“Our aim is to take our art to the world and make people understand what it is to move,” said David Belle, the founder of parkour(跑酷).
Close your eyes and imagine you are living in the next two centuries or more. You'll be living in a world filled with smart robots, which will be helping you to take care of your children, or your elderly parents in your home. You'll live much longer thanks to the medicine made by genetic (基因的) science. And mankind may be going farther in space than ever before-you will be living on the moon or Mars.
How should we view the changes that wait for us in the future? Should we be optimistic (樂觀的)about the years ahead, or worried about what the future holds? Some scientists and experts are having a discussion about how technology, science and society will develop in the future.
"I'm looking forward to the day when more technology will come to my life," says John Searle, a professor at the University of California Berkeley Philosophy, "because I think further research in such areas as genetics, physics, chemistry and medicine will help us to overcome poverty, improve health, and make life longer."
Hugh Herr, at MIT's Biomechatronics Group, considers very powerful weapons as concern over the future. Another is the growing role of technology in our lives."Machines’ taking over what humans do is not a good thing," Herr says.
That is a similar concern shared by Daniela Cerqui, a social and cultural scientist. "I am afraid that the long-term future we are building will have no space left for human beings," says Cerqui. "The main values of our society are related to information that must progress as quickly as possible, and computers are much better than humans in these tasks ."
小題1: The second paragraph mainly tells us ________.
A．how science will develop in the future
B．how people will live in a modern society
C．what life would be like in the future
D．what computers will bring to our society
小題2:From Paragraph 4 we can infer that ___________.
A．John Searl is optimistic about the future
B．we should wait to see the changes in the future
C．John Searl worries much about what the future holds
D．further science research will be helpful for making life longer
小題3: The underlined word "That" in the last paragraph refers to________.
A．The poverty problem in the future
B．Machines’ taking over what humans do
C．The technology of weapons
D．The health problem of humans
小題4:The best title for the passage can be “___________”.
A．The Future--Full of Hope or Concern
B．Great Changes Will Take Place in the Future
C．The Relationship Between Technology and Humans
D．The Role of Robots and Computers in the Future

小題1:C
小題2:A
小題3:B
小題4:A

試題分析：這篇文章講述的是未來的生活會是怎么樣，文章簡單說明了這個主題，并提出了兩種截然相反的觀點，有人很期待，有人很擔心。
小題1:段落大意題。根據(jù)文中第二段的描述可知此段落主要是講解未來的生活的，故選C。
小題2:推理判斷題。根據(jù)文中第一句話"I'm looking forward to the day when more technology will come to my life,"（我期待更多科技進入我的生活的那一天）說明John Searl 對未來生活是樂觀的，故選A。
小題3:推理判斷題。根據(jù)前一句內(nèi)容Machines taking over what humans do is not a good thing�？芍猼hat指代這一句的內(nèi)容，故選B。
小題4:主旨大意題。文章講述了未來的生活以及兩種不同的看法，故選A。
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