时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:英语科技新闻


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A new report shows what life might be like in 100 years from now. It describes skyscrapers 1 that are much taller than today's buildings, underwater 'bubble 2' cities, and holidays in space. The report is from Samsung's SmartThings. It asked experts on space, architecture, and city planners to give their ideas on life in 2116. They said the way we live, work and play will be totally different to how we do these things today. The experts said that 25 years ago, people could not imagine how the Internet and smartphones would change our lives. The Internet has revolutionised the way we communicate, learn and do daily things. The experts said the changes in the next century would be even more unbelievable.
 
Researchers questioned 2,000 adults about the predictions they thought were most likely to happen in the future. They predicted that in the future, few people will go to an office but will work from home and have virtual 3 work meetings. People will have advanced 3D printers that will let you download a design for furniture or a food recipe and then 'print' the sofa, table or pizza at home. There will also be less need for visits to the doctor. We will all have a home health capsule that will tell us what the problem is and give us treatment. We will also be going into space for holidays and to get resources that we have used up on Earth. A prediction that was missing 4 was whether people would still need to study English.
 

1 skyscrapers
n.摩天大楼
  • A lot of skyscrapers in Manhattan are rising up to the skies. 曼哈顿有许多摩天大楼耸入云霄。
  • On all sides, skyscrapers rose like jagged teeth. 四周耸起的摩天大楼参差不齐。
2 bubble
n.泡,水泡,气泡;泡影,妄想;v.(使)起泡
  • The water begins to bubble.水开始起泡了。
  • Their hopes of success have burst like a bubble.他们成功的希望已经成了泡影。
3 virtual
adj.实质上的,事实上的,实际上的
  • This reply is a virtual acceptance of our offer.这一回答实质上是接受了我们的建议。
  • At that time the East India Company was the virtual ruler of Bengal.那时东印度公司是孟加拉的实际统治者。
4 missing
adj.遗失的,缺少的,失踪的
  • Check the tools and see if anything is missing.检点一下工具,看有无丢失。
  • All the others are here;he's the only one missing.别人都来了,就短他一个。
学英语单词
abdominal heart
acetomenaphthone
acoustooptic materials/devices
afferent echo
apophysary
arlindoes
AS18908
backflap hinge
bailout loan
Baltics
boat necked
boohoo fever
branskate
cash transport van
chaindeformation
compressed air starting
crissy
dactylorhizas
daphniphyllum pentandrum hay. var. oldhami (hemsl.) hurusawa
discrepancy in the documents
early finish date
ebsco
emig
endose
final proof
full moon pass
galina
galley-nipper
genus Acrocephalus
germacranolide
groundwater
heating tower
Heritage Open Days
hoistway unit system
indexed database
intercalated neuron
jet caburetor
keel metacenter
korinthoss
La Mére
level of test
local (adj.)
log indicator
lose the seat
maceral
meat curing
narrowcasted
nervous chill
nonhemolytic
nonhilly
Nordkanal
notional word
oblique septum
oceanspanning
olefeeder
Orthosiphon marmoritis
over-trim
Papaveraceae
peritrchate
petalodic
philophylla connexa
Pokol'ka
presentation of bill
purchasing managers index (pmi)
Qeqertaq
qualitative discrimination
queenly
railed off
raster-baseds
regional strike
Roscoea debilis
runway centerline lights
safe as houses
savanna landscape
schenkman
scobinate
self-metathesis
sinauer
snuffle
sodium tetrafluoroberyllate
solid zonal harmonic function
stand bar
steel electric
stoneboats
stony, stoney
take a jump up the line
tarlea
templatization
thin-film head
tongguan powder
towrope horse-power
Travis, William Barret
trouble zone
turn-down ratio
Tǒkhyǒn
u-packing
undermeasuring
Vienna Circle
wound on leg
wrinkle-lipped bat
wrought silver
zelnorm