1、最新中小學教案、試題、試卷推測單詞與短語題專項練習李仕才（1）Olaf Stapled。n wrote a book calledFirst and Last Menin which he looked millions of years ahead.He told of different menand of strange civilizations（文明），broken up by longdark agesin between.In his view, what is calledthe present timeis no more than a moment in human his

2、tory and we are just the First Men. In 2,000million years from now there will be the Eighteenth or Last Men.However, most of our ideas about the future are really very short-sighted. Perhaps we can seesome possibilities for the n ext fifty years. But the n ext hun dred? Thenext thousand? The next mi

3、llion? Thats much more difficult.When men and wome n lived by hun ti ng 50,000 years ago, how could they even begi nto picturemodern life? Yet to men of 50,000 years from now, we may seem as primitive（原始的）in our ideas as the Ston e-Age hunters do to us. Perhaps they will spe ndtheir daysgollock ingt

4、o make newspun dels, or struggli ng with theirballalatorsthrough thecribe. These words, which I have just made up, have to stand for things and ideas that wesimply cant think of.So why bo ther even to try imagining life far in the future? Here are two reasons.First, uni ess we remember how short our

5、 own lives are compared with the whole huma n history, we arelikely to thi nk our own in terests are much more importa nt tha n they really are. If we make the earth apoor place to live on because we are careless or greedy（貪婪）or quarrelsome, our grandchildren willnot bother to think of excuses for u

6、s.Second, by tryi ng to escape from prese ntin terests and imagi ne life farin thefuture, we may arrive at quite fresh ideas that we can use ourselves. For example, if we imagi ne that inthe future men may give up farmi ng, we can thi nk of tryi ng it now. So set your imagi nati on free whenyou thin

7、k about the future.1.Spun delsandballalatorsare used in the text to refer to_ .A. tool s used in farmingB. ideas about moder n lifeC. unknown things in the futureD. hun ti ng skills in the Stone Age2. A particular mention made of Stapledons book in the opening paragraph_ .A. serves as a description

8、of human historyB. serves as an in troduct ionto the discussi onC. shows a disagreeme nt of viewsD. shows the popularity of the book（2）Beijing pla ns to send up manned spaceshipZHUHAI- China will soonput a personinto space and become the third nation in最新中小學教案、試題、試卷the world to own manned space flig

9、ht, a top Chin ese aerospace official said onNovember 5.A manned launch was not far off. Vice Preside nt Hu Hongfu of Chi na AerospaceScience Tech no logy Corp （CASTC） told a n ews conference at the third Zhuhai air show.“It will not be long before Chin ese astr on auts can ride locally-made spacesh

10、ipsinto space,”Hu said. The official gave no timetable but said it would happen atthe beg inning of the 21stcen tury.The former Soviet Union and the United States have been puttingpeople into orbitsince the early 1960s, but other n ati ons have not con sidered the challe nge worth followi ng.China h

11、as already built and sent up its own satellites for com muni cati ons andweather forecasti ng. The new com muni cati on satellites would help to en courage the countrysbroadcasting industry, he said.The company, which includes over 130 aerospace agencies, said that the lifting ability and success ra

12、te of Chinas launch spaceships were almost equal in quality to those of other coun tries.China would gradually close the distanee between its countrys space industry and that of othern ati ons. He added that they were willing to send up commercial satellites for Taiwa n.OnChinas plan to send up mann

13、ed space flights, Hu said China had made importantdevelopment after the successful launch in November last year of the countrys first experime ntalspaceship, Shen zhou.“The whole project is in the research stage and a lot of work needs to be done,”Hu said.“We need to have more tests of unmann ed spa

14、ceship.”China last year announ ced a four-step manned space flight pla n, with the aimof setting up a space stationserved by spaceship travelingbetween the two places.1. The . underlined word“they”here probably refers to_.A. the former Soviet Union and the USAB. over 130 aerospace age nciesC. Russia and ChinaD. Russia and the USA2. Which of the following is close to the underlined word“close”？A. shutB. dropC.