

A. in a train              
B. easily      
C. with much difficulty    
D. in a car

      Some day you may go to the moon. A tall rocket will take you into space. The rocket flies a long
way to a space station. You will stop there for a short time. Then a big spaceship will take you to the
moon.
      About three days later,the ship slowly goes down and gets to the moon. You are now on the moon,
but you can not leave your spaceship. You must put on a space suit for the moon.It is very hot in the day
and very cold at night.If you don't wear a space suit,you can't live there. You jump out of the spaceship
and begin to walk.The moon is much smaller than the earth. The things on the moon are lighter than those
on the earth. You jump high in the air every time you take a step.
     The moon moves slowly, so one day on the moon is as long as two weeks on the earth and one night
is just as long as two weeks on the earth. It never rains on the moon, and everything on the moon is dry.
There are no trees or other living things of any kind. There is nothing to do there. The earth is a far better
 place to live on,but scientists are trying to make the best of the moon.