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, t
Looking to the Future When a magazine for high-school students asked its readers what life would be like in twenty years, t
admin
2010-01-14
63
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. School would be taught “by electrical impulse while we sleep.” Cars would have radar. Does this sound like the year 2000? Actually, (46) and the question was, “what will life he 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 accurately. 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: (47) , hut 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 (48) 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. In early 1929, most forecasters saw an excellent future for the stock market. In October of that year, (49) ,ruining thousands of investors who had put their faith in financial foreseers.
One forecaster knew that predictions about the future would always be subject to significant errors. 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 (50) .”
A. the stock market had its worst losses ever
B. will have reached the age of 43
C. the article was written in 1958
D. Cities of the future would not be crowded
E. the prediction of the future is generally accurate
F. future study is still a new field
选项
答案
A
解析
“空白”后面的分词短语ruining thousands of investors,从上下文判断,应该是结果状语,“空白4”与之存在着因果关系。此外,investors提示,此处填入的内容应该与经济有关。选项A的内容是the stock market had its worst losses ever,完全符合上述的判断。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/Nfhd777K
本试题收录于:
职称英语理工类基础题库职称英语分类
0
职称英语理工类基础
职称英语
相关试题推荐
A.NecessityfordevelopingadulteducationB.EarlydaysofadulteducationC.WaysofreceivingadulteducationD.Growthofa
Wehavetoaskthemtoquittalkinginorderthatallpeoplepresentcouldhearusclearly.
Over-the-counterdrugsarethemedicines______.Howmanypeoplegetsickbecauseoftakingover-the-counterdrugseachyear?
Onaveragewomenlivedlongerthanmen100yearsago.AnEnglishmaninventedthefridgeinthe1920s.
TheGreatNewspaperWarUpuntilabout100yearsago,newspapersintheUnitedStatesappealedonlytothemostseriousreaders.
LoweringtheRiskofHeartDiseaseLikemillionsofotherAmericans,Icomefromafamilywithahistoryofheartdisease.Myfa
NewFoodsandtheNewWorldInthelast500years,nothingaboutpeople--nottheirclothes,ideas,orlanguages--haschangedas
Primitivehumanslookedlikeanimals.TheHippocraticOathisthefoundationofmedicalethics.
1.Mindandbodyaretwopartsofacomplexorganismcontrolledbythenervoussystem,whichactsoninformationreceivedfromt
Theseprogrammesareofimmensevaluetooldpeople.
随机试题
静脉注射某药,X0=40mg,若初始血药浓度为20μg/ml,其表观分布容积V为:
救治大面积Ⅲ度烧伤的有效方法是
护士在监护一急性心肌梗死患者时发现,该患者经漂浮导管测量的肺毛细血管楔压(PCWP)为20mmHg,提示该患者可能发生了
职业道德产生的直接原因是()。
ETF份额除可以在二级市场交易外,它的申购、赎回必须用现金。( )
一段画面尺寸为352像素×288像素,24位色彩,播放速度为25帧/秒,共10分钟的无声视频,如果没有经过压缩,则存储容量大约为()。
有甲、乙两瓶质量相同的氯化钠溶液,甲溶液浓度为60%,乙溶液浓度为40%。现将甲溶液倒掉1/3,乙溶液倒掉一半,然后混合在一起,此时得到的溶液浓度约为:
在中等教育中,职业教育是以就业为主要目标,以从事某种职业或生产劳动所需要的——为主要教学内容的教育。
关于承揽合同,下列说法不正确的是()
在期货市场上,粮食可以在收获前就“出售”。如果预测歉收,粮价就上升,如果预测丰收,粮价就下跌。目前粮食作物正面临严重干旱,今晨气象学家预测,一场足以解除旱情的大面积降雨将在傍晚开始。因此,近期期货市场上的粮价会大幅度下跌。以下哪项如果为真,最能削弱上述论证
最新回复
(
0
)