首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Looking to the Future When a magazine for high-school students asked its readers what life would be like in twenty years, they s
Looking to the Future When a magazine for high-school students asked its readers what life would be like in twenty years, they s
admin
2012-12-22
62
问题
Looking to the Future
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. Buildings 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. (1). Cars would have radar. Does this sound like the year 2000? (2).
The future is much too important to simply guess about, the way the high school students did, so experts are regularly asked to predict accurately. (3) . 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, because he was writing in 1957. His subject was "The City of 1982".
If the professionals sometimes sound like high-school students, it’s probably because future study is still a new field. But economic forecasting, or predicting what the economy will do, 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. (4). In October of that year, the stock market had its worst losses ever, mining thousands of investors who had put their faith in financial foreseers.
(5)In 1957, H. $. Rand of the Rand Corporation was asked about the year 2000, "Only one thing is certain, "he answered. "Children will have reached the age of 43."
A.By carefully studying the present, skilled businessmen scientists, and politicians are supposedly able to figure out in advance what will happen.
B.School would be taught "by electrical impulse while we sleep."
C.One forecaster knew that predictions about the future would always be subject to significant errors.
D.In early 1929, most forecasters saw an excellent future for the stock market.
E.Everyone may look to the future for it is always promising.
F. Actually, the article was written in 1958 and the question was, "what will life be like in 19787"
选项
答案
D
解析
空格后句中提到了“股票市场”。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/4eFd777K
本试题收录于:
职称英语综合类B级题库职称英语分类
0
职称英语综合类B级
职称英语
相关试题推荐
Theindexisthegovernment’schiefgaugeoffutureeconomicactivity.
Thereisadifferencebetweenscienceandtechnology.Scienceisamethodofanswering(51)questions,technologyisamethodofs
Comparedwiththeclearwordsofherboyfriendonscreen,hisaccentisThepassageimpliesthatthewriterandherboyfriendl
HowDidSheConquertheAmericans?African-AmericantalkshowqueenOprahWinfreyistheworld’smostpowerfulcelebrity,acc
Accordingtothepassage,thescienceofthefutureislikelytobeOrganicchemistryhelpstoproducematerialsthatare
Thereisnogoodplacetohaveacarcrash--butsomeplacesareworsethanothers.Inaforeigncountry,forinstance,(1)toex
Theprotectionofendangeredspeciesisahighlycontroversialissuebecauseitaffectstheinterestsofcertaingroupsofpeopl
TheCommissionhasalsobegunlookingintotheroleofclimate.
ManyofCarsonMcCuller’scharactersareisolated,disappointedpeople.
Apeculiarlypointedchinishismostmemorablefacialcharacteristic.
随机试题
A.后微动脉B.通血毛细血管C.动-静脉吻合支D.真毛细血管微循环中与体温调节有关的关键组成部分是
近中面颈部有明显凹陷的牙是
A、强心甾烯B、蟾蜍甾二烯(或海葱甾二烯)C、30,14-二羟基强心甾烯D、3β,14-二羟基强心甾烯E、三萜甲型强心苷元结构的基本母核为
某卷烟企业2003年9月实际缴纳增值税35万元,消费税20万元,营业税17万元,该卷烟企业应缴纳的教育费附加为( )。
下列资产负债表项目中,需要根据多个总账科目余额计算填列的有()。
在四种不同的薪酬策略中,企业最常用的方式是()。
读下图,完成问题。某两洲面积之和与某大洋面积接近,它们是()。
发展心理学从哪三个角度论述儿童语言的发展?其中什么角度最适于用来考量人们的交往能力及对其进行培养?请谈谈你对这方面问题的感触和思考。
图案
【B1】【B8】
最新回复
(
0
)