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作者：李向阳 文章来源：《英语辅导报》
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| Automobiles will be cheaper than horses are today. Huge forts on wheels will dash across open spaces at the speed of express trains of today. Hot or cold air will be turned on from spigots (水龙头) to regulate the temperature of a house as we now turn on hot or cold water from spigots to regulate the temperature of a bath.
Man will see around the world persons and things of all kinds will be brought within focus of cameras connected electronically with screens at the opposite ends of circuits, thousands of miles at a span. Electric currents applied to the soil will make valuable plants grow larger and faster, and will kill troublesome weeds. Rays of coloured light will hasten the growth of many plants. Wireless telephone and telegraph circuits will span the world.
There will be no street cars in our large cities. All hurry traffic will be below or high above the ground. These underground or overhead streets will teem with capacious (容量大的) automobile passenger coaches (长途汽车) and freight wagons with cushioned wheels. Cities, therefore, will be free from all noises. Photographs will be telegraphed from any distance.
Not only will it be possible for a physician to see a living, throbbing (跳动的) heart inside the chest, but he will be able to magnify (放大) and photograph any part of it. This work will be done with rays of invisible light. Fast electric ships, crossing the ocean at more than a mile a minute, will go from New York to Liverpool in England in two days. There will be Air-Ships, but they will not successfully compete with surface cars and water vessels for passenger or freight traffic.
Grand Opera will be telephoned to private homes, and will sound as harmonious as though enjoyed from a theatre box. Pneumatic tubes (气动导管), instead of store wagons, will deliver packages and bundles.
1. Find a word in the passage closest in meaning to the underlined word “vessels”.
2. What will be the best title for the passage? (回答词数不超过4个)
3. What will a physician use to magnify and photograph any part of a living, throbbing heart inside the chest? (回答词数不超过4个)
参考答案:
1. Ships.
2. Life in the future.
3. Rays of invisible lights. |
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