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1、 2022年职称英语考试补全短文习题(八)2When 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”
2、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 2022?_(1) The future is much too important to simply guess about, the way the high school students did._(
3、2)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
4、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._(3)Does that sound familiar? If the expert had been accurate it would, because he was writing in 1957. His subject was “The ci
5、ty of 1982”. If the professionals sometimes sound like high-school students, its probably because future study is still a new field. Here is an example for future study. Economic forecasting, or predicting what the economy will do, has been around for a long time. But there have been some big mistak
6、es in this field, too._(4)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 errors. In 1957, H.J. Rand of the
7、 Rand Corporation was asked about the year 2022. “Only one thing is certain,” he answered.“_(5)” A. In early 1929, most forecasters saw an excellent future for the stock market. B. Children born today will have reached the age of 43.C. Actually, the article was written in 1958 and the question was, “what will life be like in 1978?”D. So experts are regularly asked to predict accurately.E. Scientists are 80 percent accurate in predicting the future.F. The radar equipment of cars would make traffic accidents “almost unheard of”.
