The World Future is a group of people from mo...

The World Future is a group of people from more than 100 countries who are interested in how modern technology(技术) is making our life better.

They think the things that we will be able to do in the future should help us live better in many ways, at home and at work, in our own country and around the world. Here are just two of them：

●People live for up to 120 years and use new technology to help when people go blind(盲), deaf(聋) and have other problems. The number of people over a hundred years old could go from 135,000 today to 2.2 million people by 2050. By 2015 people think that 100 million workers will be able to work from home for a company in a different country by using the lnternet.

●The new technology of “nanotechnology”, that is very small robots or machines, will make all the things smaller and lighter. Very, very small machines could take away rubbish, make things in factories, and help people take away fat in our bodies. By 2020 people will probably be able to wear these small machines that look like watches. They will give us lots of information about our bodies and help keep us healthy.

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1.What is the World Future trying to do?

2.How many countries are in the work?

3.What can people do when they are blind, deaf or have other problems?

4.Will the workers be able to work for companies far away?

5.When will people probably be able to wear the machines like watches?

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The World Future is set up by a group of people from more than 100 countries who are interested in how modern technology is making our life better.

They think the things that we will be able to do in the future should help us live better in many ways, at home and at work, in our own country and around the world. Here are just two of them.

People live to 120 years old and use new technologies to help them when they go blind(盲), deaf(聋) or have other problems. The number of people over a hundred years old would increase. By 2050 people think that 100 million workers will be able to work at home for companies in a different country by using the Internet.

The new technology of “nanotechnology”, very small robots or machines, will make all the things smaller and lighter. Very, very small machines could take away rubbish, make things in factories, and help people take away fat in their bodies. By 2020 people will probably be able to wear these small machines that look like watches. They will give us lots of information about our bodies and help keep us healthy.

1.How many countries are members of the World Future from?

____________

2.What is the World Future interested in?

____________

3.What can people do when they are blind, deaf or have other problems?

____________

4.Will the workers be able to work for companies far away?

____________

5.When will people probably be able to wear the machines like watches?

____________

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Life in the twenty-first century

The World Future Society is a group of people from more than 80 countries who are interested in how modern technology is making our world better, and who write reports about how it will change our lives.

The things that we will be able to do in the twenty-first century (since the year 2000) should help us live better lives in many ways, at home and at work, in our own country and around the world. Here are just some of them, put into five groups.

People

People may live for up to 120 years and use new technology to help when people go blind, deaf and have other problems. The number of people over a hundred years old could go from 135,000 today to 2.2 million people by 2050. By 2015 people think that 100 million workers will be able to work from home for a company in a different country by using the Internet.

Money

Worldwide e-business will become even more successful with online shops that sell special products for each person, which will be brought to their house the next day.

Environment

The technology for making energy from wind and the Sun is growing very quickly. In the future wind and Sun energy could become much cheaper and many more countries could use it. This would be very useful in poor countries. The air in big cities would also become much cleaner and healthier as a result.

Society and culture

The Internet will help to create more worldwide friendships. Families may spend more time together as people will be able to do 24-hour online banking and shopping.

Technology

The new science of “nanotechnology” (very small robots or machines) will make all sorts of products smaller and lighter. Very, very small machines could take away rubbish, make things in factories, and help inside the human body by taking away fat. By 2012 people will be able to wear these small machines that look like watches, which will give them lots of information about their body and keep them healthy.

1.What does the World Future Society do?

A. Look at how technology will make people happy.

B. Look at how technology will change the world.

C. Make technology work better for themselves.

D. Make small machines to make us healthier.

2.How will technology help people?

A. Help all people live for over 120 years.

B. Help disabled people to get jobs.

C. Make people healthier and live longer.

D. Help workers to use the Internet.

3. How will people go shopping?

A. In special shops.

B. Using the Internet at certain times.

C. Using the Internet any time of the day.

D. Using nanotechnology.

4.How will technology help the environment?

