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even though Ⅴ .閱讀理解 (A) The future is time that is to e. The future is not the present or the past. It is later. We have seen many possible futures in science fiction. They range from the world’ s polar ice caps melting to nuclear winters. But not all futures are this morbid. We have seen the human race spread all over our universe, humans and aliens living in harmony together all over the universe. It is very likely that we will make some kind of breakthrough in our ability to travel through space sometime in the next 150 years. This would give us the ability to rule other plas. Ultimately, the Earth will die whether it be 1,000 years or 100,000 years. We will be forced to move to another pla then. It’ s really just a matter of time. When we do so, what will we discover? Personally, I think everyone will be speaking the same language in 200 years. A world government definitely seems to be in our future. It is stable and has few wars. Indeed, the only type of wars that can happen is the civil war. And what if we face aliens? If they are friendly, we would probably benefit a lot from putting our knowledge together. They must have advanced technology to travel for great distances. We could seriously benefit from their technology. But if they aren’ t friendly, then we are in trouble. Hope that we have bee advanced enough, smart enough, and generally a better race by the time we meet them. But this is all probably being discussed for nothing, because any race out there among the stars is probably as curious as we are about other creatures. 1. The underlined word “ morbid” in Paragraph 1 can be replaced by _________. A. unpleasant B. exciting C. expected D. serious 2. What will humans do if the Earth dies? A. Humans will have to face death. B. Humans will travel and live in space. C. Humans will move to another pla. D. Humans will go back to the past time. 3. According to the author, the following statements are right about aliens EXCEPT that __________. A. we can learn from aliens if they are friendly B. when aliens arrive, humans will be smarter than them C. aliens may be as curious as we human beings about other plas D. aliens have more advanced technology than us 4. After reading the passage, we can know that the passage is based on __________. A. scientific facts B. time and space C. advanced technology D. the author’ s imagination (A) Beijing— Zhang Lili, a teacher at No. 19 Middle School in the city of Jiamusi, Heilongjiang Province, got seriously injured when she saved two students from being run over by a school bus on May 8,2021. Zhang and her students were crossing the road just outside the school gate when a school bus suddenly came rushing toward nearby students. Zhang managed to push both students out of the way of the bus, but she herself did get run over. Her legs were crushed and later had to be cut off above the knee. Zhang Lili’ s act of saving students was not accidental sin