高中人教版英语单元测试试卷

59．By giving the example of dinosaurs, the author tries to prove .

A．animals could not live in the cold climate

B．what happened 65 million years ago was an invented story

C．the human beings will die out in 2094

D．the Earth could be hit by other objects in space

B

We often think of future. We often wonder what the world would be like in a hundred

years’ time.

Think of space， perhaps a permanent(永久的) station on the moon will have been set up. Perhaps people will be able to visit the moon as tourists. Cheap rockets for space travel will

have been developed，permitting long journeys throughout the solar system(太阳系). When that time comes， people will be taking holidays in space and visiting other planets. Great progress will have been made in medicine， too. Perhaps a cure will have been discovered for the most terrible

of all diseases—cancer. Pollution is a problem we must solve. In hundred’s years’ time it will have been controlled.

All the world will have been developed — even Antarctica. There will be large cities in Antarctica. We already have supersonic(超音速的) flight， but in a hundred years’ time we will have supersonic land travel as well.

We will have used up most of earth’s land to build our cities， so floating cities will have been built. The Japanese already have plans for cities of this kind. And there will be cities under the sea. The first of these will have been completed.

60. We will have developed ______ in a hundred years’ time， permitting long journeys all

over the solar system.

A. cheap rockets for space travel B. a plane

C. a spaceship D. a satellite

61. Man will also have supersonic land travel ______ .

A. in a year B. about half a century later

C. in the year 2050 D. about a century later

62. The last paragraph mainly talks about ______ .

A. we’ll make good use of space on the earth

B. cities under the sea

C. Japan will first build floating cities

D. earth’s land is in danger

63. The best title for the passage is ______ .

A. Travel in the Future B. Future Life

C. Where to Live in the Future D. Space Travel C

Some people are pessimistic(悲观的) when they think about the future. They say that，a hundred years from now， we will have used most of the earth’s resources. We will have

polluted our seas badly，and be unable to eat fish from them. We will have made the air so dirty that we will need to wear masks. The world’s population will have doubled， and we will have used all the countryside for housing; there will be no farmland left.

Other people believe that Man adapts very easily. They have a different idea of the future. How， in their views，will people be living in a hundred years’ time？

One architect believes that Man will move off the land. He suggests that the city of the

future will be a huge， pyramid-shaped building， which will be floating on the surface of the sea. About 5，000 families will be living there，and the building will contain shops and schools as well as homes. By living on the sea，we will give the farmers more land to grow crops.

As for oil，people will no longer need it: we will be heating our homes with power from the sun. And we will not be short of minerals， because there are plenty under our oceans. At the moment， we do not have the technology to get them out. But， in a hundred years’ time， the optimists say， the new sea cities will be using these resources.

What will be in the shops in the year 3000？ What will people be wearing？ How will people be traveling？

Scientists who make predictions about the future suggest that， by the year 3000， shops will no longer exist. Computers will have replaced them; and people will order goods from