2020同等学力申硕英语练习题及答案(10)

　　According to BT's futurologist, Ian Pearson, these are among the developments scheduled for the first few decades of the new millennium(a period of 1，000 years), when supercomputers will dramatically accelerate progress in all areas of life.

　　Pearson has ____1____ together to work of hundreds of researchers around the world to produce a ____2____ millennium technology calendar that gives the latest dates when we can expect hundreds of key ____3____ and discoveries to take place. Some of the biggest developments will be in medicine, including an ____4____ life expectancy and dozens of artificial organs ____5____ into use between now and 2040.

　　Pearson also ____6____ a breakthrough in computer human links. "By linking ____7____ to our nervous system, computers could pick up ____8____ we feel and, hopefully, simulate ____9____ too so that we can start to ____10____ full sensory environments, rather like the holidays in Total Recall or the Star Trek holodeck," he says.

　　But that, Pearson points ____11____, is only the start of man-machine ____12____ :"It will be the beginning of the long process of integration that will ____13____ lead to a fully electronic human before the end of the next century." ____14____ his research, Pearson is able to put dates to most of the breakthroughs that can be predicted. However, there are still no ____15____ for when faster-than-light travel will be ____16____ , or when human cloning will be perfected, or when time travel will be possible.

　　But he does ____17____ social problems as a result of technological advances. A boom in neighborhood surveillance cameras will, for example, ____18____ problems in 2010, while the arrival of synthetic ____19____ robots will mean people may not be able to ____20____ between their human friends and the droids. And home appliances will also become so smart that controlling and operating them will result in the breakout of a new psychological disorder-kitchen rage.

　　1、A.taken　　B.pieced　　C.kept　　D.made

　　2、A.complicated　　B.delicate　　C.subtle　　D.unique

　　3、A.breakthroughs　　B.findings　　C.events　　D.incidents

　　4、A.expanded　　B.extended　　C.enlarged　　D.enriched

　　5、A.being　　B.becoming　　C.carrying　　D.coming

　　6、A.schedules　　B.plans　　C.predicts　　D.designs

　　7、A.directly　　B.instantly　　C.precisely　　D.automatically

　　8、A.that　　B.how　　C.what　　D.all

　　9、A.thinking　　B.hearing　　C.sight　　D.feeling

　　10、A.form　　B.develop　　C.find　　D.undertake

　　11、A.out　　B.at　　C.to　　D.toward

　　12、A.program　　B.production　　C.experiment　　D.integration

　　13、A.finally　　B.ultimately　　C.utterly　　D.absolutely

　　14、A.Through　　B.Though　　C.During　　D.By

　　15、A.forecasts　　B.articles　　C.stories　　D.meetings

　　16、A.advisable　　B.affordable　　C.available　　D.valuable

　　17、A.solve　　B.arose　　C.exercise　　D.expect

　　18、A.confront　　B.cause　　C.witness　　D.collect

　　19、A.lovely　　B.likely　　C.lifelike　　D.lively

　　20、A.distinguish　　B.differ　　C.diagnose　　D.deviate

　参考答案：

　　1、B　2、D　3、A　4、B　5、D　6、C　7、A　8、C　9、D　10、B

　　11、A　12、D　13、B　14、A　15、A　16、C　17、D　18、B　19、C　20、A