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。
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-so
active voltage
affiliated state bodies
after-irrigation moisture content of soil
allowable bearing force of soil
auriferous
best-suited
Bilisht
bowhunts
building association
caedius orientalis
casing hook
chromiole
chromosomal abnormality
chronic malaria
colourcaster
congestive pneumothorax
counsels
cyclonic spray scrubber
defensative
degeneation of uveal tract
denyn
deoxyribonucleotides
dial light
dillydally
duplicate production
El Salto, Cerro
electric heating furnace
engine propeller unit
eoples
exchange building
fibrovascular
filling tension
flupentixol
German-embassy
guaranteed pay
hat head
hedge bindweeds
high voltage source
hildegards
hip bath
holding down wheel
IATEFL
image-making
information data
insured release
intercrossed
intermittent contiunous current
internal coiling
investment buying
ISOST
komarov lilac
landing diagram
least freeboard
lemonlimes
linear Diophantine equation
living to love you
lorry-loading list
Lyuboml
Malopolskie, Województwo
manual data input equipment
marginal parallel ray
meteorological proverbs
myzus dycei
nephrotoxin
ovule stalk umbilical cord
Oxypaat
peace-at-any-pricer
piedish
Plassomyxineae
raphe olfact. epithel.
reparation agreement
righting couple
ring shielding
round corner square billet
Rānpur
shakiras
shva
sindberg
slab thickness
snapshooters
solenocera alticarinata
spherical-hermonic expansion
strong semigroup
supratemporal fossa
take sb for a fool
Tamanrasset, Oued
taphouse
the underground economy
thermal blanket
thermotolerances
Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester
Thomson's theorem
Tianfu
Toboali
udaipurs
veratrum nigrum l.var.japonicum baker.
virtual communication
visual aspects
Volkhov River
with wind
yangdan syndrome