(Four students are talking about the future after class.)

Deng Yu: In 2050 , China will be richer than it is now. Beijing will be getting ready for the 40th Olympic Games in 2052. We will see the blue and clear sky and smell the fresh air . There will be more pandas living happily in China.

Liu Yuan : A holiday to the moon will no longer be a dream. We can also travel far to other planets and talk with spacemen . We might also eat something like pills instead of today’s meals . Everyone will enjoy a longer life.

Sun Wei : Robots will be very popular . They will do what people don’t want to do . We’ll build new homes on other planets. By then , I’ll be sixty years  old.

Zhang Lan: By the year of 2050,cloning will have been used in many ways .It will bring back animals which disappeared many years ago. There will be no pollution. The whole world will be one big family. There will be no wars. As time passed, we’ll live a much easier and better life.

45. Which of the following is NOT true according to the text?

A. China will be richer than it is now

B . Shanghai will be getting ready for the 40th Olympic Games.

C. We will see the blue and clear sky and smell the fresh air.

D. More pandas will live happily in China. 

46. ______ thinks that people can spend their holidays on the moon in the future.

A. Deng Yu    B. Zhang Lan     C. Sun Wei    D. Liu Yuan

47. Zhang Lan thinks ______in the future.

A. people will live in a world without wars

B. robots will do everything for people

C. people can talk with spacemen

D. 2050 will be the year of China

48. What is the dialogue mainly about ?

A. The 40th Olympic Games .    B. How to spend our holiday.

C. The future                 D. Cloning

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As nanny(保姆), cook, cleaner, shopper, driver, and gardener, she has one of the most demanding jobs in Britain today. And paying someone else to do the chores(家務(wù)活) which take the average housewife 71 hours a week would cost ?349.
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A wife with a part-time job still works and average of 59 hours a week at home. Those in full-time employment put in longer hours at home than in the workplace. The good news is that these hours sharply as children get older. While the average mother with child under one puts in 90 hours weekly, the figure drops to 80 hours from one to four and to 66 hours from five to ten.
Mother-of-four Karen Williams from London said, “Paying the housewives may not be practical, but the government should recognize the value of housework, perhaps through the tax. Running a house takes a lot of time and most husbands don’t understand this. For example, my husband only puts a shelf up now and again. He never cleans the kitchen – that’s the real test.”
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A．A social worker.B．A fireman.
C．A gardener.D．A teacher.
【小題2】 We lean from the text that looking after children ______.
A．takes more time than doing any other housework
B．means more duties than being a teacher
C．requires the mother to be well-educated
D．prevents the mother from working outside
【小題3】According to the text, a housewife with a baby less than one year old may work _____.
A．66 hours a weekB．71 hours a week
C．80 hours a weekD．90 hours a week
【小題4】By mentioning her husband, Karen Williams wants to show that ______.
A．housework is no easy job
B．her husband has no time to clean the kitchen
C．a(chǎn) housewife needs to be paid for cleaning
D．the kitchen is hard to clean

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     As nanny (保姆), cook, cleaner, shopper, driver, and gardener, she has one of the most demanding jobs
in Britain today. And paying someone else to do the chores (家務(wù)活) which take the average housewife 71
hours a week would cost ￡349.
     At over ￡18,000 a year that's more than the earnings of 70 percent of the population, including train
drivers, firemen, prison officers, and social worker. Looking after a baby less than a year old takes a housewife
into a even higher pay league. According to a stud, she earns ￡457 a week-at nearly ￡24,000 a year, the
same as teachers, engineers, and chemists.
     Researchers put a price on each chore, then tried to find out how long the average person takes doing
them. They found housewives spend an average 70.7 hours a week on housework-with looking after the
children (17.9 hours) and cooking and cleaning (12.9 hours each) the most time-consuming (費(fèi)時(shí)).
     A wife with a part-time job still works and average of 59 hours a week at home. Those in full-time
employment put in longer hours at home than in the workplace. The good news is that these hours sharply as
children get older. While the average mother with child under one puts in 90 hours weekly, the figure drops to
80 hours from one to four and to 66 hours from five to ten.
     Mother-of-four Karen Williams from London said, "Paying the housewives may not be practical, but the
government should recognize the value of housework, perhaps through the tax. Running a house takes a lot
of time and most husbands don't understand this. For example, my husband only puts a shelf up now and
again. He never cleans the kitchen-that's the real test."
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A. A social worker.
B. A fireman.
C. A gardener.
D. A teacher.
2. We lean from the text that looking after children _____.
A. takes more time than doing any other housework
B. means more duties than being a teacher
C. requires the mother to be well-educated
D. prevents the mother from working outside
3. According to the text, a housewife with a baby less than one year old may work _____.
A. 66 hours a week
B. 71 hours a week
C. 80 hours a week
D. 90 hours a week
4. By mentioning her husband, Karen Williams wants to show that _____.
A. housework is no easy job
B. her husband has no time to clean the kitchen
C. a housewife needs to be paid for cleaning
D. the kitchen is hard to clean

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