職稱英語閱讀理解習(xí)題

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職稱英語閱讀理解習(xí)題

　　PASSAGE 26 Looking to the Future

職稱英語閱讀理解習(xí)題

　　When a magazine for high-school students asked its readers what life would be like in twenty years, they said: Machines would be run by solar power. Buildings would rotate so they could follow the sun to take maximum advantage of its light and heat Walls would radiate light and change color with the push of a button. Food would be replaced by pills. School would be taught by electrical impulse while we sleep. Cars would have radar. Does this sound like the year 2000? Actually, the article was written in 1958 and the question was, what will life be like in 1978?

　　The future is much too important to simply guess about, the way the high school students did, so experts are regularly asked to predict accurately. By carefully studying the present, skilled businessmen, scientists, and politicians are supposedly able to figure out in advance what will happen. But can they? One expert on cities wrote: Cities of the future would not be crowded, but would have space for farms and fields. People would travel to work in airbuses, large all-weather helicopters carrying up to 200 passengers. When a person left the airbus station he could drive a coin-operated car equipped with radar. The radar equipment of cars would make traffic accidents almost unheard of. Does that sound familiar? If the expert had been accurate it would, because he was writing in 1957. His subject was The city of 1982.

　　If the professionals sometimes sound like high-school students, its probably because future study is still a new field. But economic forecasting, or predicting what the economy will do, has been around for a long time. It should be accurate, and generally it is. But there have been some big market in the field, too. In early 1929, most forecasters saw an excellent future for the stock market. In October of that year, the stock market had its worst losses ever, ruining thousands of investors who had put their faith in financial foreseers.

　　One forecaster knew that predictions about the future would always be subject to significant error. In 1957, H.J.Rand of the Rad corporation was asked about the year 2000, "Only one thing is certain," he answered. "Children born today will have reached the age of 43."

　　當(dāng)雜志高中學(xué)生問讀者什么生活會(huì)在二十年內(nèi)，就像他們說：機(jī)器將運(yùn)行的太陽能。建筑將使他們能跟隨太陽轉(zhuǎn)動(dòng)，以最大限度地利用它的光和熱的墻壁“發(fā)光”和“改變顏色的按鈕。”食品將取代丸。學(xué)校會(huì)教”的沖動(dòng)，而我們的睡眠。”汽車將雷達(dá)。這聽起來像是2000年?實(shí)際上，這篇文章是寫在1958和問題，“1978的生活會(huì)是什么樣的?”

　　未來很重要，只是猜測，這樣的高中學(xué)生，所以專家們經(jīng)常要求準(zhǔn)確預(yù)測。通過仔細(xì)研究本，熟練的商人和政治家，科學(xué)家，理應(yīng)能夠提前弄明白將要發(fā)生什么。但他們會(huì)嗎?一位專家寫道：對城市未來的城市將不擁擠，但會(huì)有空間和領(lǐng)域。人們旅游的工作“空中客車”，大型全天候直升機(jī)載有200名乘客。當(dāng)一個(gè)人離開了空中客車站他能開車投幣車配備雷達(dá)。雷達(dá)設(shè)備的汽車將使交通事故“幾乎沒有”。聽起來耳熟嗎?如果專家已經(jīng)準(zhǔn)確的它，因?yàn)樗鶎懙?957。他的主題是“1982市”。

　　如果專業(yè)人員有時(shí)聽起來像高中的學(xué)生，這可能是因?yàn)槲磥淼难芯窟€是一個(gè)新的領(lǐng)域。但經(jīng)濟(jì)預(yù)測，或預(yù)測經(jīng)濟(jì)會(huì)做的，已經(jīng)很長時(shí)間了。它應(yīng)該是準(zhǔn)確的，一般是。但也有一些在該領(lǐng)域的大市場，太。1929年初，大多數(shù)觀察家看到一個(gè)優(yōu)秀的未來股票市場。在這一年的十月，股市有其最嚴(yán)重的損失，破壞了投資者把他們的信仰在金融foreseers千。

　　一員知道，預(yù)測未來將永遠(yuǎn)受到重大錯(cuò)誤。1957，在RAD公司h.j.rand是大約2000年問，“只有一件事是肯定的，”他回答說。”孩子天生的今天將達(dá)到43歲。”

　　1. The high-school students' answers to "What would life be like in 1978?" sound

　　A) accurate.

　　B) imaginative.

　　C) correct.

　　D) foolish.

　　2. According to the writer, forecasting is fairly accurate in

　　A) politics.

　　B) science.

　　C) sociology.

　　D) economy.

　　3. Which of the following statements is not compatible with the writer's comment on future study?