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北大附中新疆分校2017—2018第二学期高二年级5月月考
英语试题
总分:150 卷面分:120 时间:120分钟
一.阅读理解(30分,每小题2分)
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Thinking about the future isn't a special skill.Actually,everyone does it all the time.We schedule future activities and appointments on our calendars.We make to﹣do lists,a promise to ourselves of how we will spend our future time and energy.We look up the weekend's weather.We make predictions about the results of sporting events.We practice,study and train for upcoming events that matter to us.We daydream about events we're eagerly looking forward to.We worry about others.
Most of this common future thinking is about the near future:the next few minutes,hours,days,weeks,months or maybe even the next few years of our lives.Little time is spent thinking about what our lives will be like or what actions we should prepare to take in the far future:ten years,twenty years,or even fifty years from now.This kind of far﹣future thinking is the domain of professional futurists.
Futurists are train