基础写作（共1小题，满分15分)最近，你班举行了一个“What will the futu...

基础写作（共1小题，满分15分)

最近，你班举行了一个“What will the future be like？”的专题讨论会，请你写一篇短文来反映讨论结果。

[写作要求]

1.只能使用5个句子表达全部的内容；2.将5个句子组织成连贯的短文；3.可适当增加情节，使表达连贯。

[评分标准]   句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。

第二节读写任务 (共1小题,满分25分)

高三英语书面表达简单题查看答案及解析

– What will motoring be like in the future?

– Most probably it will be ________ electric car, powered by ________ battery

高三英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析

What will the future be like? Good or bad? A lot of science-fiction writing imagines a world which is dark and scary. In Blade Runner, Harrison Ford hunts robots in a chaotic (混乱的) Los Angeles. Planet of the Apes shows a hopeless future for humankind.

There's a word to describe the kind of future world which often appears in science fiction: dystopia. It means an imagined place where things are unpleasant or bad. The opposite is utopia. But does tomorrow's world have to be so disappointing?

No. A new project wants to use the power of science fiction to inspire people to create a better future. Project Hieroglyph brings together writers, scientists, engineers and artists to create optimistic stories about things which really could happen in the next 50 years.

It's just a matter of making an effort. Experts say it's easier to create a dystopia than write a feel-good story. There's more conflict in a world full of problems, and stories are interesting when there are a lot of problems to solve. No challenge, no story!

But the project produced a book with some promising plots. One of them is about environmentalists who fight to stop entrepreneurs (创业者) from building the first hotel in Antarctica. Well, there's conflict there and it seems reasonable, so it could be a good story.

But will these stories actually change anything or just keep us entertained? Ed Finn, the book's editor, thinks the former. He says: "A good science-fiction story can be very powerful. It can inspire hundreds, thousands, millions of people to do something that they want to do."

The influence of science fiction can already be seen in modern research, says Professor Braden Allenby. He asks: "Why are people working on, for example, invisibility cloaks (斗篷)? Well, it's Harry Potter, right?"

Time will tell how far we can go. Let's dream big and think outside the box. Who knows the wonderful things we can come up with?

1.The underlined word “utopia” in paragraph 2 most probably means “______’.

A. a real world where people can do anything they like

B. an imagined place where things are unpleasant or bad

C. an imaginary perfect world where everyone is happy

D. a wild and terrible place where no one can live happily

2.Experts say it’s easier to create a dystopia than a feel-good story because ______.

A. a dystopia needs less imagination

B. a feel-good story is more interesting

C. there is no conflict in a feel-good story

D. there are more problems to solve in a dystopia

3.Professor Braden Allenby takes “invisibility cloaks” as an example ______.

A. to cause readers’ attention

B. to amuse science fiction readers

C. to introduce a science fiction story

D. to show the influence of science fiction

4.What is the best title for the passage?

A. What is science fiction?

B. Can science fiction help us?

C. What will man do in the future?

D. Shall we live a better life in the future?

高三英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析

What will man be like in the future — in 5,000 or even 50,000 years from now? We can only make guesses, of course, but we can be sure that he will be different from what he is today, for man is slowly changing all the time.

Let us take an obvious example. Man, even five hundred years ago, was shorter than he is today. Now, on average, men are about three inches taller. Five hundred years is a relatively short period of time, so we may assume that man will continue to grow taller. Again in the modern world we use our brains a great deal. Even so, we still make use of only about 20% of the brain’s capacity (容量). As time goes on, however, we shall have to use our brains more and more, and eventually we shall need larger ones! This is likely to bring about a physical change too: the head, in particular the forehead, will grow larger.

Nowadays our eyes are in constant use. In fact, we use them so much that very often they become weaker and we have to wear glasses. But over a very long period of time it is likely that man’s eyes will grow stronger.

On the other hand, we tend to make less use of our arms and legs. These, as a result, are likely to grow weaker. At the same time, however, our fingers will grow more sensitive because they are used a great deal in modern life.

But what about hair? This will probably disappear from the body altogether in course of time because it does not serve a useful purpose any longer. In the future, then, both sexes are likely to be bald.

Perhaps all this gives the impression that future man will not be a very attractive creature to look at! This may well be true. All the same, in spite of all these changes, future man will still have a lot in common with us. He will still be a human being, with thoughts and emotions similar to our own.

56. The size of man’s forehead will probably grow bigger because _______.

A. he will use his brain more and more as time goes on

B. he makes use only 20% of the brain’s capacity

C. his brain has grown larger over the past centuries

D. the other 80% of his brain will grow in due time

57. What serves as the evidence that man is changing?

A. Man has got stronger eyes now than he ever had.

B. Man has been growing taller over the past 500 years.

C. Man’s hair is getting thinner and thinner.

D. Man’s arms and legs have become lighter and weaker.

58. What will be true about a human being in the future?

A. He will be hairless because hair is no longer useful.

B. He will have smaller eyes and will wear better glasses.

C. His fingers will grow weaker because he won’t have to make use of them.

D. He will think and feel in a different way.

59. It is implied that __________________.

A. human beings will become more attractive in the future

B. body organs will become poorer if they are not used often

C. human beings hope for a change in the future life

D. future life is always predictable

60. The passage mainly tells us that _______________.

A. man’s life will be different in the future  B. man is growing taller and uglier as time passes

C. future man will look quite different from us

D. human beings’ organs will function weaker

高三英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析

IV．写作（共两节，满分40分）

第一节     基础写作（共1小题，满分15分）

《纽约时报》11月刊登了DAVID BROOKS的一篇评论文章“The Nation of Futurity”，他提出这种观点“中国崛起使美国产生信仰危机(critis)”。

