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1、推测单词与短语题专项练习李仕才（1）Olaf Stapledon wrote a book called First and Last Men, in which he looked millions of years ahead. He told of different men and of strange civilizations（文明）, broken up by long dark ages in between. In his view, what is called the present time is no more than a moment in human histo
2、ry and we are just the First Men. In 2,000 million 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 see some possibilities for the next fifty years. But the next hundred? The next thousand? The next mill
3、ion? Thats much more difficult.When men and women lived by hunting 50,000 years ago, how could they even begin to picture modern life? Yet to men of 50,000 years from now, we may seem as primitive（原始的）in our ideas as the Stone-Age hunters do to us. Perhaps they will spend their days gollocking to ma
4、ke new spundels, or struggling with their ballalators through the cribe. These words, which I have just made up, have to stand for things and ideas that we simply cant think of.So why bother even to try imagining life far in the future? Here are two reasons. First, unless we remember how short our o
5、wn lives are compared with the whole human history, we are likely to think our own interests are much more important than they really are. If we make the earth a poor place to live on because we are careless or greedy（贪婪）or quarrelsome, our grandchildren will not bother to think of excuses for us.Se
6、cond, by trying to escape from present interests and imagine life far in the future, we may arrive at quite fresh ideas that we can use ourselves. For example, if we imagine that in the future men may give up farming, we can think of trying it now. So set your imagination free when you think about t
7、he future.1. Spundels and ballalators are used in the text to refer to _.A. tools used in farmingB. ideas about modern lifeC. unknown things in the future D. hunting skills in the Stone Age2. A particular mention made of Stapledons book in the opening paragraph _.A. serves as a description of human
8、history B. serves as an introduction to the discussion C. shows a disagreement of views D. shows the popularity of the book(2)Beijing plans to send up manned spaceshipZHUHAIChina will soon put a person into space and become the third nation in the world to own manned space flight, a top Chinese aero
9、space official said on November 5.A manned launch was not far off, Vice President Hu Hongfu of China Aerospace Science Technology Corp (CASTC) told a news conference at the third Zhuhai air show. “It will not be long before Chinese astronauts can ride locally-made spaceships into space,” Hu said. Th
10、e official gave no timetable but said it would happen at the beginning of the 21st century.The former Soviet Union and the United States have been putting people into orbit since the early 1960s, but other nations have not considered the challenge worth following.China has already built and sent up
11、its own satellites for communications and weather forecasting. The new communication satellites would help to encourage the countrys broadcasting industry, he said.The company, which includes over 130 aerospace agencies, said that the lifting ability and success rate of Chinas launch spaceships were
12、 almost equal in quality to those of other countries.China would gradually close the distance between its countrys space industry and that of other nations. He added that they were willing to send up commercial satellites for Taiwan.On Chinas plan to send up manned space flights, Hu said China had m
13、ade important development after the successful launch in November last year of the countrys first experimental spaceship, Shenzhou.“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 unmanned spaceship.”China last year announced a
14、four-step manned space flight plan, with the aim of setting up a space station served by spaceship traveling between the two places.1. The underlined word “they” here probably refers to _.A. the former Soviet Union and the USAB. over 130 aerospace agenciesC. Russia and ChinaD. Russia and the USA2. W
15、hich of the following is close to the underlined word “close”?A. shutB. dropC. shortenD. widen 轻松搞定推测单词与短语题专项练习参考答案（1）1. C 解析：猜词题。那是作者编的词，指未来的事，make up编造。2. B 解析：引用此书，意在展开讨论，以下再做详细说明。A不对，第一段仅说了对历史分段的看法，并未对历史作出描写。（2）1. B 解析：猜测词义题。 they在此处指代的是前文中提到的over 130 aerospace agencies。2. C 解析：猜测词义题。close在此处的意思为“缩短”。回顾一年的工作，我也发现了自己的不足之处。如科研方面尚嫌薄弱，全年未发表过一篇论文。今后在这方面应多加努力，要增强科研意识，多投注些时间和精力，刻苦学习，努力钻研，改变科研空白局面，为今后的学术研究工作打下良好的基础。3
