By 2050
Futurologists（未來學(xué)家）predict that life will probably be very different in 2050.
TV channels（頻道）will have disappeared. Instead, people will choose a program from a “menu” and a computer will send the program directly to the television. Today, we can use the World Wide Web to read newspaper stories and see pictures on a computer thousands of kilometers away. By 2050, music, films, programs, newspapers, and books will come to us by computer.
Cars will run on new, clean fuels and they will go very fast. Cars will have computers to control the speed and there won’t be any accidents. Today, many cars have computers that tell drivers exactly where they are. By 2050, the computer will control the car and drive it to your destination. Space planes will take people halfway around the world in 2 hours. Today, the United States Space Shuttle can go into space and land on Earth again. By 2050, space planes will fly all over the world and people will fly from Los Angeles to Tokyo in just 2 hours.
Robots will have replaced people in factories. Many factories already use robots. Big computers prefer robots—they don’t ask for pay rises or go on strike, and they work 24 hours a day. By 2050, we will see robots everywhere—in factories, schools, offices, hospitals, shops and homes.
Medical technology will have conquered many diseases. Today, there are devices（設(shè)備）that connect directly to the brain to help people hear. By 2050, we will be able to help blind and deaf people to see and hear again.
Scientist will have discovered how to control genes（基因）. Scientists have already produced clones（克�。﹐f animals. By 2050, scientists will be able to produce clones of people, and decide how they look, how they behave and how clever they are. Scientists will be able to do these things, but should they?
小題1:According to the passage, the following can be realized today EXCEPT __________.
A．reading newspapers on a computer
B．making a space shuttle go into space and land on Earth again
C．creating cloned animals
D．choosing TV programs freely from a “menu”
小題2:We can learn from the passage that some big companies prefer robots to human workers, because human workers __________.
A．can work 24 hours a day
B．often ask for more pay
C．a(chǎn)re not clever enough
D．a(chǎn)re often late for work
小題3:From Paragraph 5 we can infer that __________.
A．there will be no blind and deaf people by 2050
B．few diseases will attack people by 2050
C．devices are connected directly to the brain to help people hear
D．medical technology will be more effective by 2050
小題4:What is the author’s attitude towards the cloning technology?
A．The author does not support the use of cloning technology.
B．The author thinks human cloning is impossible.
C．The author does not really support the idea of human cloning.
D．The author is quite excited about human cloning.

小題1:D
小題2:B
小題3:D
小題4:C
本文講的是到2050年科技的發(fā)展方向。
小題1:推理判斷題 根據(jù)第一段中說到的D項(xiàng)要到2050年才能實(shí)現(xiàn)，因此選D。
小題2:推理判斷題 根據(jù)倒數(shù)第三段中“Big computers prefer robots—they don’t ask for pay rises or go on strike, and they work 24 hours a day.”可推斷雇傭工人需要付工資，而機(jī)器人不需要付了。
小題3:推理判斷題 根據(jù)文章理解可知醫(yī)療水平到2050將會有很大提升。
小題4:推理判斷題 根據(jù)最后一段中的反問句可知，他對科學(xué)家的目的提出疑問了
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