[单项选择]In the modem world, it is important to be well-informed. Success in many fields depends on getting the latest information.
A. 在当今社会，保持信息畅通非常重要，能否在许多领域里获取成功最终依赖于信息。
B. 在现代世界，信息灵通是非常重要的。许多领域的成功都取决于能否得到最新信息。
C. 在现代世界，使自己消息灵活非常重要。能否取得最新消息是许多领域能否成功的关键。
D. 在现代社会，消息灵通是非常重要的。在许多领域里的成功关键取决于能否得到最新消息。

[单项选择]Most people in the modem world ________ freedom and independence more than anything else.
A. illuminate
B. fascinate
C. cherish
D. embody

[填空题]Most people in the modem world __________________________(珍视自由和独立胜过其他一切).

[单项选择]Computers are very important to modem (现代的) life. Many people think that in the future computers will be used in lots of everyday life. It is thought that we won’t have to go shopping because we will be able to get most things which are sold in the shops on the Interact. There will be no more books because we will be able to get all texts from computers. The Internet will be used to play games, see films and buy food. Most telephone calls will be made by computers.
Some people are glad about these new ways of shopping and communication (交流). Others do not think that computers will replace (取代) our old ways.
Let’s look at books, for example. Some people think that one day we will not read books made of paper. In- stead, we will buy and read books using computers. We will read texts on small pocket computers. The computers will keep many different books in them at the same time. We won’t need to turn lots of pages and paper will be saved. Computerized (计算机化的) books will b
A. play games, see films and have meals
B. play games, go shopping and make telephone calls
C. see films, buy food and see the doctor

[简答题]In the modem technological world the sea offers many resources to help mankind survive.

[简答题] Using Land Wisely A very important world problem—in fact, I am inclined to say it is the most important of all the great world problems which face US at the present time—is the rapidly increasing pressure of population on land and on land resources. It is not so much the actual population of the world but its rate of increase which is important. It works out to be about 1. 6 per cent per annual net increase. In terms of numbers this means something like forty to fifty-five million additional people every year. Canada has a population of twenty million-rather less than six months’’ climb in world population. Take Australia. There are ten million people in Australia. So, it takes the world less than three months to add to itself a population. Let the US take our own crowded country -England and Wales: forty -five to fifty million people—just about a year’’s supply. By this time tomorrow, and every day, there will be added to the earth about 12