.

 

Obesity

 

Sydney Brenner,senior distinguished fellow of the Crick-Jacobs Center in California,won the 2002 Noblel Prize for Medicine and says that if there is a global disaster some humans will survive-and evolition will favour small people with bodies large enough to support the required amount of brain power.”Obesity,”he says.”will have been solved.”

 

Robots

 

Rodney Brooks,professor of robotice at MIT,says the problems of developing artificial intelligence for robots will be at least partly overcome.As a result,”the possibilities for robots working with people will open up immensely”

 

Energy

 

Bill Joy,green technology expert in Califomia,says:”The most significant breakthrought would be to have an inexhaustible source of safe,green energy that is substantially cheaper than any existing energy source.”

Ideally,such a source would be safe in that it could not be made into weapons and would not make hazardous or toxic waste or carbon dioxide,the main greenhouse gas blamed for global warming.

 

Society

 

Geoffrey Miller,evolutionary psychologist at the University of New Mexico,says:”The US will follow the UKin realizing that religion is nor a prerequisite (前提)for ordinary human decency.

“This,science will kill religion-not by reason challenging faith but by offering a more practical,uniwersal and rewarding moral frameworkfor human interaction.”

He also predicts that “ahsurdly wasteful”displays of wealth will become umfashionable while the importance of close-knit communities and families will become clearer.

These there changer,he says,will help make us all”brigheter,wiser,happier and kinder”.

 

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

 

1.What is john lngham’s report about?

A)A solution to the global energy crisis

B)Extraordinary advances in technology.

C)The latest developments of medical science

D)Scientists’vision of the world in halfa century

 

2. According to Harvard professor Steven Pinker,predictions about the future_____.

A)may invite trouble  B)may not come true

C)will fool the public  D)do more harm than good

 

3. Professor Bruce Lahn of the University of Chicago predicts that____.

A)humans won’t have to donate organs for transplantation

B)more people will donate their organs for transplantation

C)animal organs could be transplanted into human bodies

D)organ transplantation won’t be as scary as it is today

 

4. According to professor Richard Miller of the University of Michigarr, prople will____.

A)life for as long as they wish

B)be relieved from all sufferings

C) life to 100 and more with vitality

D)be able to live longer than whales

 

5.Priceton professor Freeman Syson thinks that____.

A)scientists will find alien life similar to ours

B)humans will be able to settle on Mars

C)alien life will likely be discovered

D)life will start to evolve on Mars

 

6.According to Princeton professor Richard Gott,by setting up a self-sufficient colony on Mars,

Humans_____.

A)Might survie allcatastrophes on earth

B)Might acquire ample natural resources

C)Will be able to travel to Mars freely

D)Will move there to live a better life

 

7.Ellen Heber-Katz, professor at the Wistar Institue in Philadelpia,predicts that_____.

A)human organs can bu manufactured like appliances

B)people will be as strong and dymamic as supermen

C) human nerves can be replanced by optic fibers

D)lost fingers and limbs will be able to regrow

 

8.rodney Brooks says that it will be possible for robots to work with humans as a result or the development of__artificaial intelligence for robots_____

 

9. The most significant breakthrough predicted by Bill joy will be an inexhaustible green energy source that can’t be used to make__pollutions___________

 

10 According to Geoffrey Miller, science will offer a more practical, universal and rewarding moral framework in place of _________religion_______

 

Part III Listening Comprehension (35minutes)

 

听力部分试题略

 

Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)

 

Section A

 

Directions: In this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words. Please write our answers on Answer Sheet 2

Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.

 

if movie trailers(预告片)are supposed to cause a reaction, the preview for "United 93" more than succeeds. Featuring no famous actors, it begins with images of a beautiful morning and passengers boarding an airplane. It takes you a minute to realize what the movie's even about. That’s when a plane hits the World Trade Center. the effect is visceral(震撼心灵的). When the trailer played before "Inside Man" last week at a Hollywood theater, audience members began calling out, "Too soon!" In New York City, the response was even more dramatic. The Loews theater in Manhattan took the rare step of pulling the trailer from its screens after several complaints.

"United 93" is the first feature film to deal explicitly with the events of September 11, 2001, and is certain to ignite an emotional debate. Is it too soon? Should the film have been made at all? More to the point, will anyone want to see it? Other 9/11 projects are on the way as the fifth anniversary of the attacks approaches, most notably Oliver Stone's " World Trade Center." but as the forerunner, "United 93"will take most of the heat, whether it deserves it or not.

The real United 93 crashed in a Pennsylvania field after 40 passengers and crew fought back against the terrorists. Writer-director Paul Greengrass has gone to great lengths