Some people are pessimistic(悲观的) when they think about the future. They say that, a hundred years from now, we will have used up most of the earth's resources. We will have made our seas so dirty that we will not be able to eat fish from them. There will be so many people in the world that we will have to use all the countryside for housing; there will be no farmland left.
Other people have a different idea about the future. In their view, the city of the future will be a huge pyramid-shaped(金字塔形的) building, which will be floating on the surface of the sea. About 5,000 families will live there, and there will also be schools, shops in it.
In a hundred years' time, people will not need to use oil. They will heat their homes with power from the sun.
Think of space. Perhaps a station will be set up on the moon; people will be able to visit the moon as tourists. They may even spend their holidays in space, travelling from planet to planet.
What an interesting picture!
Many people don't think about the future. “I don't care. I'll be dead. ”they say. But it is our duty to care because the world of a hundred years' time will be the world of our children's and their children after them.
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词数：120左右。
高二学生吴名在上学路上，目睹了一起交通事故；一位老妇人被撞，左腿受伤，血流不止，而肇事者逃逸；吴名运用所学知识对老妇人进行急救，旁人打电话求助；老妇人被送往医院，吴名上学迟到，但为自己能帮助他人感到自豪。
1）开设急救课的原因；
2）烫伤急救知识；
3）邀请Peter再到中国学习。
注意：1）词数80左右；
2）信的开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数；
3）可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Peter,
Glad to receive your letter, and now I'll tell you something about the first aid course in our school and some suggestions about burns.
Best wishes!
Yours,
Li Hua
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词；
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉；
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1）每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2）只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Last Friday, we went to Beijing Survival Island to go on an outing, that left us with a deep impression.
Early in the morning, we gathered the school gate and the school bus takes us there. In the way, we talked and laughed, full of excitement. Upon arrive, we were attracted by various activities and got involved immediate. The monkey bars were really challenging. One of the boys managed to make it with the encouragement of her classmates. I was interested in making cakes. I was being taught to make my first cake on my own! At lunchtime, we sat around, enjoying the delicious food. Everyone had the good time.
We really enjoyed our stay there. Before we left, we had a photo taken to record the unforgettable days.
Owning a smartphone may not be as smart as you think. They may let you surf the Internet, listen to music and snap photos wherever you are…but they also turn you into workaholic (工作狂), it seems.
A study suggests that, by giving you access to emails at all times, the smartphone adds as much as two hours to your working day. Researchers found that Britons work an additional 460 hours a year on average as they are able to respond to emails on their mobiles. The study shows the average UK working day is between 9 and 10 hours, but a further 2 hours is spent responding to or sending work emails, or making work calls.
Almost one in ten admits spending up to three hours outside their normal working day checking work emails. Some workers confess they are on call almost 24 hours a day. Nearly two-thirds say they often check work emails just before they go to bed and as soon as they wake up, while over a third have replied to one in the middle of the night. The average time for first checking emails is between 6 am and 7 am, with more than a third checking their first email in this period, and a quarter checking them between 11pm and midnight.
Ghadi Hobeika, marketing director of Pixmania, said: "The ability to access millions of apps has made smartphones invaluable for many people. However, there are disadvantages. Many companies expect their employees to be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and smartphones mean that people cannot get away from work. The more constantly in contact we become, the more is expected of us in a work capacity."
It's always been a dream for Alex to take a trip with her mother, but it was a death in the family that1made them both realize how precious life really is.
"After losing my grandma, I2that neither I nor my mum will3be here, and that I can't4the right time to come," the 27-year-old girl told The Huffington Post.
"After a week of5, my amazing mum and I are off to travel around the United States. We will be travelling from New York to Los Angeles interviewing6who are changing the world for the better and7the dream I had for a very long time: to travel together with my mother. I have taken a month off work and we are on our way.8are waiting!" Alex said.
So in August, Alex and her 63-year-old retired mother, Halina, traveled to the United States for a three-week9that took them from coast to coast.
Alex is the10of Looking For Heroes, a social media project, in which she photographs many of the interesting people she meets with,11unique tidbits (花边新闻) of their life stories at the same time. The12mother and daughter traveled across the nation, visiting cities13Knoxville, Tennessee, New York City, Los Angeles and Washington. Along the way they took photos14famous backdrops (背景) in each city, making some15memories.
Meanwhile, Alex16much from her mother. Her mother often said "My17to young people would be to learn new things, and what you have learned will be your biggest18in life. With age you stop19about things that don't matter. With your priorities (优先) changing,20and health become the most important."
Reading books is one of the best hobbies. It not only helps you pass your time but also helps you increase your knowledge in a meaningful manner. Here we will give you a few tips that can help you.
●Fall into the habit of borrowing books to read.
This is a very old school practice but still it can be highly effective. When you borrow a book, there is obviously a deadline set.
●Read everywhere.
Keep a book in your bag and read it anywhere you go. This will help you to pass your time in a very productive manner. Anyway, you can read your book 24 hours a day. ●
This can easily be described as a new school technique. You can read out to your brother or sister and this will enable you to finish your book as well as increase the knowledge and understanding of your brother or sister.
●Choose your books very carefully.
Thus choose your books very carefully in order to enjoy your time and also finish your book effectively. If you choose a good book that can keep you interested for a longer period of time, there is no way that you are going to leave it incomplete.
A. Read out to someone else.
B. Realize the importance of reading books.
C. Therefore, it is necessary to develop the reading habit.
D. Find an excuse to read every day just by visiting book clubs.
E. Yes, life is too short to read a book that doesn't impress you.
F. It doesn't matter whether you are traveling or are about to sleep.
G. This can encourage you to read it often to finish the book on time.
I am sorry to hear that you are worried about the variety of English you have been learning.
Firstly, the differences between British and American English may surprise those have learned English for years. There (be) a few differences in grammar and various differences in vocabulary. British and American people have no difficulty (understand) each other. They watch films and televisions from each other's countries for (please).
Secondly, there isn't only one British American English. For example, all major cities in the UK have (they) own dialects with different accents from each other. Sometimes these accents can be (hard) to understand for even a British person than some Americans. Also, there are Englishes from many other countries. People who speak these Englishes usually also manage (communicate) with other English speakers without any problems.
All learners need to be able to understand English spoken and written by as many people as possible and they need to be able to speak English so that as many people as possible can understand them. You should concentrate on this goal, not on to speak "British" or "American" English.
I hope this is (help).
