2014高考英语阅读理解精英训练二轮精品题：33（含答案）.docVIP

2014高考英语阅读理解精英训练二轮精品题（33）及答案 阅读理解 Today, the world is rapidly urbanizing．With half of the world population expected to live in cities by the early part of the 21st century, the Shanghai 2010 World Expos focus on a better city bears profound meaning． What might future cities look like 28 years from now? Here are some scenarios: things to come, things to go． Zero waste Waste disposal is one of the biggest headaches for cities．Apart from recyclable waste, everything is buried or incinerated, only to pollute the environment．Plastic waste remains underground for several decades．The world produces much more garbage that it can dispose of． Now at the Expo, all waste is delivered to a compression station where the waste is sorted, filtered, decontaminated, deodorized and compressed before finally being disposed of at designated spots．In Beijing, people living in the Asuwei area turn their household waste into organic fertilizers which are used to grow plants at residence communities． No more transportation problems during Spring Festival The Spring Festival, the most important Chinese holiday when everyone returns home, has caused headaches for millions of Chinese．More than 2 billion people travel at the same time, making obtaining travel tickets and the journey difficult． But in 28 years．Spring Festival travel may not be a problem at all．China plans to have more than 120,000 kilometers of railway and a rapid transportation network that will serve 90 percent of the population by 2020．And because most of China will be cities, people will not have to go to other places to find a job, so migration will no longer be so large-scale． Newspapers to disappear American scholar Philip Meyer predicts that newspaper will come to an end in 2043．Utagawa Reizou, former editor-in-chief of The Mainichi Daily News．believes that the newspaper will be gone in 2030．This kind of prediction may worry those in print news business．In the U．K．, the circulations of national newspapers are declining．M