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
Acanthopanax fargesii
accommodation way
acromio-iliac presentation
argentometry
ashdods
bean aphids
betear
boesel
bulrush millets
cab project node
cascade noise
cathode bias resistor
cephalopteruss
circumlocutionary
Co-eternal
columnar cells
compacience
comparative private international law school
creamless
devenustated
dissevering
eager beavers
El Progreso
electrical equvalent of calorie
Entamoeba gingivalis
enteric coated tablet
error equation
europe-wide
fighter aircraft
final accounting of revenue and expenditure
forward tape wind without data read (wo)
four wheel drive grader
franco border
front connection type
gear-milling-machine
girl student
greetings cards
guanidine method
heaging effect
hermaphrodisy
hierarchical multiprogramming
high pressure synthesis
historied
hohlfeld
in-pulp electrolysis
Inimutaba
insect-flower
invadable
inventoryitem
keep faith
Kra R.
labor force population
landscape science
Lesser Heat
main-steam outlet
maximum-likelihood errorcorrecting parser
mitrids
multiple passette
nesting or recursive structure
non steady
Omax
osteospermum
overcharge price
papalities
pay...on account
pericarpium citri
PNCV
power-supply network
protocol-independent
Purbeckian stage
query expansion
reliable operating value
repeat purchases
reverse dilution analysis
runanga
sagittaly
sancticolist
scientific subroutine library
scourging
serial i/o error condition
shipping registrar
side-project
sound treatment
supporting culture
swing of water turbine generator set
symptoms
syslog
Thamnocalamus
to hit it off
tool on-demand
tradeadvertising
traguss
trousered undercarriage
Udorskiy Rayon
Vann
vastus intermedius
vegetative nervous activity
ventral cornus
Vosselaar
with all your heart
woodedness
zoophysiologist