《2025年自我提升与评价九年级英语上册译林版》

五、词汇运用
认真阅读下面短文,根据语篇内容,在空白处填入括号内单词的正确形式或时态,使短文通顺、连贯。
Kurzweil is an inventor with some (42) interesting ideas on how humans will soon be able to live much longer than the average 78 years they do now.
The first challenge is how (43) to stop our bodies from getting old and dying. Kurzweil (44) doesn't see this as a problem. With gene(基因) technology we’ll soon be able to “turn off” genes that cause ageing and disease.
This technology is getting (45) cheaper and better. Kurzweil believes that we’ll be adding more than a year to the average life.
Of course, if we’re all going to live longer, there are going to be more of us on this already overcrowded(过度拥挤的) Earth. Many people think there are likely to be problems with resources like food and energy. Kurzweil doesn’t agree. He says that the same technologies used to increase our lifetime will also be used to help with food (46) production and energy needs. For example, he says, sunlight can give us 10,000 times more energy than we (47) really use now. We just need to develop the technology to make (48) better use of it and make it cheaper. There are also new technologies that can recycle water cheaply. This means that dirty water can (49) be made clean again at a very low cost. When you think that 80% of disease in the developing countries is because of dirty water, you can see how this technology might help change the world.
But what are we going to do with all this extra time? Won’t we all get (50) bored? Again Kurzweil says “no”. For a start, we won’t be stuck in old bodies. We’ll stay young for years. This means we (51) will be able to try many more things than we can now.

答案： 42．interesting。修饰名词ideas，用形容词interesting“有趣的”。
43．to stop。“how to do sth.”是“疑问词+不定式”结构，这里用to stop。
44．doesn't see。主语Kurzweil是第三人称单数，且句子是一般现在时，否定句借助助动词doesn't，后面动词用原形see。
45．cheaper。and连接并列成分，后面是better，这里用比较级cheaper，表示“更便宜”。
46．production。help with sth.表示“帮助某事”，这里用名词production“生产”。
47．really。修饰动词use，用副词really“真正地”。
48．better。make better use of表示“更好地利用”，用比较级better。
49．be made。主语dirty water和make之间是被动关系，情态动词can后接动词原形，所以用be made。
50．bored。get是系动词，后接形容词bored“感到厌烦的”作表语。
51．will be。根据语境，这里表示将来，用一般将来时will be。