职称英语考试

试题来源：职称英语模拟题-理工类-补全短文
【单选题】

Looking to the Future

When a magazine for high-school students askedits readers what life would be like in twenty years, they said: Machines wouldbe run by solar power. Buildings would rotate so they could follow the sun totake maximum advantage of its light and heat. Walls would "radiatelight" and "change color with the push of a button." Food wouldbe replaced by pills. School would be taught "by electrical impulse whilewe sleep.'' Cars would have radar. Does this sound like the year 2000? Actually,________ and the question was, "what will life be like in 1978?"

The future is much too important to simplyguess about, the way the high school students did, so experts are regularlyasked to predict accurately. By carefully studying the present, skilledbusinessmen, scientists, and politicians are supposedly able to figure out inadvance what will happen. But can they? One expert on cities wrote: _______,but would have space for farms and fields. People would travel to work in"airbuses", large all-weather helicopters carrying up to 200passengers. When a person left the airbus station he could drive acoin-operated car equipped with radar. The radar equipment of cars would maketraffic accidents "almost unheard of". Does that sound familiar? Ifthe expert had been accurate it would, because he was writing in 1957. Hissubject was "The city of 1982".

If the professionals sometimes sound likehigh-school students, it's probably because _________. But economicforecasting, or predicting what the economy will do, had been around for a longtime. It should be accurate, and generally it is. But there have been some bigmistakes in this field, too. In early 1929, most forecasters saw an excellentfuture for the stock market. In October of that year, _______, ruiningthousands of investors who had put their faith in financial foreseers.

One forecaster knew that predictions about thefuture would always be subject to significa

ant errors. In 1957, H.J. Rand of the RandCorporation was asked about the year 2000, "Only one thing iscertain," he answered. "Children born today _______. "

A. the stock market had its worst losses ever

B. will have reached the age of 43

C. the article was written in 1958

D. Cities of the future would not be crowded

E. the prediction of the future is generallyaccurate

F. future study is still a new field

网考网参考答案：C、D、F、A、B
大数据分析：根据网考网与考试题库的统计分析，该试题：
19%的考友选择了A选项
38%的考友选择了B选项
42%的考友选择了C选项
0%的考友选择了D选项
0%的考友选择了E选项
1%的考友选择了F选项
考友解析与评论：
 · 这个答案靠谱吗？
 · 这个答案应该是错的，应该是C、D、F、A、B
 · 我就纳闷了，为什么要选C、D、F、A、B