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
acholuric
affort
aletheia
Amphimerycoidea
Armavir
atilano
authentic
ball end journal
bond option
Boolean analyzer
bouveault
Bratton-Marshall's method
burmannii
calender rollers
cattle cars
Clematis pamiralaica
constant current supply
crease resist finsih
criminal border-line
crispening circuit
crossing one's fingers
dimplements
direct (geodetic) problem
dsn (dielectric stabilized oscillator)
electrically regenerative fuel cell
eulerian time correlation
expiratory neuron
fading range
flat grinder
flea-borne typhus
flucans
fur seal
genus reguluss
genus Thylogale
gross thickness
gymnothorax albimarginatus
hand book
handstand with swing
hart-clover
homeothermic animal
impearling
iran-iraq
irotome
jet dynamics
Kalliopi
karleby (kokkola)
lattanza
lead-coloured
LOFLin'
loop error signal
lumbar rheumatism
lungarno
magnet catch
metallurgical feature
monopeptidyl
mooser cell
mutual acceptance
naked boy
newly-arriveds
normative forecast
order bryaless
oxycholesterol
parawollastonite (wollastonite-2m)
platinum(iv) pyrophosphate
plumb-joint
poultry farming
purity ring
qbs
radd
random sound
random-like
RARP (reverse address resolution protocol)
risk return trade off function
run sum test
saddleblanket
salt the cow to catch the calf
sesquicarbonates
sharen
shotgun sequencing method
shuisu
simple image
sorns
speak one's pieces
statistical presentation
Sucio, R.
sulfhydryl-
sunnydale
super-organisms
superfinals
supervisorships
symmetrical i/o unit
tetranortriterpenoids
the land of the leal
tipula (britura) imperfecta
total angular momentum quantum number
truly asynchronous
twist distribution
U-tube heat exchanger
ulmus laeviss
Uzbek SSR
walbiris
whine out