牛津版（深圳·广州）初中英语八年级下册Module 4 Unit 8 Life in the future 同步测试

—They arrived home while we were having dinner.

—Sorry, I can do nothing to help you in the present.

—I received a letter from my father recently.

Dear Mike,

    Can you believe I'm in a school of 2030 now? The school is like a  (beauty) garden. The wall  our classroom is colourful. Our school  (live) is interesting and wonderful.

    In the morning, we have (third) lessons. We study on  Internet. We use the e-books. The teachers are all robots. They are in different sizes  they can answer any question about any subject. Our music robot teacher  (play) the violin well. In the afternoon, we go to Mars  (have) two classes by plane. That looks like our plane and spaceship. I can make   (friend) with aliens. They are friendly and know  well. After class, we play football with aliens. Then we go back to the Earth. Don't you think the life in this school is very interesting?

Yours,

Mary

    My feeling about science have really changed. I never used to 1 science, but last year, I changed schools, and the science 2 at my new school were excellent. The science facilities are very 3, with laboratories that have all the latest equipment. Our chemistry teacher, Mr. Longford, take us to public science lecture (讲座) about for times a term, and these are 4 very interesting, as the lectures are people who have made real discoveries in 5 area of science. The fact is, Canada has 6 first-class scientists. In the last twenty years, seven Canadian scientists have won the Nobel Prize! The Nobel Prize is the highest scientific Prize, so we should be very  7 of that.

    I'm becoming more and more interested in physics, and have decided that I want to 8 it at university. I'm going to try to go to  9 Montreal or Ottawa University, as both are supposed to have good Physics Departments. My parents are quite 10. They always thought I would become an English teacher.

What will life be like in 2050

    Life will probably be very different in 2050 in all the fields, from entertainment to technology.

    TV channels will disappear in 2050. People will choose a programme from a "menu" and a computer will send the programme directly to the television.

    Water wilt become one of our most serious problems. Today in many places, agriculture is developing and people are growing fruit and vegetables to export(出口). This needs a lot of water. Need for water will increase ten times between now and 2050 and there will be serious shortages(短缺).

    In transportation, computers will control the speed of the ears and there won't be any accidents. Today, many cars have computers that tell drivers exactly where they are. By 2050, the computer will control the car and drive it to where you want to go. Besides, space planes will take people halfway around the world in two hours. Nowadays, the United States Shuttle can go into space and land on Earth again. By 2050, space planes will fly all over the world and people will fly from Los Angeles to Tokyo in just two hours.

    In the field of technology, robots will replace people in many fields. Today many factories have already used robots. Big companies prefer robots because they do not ask for pay rises or go on strikes, and they work 24 hours a day. By 2050, we will see robots everywhere—in factories, schools, offices, hospitals, shops and homes.

    Have you ever thought about what our food will be like in the future? As the population is growing fast, there must be changes in our food.

    More land will be used for building houses for people. Then there will be less space for cattle and chickens, so meat will be more expensive. Instead, people will eat more fruit and vegetables.

    Scientists are always trying out new ways of growing food. Only one third of the Earth's area is land and the rest is sea, so some think maybe we can get more food from the sea.

    Besides, though rice supports more than half of the world's population, it needs a lot of water to grow. Scientists predict(预测) the climate will get drier during the next century. Therefore, it might be impossible to grow rice in the future. Some farmers are experimenting with new crops. Farmers like to grow beans because they don't need much water, and beans also improve the quality of the soil. The soybean (黄豆) makes a good substitute(替代品) for rice and meat.

参考词汇： be optimistic about 对……乐观的

Life in the future: better or worse?

    We have ever had a discussion about the life in the future in an English class.