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Welcome to Share Ideas! I’m Tony Brown. This is Professor Lin. He is a scientist. He has many exciting ideas about life in the future. Let’s listen to what he has to say.

“I think in the future, traveling will be much cleaner and safer. Most cars will run on solar energy. That way, there will be less pollution. These cars will be driven by computers and there will be no accidents. All of the computers will work together with radio signals.”

“I also think that people will be able to go back to the past through a time tunnel(隧道).If they do something wrong, they will be able to go back and do it again and try not to make the same mistakes.”

“Housework will become much easier because you will just tell a robot to do it.”

“In the future, people will be able to talk with each other on the phone more easily, and you will be able to see the person you are talking to on the screen of the cell phone .The telephone that we have today will seem out of date.”

What do you think life in the future will be like .Send us a letter.

Our e-mail address: share ideas @yahoo.com .See you next time.

1.What are they talking about?

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2.What will traveling be like in the future?

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3.How will people go back to the past?

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4.Why will housework become much easier?

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5.Where can we see the person we are talking to ?

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For most people, the word "fashion" means "clothes". But people ask question, "What clothes are fashion?" And they use the adjective "fashionable" in the same way:

"she was wearing a fashionable coat." "His shirt was really a fashionable color." But of course there are fashions in many things, not only in clothes. There are fashions in holidays, in restaurants, in films and books. There are even fashions in school subjects, jobs and in languages.

Fashions change as time goes. If you look at pictures of people or things from the past, you will feel that fashions have always changed. An English house of 1750 was different from one of 1650. A fashionable man in 1780 looked very different from his grandson in 1860. Today fashions change very quickly. Some of this is natural. We hear about things much more quickly than in the past. Newspapers, radios, telephones and television send information from one country to another in a few hours. New fashions mean that people will buy new things, so you see there is money in fashion.

1. From this passage we know that "fashion" means _____.

A. clothes B. nice things

C. most of the popular things D. everything

2.Which of the following things is fashionable today?

A. Surfing on the Interact.

B. Having a family dinner on New Year' s Day.

C. Learning to sing songs on the radio.

D. Doing rooming exercises at school.

3.Today fashions change very quickly because _____.

A. People read newspapers every day

B. Radios send information from one country to another

C. New things that people like are often shown on TV

D. People quickly learn what is happening in the world

4."There is money in fashion" in the last sentence means _____.

A. clothes are expensive

B. fashions can help people make big money

C. fashionable things are all expensive

D. if you are in fashion, you will have money

5.Which one is not right in the following statements?

A. As time goes, fashions can be different from what they are now.

B. In the modern world, fashions change very quickly.

C. The word "fashions" doesn' t only means "clothes".

D. Fashions are in many things, but there aren' t fashions in school subjects

One summer my friend and I decided to go to Italy for a holiday and we decided to travel there without going through a travel agency.You know,you would be submerged(淹没) in crowds of tourists and lose lots of opportunities to get familiar with the country more closely.We started to think over our trip and managed to come up with a free tour of Italy.

The trip was not very long but it was still very pleasant.We look forward to going there again! Of course,we spent lots of time arranging the trip,but it was well worth it! Of course I was afraid that something would go wrong and I was especially anxious about my visa,but everything went quite smoothly in the end.

The most difficult part was getting a visa(签证)without an invitation.In the Italian consulate,one must hand in some official paper proving that one has a hotel booked for oneself in order to get the visa.Then we had to solve the ticket problem.Airlines often sell cheap tickets and we bought ours far in advance.The next step was to book a hotel.We finally booked a hotel about 30 km away from the heart of Rome and it was the perfect choice for our trip.

Every day we took a train that carried us to the heart of Rome.Our big house,which was surrounded by the forest,was a rare place for the fresh air and complete silence,beautiful views,hospitable hosts,comfortable living conditions delighting us to no end.Besides this,we were very lucky that our mistress was Russian.She gave us a lot of advice that was of great use.She told us what transport to choose and where the best places to go.

Don’t be afraid to arrange your trip by yourself.It’s not difficult! The only thing I’ll say right now is that we really enjoyed traveling by ourselves.We walked with a map and a guidebook to wherever we wanted and we even met some of our fellow countrymen on the way just two or three times.So if you’re also planning a ‘single’ trip,don’t forget to take a Russian-Italian phrasebook as people in Italy prefer to speak in their native tongue.

1.Why does the author want to go to Italy again?

A. He had a great time there.

B.Italy has a lot of attractions.

C. His friend invited him there.

D.He didn’t stay in Italy long enough.

2.What does the author think was the hardest in preparing for his Italian trip?

A. Buying cheap airline tickets to Italy before the traveling.

B. Getting a visa without an invitation from the Italian consulate.

C. Booking a comfortable hotel on his own in Rome.

D. Solving the ticket problem far in advance.

3.Which of the following questions has NOT been answered in the passage?

A. Why did the author decide to go to Italy for a holiday for the first time?

B. Why did the author decide not to follow a travel agency?

C. How did the author prepare for his trip?

D. What tools did the author use for his traveling?

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