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
56k line
accuracy of simulator
actual syzygy method
Adobe Creative Suite
air raider
air-shots
airborne speed
airbrake switch
all by myself
aphthonite (aphtonite)
application fields
armored cruiser
aspirate mutation
associated circulation boiler
auditioner
be unbecoming to
behrend
ben-veniste
Borodinovka
break someone's fall
breakdown power
Cape elk
cedefingol
contemporaneous syngenetic
content yourself with sth
contoured unit
croqueting
cubic decimeter
cuspidaria convexa
cutout board
divorced cementite
evalvular
exclamatorily
faraday (rotation) effect
federal airway system
final commodity
flock finish
freeze babies
french republics
fringillids
gabin
gamma ray fluoroscope
Geopelia
gnathoparalysis
ground experiment
hand down a decision
hate-mails
HP air system
hyperalbuminemia
hypostereography
Jason Harbor
juergen
Krutogorovskiy
mbds
method of inversion
Miscleron
molybdenum carbide ceramics
money counters' cramp
mountainous terrain
natal cleft
national security clause
Oberägeri
optical character recongnition
overdramatisation
paradoxism
partial girdle
plasruolysis
pocket piece
pricey
principal coordinates
proach
proselytised
public buildings
puerperia
radiotropism
reembodied
renal decapsulation
reserve generating capacity
Rigil Kentaurus
riodinid
shaft bunton
Shiokubi-misaki
sliding tackle
sodium monosulfide
standing expense orders
state of equalisation
sweetest
swimming pools
symaps
synchronises
tarees
the pyramid
theory of beta decay
thread fasteners
throughput capability
to-rush
torpedo spotting indicator
Uniate Church
white-ears
work-shadowing
xylaria bambusicola