Some big Hollywood studios have _______a lot of power that they can decide what kind of films should get made.
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科目：高中英语 来源：人教社新课程2003年审核高二上册练习 人教社新课程2003年审核 题型：050
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When a magazine for high-school students asked its readers what life would be like in twenty years, they said: Machines would be run by solar power. Building would rotate so they could follow the sun to take maximum advantage of its light and heat. Walls would“radiate light”and“change color with the push of a button”. Food would be replaced by pills. School would be taught“by electrical impulse while we sleep”. Cars would have radar. Does this sound like the years 2000? Actually, the article was written in 1958 and the question was“What will life be like in 1978?”
The future is much too important to simply guess about, the way the high school students did, so experts are regularly asked to predict（预言）accurately（准确地）. By carefully studying the present, skilled businessmen, scientists, and politicians are supposedly able to figure out in advance what will happen. But can they? One expert on cities wrote: Cities of the future would not be crowded, but would have space for farms and fields. People would travel to work in“airbuses”, large all-weather helicopters carrying up to 200 passengers, when a person left the airbus station he could drive a coin-operated car equipped with radar. The radar equipment of cars would make traffic accidents“almost unheard of”. Does that sound familiar? If the expert had been accurate it would be, because he was writing in 1957. His subject was “The City of 1982”.
If the experts sometimes sound like high-school students, it's probably because future study is still a new field. But economic（经济的）predicting has been around for a long time. It should be accurate, and generally it is. But there have been some big mistakes in this field, too. In early 1929, most predictors saw an excellent future
for the stock market. In October of that year, the stock market had its worst losses ever.
One predictor knew that predictions about the future would probably be wrong. In 1957, H.J. Rand of the Rand Corporation was asked about the year 2000,“Only one thing is certain,”he answered.“Children born today will have reached the age of43.”
（1）High-school students' answers to“What would life be in 1978?”sound ________.
[ ]
（2）According to the writer, forecasting is fairly accurate in ________.
[ ]
（3）Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
[ ]
A. Predictions are accurate.
B. Professionals sometimes sound like high school students.
C. There have been some big mistakes in the field of economic forecasting.
D. Predictions about the future will probably be wrong.
（4）The present passage was most probably written ________.
[ ]
A. just before 2000
B. in 1958
C. after 1982
D. in 1957
（5）H.J. Rand's prediction about the year 2000 shows that ________.
[ ]
A. it is easy to figure out in advance what will happen
B. it is difficult to figure out in advance what will happen
C. only experts can figure out in advance what will happen
D. very few experts can figure out in advance what will happen
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：053
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When a magazine for high-school students asked its readers what life would be like in twenty years, they said: Machines would be run by solar power. Building would rotate so they could follow the sun to take maximum advantage of its light and heat. Walls would“radiate light”and“change color with the push of a button”. Food would be replaced by pills. School would be taught“by electrical impulse while we sleep”. Cars would have radar. Does this sound like the years 2000? Actually, the article was written in 1958 and the question was“What will life be like in 1978?”
The future is much too important to simply guess about, the way the high school students did, so experts are regularly asked to predict（预言）accurately（准确地）. By carefully studying the present, skilled businessmen, scientists, and politicians are supposedly able to figure out in advance what will happen. But can they? One expert on cities wrote: Cities of the future would not be crowded, but would have space for farms and fields. People would travel to work in“airbuses”, large all-weather helicopters carrying up to 200 passengers, when a person left the airbus station he could drive a coin-operated car equipped with radar. The radar equipment of cars would make traffic accidents“almost unheard of”. Does that sound familiar? If the expert had been accurate it would be, because he was writing in 1957. His subject was “The City of 1982”.
If the experts sometimes sound like high-school students, it's probably because future study is still a new field. But economic（经济的）predicting has been around for a long time. It should be accurate, and generally it is. But there have been some big mistakes in this field, too. In early 1929, most predictors saw an excellent future
for the stock market. In October of that year, the stock market had its worst losses ever.
