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Forecasting what life is going to be like years down the line is a risky business. Even the experts don’t always get it right. T
Forecasting what life is going to be like years down the line is a risky business. Even the experts don’t always get it right. T
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2019-03-27
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Forecasting what life is going to be like years down the line is a risky business. Even the experts don’t always get it right. Take Bill Gates, for example. In 1981, he firmly stated the ’ 640k of memory ought to be enough for anyone’. So it’s more than a bit embarrassing for him now that, even on a standard issue home PC, you need 200 times that amount of memory just to run his own company’s software. Fortunately for Bill, others predicted that the technological future would involve giant computers that were the size of cities, whereas what we actually have are ever-shrinking models that you put neatly into your pocket. Nano-technology(纳米技术)is definitely the way forward.
【B1】______They imagined the robots of the future would not only be able to think for themselves, but get on with the housework too. But what have we got? More time-saving devices and what seems like less time. Just how did that happen? And absolutely no sign of a helpful house robot to mix a perfect Martini at the end of a hard day at work. Face it, we haven’t even cracked robotic vacuum cleaners yet.
【B2】______ Air tours are not booking moon packages, and space travel is only for the trained or for the fantastically wealthy few. True, all-in-one body suits did make a number of fashion appearances, but on the whole, we’ve realised that body suits are a misnormer, because they don’t actually suit bodies, other than those with faultless dimensions.
【B3】______Actually, we do now know how to extend life—by eating less and exercising more. Even so, California cryogenics super-salesmen have persuaded some people to part with vast sums of money on a promise that will defrost them when ’ the time is right’. But since we haven’t yet even perfected freezing strawberries, these poor deluded souls may be nothing more than mucky puddles by 2052.
【B4】______Nutritionally-perfect pills to replace all our food? Nothing but online shopping? Both have met with a resounding thumbs down from the public. We simply refuse to give up eating our nutritionally nightmarish fish and chips. And we show absolutely no inclination to forego the pleasure of touching, examining and trying the purchases we make. We love our food and our shopping, thank you very much.
【B5】______In the fifties, concerns focused on monsters and flying saucers. Ours are reproductive. For instance we worry that, come 2052, it will be increasingly normal that male pregnancy will be possible. I bet it only for lunatic along with human cloning and genetic engineering. Yes. it might all be technically possible, but it will remain phenomenally risky for the baby. It’s an unchangeable part of human nature that what we really want, above everything else, is the best for our future generations.
Questions 61 - 65
Complete the passage with the following sentences. There are two extra sentences you do not need to use.
A. The labour-saving devices of the future could lead to a problem of obesity.
B. Each age has its future fears that turn out to be groundless.
C. Immortality has been a constant theme in futurology.
D. Most scientists don’t believe that we will never be able to travel through time.
E. Human nature is the greatest single confounder of all the predictions of decades gone by.
F. Neither are there any aliens on the horizon, nor even in the galaxy next door.
G. Fifty years ago, the futurologists of the day were confidently forecasting an outlook that was sil-ver, shiny with intelligent robots.
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答案
F
解析
前文提到智能机器人并未出现,下文指出月球旅行没有实现,太空旅游也只是针对受训者和极其富有的少数人,由此可见前后两段均在证明对未来的预测不一定准确,F项“地球上,即便是银河系中也没有外星人”也是其中一个例子。
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