Close your eyes and imagine you are living in the next two centuries or more. You’ll be living in a world filled with smart robots, which will be helping you to take care of your children, or your elderly parents in your home. You’ll live much longer thanks to the medicine made by genetic (基因的) science. And mankind may be going farther in space than ever before ––you will be living on the moon or Mars.
How should we view the changes that wait for us in the future? Should we be optimistic about the years ahead, or worried about what the future holds? Some scientists and experts are having a discussion about how technology, science and society will develop in the future.
“I’m looking forward to the day when more technology will e to my life,” says John Searle, a professor at the University of California Berkeley Philosophy, “because I think further research in such areas as genetics, physics, chemistry and medicine will help us to overe poverty, improve health, and make life longer.”
Hugh Herr, at MIT’s Biomechatronics Group, considers very powerful weapons as concern over the future. Another is the growing role of technology in our lives.“Machines taking over what humans do is not a good thing,” Herr says.
That is a similar concern shared by Daniela Cerqui, a social and cultural scientist. “I am afraid that the long-term future we are building will have no space left for human beings,” says Cerqui. “The main values of our society are related to information that must progress as quickly as possible, and puters are much better than humans in these tasks .”
【小题1】The first paragraph mainly tells us .A．how science will develop in the next two centuriesB．how people will live in a modern societyC．what life would be like in the futureD．what puters will bring to our society【小题2】What is John Searle’s attitude towards the future of technology?A．Worried.B．Optimistic.C．Uncertain.D．Disappointed.【小题3】The underlined word “That” in the last paragraph refers to .A．the poverty problem in the futureB．machines taking over what humans doC．the technology of weaponsD．the health problem of humans【小题4】What would be the best title for the passage?A．The future––full of hope or concern?B．Great changes will take place in the futureC．The relationship between technology and humansD．The role of robots and puters in the futureC
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(答案→)C
解析：未来的生活怎么样？文章简单说明了这个主题，并提出了两种截然相反的观点，有人很期待，有人很担心。
【小题1】段落大意题。通读第一段可知是关于未来生活的。
【小题2】推理题。根据第三段第一行“I’m looking forward to the day when more technology will e to my life。可知他很期待这一切，说明他很乐观。
【小题3】推断题。根据前一句内容Machines taking over what humans do is not a good thing。可知that指代这一句的内容。
【小题4】主旨大意题。文章讲述了未来的生活以及两种不同的看法。