Unit2 Section D Assessing Your Progress 一、完成句子 1.科技的迅速发展使得我们可以做过去不能做的事情。 The rapid development of science and technology for us to do what we couldn’t do in the past. 2.即使你认为这些规则不公正,但也必须遵守。 You must keep to the rules you think they’re unfair. 3.他们总是告诉我该做什么以及怎么做。 They always told me what to do and it. 4.因为没有理想的食物,这些动物只好以植物为食。 ideal food,the animals had to feed on plants. 5.你可以想象到,我们在那次聚会上都玩得很开心。 ,we all enjoyed the party. 二、阅读理解 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 (建筑师) believes that man will move off the land.He suggests that the city of the future will be a huge，pyramid shaped (金字塔形的) 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 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 puters will have replaced them, and people will order goods from home. People will be wearing very light, thin clothes.By this time, scientists will have invented a fabric(织物) that keeps us cool in hot weather and warm in cold weather. As for travel, the experts say that most people will be using public transport.Electric cars will be traveling through the streets day and night.Anybody will be able to stop one and use it. What an interesting picture！Unfortunately, we will not be there to see if these predictions come true. 1．Pessimists believe that in the future ． A．the seas and oceans will be full of houses B．we'll have used up all the resources C．we will not have enough fish to eat from the seas D．we will have polluted the air so badly that it will be impossible for us ... ...
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