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Some people are pessimistic (悲观) when they think about the future. They say that, a hundred years from now, we will have ud up most of the earth’s resources. We will have polluted our a badly, and be unable to eat fish from it. We will have made air so dirty that we will need to wear masks. The world’s pollution will have doubled, and we will have ud all the countryside for housing; there will be no farmland left.
Other people believe that man adapts very easily. They have a different idea of the future. However, in their views, will people be living in a hundred years’ time?
One architect believes that man will move off the land. He suggests that the city of the future will be a huge, pyramidshaped building, which will be floating on the surface of the
a. About 5,000 families will be living there, and the building will contain shops and schools as well as homes. By living on the a, we will give the farmers more land to grow crops.
什么是万圣节As for oil, people will no longer need it: we will be heating our homes with power from the sun. And we will not be short of minerals, becau there are plenty under our oceans. At the moment, we do not have the technology to get them out. But, in a hundred years’ time, the optimists (乐观者) say, the new a cities will be using the resources.
What will be in the shops in the year 3000? What will people be wearing? How will people be traveling?
Scientists who make predictions about the future suggest that, by the year 3000, shops will no longer exist. Computers will have replaced them; and people will order goods from home.
People will be wearing very light, thin clothes. By this time, scientists will have invented a fabric that keeps us cool in hot weather and warm in cold weather.
As for travel, the experts say that most people will be using public transport. Electric cars will be traveling through the streets day and night. Anybody will be able to stop one and u it.2012江苏英语高考
An interesting picture! Unfortunately, we will not be there if the predictions come true.
28. Pessimists believe that in the future ________.
A. as and oceans will be full of hous
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B. we’ll have ud up most of the resources
英语李老师C. we will have not enough fish to eat from the as
D. we will have polluted the air not so badly that it will be possible for us to breathe
29. Scientists have made the predictions EXCEPT ________.
A. electric cars will be going along the streets continuously
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B. the resources under the oceans will never be ud up
C. people will order goods from home
D. people won’t suffer from cold any longer
30. What does the underlined word in the venth paragraph refer to?
A. a kind of tool B. a kind of energy
chok是什么意思C. a kind of cloth D. a kind of resource
31. We can learn from the article that ________.
A. we should be optimistic about the future
B. we should be pessimistic about the future
C. we shouldn’t think too much about the future
D. we have no idea of what will happen in the future
2. Movie Extras
Would you mind lying in a coffin (棺材)? Would you shave your head? Are you willing to take out your fal teeth?
The are just a few of the questions Anne Marie Stewart and her staff sometimes ask the "talent" who rve as non-speaking "extras" in special films, television ries, and made-for-TV movies produced in Toronto.
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Of cour, the majority of extra calls are for more ordinary people, and Stewart has a list of about 650 registered extras. Crowd scenes, which are common, call for everyday people of all ages, ethnic backgrounds, and sizes.
Over at Movie People, last-minute requests are not unusual. "We got a request once for an entire brass band of 30 people. They wanted it within the hour," said manager Yvonne McCartney. Another time, the company got a last-minute request for a newborn baby. "We found a baby that was three weeks premature," said Jonathan Aiken, an owner of the company.
去死吧日语Then there was the worried call from a casting director who "Star" got doggone stubborn one day and decided to just lie down and not work. The director needed a replacement dog, fast. "We got them two in one hour." said Aiken. "It was a matter of good connections and fast phone work." The eight phone lines needed to make 350 to 400 calls a day are one of Movie People's major expens.
Phone lines are the only way to stay in touch with casting directors and extras; but the latter are a group not necessarily interested in a long-term relationship. Most extra jobs pay only $7 an hour (with a six-hour minimum), while most agencies charge an annual $75 registration fee and get 10 to 15 per cent of extras’ earnings. It's no wonder that the turnover rate is fairly high.
Some people who are between jobs do extra work as a temporary measure, said McCartney. But professionals, such as lawyers, also do the work becau it's interesting. Others with flexible jobs have a desire to do something different. Some homemakers want to get out of the hou and onto a movie t. Money's not the motivating reason.
