Question

Life in the 2100s will be very different from life today. Between then and now many changes will take place. What will the changes be?

The population is growing fast. There will be more people in the world and most of them will live longer than people do 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 traveling. Traveling will be much easier and cheaper. More people will go to other countries on holiday.

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 canl be done by robots, because of this, many people will not have 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 vegetables

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 to work earlier

D.will work for many hours

4.People will prefer to in the future.

A. fruit and vegetables; meat

B.meat; fruit and vegetables

C. fruit and meat; vegetables

D.meat and vegetables; fruit

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

Answer 1

1.C

2.B

3.A

4.A

5.A

【解析】

試題分析：這篇短文中作者主要講述了二十二世紀(jì)的生活和今天的生活會(huì)大有不同。首先是人口增長越來越快。人的壽命比現(xiàn)在長。電腦也會(huì)變得越來越小。人們工作的時(shí)間將會(huì)比現(xiàn)在更短。旅行將會(huì)變得越來越容易，越來越便宜。飲食也會(huì)有所改變。更多的土地用來為人民建造新的城鎮(zhèn)和房子。牛羊的生存空間則會(huì)減少，所以肉會(huì)變得非常昂貴。人們將會(huì)吃越來越多的水果和蔬菜。也許人們會(huì)越來越健康。將來的工作也會(huì)大有不同。危險(xiǎn)和辛苦的工作會(huì)有機(jī)器人來操作。為此，許多人可能會(huì)失業(yè)。這將成為一個(gè)問題。

1.二段“The population is growing fast. There will be more people in the world and most of them will live longer than people do now.”的描述可知，將來人口將會(huì)越來越多。故選C。

2.短文第三段“Computers will be much smaller and more useful,”的描述可知，將來電腦也會(huì)變得越來越小，越來越有用。故選B。

3.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文第四段“More people will go to other countries on holiday.”的描述可知，將來更多的人會(huì)到其他國家去度假。故選A。

4.五段“Maybe no one will eat meat every day. Instead, they eat more fruit and vegetables.”的描述可知，人們將會(huì)吃越來越多的水果和蔬菜，而不是吃肉。故選A。

5.六段“Dangerous and hard work canl be done by robots,”的描述可知，機(jī)器人將會(huì)從事危險(xiǎn)困難的工作。故選A。

考點(diǎn)：社會(huì)現(xiàn)象類短文閱讀。