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
abaca
adventuresomeness
almarudite
Andropogon furcatus
b-strings
Bacillus fluorescens
bad paper
battery charging generator
be new with sb
borkovec
bp or byp
Brehna
C battery C-meter
cdb
Cerisiers
Choloepus
coalmen
commuter traffic
compass bearing
concentrator switch-borad
core wood
corporation bylaws
Corylopsis spicata
counterculturalists
cradle-scythe
Cumberbitches
cybercitizen
dazer
Dennistoun
dropkicking
dust pipe
Déresna
elastoid degeneration
energy equipartition theorem
epiblastic organ
false sarsaparilla
fishlines
fress
geoid
gershman
get one's hopes up
give strength
glasnost
green consumer
haemogamasid
heat transfer by direct conduction
high-intensity pulsed laser illumination
hogberg
hologymnosus semidiscus
IBM OmniFind
incombustible refuse
initial inventory
inside-light of tree crown
intermittent fillet weld
Laffān, Ra's
lateralizations
leps
louise bogan
low compression diesel
Lyangasovo
malams
manoeuvring test
mary-muffe
meacocks
metal rollers with neoprene plate joint
micro manipulator
millimeter wave detection system
much ado about nothing
nervi nasociliaris
on the coattails of
operantly
palpometers
personal representative
phosphate retention
politicans
Psammobiinae
psychology in art
re-learns
residual current operated device
schnur
Scotchlite sign
semiflexible board
shahriyar
shoham
skin tone
slot scraping
steam-heating down-feed system
Storfjord Bank
subsonic cruise range
Text-mining
through-composed
tigercat
to each according go one's needs
triazanaphthalene
Trifocide
triode pnpn-type switch
trotteth
Urresti
voice communication and control systems
wodeland
Zerener welding