Close your eyes and imagine you are living in the next two centuries or more. You’ll be living in a world filled with smart robots, which will be helping you to take care of your children, or your elderly parents in your home. You’ll live much longer thanks to the medicine made by genetic (基因的) science. And mankind may be going farther in space than ever before ––you will be living on the moon or Mars.

How should we view the changes that wait for us in the future? Should we be optimistic about the years ahead, or worried about what the future holds? Some scientists and experts are having a discussion about how technology, science and society will develop in the future.

“I’m looking forward to the day when more technology will come to my life,” says John Searle, a professor at the University of California Berkeley Philosophy, “because I think further research in such areas as genetics, physics, chemistry and medicine will help us to overcome poverty, improve health, and

make life longer.”

Hugh Herr, at MIT’s Biomechatronics Group, considers very powerful weapons (武器) as concern (担心) over the future. Another is the growing role of technology in our lives. “Machines taking over what humans do is not a good thing,” Herr says.

That is a similar concern shared by Daniela Cerqui, a social and cultural scientist. “I am afraid that the long-term future we are building will have no space left for human beings,” says Cerqui. “The main values of our society are related to information that must progress as quickly as possible, and computers are much better than humans in these tasks.”

60. The first paragraph mainly tells us ________.

A. how science will develop in the next two centuries 

B. how people will live in a modern society  

C. what life would be like in the future  

D. what computers will bring to our society

61. What is John Searle’s attitude towards the future of technology?

A. Worried.    B. Optimistic.   C. Uncertain.   D. Disappointed.

62. The underlined word “That” in the last paragraph refers to______.

A. the poverty problem in the future           

B. machines taking over what humans do

C. the technology of weapons

D. the health problem of humans

63. What would be the best title for the passage?

A. The future––full of hope or concern?

B. Great changes will take place in the future

C. The relationship between technology and humans           

D. The role of robots and computers in the future

根据首字母或中文意思写单词。(每题1分，满分15分)请在答卷上写完整的单词！
【小题1】It’s no use trying to persuade him into doing that. He is too s__________ to take our advice.
【小题2】The warm and dry weather is a__________ for early March in Guangdong. In my mind, March is a rainy season
【小题3】When taking the maths examination, you should be p__________ in your answer.
【小题4】He has many a__________ qualities, such as loyalty, honesty, generosity and bravery.
【小题5】Although we are facing new difficulties and s__________ challenges, I am sure we can get through to the finals.
【小题6】The a__________ site makes all the people visiting there can’t help holding their breath.
【小题7】Moyan became the winner of last year’s Nobel Prize for Literature. He is absolutely s__________!
【小题8】The children’s poor heath was a__________ from their physical appearance.
【小题9】The cold makes my fingers c__________, so I can’t make the machine go as I like.
【小题10】How can you waste p__________ time sitting around here? Killing time means killing yourself!
【小题11】The police found the stolen car __________ (遗弃)only five miles away.
【小题12】My friend’s always __________ (取笑) me about my accent.
【小题13】Their business has__________ (扩大) into other hotels and properties.
【小题14】The moment he got MIT offer, he was __________ (发抖)with excitement.
【小题15】New __________(限制) are set down in the annual lianghui aiming at limiting privileges.

