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much for his part of the company.
B
So,how is he going to spend his 600 days
In the future your automobile will run on
英语试题
on the red planct "Well,since I don't have a
water instead of gas!You will be able to buy
job when I get back after selling the company,I
I.阅读理解（每题2.5分，共35分）
a supercomputer that fits in your pocket!You
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D
have plenty of time to come up with a new
might even drive a flying car!
business idea,"he said.If he brings a shovel
四个选项中选出最佳选项。
Not all past predictions have been proven
(铁锹)he can start building the first hotel
wrong.A few of them have been surprisingly
A
there,but maybe he shouldn't expect too
accurate.Some great thinkers predicted the
September 21,2050-At a press conference
many guests until someone can offer a cheaper
arrival of the credit card,the fax machine and
today it is announced that the first tourist
ticket.
even the Internet-years before they happened.
heading for Mars will be the 38-year-old US
1.How long will Patrick Clifford be away before
But for each prediction that has come true,
businessman Patrick Clifford.He will leave
he comes back
some others have missed by a mile.Many of
Earth in the launching window of June 2052
A.About five months.
these predictions didn't consider how people
and set his foot on the surface of Mars in November,
B.About two years.
would want to use the technology or whether
together with the other 6 astronauts assigned
C.About 600 days.
people really needed these high-tech things in
for the mission to further explore the planet.
D.About 750 days.
their lives or not.Let's look at some predictions
Patrick has two years of training to get
2.The underlined part in paragraph 3 means
from the not-too-distant past.
ready for the trip.Not only will he spend five
that
Robot helpers
months in getting to Mars,but another 600
A.the trip will turn Patrick into a beggar
Where's the robot in my kitchen
days there before he can go back home.Patrick
B.Patrick will get much money from the
Nowhere,of course.And he's probably not
said excitedly:"This has been my dream since
trip
coming anytime soon.Robots do exist today,
I was four,and seeing the first man on Mars
C.we needn't worry about Patrick's economic
but mostly in factories and other working
20 years ago made me realise that it was possible.
condition
environments.
To be able to pay the $1.3 billion for his
D.it's likely that Patrick will be very poor
Back in the 1950s,however,people said
ticket for the trip,Patrick sold his majority stake
after he comes back
that by now personal robots would be in most
(股份)in the company his father had built..“I
3.What can be inferred from the passage
people's homes.
know that my father would have been proud
A.Patrick is an optimistic man.
So why hasn't it happened Maybe because
of me if he had still been alive today,and he
B.A total of six people will go to Mars.
robots are still too expensive and clumsy(笨拙
knew what this means to me,"said Patrick.
C.Patrick's father felt excited at the
)And probably the idea of robots cooking
There is no risk though that you will find Patrick
news.
our dinners and washing our clothes is just too
begging in your street corner when he comes
D.Patrick will spend all his money on the
strange.At home we seem to be doing fine
back,but it is said that he was paid twicc as
trip.
without them.

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