One predictor knew that predictions about the future would probably be wrong. In 1957, H.J. Rand of the Rand Corporation was asked about the year 2000,“Only one thing is certain,”he answered.“Children born today will have reached the age of43.”
（1）High-school students' answers to“What would life be in 1978?”sound ________.
[ ]
（2）According to the writer, forecasting is fairly accurate in ________.
[ ]
（3）Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
[ ]
A. Predictions are accurate.
B. Professionals sometimes sound like high school students.
C. There have been some big mistakes in the field of economic forecasting.
D. Predictions about the future will probably be wrong.
（4）The present passage was most probably written ________.
[ ]
A. just before 2000
B. in 1958
C. after 1982
D. in 1957
（5）H.J. Rand's prediction about the year 2000 shows that ________.
[ ]
A. it is easy to figure out in advance what will happen
B. it is difficult to figure out in advance what will happen
C. only experts can figure out in advance what will happen
D. very few experts can figure out in advance what will happen
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科目：高中英语 来源：2010-2011年河南洛阳一中高二6月周练英语试卷 题型：阅读理解
Motorists who used to listen to the radio or their favorite tunes on CDs may have a new way to entertain themselves, after engineers in Japan developed a musical road surface.
A team from the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute has built a number of“melody roads,”which use cars as tuning forks to play music as they travel.
The concept works by using grooves(凹槽).They are cut at very specific intervals in the road surface. The melody road uses the spaces between to create different notes.
Depending on how far apart the grooves are, a car moving over them will produce a series of high or low notes, and designers are able to create a distinct tune.
Paten documents for the design describe it as notches “formed in a road surface so as to play a melody without producing simple sound or rhythm and reproduce melody-like tones”.
There are three musical strips in central and northern Japan—one of which plays the tune of a Japanese pop song. Reports say the system was invented by Shizuo Shinoda. He scraped some markings into a road with a bulldozer before driving over them and found that they helped to produce all kinds of tones.
The optimal speed for melody road is 44kph,but people say it is not always easy to get the intended sound.
“You need to keep the car windows closed to hear well,”wrote one Japanese blogger.“Driving too fast will sound like playing fast forward, while driving around 12mph［20km/h］has a slow-motion effect, making you almost car-sick.”
【小题1】According to the passage, melody roads use to create different notes.
| A．cars | B．grooves | C．spaces between intervals | D．bulldozers |
| A．how far the grooves are | B．how big the grooves are |
| C．the number of the grooves | D．the speed of the car |
| A．fastest | B．possible | C．best | D．suitable |
| A．drive very fast | B．drive slowly |
| C．open the windows wide | D．keep the windows closed |
| A．A New Type of Music | B．Melody Roads in Japan |
| C．A Musical Road Surface | D．A New Invention in J |
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科目：高中英语 来源：2013-2014学年福建永春一中培元中学季延中学石狮联中高三上第二次联考英语卷（解析版） 题型：其他题
阅读下面短文，根据以下要求：1）汉语提示, 2）首字母提示, 3）语境提示, 在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上，所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。
Dear future pen pal ,
??? My name is Tudor , which is a very Welsh name . Maybe you have never been to Wales, but perhaps you know where it is. It is a small country , but with a big heart , I think . My family live ___1.___ a farm , where we mainly have sheep , but there are a_____2.______ some cows , which I like very much . In this part of the country it is quite mountainous . They’re not big , h_____3.______ mountains , but pretty impressive . Well , I’m just fifteen now , and my future work will be here in these _____4.____（田野）. My brother is an engineer , so no farming for him , and my sister is now _____5.______ and has a small child . So , here I am , an uncle a_______6._____ , and with three years’ school still ahead .
I’m very _______7.________（兴趣）in things about China . In fact I’m learning some Chinese from a Chinese student . He _______8.________ （鼓励）me to find a pen pal in Beijing and that’s _____9.______ I’m writing this letter .
I’ve put my a______10.______ on the top of the letter . Please write and tell me about yourself .
Best wishes .
Tudor
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科目：高中英语 来源：江苏省期中题 题型：填空题
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