Can you imagine what our life will be like in the year 2050? Perhaps you will be flying off for a holiday on the moon, or maybe you will be taking your dog for a walk in virtual（虚拟的）reality. We recently carried out a survey（调查）of 1000 people from different countries find out what they think life will be like in the future. The results clearly show both our hopes and fears.

　　The survey suggests that friendship—one of the most important human relationships—will have changed dramatically（显著地）. People will make friends mainly through the Internet. What is more, a large number of people will come across their future spouses（配偶）in this way! Computers will have become Completely necessary by 2050. Even now, some people begin to regard them as their best friends! Others, however, say that we will become much more separated and estranged（疏远的）from each other because we will have little real human contact.

　　Education will have changed a lot, too. As more and more children will be using computers in schools, certain abilities, such as mental arithmetic（心算）won’t be necessary since there will be computer programs for most calculations（计算）. Even writing by hand—at least to some extent—will have become a thing of the past.

　　According to the survey, home life will be more and more comfortable. Most people believe that by 2050 robots will be doing housework and we will rely mainly on ready-made food. A lot of people think that we might only cook for fun in the future.

　　Space exploration（探险）will become increasingly popular. Fifty percent of the people we talked to believe that man will regularly visit Mars. They also believe that travel on our own planet will probably change. Almost everyone thinks that there will be no cars in the city center. Some even think that environmentally—friendly（利于环保的）electric of solar-powered cars will have replaced the cars we use now.

　　Pollution is something that worries us very much. Some fear that it will continue to get worse, and that it well be impossible for us to live on our polluted planet. Others even foresee（预言）that one day we’ll have to pay for clean air.

　　On the other hand, people seem to be quite optimistic about the benefits of genetic（遗传）engineering, as they think scientists will use it to cure diseases like cancers and AIDS. If scientists manage to find a cure for these, we’ll have a much healthier society.

　　Some people worry about the future, while others are full of hope and confidence（信心）. No matter how dark or bright it may seem, it is up to us to look after our planet and try to make it a better globe to live on.

(1) Many people believe that in 2050, we will ________.

[　　]

A．not pay for computers

B．seldom leave our homes

C．not have any real friends

D．find partners and friends mainly through computers

(2) The passage suggests that in 2050 ________.

[　　]

A．half of the world population will have traveled to Mars

B．students will write with typewriters only

C．cooking will not be easy to people

D．lessons taught at school and the ways in which they are taught will be very different

(3) Some people believe that pollution will have ________ by 2050.

[　　]

A．disappeared

B．killed most of the people on the planet

C．become an even worse problem

D．made our planet a warmer place to live on

(4) Many people think that by 2050 ________.

[　　]

A．there will be a cure for cancer and AIDS

B．people will have stopped dying

C．scientists will solve all the problems we face

D．people won’t get diseases

Can you imagine what our life will be like in the year 2050? Perhaps you will be flying off for a holiday on the moon, or maybe you will be taking your dog for a walk in virtual（虚拟的）reality. We recently carried out a survey（调查）of 1000 people from different countries find out what they think life will be like in the future. The results clearly show both our hopes and fears.

　　The survey suggests that friendship—one of the most important human relationships—will have changed dramatically（显著地）. People will make friends mainly through the Internet. What is more, a large number of people will come across their future spouses（配偶）in this way! Computers will have become Completely necessary by 2050. Even now, some people begin to regard them as their best friends! Others, however, say that we will become much more separated and estranged（疏远的）from each other because we will have little real human contact.

　　Education will have changed a lot, too. As more and more children will be using computers in schools, certain abilities, such as mental arithmetic（心算）won’t be necessary since there will be computer programs for most calculations（计算）. Even writing by hand—at least to some extent—will have become a thing of the past.

　　According to the survey, home life will be more and more comfortable. Most people believe that by 2050 robots will be doing housework and we will rely mainly on ready-made food. A lot of people think that we might only cook for fun in the future.

