《2025年学力水平快乐假期暑假八年级英语人教版北京教育出版社》

Ⅰ. What will the future be like?
1. Tingting and Ma Jian are talking about the year 2050. Fill in the blanks with the right form of the words. Then write T(true) or F(false). (T=Tingting, M=Ma Jian)
be, fly, read, give, guess, talk, work, study, have, spend
M: Tingting, have you (1)______ anything interesting recently?
T: I've read an article in a magazine about the world in 2050. Here it is.
M: What will the world (2)______ like in the year 2050?
T: No one can be sure. But it is interesting (3)______. It says in the year 2050 everybody will carry a pocket computer. The computer (4)______ people the answers to all their problems. And we'll be able to (5)______ to our friends all over the world. Perhaps we'll be able to see them at the same time. Many people will (6)______ at home and they will be able to use the videophone for meetings. Machines will do most of the work, and people (7)______ more holidays. Perhaps they will work only two or three days a week. They will be able to fly to the moon by spaceship and (8)______ their holidays there.
M: I'm very glad to hear that. I wish I could (9)______ to the moon. And I wish I were able to live in the sea. Won't that be interesting? Just like a fish. Do you think kids (10)______ at home?
T: Yes, I think so. They use computers to learn at home instead of going to school.
M: Great! I'm looking forward to that day.
( )(11)They are talking about how to travel to the moon.
( )(12)Tingting read the article on the Internet.
( )(13)The article says all people will own pocket computers in 2050.
( )(14)In 2050, people will spend less time on work.
( )(15)Tingting thinks there will be more schools in the future.

答案：
(1)read/been reading
(2)be
(3)to guess
(4)will give
(5)talk
(6)work
(7)will have
(8)spend
(9)fly
(10)will study
(11)F
(12)F
(13)T
(14)T
(15)F