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
九年级英语阅读理解中等难度题
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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任务型阅读
How will the Internet change the world? Will we enjoy a smarter life in the future? Many of the world’s biggest Internet companies took part in an important meeting. They talked about how to build a future for our online world. The Internet can make our lives easier in many ways. The companies at the meeting showed us some of their latest technology. Here are some examples. Let's take a look.
Lip reading Machines can not only read faces. They can also read your lip movements. The Chinese Internet company Sogou has made lip reading technology. You don’t need to speak aloud. The machine turns your lip movements into voice or text. This could be very useful if you are in a noisy place and people cannot hear you on your phone. Police can also use this technology. Sometimes they see criminals on city-monitoring cameras, but they don’t know what they say. The lip reading technology can help people with this.
Smart shoes Your feet might hurt if your shoes do not fit you. This won’t happen if you wear “smart” custom-made shoes. The Xiemofang company brought a machine to the meeting. The machine scans(扫描) your feet. It records 39 parts of your feet. It even records how long each toe is. It also has a database. The database has more than 10, 000 kinds of shoes. You can choose the color and style. It also gives you suggestions for your choices. The suggestions are based on records of other people’s feet. You can get your new shoes after 10 days.
Unmanned supermarkets You walk into a supermarket, pick out your goods and go to check out. But there is no worker. There is just a tablet that says “Please smile” When you smile, it gives you a discount. Your money goes from your Alipay account to the supermarket. You don't need to do anything. The Alibaba company has made this supermarket. When you go into the supermarket, it knows your face and your Alipay account. It also knows your facial expressions. So it knows how much you like your goods. The supermarket not only makes shopping easier. It also understands you.
阅读短文,根据短文内容回答问题。
1.What did many companies mainly introduce in the meeting?
________________________________________________________________
2.Which technology could be very important to solve crimes?
________________________________________________________________
3.If you have difficulty choosing a pair of suitable shoes, what should you do?
________________________________________________________________
4.How do the unmanned supermarkets get your money saved?
________________________________________________________________
5.What do you think of having a smarter life in the future?(请自拟一句作答)
________________________________________________________________
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The world is changing fast every day. I wonder ____ in the future.
A. what will the world look like B. whether the world will have peace
C. how we think of the world D. which country wins the match
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The world is changing fast every day. I wonder _______ in the future.
A.what will the world look like B.how we think of the world
C.whether the world will have peace D.which country wins the mat
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Life in the twenty-first century will be very different from life today. Between then and now many changes will take place, but what will the changes be?
The population is growing fast. There will be many people in the world and most of them will live longer than people live now.
Computers will be much smaller and more useful, and there will be at least one in every home. And computer studies will be one of the important subjects in schools then.
People will work fewer hours than they do now and they will have more free time for sports, watching TV and travelling. Travelling will be much easier and cheaper. And many more people will go to other countries for holidays.
There will be changes in our food, too. Maybe no one will eat meat every day, instead they eat more fruit and vegetables. Maybe people will be healthier.
Work in the future will be different, too. Dangerous and hard work can be done by robots. Because of this, many people will not have enough work to do. This will be a problem.
1.There will be _________ in the future.
A.small population | B.few changes | C.more people | D.few people |
2.In the future the computer will be _________.
A.much bigger and few people will use it |
B.much smaller and more useful |
C.smaller and not many people will use it |
D.bigger and a lot of people will use it |
3.In the future more people _________.
A.will go to other countries for holidays |
B.will study at school |
C.will go earlier |
D.will work for many hours |
4.People will prefer _________ to _________ in the future.
A.meat and vegetables; fruit |
B.meat; fruit and vegetables |
C.fruit and meat; vegetables |
D.fruit and vegetables; meat |
5.The robots will _________ in the future.
A.do the dangerous work |
B.do all the work |
C.do only housework |
D.do the easy work for people |
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阅读理解。
Someday in the future we may not need to have money in our pockets. Is life easier when people don’t need to carry any money at all? Is money heavy to carry? Is it safe to carry money? Maybe in the future each of us will have only one small credit card(信用卡). We will use it instead of money to buy all the things.
Of course we may still have some of the same problems with cards we now have with money. For example, we lose money from time to time. Maybe we will lose the cards. Maybe someone will take the cards. Someone may even make a card that looks like our cards. Since we can’t buy anything without our cards, the credit cards may be no better than money.
Is there something easier to use than credit cards? Each of us has a thumbprint(拇指指纹). No two thumbprints are the same. Maybe someday the government will keep people’s thumbprints with a number. When you want to buy something, you will put your thumb on a machine or a computer. Each store or business will posses one. Everyone’s thumbprints will be in the computer. It will be difficult to lose our thumbprints! It will be difficult for someone to steal it or to make one like it.
1.The writer probably agrees that credit cards are ________ to carry than money.
A.heavier B. easier C. more difficult
2.What may be a problem with credit cards in the future?
