阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项中选出最佳答案.

　　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

阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项中选出最佳答案.

　　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

 

   Astronauts’ meals have come a long way from the free-dried powders and semi-liquid pastes of decades ago，now US scientists want to grow vegetables in mini-greenhouses on the moon．

   Scientists say they are looking forward to a time when residents of future lunar or even Martian outsteps will be able to dine on fresh vegetables．Paragon Space Development Corporation has unveiled what it called the first step toward growing flowers——and eventually food—on the moon.

   This is a sealed greenhouse that looks like a bell jar encased in a 46-cm triangular aluminium frame(三角铝框架)．It is designed to safely land a laboratory plant on the lunar surface，and protect it while it grows．

   The miniature greenhouse is to be launched into space by Odyssey Moon Ltd, a participant in the Google Lunar X Prize. This competition offers $20 million to any entrant(参加者) who can launch，land and operate a rover（漫游）on the lunar surface.

   Paragon officials say future testing of the“Lunar Oasis”will be driven by Odyssey’s flight schedule，which will not happen until 2012 at the earliest．

   When it does lift off the greehouse will contain the seeds of Brassica, a hardy plant related to Brussels sprouts and cabbage．Because Brassica goes from seed to flower in just 14 days，it can complete its life cycle in a single lunar night

   “Colonizing the Moon or Mars seems so far away，but it is important that we do this research now，” Paragon president Jane Poynter said．

    “It takes a long time to get a lot of research，and to get integrated，reliable efficient systems before colonists move in．”she said．

1.The article is written mainly to _________.

    A. predict the astronauts’meals in the future

    B. introduce an experiment“Lunar Oasis’’

    C. tell us the future development of astronomy

    D. focus on the human’s great progress

2.The article implies that __________.

    A. astronauts ean grow flowers in space at present

    B. Paragon and NASA will carry out the test separately

    C. Lunar Oasis is a series of experiments carried out in space

    D. the earliest testing of the Lunar Oasis may be in 2012

3.The underlined word “colonists”in the last paragraph probably has the meaning of _______.

    A. plants    B. wild beasts    C. human beings   D. scientists

4.The seeds of Brassica will be contained in the greenhouse mainly because _______.

    A. their life cycle is much shorter

    B. they are more nutritious than other food

    C. they are related to Brussels sporouts and cabbage

    D. they are very delicious

第一节：短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

If someone asks you how you can make you always 5._______

happy, you will perhaps find rather difficult to give him   6._______

a proper answer．Did you remember the old saying“No    7._______

human being can really happy who is not giving or trying    8._______

to give happiness to others”? If you will always think of  9._______

taking more from others and give them less，you won’t be   10._______

able to have happiness in your life even you are very rich. 11._______

Here’s an article for you. If each of you follow it, there 12._______

will be all end of many unhappy days of yours．So you should    13._______

learn to give up your own interests when necessarily to do so.  14._______