問題詳情
39~40)A new report shows what life might be like in 100 years from now. It describes skyscrapers that are much taller than today'sbuildings, underwater "bubble" cities, and holidays in space. The report is from Samsung's SmartThings. It asked specialists onspace, architecture, and city planners to give their ideas on life in 2116. They said the way we live, work and play will be totallydifferent to how we do these things today. The specialists said that 25 years ago, people could not imagine how the Internet andsmartphones would change our lives. The Internet has completely changed the way we communicate, learn and do daily things.They also 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. Theypredicted that in the future, few people will go to an office but will work from home and have online meetings. People will have 3Dprinters that will let you download a design for furniture or a food recipe and then "print" the sofa, table or pizza at home. There willalso be less need for doctors. We will all have a home health system that will tell us what the problem is and give us medical care.We will also be going into space for holidays and to get things that we have used up on Earth. A prediction that was missing waswhether people would still need to study English.
【題組】39. What does the word prediction mean in paragraph two?
(A) the true fact about something, rather than what is untrue, imagined, or guessed
(B) a very old imaginary story about gods and magical living things
(C) a statement about what you think is going to happen
(D) a book about imaginary people and events
參考答案
答案：C
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)