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     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

Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities  
to make life difficult. If a child has good parents, he  
is fed, looked after and loved, what he may do, It is --71--
improbable that he will ever again in his life be given  
so much without having to do anything in turn. In addition, --72--
life is always presenting new things to the child—things  
that have lost their interesting for older people because --73--
they are too well-known. A child finds pleasure in playing  
in the rain, or in the snow. [JP+2]His first visit to the  
seaside is a marvelous adventure. But a child has his pains:  
He is not so free to do as he wishes as he thinks old --74--
people do; he is continually being told not to do things,
or being punished for that he has done wrong. --75--

His life is therefore not perfectly happy.--76--
When the young man starts to earn his own living, he  
becomes free from the discipline of school and parents;  
but at the same time he is forced to accept responsibilities.  
He can not longer expect others to pay for his food, his  
clothes, and his room, but has to work if he wants to live  
comfortable. If he spends most of his time playing about in --77--
the way that he used to as a child, he will suffer hungry. --78--
And if he breaks the laws of society as he used to break  
the laws of his parents, he may go to prison. If, therefore, --79--
he works hard, keeps out of trouble and has good health,  
he can have the great happiness of seeing himself making --80--
steady progress in his job and of building up for himself  
his own position in society.

Teachers believe that students’responsibility with62＿＿＿＿＿＿
learning is necessary. If a long reading assignment is
given, instructors expect students to be familiar with the  
informations in the reading even if they do not discuss it in63 ＿＿＿＿＿＿
class or give an examination. The ideal student is  
considered to be one who motivated to learn for the sake of64＿＿＿＿＿＿  
learning, not the one who is interested only in getting high  
grades. Grade－conscious students may be frustrated with  
teachers who do not believe it is necessary to grade every  
assignment. Sometimes homework is returned with brief  
writing comments but without a grade. When research is 65＿＿＿＿＿＿  
assigned, the professor expects the student to make the66＿＿＿＿＿＿
initiative and complete the assignment with minimal  
guidance.Professors do not have time to explain how the  
library works; they expect students, particular graduate67＿＿＿＿＿
students, to be able to use the reference sources in the  
library.In the United States, professors have other duties  
except teaching. Often they either have administrative work68＿＿＿＿＿＿
to do or may be obliged to publish articles and books. But 69＿＿＿＿＿＿
the time that a professor can spend with a student outside of  
class is very limited. Educational practices such as student  
participation indicates a respect for individual responsibility70＿＿＿＿＿
and independence. The manner which education is71＿＿＿＿＿
provided in any country reflects basic cultural and social  
beliefs of that country.

We are all naturally attracted to people with ideas,
beliefs and interests like our own. Similarly, we
feel comfortable with people with physical qualities
similar as ours.--71--

You may have noticed about how people who live or work --72--
closely together come to behave in a similar way.
Unconsciously we copy these we are close to or love --73--
or admire. So a sportsman’s individual way of walking
with raised shoulders is imitated by an admired fan; --74--
a pair or lovers both shake their heads in the same
way; an employer finds himself duplicating his boss’s --75--
habit of wagging (摆动) a pen between his fingers while thinking.

In every case, the influential person may consciously --76--
notice the imitation but he will feel comfortably in --77--
its presence. And if he does notice the matching of
his gestures or movements, he finds it pleasing he
is influencing people: they are drawn to them.--78--

Sensitive people have been mirroring their friend and --79--
acquaintances all their lives., and winning affection
and respect in this way without aware of their methods. --80--
Now, for people who want to win agreement or trust,
affection or sympathy, some psychologists recommend
the deliberate use of physical imitation.

Until the very latest moment of his existence, man has
been bound to the planet on which he originated and
developed. Now he had the capability to leave that planet ___1___
and move out into the universe to those worlds which he has
known previously only directly. Men have explored parts of ___2___
the moon, put spaceships in orbit around another planet and
possibly within the decade will land into another planet and ___3___
explore it. Can we be too bold as to suggest that we may be ___4___
able to colonize other planet within the not—too—distant ___5___
future? Some have advocated such a procedure as a solution
to the population problem. ship the excess people off to the
moon. But we must keep in head the billions of dollars we ___6___
might spend in carrying out the project. To maintain the earth’s
population at its present level. we would have to blast off into
space 7,500 people every hour of every day of the year.
Why are we spending so little money on space ___7___
exploration? Consider the great need for improving many ___8___
aspects of the global environment, one is surely justified in
his concern for the money and resources that they are poured ___9___
into the space exploration efforts. But perhaps we should
look at both sides of the coin before arriving hasty conclusions. ___10___