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【題目】It’s an ordinary morning，like all the others．But instead of being woken up by the buzzing of an alarm clock, you’ll be roused by the smell of freshly made coffee，light entering your room as the curtains open automatically，and a gentle back massage（按摩）provided by your high-tech bed.

This is what a typical(典型的) person's life will be like two decades from now，according to The Guardian. Want to know more?

After you get up, your apartment will be like an electronic orchestra with you as the conductor. With simple moves of your hand and spoken instructions, you’ll be able to control your apartment’s temperature, humidity, music and lighting. You’ll be able to look through the day’s news on translucent screens while your breakfast waits for you in the automatic oven.

As you move into your kitchen, you might accidentally hit your toe on a cupboard. If you do, you’ll grab your cell phone and open the diagnostics(診斷) app. Inside your phone there will be a tiny microchip(芯片) that uses X-ray waves to scan your body. The scan will tell whether your toe is bruised or broken.

After breakfast, your driverless car will take you to work. While you “drive”, your central computer system will suggest a list of chores(家務事) that your housekeeping robots can do that day and it will also remind you to buy a gift for your mother’s upcoming birthday.

As you can see, with the help of advanced technology, our lives will be more efficient(有效率的). Technology will mitigate our forgetfulness and free us of many small burdens that distract us, such as buying a ticket. Our brain will therefore be able to focus on more important things like preparing for a presentation or doing “deep thinking”.

However, the development of technology might have some disadvantages as well. By 2036, we’ll be relying heavily on the virtual(虛擬的) world, which will mean that all of our data will be stored in the cloud, a remote digital storage system with near limitless capacity(容量). That will increase the possibility of someone else accessing, sharing or manipulating(操控) our personal information.

【1】What might be the author’s purpose in writing the text?

A. To stress the importance of developing technology.

B. To remind people not to depend too much on computers．

C. To introduce one new invention that will benefit our future lives.

D. To describe how advanced technologies will affect our future lives.

【2】According to the text, in two decades, ________.

A. you’ll be able to rely on an electronic orchestra to wake you up instead of an alarm clock

B. a tiny microchip in your phone will treat you when you are sick

C. you will be able to adjust the conditions of your apartment via oral instructions or simple hand gestures

D. technology will be smart enough to help us with important things like preparing for a presentation

【3】What does the underlined word “mitigate” in Paragraph 6 mean?

A. Make up for. B. Worsen. C. Cure. D. Take advantage of.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】C

【3】A

【解析】本文是一篇未來幻想文，介紹20年后我們的生活完全智能化，會給我們的生活帶來很多便利，當然也會有缺點，比如嚴重依賴虛擬世界、信息泄露等。

【1】主旨大意題。本文主要是介紹20年后隨著科技發(fā)展，我們的生活會更智能化，生活更舒適，故選D。

【2】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段的描述With simple moves of your hand and spoken instructions, you’ll be able to control your apartment’s temperature, humidity, music and lighting.可知，只需要口頭指令或者簡單的手勢就可以輕松調整你房子的溫度濕度等等情況。故選C。

【3】詞義猜測題。根據(jù)后一句Our brain will therefore be able to focus on more important things like可知，大腦將來只需要記住重要的事情就可以了，也就是科技會減輕人的健忘帶來的負面影響，將人們從小事中解放出來。A項make up for“彌補，補償”，代入句中意思吻合，故選A。