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　　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. Building 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 years 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（預(yù)言）accurately（準(zhǔn)確地）. 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 be, because he was writing in 1957. His subject was “The City of 1982”.

　　If the experts sometimes sound like high-school students, it's probably because future study is still a new field. But economic（經(jīng)濟(jì)的）predicting has been around for a long time. It should be accurate, and generally it is. But there have been some big mistakes in this field, too. In early 1929, most predictors saw an excellent future

for the stock market. In October of that year, the stock market had its worst losses ever.

　　One predictor knew that predictions about the future would probably be wrong. In 1957, H.J. Rand of the Rand Corporation was asked about the year 2000,“Only one thing is certain,”he answered.“Children born today will have reached the age of43.”

（1）High-school students' answers to“What would life be in 1978?”sound ________.

[　　]

A. accurate
B. imaginative
C. correct
D. OK

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

[　　]

A. politics
B. science
C. agriculture
D. economics

（3）Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

[　　]

A. Predictions are accurate.

B. Professionals sometimes sound like high school students.

C. There have been some big mistakes in the field of economic forecasting.

D. Predictions about the future will probably be wrong.

（4）The present passage was most probably written ________.

[　　]

A. just before 2000

B. in 1958

C. after 1982

D. in 1957

（5）H.J. Rand's prediction about the year 2000 shows that ________.

[　　]

A. it is easy to figure out in advance what will happen

B. it is difficult to figure out in advance what will happen

C. only experts can figure out in advance what will happen

D. very few experts can figure out in advance what will happen

答案：B;D;A;C;B
解析：

(1) 這是一道結(jié)合文章內(nèi)容分析判斷題，根據(jù)短文第一段中中學(xué)生的預(yù)言二十年后人們的生活情況：Machines would be run by solar power...School would be taught“by electrical impulse while we sleep”.Cars would have radar.可以判斷出，中學(xué)生的預(yù)言從總體上看充滿了想像力，故最佳答案選B.

(2) 這是一道細(xì)節(jié)判斷題.由短文第三段中But economic predicting has been around for a long time. It should be accurate，and generally it is.可知，經(jīng)濟(jì)預(yù)測(cè)應(yīng)該是并且常常是準(zhǔn)確的，故D項(xiàng)正確.

(3) 這是一道正誤判斷題.B、C兩項(xiàng)可根據(jù)短文第三段中的If the experts sometimes sound like high-school students及But there have been some big mistakes in this field，too.這兩處信息得到證實(shí)；D項(xiàng)為短文最后一段首句中的predictions about the future would probably be wrong原句；只有A項(xiàng)在短文中找不到依據(jù)，故A為最佳選項(xiàng).

(4) 這是一道推理判斷題.綜合短文第二段中If the expert had been accurate it would be，because he was writing in 1957.His subject was“The City of 1982”.和短文最后一段中In 1957，H.J. Rand of the Rand Corporation was asked about the year 2000.“Only one thing is certain,”he answered.“Children born today will have reached the age of 43.”這幾處信息就可以推斷出，這篇短文很可能是1982年之后寫(xiě)的，故最佳答案選C.

(5) 這是道深層理解題.短文最后一段首句One predictor knew that predictions about the future would probably be mistakes.闡述了預(yù)測(cè)未來(lái)的不確定性. 該段中H.J.關(guān)于對(duì)2000年預(yù)測(cè)的話，其深層含義則是誰(shuí)也無(wú)法準(zhǔn)確地預(yù)測(cè)到明天究竟會(huì)發(fā)生什么事情，因此最佳答案應(yīng)選B.


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