【写作内容】

根据以上内容写一篇短文．

【写作要求】

请用5个句子表达全部所给的内容（短文的开头已给出，不计入总句数）；

【评分标准】

句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯．

首句已经给出：

The editorial“The Nation of Futurity”was published in New York Times on Nov．17th．．．．．．

高三英语书面表达简单题查看答案及解析

基础写作(共1小题，满分15分)

【写作内容】

假设你校将举行为期一个月的“迎亚运长跑(Running for the Asian Games)”活动，你作为通讯员将为学校英语通讯写一篇稿件，内容包括：

活动目的：提高学生体质，迎接2010年广州亚运会；

活动时间：10月1日至10月3 1日；

活动内容：10月1日开幕式，全校学生将进行环校跑 (已举行) ；

活动要求：同学们每天跑步，男生跑2公里，女生跑1.5公里；每班的学生总距离要达到2000公里以上，相当于从广州到北京的距离。

【写作要求】

1．必须使用5个句子表达全部的内容；

2．写作中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

【评分标准】句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。

高三英语书面表达中等难度题查看答案及解析

Advances in using genes as well as nanotechnology make it likely __humans will live in the future beyond ____has been possible in the past.

高三英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析

In the future we might live somewhere other than Earth, like Mars. Some people ask how this will be possible. Well, Mars is in fact a lot the same as the earth. The days are almost the same as those on the earth. However, the two planets vary in temperature.

Since there is mostly carbon dioxide on Mars, it would be quite difficult for a human to just land on it. So, special types of homes and space suits have to be designed. The space suits should be almost like the ones astronauts use now, and except that they have to be warmer so that the astronauts can survive the cold temperatures. The space suits must also be able to withstand (承受) high pressure and potentially dangerous radiation that can kill.

The houses should be similar to our homes today with a slight difference. All of the houses and other buildings should be built inside a large dome (圆顶状物) or bubble. The domes should be made out of glass, and would also be able to prevent radiation from affecting the people inside. The domes will be connected to a machine (like plants which turn carbon dioxide into oxygen).

With Mars’ population growing, how would the people on its surface get fresh food and water? Just like humans use domes, they can also use domes to grow plants. However, the domes where the plants are grown must be built to expand. Once we upgrade the domes to a larger size then we can grow more food by cultivating (种植) more plants. To get the food or come in connect with other domes, there will be long narrow tunnels like roads that connect to each dome separating them by several doors so that the pressure in each dome can remain the same.

On Mars, so many other things are available to us. As humans, we can have access to rare and fairly expensive metals that aren’t very easy to get hold of on Earth, and a colony on Mars enhances (提高) our chances of finding these metals. So when someone here on Earth says that going to Mars is impossible, please tell them that they’ll never know it until they try and they may try very soon. After all it’s our future. Why not make it on Mars?

1.It is difficult for humans to live on Mars because of all the following EXCEPT _________.

A. too much radiation　　 B. cold temperature

C. lack of enough oxygen　　 D. lack of houses

2.One of the reasons why we are eager to explore Mars may be that _________.

A. we can find rare and expensive metals there easily

B. we’ll get too bored to live on the earth in the future

C. our technology will become much advanced

D. we want to know more about the unknown world

3.What is the author’s attitude towards living on Mars? _________.

A. Pessimistic　　 B. Uncertain　　 C. Optimistic　　 D. Opposed

高三英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析

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

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.

Newspapers will come to an end in 2043. In the future, digital 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. Coal, natural gas, solar power, nuclear power and even water can take the place of oil as sources of energy.

Schools will go electronic. 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, who 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.Why has the Spring Festival caused headaches for many Chinese?

A. Because it is the most important Chinese holiday.

B. Because it costs too much money to celebrate it.

C. Because the traffic is too heavy then.

D. Because the travel tickets are too expensive then.

2.What is not mentioned in the passage as sources of energy 　　　　 .

A. Coal　　 B. Wind

C. Nuclear power　　 D. Water

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

A. the Spring Festival travel may still be a problem

B. 90% of the population will live in the city

C. robot teachers will check homework

D. oil is running out faster than expected. Unluckily, scientists haven’t found something else for oil as fuel.

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

A. Schools will go electronic

B. Computers will be important

C. There will be robot teachers

D. School buses will be like spaceships

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

We often think of future. We often wonder __1________ the world will be like in a hundred years’ time.

Think ___2_____ space. Perhaps a permanent station on the moon ___3_____ (set up). Perhaps people will be able to visit the moon as __4______. Cheap rockets for space travel will have been developed, __5______ (permit) long journeys through the solar system. When that time comes, people will be taking holidays in space and visiting __6_______ planets. Great progress will have been made _____7___ medicine, too. Pollution will have been controlled in a hundred years’ time.

__8________ the world will have been developed — even Antarctica. We will have used up most of the earth’s land to build our cities; __9_______ floating cities will have been built. The Japanese have already had plans of this kind. And there will be cities __10______ the sea.

高三英语填空题简单题查看答案及解析