　　Space exploration（探险）will become increasingly popular. Fifty percent of the people we talked to believe that man will regularly visit Mars. They also believe that travel on our own planet will probably change. Almost everyone thinks that there will be no cars in the city center. Some even think that environmentally—friendly（利于环保的）electric of solar-powered cars will have replaced the cars we use now.

　　Pollution is something that worries us very much. Some fear that it will continue to get worse, and that it well be impossible for us to live on our polluted planet. Others even foresee（预言）that one day we’ll have to pay for clean air.

　　On the other hand, people seem to be quite optimistic about the benefits of genetic（遗传）engineering, as they think scientists will use it to cure diseases like cancers and AIDS. If scientists manage to find a cure for these, we’ll have a much healthier society.

　　Some people worry about the future, while others are full of hope and confidence（信心）. No matter how dark or bright it may seem, it is up to us to look after our planet and try to make it a better globe to live on.

(1) Many people believe that in 2050, we will ________.

[　　]

A．not pay for computers

B．seldom leave our homes

C．not have any real friends

D．find partners and friends mainly through computers

(2) The passage suggests that in 2050 ________.

[　　]

A．half of the world population will have traveled to Mars

B．students will write with typewriters only

C．cooking will not be easy to people

D．lessons taught at school and the ways in which they are taught will be very different

(3) Some people believe that pollution will have ________ by 2050.

[　　]

A．disappeared

B．killed most of the people on the planet

C．become an even worse problem

D．made our planet a warmer place to live on

(4) Many people think that by 2050 ________.

[　　]

A．there will be a cure for cancer and AIDS

B．people will have stopped dying

C．scientists will solve all the problems we face

D．people won’t get diseases

第II卷（非选择题，共35分）

注意事项：

1. 用黑色墨水的钢笔或签字笔将答案写在答题纸上。

2. 本卷共6小题，共35分。

第三部分：写作

第一节    阅读表达（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

阅读下面短文，并根据题目要求用英语回答问题（请注意问题后的字数要求）。

Sleepless in Seattle? Hardly. West Virginia is where people are really staying awake, according to the first government study to monitor state-by-state differences in sleeplessness. West Virginians’ lack of sleep was about double the national rate, perhaps a side effect of health problems such as obesity(肥胖), experts said.

Nearly 1 in 5 West Virginians said they did not get a single good night’s sleep in the previous month. The national average was about 1 in 10, according to a federal health survey. Tennessee, Kentucky and Oklahoma also were notably above average with nearly 1 in 7 people reporting in a lack of sleep. In contrast, North Dakota was below average, with only 1 in 13 reporting that degree of sleeplessness. Health officials do not know the exact reasons for the differences.

In the survey, people weren’t required to answer the question why they were not able to get enough rest or sleep. But experts noted several possible explanations: West Virginia ranks at or near the bottom of the nation in several important measurements of health, including obesity, smoking, heart disease and the proportion of adults with disabilities.

Studies have increasingly found that sleeping problems often occurred among people with certain health problems, including obesity. “You would expect to see poorer sleep within a chronically (慢性地) diseased population,” noted Dr Ronald Chervin, a sleep disorders expert in University of Michigan.

Financial stress and work shifts(倒班)can play roles in sleeplessness, too, Chervin added. He suggested those may be contributing factors in West Virginia, an economically depressed state with tens of thousands of people working in coal mining.

The report was based on results of an annual telephone survey of more than 400,000 Americans, including at least 3,900 in each state. The survey did not include people who use only cellphones.

56. What is the main idea of Paragraph 1? (No more than 15 words.)

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57. What does the underlined word “notably” in Paragraph 2 mean? (No more than 3 words.)

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58. What was the possible reason for the high rate of sleeplessness in West Virginia according to Paragraph 3?  (No more than 12 words.)

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59. List three factors that contribute to sleeplessness based on the passage.

(No more than 8 words.)

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60. How was the research carried out? (No more than 10 words.)

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