A. Poor countries will have enough energy.

B. Wind energy will be cheaper than Sun energy.

C. We will not need wind and Sun energy.

D. Wind and Sun energy will be cheaper.

5. The new science of “nanotechnology” will ___________.

A. drive small machines to work for people　

B. make good-quality watches

C. allow people to eat more

D. make very small products

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Life in the twenty-first century

The World Future Society is a group of people from more than 80 countries who are interested in how modern technology is making our world better, and who write reports about how it will change our lives.                                                                                                                                             The things that we will be able to do in the twenty-first century (since the year 2000) should help us live better lives in many ways, at home and at work, in our own country and around the world. Here are just some of them, put into five groups.

People

People may live for up to 120 years and use new technology to help when people go blind, deaf and have other problems. The number of people over a hundred years old could go from 135,000 today to 2.2 million people by 2050. By 2015 people think that 100 million workers will be able to work from home for a company in a different country by using the Internet.

Money

Worldwide e-business will become even more successful with online shops that sell special products for each person, which will be brought to their house the next day.

Environment

The technology for making energy from wind and the Sun is growing very quickly. In the future wind and Sun energy could become much cheaper and many more countries could use it. This would be very useful in poor countries. The air in big cities would also become much cleaner and healthier as a result.

Society and culture

The Internet will help to create more worldwide friendships. Families may spend more time together as people will be able to do 24-hour online banking and shopping.

Technology

The new science of “nanotechnology” (very small robots or machines) will make all sorts of products smaller and lighter. Very, very small machines could take away rubbish, make things in factories, and help inside the human body by taking away fat. By 2012 people will be able to wear these small machines that look like watches, which will give them lots of information about their body and keep them healthy.

1.What does the World Future Society do?

A. Look at how technology will make people happy.

B. Look at how technology will change the world.

C. Make technology work better for themselves.

D. Make small machines to make us healthier.

2. How will technology help people?

A. Help all people live for over 120 years.

B. Help disabled people to get jobs.

C. Make people healthier and live longer.

D. Help workers to use the Internet.

3.How will people go shopping?

A. In special shops.

B. Using the Internet at certain times.

C. Using the Internet any time of the day.

D. Using nanotechnology.

4. How will technology help the environment?

A. Poor countries will have enough energy.

B. Wind energy will be cheaper than Sun energy.

C. We will not need wind and Sun energy.

D. Wind and Sun energy will be cheaper.

5.The new science of “nanotechnology” will _______.

A. drive small machines to work for people

B. make good-quality watches

C. allow people to eat more

D. make very small products

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The sport of basketball _______ by more than 100 million people in over 200 countries.

A. is short　　 B. is made　　 C. is played　　 D. is taught

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People think that computers ________ more than books in the future.

A.uses B.is used C.will be used D.was used

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More than 50,000,000 people live in the rainforests of the world and most of them do not hurt the forest they live in. They eat the fruits that grow on the forest trees, but they do not cut them down. They kill some animals to eat, but they do not destroy them.

When we cut down the rainforests, we destroy these forest people, too. In 1900, there were 1,000,000 forest people in the Amazon forest. In 1980, there were only 200,000.

The Yanomami live along the rivers of the rainforest in the north of Brazil. They have lived in the rainforest for about 10,000 years and they use more than 2,000 different plants for food and for medicine. But in 1988, someone found gold in their forest, and suddenly 45,000 people came to the forest and began looking for gold. They cut down the forest to make roads. They made more than a hundred airports. The Yanomami people lost land and food. Many died because new diseases came to the forest with the strangers.

The Yanomami people tried to save their forest, because it was their home. But the people who wanted gold were stronger.

Many forest people try to save their forests. Chico Mendes was famous in Brazil because he wanted to keep the forest for his people. “I want the Amazon forest to help all of us-forest people Brazil, and all the Earth,” he said. A few months later, in December 1988, people who wanted to cut down the forest killed Chico Mendes.

In Borneo, people were cutting down the forest of the Penan people to sell the wood. The Penan people tried to save their rainforest. They made blockades across the roads into the forest. In 1987, they closed fifteen roads for eight months. No one cut down any trees during that time.

In Panama, the Kuna people saved their forest. They made a forest park which tourists pay to visit.

The Gavioes people of Brazil use the forest, but they protect it as well. They find and sell the Brazil nuts(坚果) which grow on the forest trees.

1.The number of the people living in the Amazon forest in 1980 was _______ of that in1900.

2.The people who _______ have destroyed the rainforest of the Yanomami.

