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2021年职称英语综合类阅读了解模拟题 8 职称英语综合类 职称英语网权威公布2021年职称英语综合类阅读了解模拟题，更多2021年职称英语综合类阅读了解模拟题相关信息请访问职称英语考试网。Looking to the FutureWhen a magazine for high-school students asked its readers what life would be like in twenty years,they said： Machines would be run by solar would rotate so they could follow the sun to take maximum advantage of its light and heat Walls would radiate light and change color with the push of a button. Food would be replaced by would be taught by electrical impulse while we sleep. Cars would have this sound like the year 2021？ Actually,the article was written in 1958 and the question was,what will life be like in 1978？The future is much too important to simply guess about,the way the high school students did,so experts are regularly asked to predict carefully studying the present,skilled businessmen,scientists,and politicians are supposedly able to figure out in advance what will can they？ One expert on cities wrote： Cities of the future would not be crowded,but would have space for farms and would travel to work in airbuses,large all-weather helicopters carrying up to 200 a person left the airbus station he could drive a coin-operated car equipped with radar equipment of cars would make traffic accidents almost unheard of.Does that sound familiar？ If the expert had been accurate it would,because he was writing in subject was The city of 1982.If the professionals sometimes sound like high-school students,its probably because future study is still a new economic forecasting,or predicting what the economy will do,has been around for a long should be accurate,and generally it there have been some big market in the field, early 1929,most forecasters saw an excellent future for the stock October of that year,the stock market had its worst losses ever,ruining thousands of investors who had put their faith in financial foreseers.One forecaster knew that predictions about the future would always be subject to significant 1957, of the Rad corporation was asked about the year 2021,Only one thing is certain， he answered.Children born today will have reached the age of 43.high-school studentsanswers to What would life be like in 1978？ soundA accurate.B imaginative.C correct.D foolish.to the writer,forecasting is fairly accurate inA politics.B science.C sociology.D economy.of the following statements is not compatible with the writers comment on future study？A Predictions should be accurateB Professional sometimes sound like high-school studentsC There have been some big mistakes in the field of economic forecasting.D Predictions about future would always be subject to significant errors.passage Looking to the Future was most probably writtenA in 1982B in 1958C after 1958D in 1957s prediction about the year 2021 shows thatA it is easy to figure out in advance what will happenB it is difficult to figure out in advance what will happenC only professionals can figure out in advance what will happenD very few professionals figure out in advance what will happen答案： BDACB
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