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Life in the future will be different from life today. But what will the change be?

The population is growing fast. There will be many people in the world and most of them will live longer than people live now.

Computers will be much smaller and more useful and there will be at least one in every home. And computer studies will be one of the important subjects in school then.

People will work fewer hours than they do now and they will have more free time for sports, watching TV and travel. Traveling will be much cheaper and easier. And many more people will go to other countries for holidays.

There will be changes in our food, too. More land will be used for building new towns and houses for all the people. Then there will be less room for cows and sheep, so meat will be more expensive. Maybe no one will eat it every day. Instead they will eat more fruits and vegetables. Maybe people will be healthier.

Work in the future will be different, too. Dangerous and hard work will be done by robots. Because of this, many people will not have enough work to do. This will be a problem.

小题1:In the future there will be _______ .

A. much more fruits

B. more people 

C. fewer people

小题2:Every family will have at least one _______ .

A. robot    B. computer C. TV set

小题3:In the future people don't have to_______ .

A. work long hours 

B. work fast   

C. walk on foot

小题4:People may not eat _______ as much as they do today.

A. fruit        B. fish     C. meat

小题5:One big problem in the future is that _______ .

A. many people don't have to work

B. many people will not be able to find work

C. People have to work fast

答案

小题1:B

小题2:B

小题3:A

小题4:C

小题5:B

题目分析:本文主要描述将来的生活变成什么样。人口会迅速增长。电脑会变得更小更有用。人们每天的工作量会比以前更小,会有更多的时间去做其他爱好的事情。太多的土地用来建造城镇和房子,养殖用地越来越少。将来的危险工作将由机器人完成。

小题1:细节理解题。根据原文The population is growing fast可知选B。

小题2:细节理解题。根据原文 Computers will be much smaller and more useful and there will be at least one in every home. 可知选B。

小题3:细节理解题。根据原文 People will work fewer hours than they do now 可知选A。

小题4:细节理解题。根据原文Then there will be less room for cows and sheep, so meat will be more expensive. 可知选C。

小题5:细节理解题。根据原文最后一段many people will not have enough work to do. This will be a problem.

可知选B。

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The next day I sat down,with almost a hundred other candidates,for the intelligence test.I must have done all right because after about half an hour’s wait I was sent into another room for a psychological test.This time there were only about fifty candidates.The interviewer sat at a desk.Candidates were signaled forward to occupy the seat opposite him when the previous occupant had been dismissed,after a greater or shorter time.Obviously the long interviews were the more successful ones.Some of the interviews were as short as five minutes.Mine was the only one that lasted a minute and a half.

I can remember the questions now:“Why did you leave your last job?”“Why did you leave your job before that?”“And the one before that?”I can’t recall my answers,except that they were short at first and grew progressively shorter.His closing statement,I thought,evealed(揭示)a lack of sensitivity which helped to explain why as a psychologist,he had risen no higher than the underground railway.“You’ve failed the psychological test and we are unable to offer you a position.”

Failing to get that job was my low point.Or so I thought,believing that the work was easy.Actually,such jobs—being a postman is another one I still desire—demand exactly the sort of elementary yet responsible awareness that the habitual dreamer is least qualified to give.But I was still far short of full self-understanding.I was also short of cash.

小题1:The writer applied for the job chiefly because        .

A.he wanted to work in the centre of London

B.he could no longer afford to live without one

C.he was not interested in any other available job

D.he had received some suitable training小题2:The writer thought he was overqualified for the job because        .

A.he often traveled underground

B.he had written many poems

C.he could deal with difficult situations

D.he had worked in a company小题3:The length of his interview meant that        .

A.he was not going to be offered the job

B.he had not done well in the intelligence test

C.he did not like the interviewer at all

D.he had little work experience to talk about小题4:What does the writer realize now that he did not realize then?

A.How unpleasant ordinary jobs can be

B.How difficult it is to be a poet

C.How unsuitable he was for the job

D.How badly he did in the interview小题5:What’s the writer’s opinion of the psychologist?

A.He was very aggressive

B.He was unhappy with his job

C.He was quite inefficient

D.He was rather unsympathetic