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It’s Friday morning in the year of 2050, and you’re running late. You got distracted(分心) watching the music video that was playing in the corner of your bathroom mirror while you were brushing your teeth. How will you get to your office on time?

A quick check of your internet-connected refrigerator magnet tells your train, which travels at speeds up to 230 miles an hour, is a bit behind schedule, too. So you decide to drive your environmentally-friendly hydrogen fuel cell car instead, or rather, let your car drive you. It’s programmed to know the way, and it will get you there without speeding, getting lost, or crashing.

Settling into your office chair, which changes colour to match what you’re wearing, you pick up yesterday morning’s newspaper. Printed on reusable electronic paper, it instantly rewrites itself with today’s headlines. Now it’s time for your big meeting. Uh-oh! You’ve left your handwritten notes at home. No problem. The digital ink pen you used has stored an electronic copy of what you wrote.

Your wristwatch videophone suddenly rings. Your best friend’s face pops up on the organic light-emitting diode screen asking what you’re doing this weekend. “Will you slap on your 3-D contact lenses and play virtual soccer with the US Olympic team?” “No, no,” Your friend says, “I want to take the elevator which is made of microscopic fibers many times stronger than steel to get into space.”

Could this scene really take place in just a couple of decades? The researchers who are currently developing all this stuff think so. These gadgets(器械) may be as common in 20 years as cell phones and DVD players are today.

63. According to the passage, __________.

A. your office colour will change to that of what you’re wearing

B. newspapers will go electronic

C. you usually go to work by car

D. the digital ink pen makes writing so easy

64. You decide to use your hydrogen fuel cell car because __________.

A. it is safe, quick and comfortable          B. it is environmentally-friendly

C. your train is late for some reason        D. you are too late to catch your train

65. What will life be like in the year of 2050 according to the passage?

A. Space tourism will be a reality.

B. Videophones will replace face-to-face communication.

C. Transportation will be trouble-free.

D. People will have more time to go in for their hobbies.

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