3.Those people built roads and airports in order to ________.

4.We can infer the underlined word blockades probably means:

5. From the passage, we learn that _________.

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Nowadays, more than half of the people in the world own a mobile. And most of them think it’s the most important thing they own. In r1.surveys, people said they could live without their TVs and computers but not without their mobile phones. Most people said that they would rather l2.their wallet than their mobile. Many people said they even took their mobile phone to bed with them ... like a teddy bear!

Why are people so in love with their mobile phones? Well, according to an article in an American newspaper, a mobile satisfies some needs of the humans. First, Safety, it m3.us feel more secure. Second, Belongingness, we feel connected to other people when we are a4.. And third, Esteem, we feel important when others see us using a mobile phone.

Many countries are now trying to prevent the use of mobile phones while driving. When people are talking or sending m5.on their mobiles, they become distracted(注意力分散）.In America, “distracted driving” resulted in more than 5,800 deaths last year. We may love our mobiles but there is a time and a place for them to be p6.used. Driving isn’t a suitable place and neither is the classroom. Using a mobile in the classroom can result in “distracted learning.” That may not kill you but it can surely kill your g7.. Do care about when and where to use your mobiles!

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More than 95 percent of people in the world have phones, today, according to the United Nations. People use _______to make phone calls and send messages to communicate with others. Now we _______ write letters. But a TV show, Letters Alive(《见字如面》),is_______back this old habit.

Letters Alive gets its _______ from a UK program with a similar name. They have something in common. The shows both invite famous actors and actresses, _______ there are no funny jokes or different competitions. Instead, it is just one person reading a letter. Since it has been on in December, Letters Alive has been _______praised.

The letters were written by people from different_______in history. For example, once they read a letter written by famous writer Xiao Hong to her brother who is younger than her in 1941.

The letter shows that Xiao Hong _______ her brother so much and had great hopes for his future.

“Every letter opens_______world for us” said Guan Zhengwen, the director of the TV show.

It seems that we can __________the real lives and feelings of the writers. __________, many people said that it has provided a breath of fresh air to today’s TV.

Apart from letters alive, some other __________TV shows have also been accepted by Chinese audiences. They __________ Chinese Poetry Conference《中国诗词大会》, a classical Chinese poetry competition, and Readers, a program that__________people to read poems and articles they like or wrote. “This means that our audiences not only looking for entertainment like gossip(八卦)and eye catching games,” reported China Daily. Cultural __________and true feelings are the keys to winning praise.

1.A.computers B.TVs C.radios D.phones

2.A.often B.always C.hardly D.never

3.A.returning B.getting C.bringing D.taking

4.A.idea B.book C.letter D.news

5.A.and B.but C.because D.or

6.A.wildly B.carefully C.clearly D.widely

7.A.grades B.times C.classes D.families

8.A.thought B.treated C.missed D.praised

9.A.the other B.other C.others D.another

10.A.make B.pass C.experience D.get

11.A.Anyway B.But C.Otherwise D.So

12.A.traditional B.cultural C.fashionable D.humorous

13.A.include B.have C.say D.report

14.A.invite B.inviting C.invited D.invites

15.A.price B.cost C.values D.worth

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More than 95 percent of people in the world have phones today, according to the United Nations. People use phones to make phone calls and send 1. (信息)to communicate with others. Now we hardly write letters. But a TV show, Letters Alive, is bringing back this old 2.(习惯).

Letters Alive gets its idea from a UK program with a 3. (相似的) name. They have something in common. The shows both 4. (邀请) famous actors and actresses, but there are no funny jokes or different competitions.5. (代替), it is just one person　 reading a letter. Since it has been on in6. (十二月) , Letters Alive has been widely praised.

The letters were written by people from different times in history. For example, once they read a letter written by famous writer Xiao Hong to her brother who is 7. (年轻的) than her in 1941. The letter shows that Xiao Hong 8. (想念) her brother so much and had great hopes for his future.

“Every letter opens another world for us,” said Guan Zhengwen, the 9. (导演) of the TV show. “It seems that we can experience the real lives and feelings of the writers.”

10. (不管怎么说)，many people said that it has provided a breath of fresh air to today’s TV shows.

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