1、1推测单词与短语题专项练习李仕才（1）Olaf Stapledon wrote a book called First and Last Men, in which he looked millions of years ahead. He told of different men and of strange civilizations（文明）, broken up by long dark ages in between. In his view, what is called the present time is no more than a moment in human hist
2、ory and we are just the First Men. In 2,000 million years from now there will be the Eighteenth or Last Men.However, most of our ideas about the future are really very short-sighted. Perhaps we can see some possibilities for the next fifty years . But the next hundred? The next thousand? The next mi
3、llion? Thats much more difficult.When men and women lived by hunting 50,000 years ago, how could they even begin to picture modern life? Yet to men of 50,000 years from now, we may seem as primitive（原始的）in our ideas as the Stone-Age hunters do to us. Perhaps they will spend their days gollocking to
4、make new spundels, or struggling with their ballalators through the cribe. These words, which I have just made up, have to stand for things and ideas that we simply cant think of.So why bo ther even to try imagining life far in the future? Here are two reasons. First, unless we remember how short ou
5、r own lives are compared with the whole human history, we are likely to think our own interests are much more important than they really are. If we make the earth a poor place to live on because we are careless or greedy（贪婪）or quarrelsome, our grandchildren will not bother to think of excuses for us
6、.Second, by trying to escape from present interests and imagine life far in the future, we may arrive at quite fresh ideas that we can use ourselves. For example, if we imagine that in the future men may give up farming, we can think of trying it now. So set your imagination free when you t hink abo
7、ut the future.1. Spundels and ballalators are used in the text to refer to _.A. tool s used in farming B. ideas about modern lifeC. unknown things in the future D. hunting skills in the Stone Age2. A particular mention made of Stapledons book in the opening paragraph _.A. serves as a description of
8、human historyB. serves as an introduction to the discussionC. shows a disagreement of viewsD. shows the popularity of the book(2)Beijing plans to send up manned spaceshipZHUHAIChina will soon put a person into space and become the third nation 2in the world to own manned space fl ight, a top Chinese
9、 aerospace official said on November 5.A manned launch was not far off, Vice President Hu Hongfu of China Aerospace Science Technology Corp (CASTC) told a news conference at the third Zhuhai air show. “It will not be long before Chinese astronauts can ride locally-made spaceships into space,” Hu sai
10、d. The official gave no timeta ble but said it would happen at the beginning of the 21st century.The former Soviet Union and the United States have been putting people into orbit since the early 1960s, but other nations have not considered the challenge worth following.China has already built and se
11、nt up its own sate llites for communications and weather forecasting. The new communication satellites would help to encourage the countrys broadcasting industry, he said.The company, which includes over 130 aerospace agencies, said that the lifting ability and success rate of Chinas launch spaceshi
12、ps were almost equal in quality to those of other countries.China would gradually close the distance between its countrys space industry and that of other nations. He added that they were willing to send up commercial satellites for Taiwan.On Chinas plan to send up manned space flights, Hu said Chin
13、a had made important development after the successful launch in November last year of the countrys first experimental spaceship, Shenzhou.“The whole project is in the research stage and a lot of work needs to be done,” Hu said. “We need to have more tests of unmann ed spaceship.”China last year anno
14、unced a four-step manned space flight plan, with the aim of setting up a space station served by spaceship traveling between the two places.1. The underlined word “they” here probably refers to _.A. the former Soviet Union and the USAB. over 130 aerospace agenciesC. Russia and ChinaD. Russia and the
15、 USA2. Which of the following is close to the underlined word “close”?A. shut B. dropC. shorten D. widen 轻松搞定推测单词与短语题专项练习参考答案（1）1. C 解析：猜词题。那是作者编的词，指未来的事，make up 编造。2. B 解析：引用此书，意在展开讨论，以下再做详细说明。A 不对，第一段仅说了对历史分段的看法，并未对历史作出描写。（2）31. B 解析：猜测词义题。 they在此处指代的是前文中提到的 over 130 aerospace agencies。2. C 解析：猜测词义题。close 在此处的意思为“缩短” 。
