The Internet has become more widely used, and it is especially popular with young people.
第1题
What is the man going to do after graduation?
[A] He will become a teacher.
[B] He will become a lawyer.
[C] He will try a lot of jobs.
[D] He has not decided yet.
第2题
The erosion of the white cliffs in the south of England ________.
A) will soon become a problem for people living in central England
B) has now become a threat to the local residents
C) is quickly changing the map of England
D) can be stopped if proper measures are taken
第3题
Can the man buy the bike now?
A.Yes, he can.
B.No, because he hasn't enough money.
C.Yes, because he has lots of money.
第4题
Within a few decades, PAN-type research will transform. the Internet into the Life Net, a comprehensive sensory environment for human habitation. Our minds will be afforded wireless direct sensory interfacing with other people and various databases. A dramatically enhanced version of what we now call virtual reality will become as common as air conditioning. Telephones, TVs, PCs, and other media will be replaced by wireless sensory feeds from and to communal microcells.
People return to the Internet each day not from addiction, but because they can craft a new identity for themselves—any identity they choose. Or they can participate in experiences that are otherwise beyond their reach. Consider the impact of a technology affording a lifestyle. in which you can go wherever you want to go and be whoever you want to be.
Today's office and service workers have diminished physical capabilities, but are better educated. The Life Net will accelerate this trend. The need to survive while spending weeks, months, or years on the Net would be drastically reduced.
Resource depletion resulting from overpopulation will cease to be a major issue when we are subsisting on 600 calories a day in a sensory reality where we can eat all we want. Our mansions will be built in our minds, and our future Ferrairs will be driven along the roads of our collective imaginations. Our minds will work and play in ways now beyond our conception.
Time constraints dissolve when we can communicate effortlessly anywhere in the world. Humans will require less sleep, since we will need only the time to file and store the information that our brains have collected, and not to rest physical bodies. The physical body will deteriorate to a state where a return to robust health would take months—if possible at ail.
These technologies will be inexpensive. Life Net participation will consume far fewer resources than an automobile, and reduce our housing and other needs. This will help the Life Net expand into Third World countries. The equipment required for the microcellular sensory transmission technology will be modular, redundant, and like that for the Internet, incrementally inexpensive. Countries with overcrowding and famine would embrace the Life Net. Their resources would be extended, and planners would likely program the system to minimize the population's reproductive drive.
People will still have jobs. There will be lots of work to do. People will want to consume the newest experiential sensations. Some food will need to be prepared, and equipment manufactured. Government will be divided into Geographical, Physical and Communicative. The responsibilities of the geographic governments will be to defend land masses and keep order in the physical world as much as they do today. The responsibilities of the communicative governments will be to administer, regulate and defend cyberspace.
The communicative government will also be responsible for maintaining the input-output microcells. Various online services are already functioning as a form. of communicative government today—with their monthly fees as taxes. As they mature, these communicative governments will develop better defenses against cyberspace terrorism, which may come from large and potentially violent anti-technology cults.
Some people will have to remain physically active and strong, bec
A.It is the same as the Internet today.
B.It is the foundation of the PAN processor.
C.It is invented only for scientific research.
D.It develops from the PAN processor.
第5题
Surfing on the Internet has almost become a matter of_______.
A.tradition
B.routine
C.habit
第6题
The Internet has a history of ______ years.
A.less than 30
B.about 40
C.about 20
第7题
Which country has the largest population of Internet users?
A.America.
B.China.
C.Canada.
D.Australia.
第8题
Which of the following statements do you think the author has implied?
A.It is compulsory to couple one's learning program to the Internet.
B.The Internet presupposes the idea of equality all over the world.
C.The Internet is a wonderful, beneficial human technical invention.
D.The Internet provides much more accurate and precise translation.
第9题
According to the passage a great change has taken place on the Internet. It is that
A.there are more racist and sexist messages on the Internet
B.there are more women users than men users on the Internet
C.there are more men chatting with women on the Internet
D.there are more women users now than before on the Internet
第10题
The Internet has important advantages over the newspaper, because _________.
A.job seekers can target the job they want easily and get immediate response
B.digital employment agencies are growing very fast
C.the Internet is described by some as a job machine
第11题
What does the author say about excessive Internet use?
A) It has become virtually inevitable.
B) It has been somewhat exaggerated.
C) People haven't yet reached agreement on its definition.
D) People should be warned of its harmful consequences.