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
air shut off valve
airtime
Amarti
angle straggling
antifriction device
arghhood
at the first sight
automatic drill
auxiliary floating dock
ballot initiative
be subdivided into
buons
carcinoid of colon
carfonal
cargo attendant
Cecilton
chip modem
clearing account
closed assembly time
closed-circuit televisions
connecting utricle
control report
curtained
cycloidical
data manipulation operation
Datiwuy
deriberite(allevardite)
detunings
digit readout micrometer
dipole oscillator
direct-cycle reactor
disspirited
docosa-4,7,11-trien-18-ynoic acid
draw on something
emery papering machine
floating strainer
formalistically
foveation
Fégréac
galactose cataract
group link
guy bourdin
hydropneumatic device
hypothalamic syndrome
impersonal corporation
impetuous
incisal path inclination
injective endomorphism
input in kind
interfascicular neuroglia
jacmel (jaquemel)
kou chiao wu
l'entrainement
laser-induced spark
latch lock ring
lateral body
lighted damaged bud-leaf
linimentum poii
lycopodium somae
mary kay
May game
mechanized foundry
memory cycle steal
method of random sampling
microdrives
och
patriciate
peripneustic
photoart
polanke
Polonizes
pongee print
preimages
puerperal aphasia
Ramses II
regio femoris medialis
renormalizability
rudder angle fluctuation
rue a bargain
save image structure
scraper rock loader
shrinkage pore
sociochemicals of ants
spacial distribution
stagnationist
stobb
substation of heat supply network
sweep tester
tail section heating gas distribution console
talks away
tanz
Tedjert, Oued
testosteroned
the boston tea party
the first time
trace error
trading record
trans-boundary
Uncovered options
Vladimir Nabokov
wiseacres
xenisthmus polyzonatus