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
adicional
aedes (stegomyia) desmotes
aegirine-augite
aerated weir
aglyphic tooth
an obscure village
androtype
aneuploid karyotype
Angora cat
annihilative
atmosphere shower
bare enough
benzophenones
beta elimination
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
bobbin-boy
broad on the port quarter
bufmen
cauterising
cellists
Chislehurst
clear-out
commercial undertakings
concoctive
conservation of energy theorem
constant life fatigue diagram
cool isostatic compression
corner method
Coronilla
criuss
dallen
dating forward
dealing it
dominicanos
equivalent samples
extreme bacteria
final drives
foredeck hand
Gogri
government and municipal accounting
Hadlow
halogen Geiger counter
high resistance alloy
hold sb to
hydrophilum
ice-station
independent clause
investment value
ketarax
labour-capitals
lennons
Lewis, Isaac Newton
limit gauging
Lipmann
liquidizers
Local Group of galaxies
lower exit
magnesium hydroxidephosphate
manual scram
megakaryocytic leukemia
metroscop
morphometrics
motion designers
multiple grinder cutting machine
near thing
Novy Mir
NSCIC
oozlum bird
osberns
outward flow
oxford blue
pair distribution function
panniculus (pl.panniculi)
paroophoron cyst
per cent death loss
peripateic typhoid
picture charge pattern
plock
posthaematopoietic
pyow
quinarius
rhesuss
Sahos
savlon
shieled joint
soil (evaporation) pan
SSOs
St George
sub-strategic
Super block
Tepelenë
the suez canal
trenchmouth
trichlorobenzene
tyre wheel
unjudicious
ureterorenal
UV radiation
Vitoria-Gasteiz
whispering dome
xenotimes
Zimbabwean