2014年英语六级阅读练习及答案(25)_大学英语阅读

2014年英语六级阅读练习及答案(25)

　　Of even more immediate interest than transportation is the clothing of the future. The clothes you will wear at the end of this century may not be of silk, cotton, wool, or even nylon. Clothing will be made of new synthetics and so will the upholstery materials you order by television-phone. To get these synthetic materials, scientists will have devised some electrically controlled apparatus which will allow men to dig twenty miles below the surface of the ground. At that level inside the earth, they may discover many types of rock, now unknown, which will give us these new synthetic materials. Cloth made from these materials will be fire-proof because they come from rock.

　　While these synthetics for cloth are being developed, others will be discovered to take the place of wood and steel. We already have plastic furniture, plastic boats, and plastic dishes. As our wood and steel supplies dwindle ， synthetic materials will be developed for building homes and giant skyscrapers.

　　1. According to the reading selection, the world in the year 2000 will achieve great progress in many fields.

　　2. According to the writer, our predictions about the future should be based on our free imaginations.

　　3. Synthetics in place of silk, cotton and wool will be made from rocks.

　　4. Based on available scientific information, it is predicted in this passage that the speed of air travel 50 years from now will reach 10,000 kilometres an hour.