A. We may lose the cards from time to time.
B.We won’t be able to make enough cards.
C.We may not know how to use the cards.
3.Someday the government may keep people’s thumbprints with a ________.
A.sign B. note C. number
4.The underlined word “posses” probably means “________” in English.
A.lend B. have C. sell
5.In the writer’s opinion, it’ll be the best way to buy things with ________ in the future.
A.money B. credit cards C. thumbprints
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Someday in the future we may not need to have money in our pockets. Is life easier when people don’t need to carry any currency at all? Is money heavy to carry? Is it safe to carry money? Maybe in the future each of us will have only one small plastic credit card. We will use it to buy all the things we now buy with money. We will not need money to pay for things.
Of course we may still have some of the same problems with cards we now have with money. Sometimes we lose money. Maybe we will lose the cards. Maybe someone will take the card. Someone may even make a card that looks like our card. Since we can’t buy anything without our cards, the credit card may be no better than currency.
Is there something easier to use than credit card? Each of us has a thumbprint(拇指纹). No two thumbprints are the same. Maybe someday the government will keep people’s thumbprints with a number. When you want to buy something you will put your thumb on a machine or a computer. Each store or business will have one. Everyone’s thumbprint will be in the computers. It will be very difficult to lose our thumbprints! It will be difficult for someone to steal it or to make one like it.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案,将其标号填入题前括号内。
1.The underlined word “currency” probably means __________here.
A. thumbs B. coins
C. plastic card D. paper money
2.Our thumbprints may be used in the future because ____________.
A. each store will have a computer
B. each person’s thumbprint is different
C. they will help each store
D. computers need them
3. Which of the following is NOT TRUE?
A. Each person has a different thumbprint
B. There are some problems with the use of credit cards.
C. There are no currency problems.
D. There are easier things to use than credit cards.
4.Which of the following gives the main idea of the second paragraph?
A. Credit cards may be no better than currency.
B. We use credit cards because money may be stolen.
C. We have many problems with money.
D. Credit cards are worse than currency.
5.The writer wants to tell us___________.
A. we will use credit cards in the future
B. we may use our thumbprints to buy something.
C. it will be safer to carry money when shopping
D. everyone will make lots of money
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New Energy in the Twenty-first Century Energy from the wind.
All over the world, people use the power of the wind. It is a clean source of energy, and there is lots of it. But if the wind does not blow, there is no wind energy.
Energy from the water
When water moves from a high place to a lower place it has the power to make electricity. In Britain, waterpower produces enough energy to power a town with 40000 people. Waterpower gives energy without pollution, but people have to build dams(大坝) to use this kind of power, and building dams is very expensive.
Energy from the earth
There is heat in the rocks under the earth. Scientists use the heat to make geothermal(地热的) San Francisco gets half of the energy it needs from geothermal power. This kind of energy is cheap, but it is only possible in a few places in the world.
Energy from the sun
Solar panels(镶板) on the roofs of houses and buildings can turn energy from the sun into electricity. These panels can create enough energy to heat the whole house during winter. Solar power is clean and plentiful, but when the weather is bad, it can’t produce power.
阅读上面信息,完成下列表格。
Advantages | Disadvantages | |
Wind power | Clean energy. There is a lot of it. | 1.__________________________ |
Waterpower | 2._________________ | It is expensive. |
Geothermal Power | 3.___________________ | It is only possible in a few places in the world. |
Solar power | Clean and plentiful. | 4.___________________________ |
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Yesterday and Today
Life in the twenty-first century will be different from life today. Between then and now many changes will take place, but what will the changes be?
The population is growing fast. There will be many people in the world and most of them will live longer than people live now.
Computers will be much smaller and more useful, and there will be at least one in every home. And computer studies will be one of the important subjects in schools then.
People will work fewer hours than they do now and they will have more free time for sports, watching TV and travel. Traveling will be much cheaper and easier. And many more people will go to other countries for holidays.
There will be changes in our food, too. More land will be used for building new towns and houses for all the people. Then there will be less room for cows and sheep, so meat will be more expensive. Maybe no one will eat it every day. Instead they will eat more fruit and vegetables. Maybe people will be healthier.
Work in the future will be different, too. Dangerous and hard work will be done by robots. Because of this, many people will not have enough work to do. This will be a problem.
1.In the next century people don’t’ have to ______________.
A. work long hours B. work fast C. walk on foot D. eat meat
2.People may not eat _____________as much as they do today.
A. fruit B. fish C. meat D. rice
3.One big problem in the future is that __________.
A.many people don’t have to work
B.many people will not be able to find work
C.people won’t have enough food to eat
D.all the work will be done by robots
4.Every family will have at least one ________ in the next century.
A. robot B. cow C. TV set D. computer
5.In the future _________________.
A. traveling will be more expensive
B. computers will be less important
C. people will be too busy to do sports.
D. computers will be much smaller.
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