It’s 2035. You have a job, family and you’re about 40 years old! Welcome to your future life.
Getting ready for work, you pause in front of the mirror. “Turn red,” you say. Your shirt changes from sky blue to deep red. Tiny preprogrammed electronics (智能电子元件) are rearranged in your shirt to change its color. Looking into the mirror, you find it hard to believe you’re 40. You look much younger. With amazing advances in medicine, people in your generation may live lo be 150 years old. You’re not even middle-aged!
As you go into the kitchen and prepare to pour your breakfast cereal into a bowl, you hear, “To lose weight, you shouldn’t eat that,” from your shoes. They read the tiny electronic code (电子源码) on the cereal box to find out the nutrition details. You decide to listen to your shoes. “Kitchen, what can I have for breakfast?” A list of possible foods appears on the counter as the kitchen checks its food supplies.
“Ready for your trip to space?” you ask your son and daughter. In 2005 only specially trained astronauts went into space — and very few of them. Today anyone can go to space for day trips or longer vacations. Your best friend even works in space. Handing your children three strawberries each, you add, “The doctor said you need these for space travel.” Thanks to medical advances, vaccination shots (防疫针) are a thing of the past. Ordinary foods contain specific vaccines. With the berries in their mouths, the kids head the front door.
It’s time for you to go to work. Your car checks your fingerprints and unlocks the doors. “My office, Autopilot,” you command. Your car drives itself down the road and moves smoothly into traffic on highway. You sit back and unroll your e-newspaper. The latest news downloads and fills the viewer. Looking through the pages, you watch the news as video film rather than read it.
1.What changes the color of your shirt?
A．The mirror. B．The shirt itself.
C．The counter. D．The medicine.
2.How do the shoes know that you shouldn’t eat the breakfast cereal?
A． By pouring the breakfast into a bow.
B． By listening to the doctor’s advice.
C． By testing the food supplies in the kitchen.
D． By checking the nutrition details of the food.
3.The strawberries the children eat serve as .
A．breakfast B．lunch
C．vaccines D．nutrition
4.How is the text organized?
A．In order of time B．In order of frequency
C．In order of preference D．In order of importance
Fat and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. “Football, tennis, cricket — anything with a round ball, I was useless,”he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the one always made fun of in school gym classes in Devonshire, England.
It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. At fist he went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then be began to ride the bike along with a runner friend, Gradually, Saunders set his mind on building up his body, increasing his speed and strength. At the age of 18, he ran his first marathon.
The following year, he met John Ridgway and was hired as an instructor at Ridgway’s School of Adventure in Scotland where he learned about Ridgeway’s cold-water exploits. Greatly interested, Saunders read all he could about North Pole explorers and adventures then decided that this would be his future.
In 2001, after becoming a skillful skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition (探险) towards the North Pole. It took unbelievable energy. He suffered frostbite (冻疮)，ran into a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit, pulling his supply-loaded sled (雪橇) up and over rocky ice.
Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he’s skied more of the North Pole by himself than any other British man. His old playmates would not believe the change.
Next October, Saunders, 27, heads south from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, a 2900-kilornetre journey that has never been completed on skis.
1.What changes happened to Saunders after he was 15 years old?
A．He became good at most sports. B．He began to build up his body.
C．He joined a sports team. D．He made friends with a runner.
2.The underlined word “exploits” (paragraph3) is closest in meaning to .
A. journeys B. researches
C. adventures D. operations
3.Which of the following is the correct order of the events that happened to Saunders?
A. He ran his first marathon. B. He skied alone in the North Pole.
C. He rode his bike in a forest. D. He planned an adventure to the South Pole.
A．acdb B．cdab C．adbd D．cabd
4.What does the story mainly tell us about Saunders?
A．He is success in sports. B．He is the best British skier.
C．He is Ridgway’s favorite student. D．He is a good instructor at school.
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和Ｄ）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
One man was to meet his wife downtown and spend some time shopping with her. He waited
1for 15 minutes. Then he waited impatiently for 15 minutes more. After that, he became 2. When he saw a photograph booth (照相亭) nearby, he had 3. He wore the most unhappy expression he could manage, which was not 4in the situation. In a few moments he was holding four small prints that 5even him.
He wrote his wife’s name on the back of the photos and handed them to a 6behind the desk in the booth. “ 7you see a small, dark lady with brown eyes and an apologetic expression, obviously 8someone, would you please give her this?” he said. He then 9his office in Morrison Building, 10that if a picture is worth a thousand words, then the four photos must be a good 11! He sat down with a smile.
His wife 12those pictures. She carries them in her purse now and shows them to anyone who asks if she is married…
How are you with 13? One person calls it “wait training.” It seems that there is always something we are 14. We wait on traffic and we wait in lines. We wait to hear about a new job. We wait to complete school. We wait for someone to charge his or her mind.
Patience is an important 15of a happy and rewarding life. 16, some things are worth waiting for. 17presents many opportunities for wait training.
We can hate waiting, 18it or even get good at it! But one thing is 19— we cannot avoid it. How is your 20coming along?
1.A. proudly B. respectfully C .patiently D. curiously
2.Ａ. angry B. hungry C. frightened D. thirsty
3.A．a question B. a reason C. an opinion D. an idea
4.Ａ. serious B. difficult C. regular D. convenient
5.Ａ. hurt B. encouraged C. attracted D. shocked
6.Ａ. clerk B. secretary C. passer-by D. friend
7.Ａ. Since B. Before C. As D. If
8.Ａ. looking for B. working for C. sending for D. paying for
9.Ａ. called up B. returned to C. visited D. left
10.Ａ. worried B. disappointed C. satisfied D. surprised
11.Ａ. description B. preparation C. excuse D. lecture
12.Ａ. tore B. saved C. developed D. destroyed
13.Ａ. your wife B. your family C. patience D. determination
14.Ａ. hoping for B. waiting for C. ready for D. fit for
15.Ａ. lesson B. experience C. purpose D. quality
16.A. For example B. After all C. Right now D. So far
17.Ａ. Every age B. Every shop C. Every day D. Every office
18.Ａ. accept B. control C. change D. improve
19.Ａ. certain B. interesting C. precious D. easy
20.Ａ. photo taking B. job hunting C. decision making D. wait training
—What should I do first?
—The instructions that you should mix flour with water carefully first.
A．go B．tell
C．write D．say
—Could I have a word with you, mum?
—Oh dear, if you .
A．can B．must
C．may D．should
It remains whether Jim’ll be fit enough to play in the finals.
A．seen B．to be seen
C．seeing D．to see
