广东省深圳市新华中学八年级英语下册 Unit 8 Life in the future主题阅读 （新版）牛津深圳版.doc

unit 8主题阅读一、语法填空dear mike, can you believe im in a school of 2030 now? the school is like a _1_ (beauty) garden. the wall _2_ our classroom is colorful. our school _3_ (live) is interesting and wonderful. in the morning, we have _4_ (third) lessons. we study on _5_ internet. we use the e-books. the teachers are all robots. they are in different sizes _6_ they can answer any question about any subject. our robot music teacher _7_ (play) the violin well. in the afternoon, we go to mars _8_ (have) two classes by a new plane. that looks like our plane and spaceship. i can make _9_ (friend) with aliens. they are friendly and know _10_ well. after class, we play football with aliens. then we go back to the earth. dont you think the life in this school is very interesting? yours, mary二、完型填空阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，从所给的a、b、c、d中选出最佳选项。（共10小题, 每小题2分；计20分）the school in the future will be very different. students will go to school with 11 computer instead of carrying many books, and everything will be in the computer.in the school, the students desks will be digital(数码的), 12 there will be no human teachers. robots will work 13 teachers. besides, the buildings will have electric stairs. green energy, for example, solar energy can be 14 . technology will lift the school 15 in the sky. so the school buses will be like space ships. in the future, we can learn more at school, not only the knowledge in the books, but also some skills in life. we can practice 16 . we can also learn 17 to drive a car, a plane or even a rocket. the food that the school 18 will be much healthier. we can get the food from a machine. children who live in faraway villages dont need to go to school every day, because there will be many educational 19 on the radio, on tv or even on the internet. they can study 20 at home. ( ) 11. a. the b. a c. an d. /( ) 12. a. or b. and c. if d. however( ) 13. a. to b. with c. as d. for( ) 14. a. using b. used c. uses d. use( ) 15. a. up b. down c. on d. off( ) 16. a. cooks b. cook c. cooking d. cooked( ) 17. a. how b. what c. when d. where( ) 18. a. supplies b. supply c. supplying d. supplied( ) 19. a. program b. programming c. programs d. programmings( ) 20. a. easy b. easier c. easily d. easiest三、阅读理解awhat will life be like in the future? many people, magazines and movies have told us that robots will be able to work for us. although robots can already make cars, play music and do many trivial things for us, in the future, they can do more things, such as making websites, making houses and so on. some people even believe that in the future with the help of robots, we neednt work. in the future, people might create a “man” that cannot have a will of his own and has to follow orders only from his master(主人). the master must train him mentally with computers. as you know, an adult who follows the same training over and over again will not be able to change without another training. this means the master can have it work in a factory with no payment. and he will still be happy even if he only gets the basic life-support goods, because its the way he was trained. i believe that this is the reason why the government does not allow any human research.( ) 21. robots can already do the following things for humans except _. a. making cars b. playing music c. doing many trivial things d. making websites( ) 22. what can we know from the passage? a. robots of the future will do everything for us. b. in the future, robots can do more things. c. robots of the future will not be respected. d. in the future, humans will be lazier and lazier.( ) 23. the “man” that people might produce in the future may be a(n) _. a. teacher b. worker c. engineer d. doctor( ) 24. the underlined word “create” in paragraph 3 probably means _. a. carry b. lift c. produce d. draw( ) 25. where may the passage be taken from? a. a report about jobs. b. a book about culture. c. a magazine about dreams. d. a website about the future life.bthe computers changed our lives in the 1980s, the internet changed our lives in the 1990s, and the robots will change our lives in the new century. do you think there will be robots in peoples homes? its not a dream that every home will have a robot. now, robots are not only able to help people do the housework, they can also help the doctors do the difficult operations, play chess with people, play the piano and so on. a new cooking robot is used in beijing. it can cook all the dishes on the menu, you only need to wait two to four minutes, in the future, the robot will be a nurse, a security guard, or a partner in your life experts believe robots will because everywhere from the industrial robots to service robots. in the future, robots will become part of the family, and provide close service for people. we all look forward to the new robot age.( ) 26. _changed our lives in the 1990s. a. the robots b. the compilers c the tv sets d. the internet( ) 27. according to the passage, we know that a new cooking robot is being used in_ a the future b. beijing c. many countries d. many families( ) 28 . what can the robots do now?a they can help people do the housework b. they can help the doctor do the difficult operationsc. they can play chess with people d. a,b and c( ) 29. experts believe robots will be used_ a. only in hospital b. only in a filmily c. only in a factory d. everywhere( ) 30. which is the best title of the passage？ a. the computers changed our lives b. robots can cook c. robots are coming d. robots will be doctorsclife in the future will be different from life today. between then and now many changes will happen. but what will the changes be? the population is growing fast. there will be many people in the world and most of them will live longer than people live now. computers will be much smaller and more useful, and there will be at least (至少) one in every room. and computer studies will be one of the important subjects in schools then. people will work fewer hours than they do now and they will have more free time for sports, watching tv and travel. traveling will be much cheaper and easier. and many more people will go to other countries for holidays. there will be changes in our food, too. more land will be used for building new towns and houses for all the people. then there will be less room for cows and sheep, so meat will be more expensive. maybe no one will eat it every day. instead they will eat more fruit and vegetables. maybe people will be healthier. work in the future will be different, too. robots will do dangerous and hard work. because of this, many people will not have enough work to do. this will be a problem.（ ）31. in the future there will be _.a. much more fruitb. more peoplec. less vegetables d. less people（ ）32. every family will have at least a _ in the future.a. robotb. cowc. tv setd. computer（ ）33. in the future people dont have to _.a. work long hours b. work fastc. walk on foot d. eat meat（ ）34. people may not eat _ as much as they do today.a. fruit b. fish c. meat d. rice（ ）35. one big problem in the future is that _.a. many people dont have to workb. many people will not be able to find workc. people have to work fastd. all the work will be done by robotsdwhatwouldthefuturelifebelike?ithinkwecantravelfasterandsaferaroundtheworldandintospace.maybeonedaywecanworkinbeijing,sleepinchengduandvisitthemoonforaholiday.we will have new energy that doesnt make pollution. possibly, people will find ways to use cleaner things, such as sea water, to make energy without polluting the earth. wewillhavemachinesthatcancopyeverythinginthefuture.putacakeonthemachineanditmakesanewone.ofthemachineislikeafax-machine,wecansendfoodan