广东省惠阳高级中学2015-2016学年高二上学期期中考试 英语试题
第一部分 阅读理解 （共两节，满分40分）
第一节 （共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项 （A 、B 、C 和 D ）中 ，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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What will our future look like? People have always been wondering about this question. Go on reading this text and you will know what will happen in the next fifty years.
How can we know what the future will look like? To be able to understand the future, you must know the past. What has taken us to where we are today and what has changed along the way? The world has changed a lot in the last 150 years, but we humans are driven by the same basic needs as we were 150 years ago. Will this change in the next 150 years? No.
What inventions have really made a difference in the last 150 years? In the past years, the inventions that have affected most people around the world for everyday living are the telephone, electricity, radio, television, computer, the car and the ability to communicate through the Internet. Then we of course have a lot of inventions that have made life easier, like new medicine, faster transports etc. In general, human beings have been working hard in the last 150 years to make the inventions so that they will be able to get control of the time and the world. Since there is still much to do in this area, this will be the focus at least for the next 150 years.
Why do we need to predict the future? Predicting the future is important for two reasons: first we need to start to think about what kind of what kind of future we would like for ourselves and to pass on to the next generation, and then we need to know what decisions we need to make today that will give the best result in the future.
1. What does the author try to tell us in the second paragraph?
A. Humans will no longer enjoy food in the future.
B. The world will be completely changed tomorrow.
C. The world is quite different from what it was.
D. Our basic needs will not change in the future.
2. Our past inventions have made __________.
A. our daily life more stressful
B. it easy for us to live
C. us work less time
D. our work easily done