The magnitude 7.9 quake struck Sichuan province on May 12 at around noontime, which may have increased the human death toll because many people were at school, and the school buildings turned out to be not firm enough to collapse because of poor construction. More than 69,000 people have been confirmed dead so far, and more than 374,000 injured, with fears of further disasters because several lakes created by rockfall dams may give way and cause sudden flooding.
Clark Burchfiel, Schlumberger Professor of Geology, and Leigh Royden, professor of geology and geophysics in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT, have been doing extensive research in that region of China and the Tibetan plateau(高原) for more than two decades, but had found no signs that suggested such a large earthquake might strike the area.
The team operated 25 broadband seismograph (地震仪) stations in this region of western Sichuan for more than a year. "Nobody was thinking there would be a major earthquake in that area," Royden says. "This earthquake was quite unusual, and may have involved a simultaneously（同时发生的） severe break of two separate but neighboring faults," she continued.
The region is extremely unusual geologically, Royden says, because of the very steep slopes at the boundary between the Sichuan Basin to the east and the Tibetan plateau to the west. The altitude rises sharply by about 3,500 meters (more than two miles) over a span of only about 50 kilometers (about 30 miles).
The area where the quake occurred is part of the boundary between two of the Earth's structural plates, where the Indian and Asian plates meet in an ongoing collision that has created the Himalayan mountains and the Tibetan plateau. But in central and eastern Tibet, unlike most other areas of continental collision, much of the movement of crust（地壳） is hidden from view. Instead of thickening the entire crust by folding and faulting, the surface of the eastern Tibetan plateau is not deformed（变形的） and is being lifted upward by thickening of a weak crustal layer more than 15 km below the surface.
60. Why did the school buildings collapse in the earthquake, according to the passage?
A. They had too long a history.
B. They were poorly built.
C. They were crowded with students and teachers.
D. They were damaged by the earthquake.
61. Based on Para. 1, why does the writer think that more people will be killed or injured after 
the earthquake?
A. Because there will be more aftershocks after the major quake.
B. Because more school buildings will collapse after the quake.
C. Because destructive flooding caused by rockfall dams is likely to occur..
D. Because there was not enough medical care for the injured in the area.
62. What can we infer from this passage?
A. There was no prediction that such a large-scale quake might occur there.
B. Researchers had done little research in that area before the earthquake struck it.
C. The 5.12 earthquake was the most destructive in the world.
D. If more research had been done, the destruction could have been avoided.
63. Which one can be used as the best title for this passage?
A. The Great Disasters.
B. The Earthquake was very frightening.
C. The Causes of the earthquake.
D. An Extremely Unusual Earthquake.

根据首字母或中文意思写单词。(每题1分，满分15分)请在答卷上写完整的单词！

1.It’s no use trying to persuade him into doing that. He is too s__________ to take our advice.

2.The warm and dry weather is a__________ for early March in Guangdong. In my mind, March is a rainy season

3.When taking the maths examination, you should be p__________ in your answer.

4.He has many a__________ qualities, such as loyalty, honesty, generosity and bravery.

5.Although we are facing new difficulties and s__________ challenges, I am sure we can get through to the finals.

6.The a__________ site makes all the people visiting there can’t help holding their breath.

7.Moyan became the winner of last year’s Nobel Prize for Literature. He is absolutely s__________!

8.The children’s poor heath was a__________ from their physical appearance.

9.The cold makes my fingers c__________, so I can’t make the machine go as I like.

10.How can you waste p__________ time sitting around here? Killing time means killing yourself!

11.The police found the stolen car __________ (遗弃)only five miles away.

12.My friend’s always __________ (取笑) me about my accent.

13.Their business has__________ (扩大) into other hotels and properties.

14.The moment he got MIT offer, he was __________ (发抖)with excitement.

15.New __________(限制) are set down in the annual lianghui aiming at limiting privileges.

I don’t ever want to talk about being a woman scientist again. There was a time in my life when people asked constantly for stories about what it’s like to work in a field dominated (控制) by men. I was never very good at telling those stories because truthfully I never found them interesting. What I do find interesting is the origin of the universe, the shape of space-time and the nature of black holes.
At 19, when I began studying astrophysics, it did not bother me in the least to be the only woman in the classroom. But while earning my PhD at MIT and then as a post-doctor doing space research, the issue started to bother me. My every achievement --- jobs, research papers, awards --- was viewed through the lens of gender (性别) politics. So were my failures.
Then one day a few years ago, out of my mouth came a sentence that would eventually become my reply to any and all annoyance. I don’t talk about that any more. It took me 10 years to get back the confidence I had at 19 and to realize that I didn’t want to deal with gender issues. After all, I don’t study sociology or political theory.
Today I research and teach at Bamard, a women’s college in New York City. Recently, someone asked me how many of the 45 students in my class were women. You cannot imagine my satisfaction at being able to answer 45. I know some of my students worry how they will manage their scientific research and a desire for children. And I don’t dismiss those concerns. Instead, I have given them this: the visual of their physics professor heavily pregnant doing physics experiments. And in turn they have given me the image of 45 women driven by a love of science. And that’s a sight worth talking about.
【小题1】Why doesn’t the author want to talk about being a woman scientist again?