Future World
It’s Friday morning in the year 2025,
and you’re running late. You got distracted watching the music video that was playing in
the corner of your 23 mirror while you were 24 your teeth. How will you get to your office
at Mega Giga Industries on time?
A quick check of your
Internet-connected refrigerator magnet
25 you your train which travels at speeds up
to 250 miles an hour 26
it electromagnetically
hovers (悬浮) above its
guide track- is a bit behind schedule,
too, 27 you decide to drive your
environmentally-friendly hydrogen fuel cell car instead - 28 , let your car 29
you. It’s 30 to know the way, and it will get you
there without speeding, getting lost, 31 crashing.
Settling into your 32 chair, which changes color to 33 what you’re wearing, you pick up 34 morning’s newspaper. Printed on 35 electronic paper, it instantly rewrites
itself with today’s headlines.
Now it’s time you 36 your big meeting. Uh-Oh! You’ve 37 your handwritten notes at home. No
problem. The digital ink pen you used has stored an electronic copy of what you
38 .
Your wristwatch videophone
suddenly rings. Your best friends’s face 39 on the organic screen 40 what you’re doing this weekend. Will you
slap on your 3-D contact lenses (隐形眼镜)and play virtual (虚拟的)soccer with the U.S. Olympic team? No, no. Your friend says , so
you have to take the new nanotube(纳米)lift 60,000 miles into space.
Could this scene really 41 in just a couple of decades?The researchers who are currently developing all
this stuff think so. These gadgets may be as 42 in 20 years as cell phones and
DVD players are today.
23.A. bedroom
B. kitchen
C. bathroom
D. sitting room
24.A. setting B. cutting C. brushing D. showing
25.A. tells
B. informed
C. introduces D. says
26.A. as
B. that
C. since
D. because
27.A. Though B.
But
C. So
D. Yet
28.A. above all B. after
all C. or
rather D.
all in all
29.A. drive
B. fetch
C. ride
D. carry
30.A. told
B. improved
C. driven
D. programmed
31.A. and
B. or
C. so
D. but
32.A. home B. office
C. car
D. train
33.A. match B. satisfy C.
suit
D. fit
34.A. Sunday B.
today
C. tomorrow D. yesterday
35.A. reusable B. suitable C.
clean
D. new
36.A. are holding
B. held
C. are to hold
D. hold
37.A. fetched B.
left
C. forgot
D. put
38.A. has written B. wrote C.
writing
D. are writing
39.A. takes
B. leans
C. smiles
D. appears
40.A. asking
B. asks
C. to ask
D. asked
41. A. be taken place
B. take place C.
were happened D. will occur
42.A. popular
B. rare
C. common
D. ordinary