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PAGE PAGE 197 Chapter One IELTS Reading Passages 第一章 雅思阅读文章 Part A Academic Reading Passages 学术类阅读文章 一、科技 Reading Passage 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1－12 which are based on Reading Passage 3 below. Lifestyles of the 21st Century Americans in the future will probably not live as Americans do today. Fusion power will be capable of producing energy without limits while saving natural resources. People may live well past a hundred years, be equipped with plastic body parts, and eat man-made foods. Space travelers will walk on the planets. These factors of life were science fiction images a few decades ago. Today such events are already discussed as if real. How do people image life in the United States in the future? Below are some predictions made by Richard N. Farmer, who gave his light-hearted opinion of the World of 2084. Since no one wants to do the dirty, uninteresting factory-line work any more, we decide not to. So we take some chimpanzees, or if we really want some strength, some great apes, do a bit of scientific engineering here and there, and we create some animals, which are made for the factory line. They work their eight hours a day, and dont mind the repetition a bit. ... Jack Baxter, a common American of 2084, glanced at his stop-watch. He was slowing down; he could only run the kilometer in four minutes flat now, and when he was 80, he could do it in three-fifty. But, being 140 years old made a difference, regardless of what his doctor said. Jack had received his first cancer shot in 1981; he had received his man-made heart in 2014, before they really got those human ones perfected, so he wasnt a very good example of a complete human. But he felt pretty good; he had been one of the lucky ones, who had received his shots to make him young again before he turned 40, so he was still a young-looking fellow. Of course, he looked old in his world, since no one got much beyond 30-looking any more. And, of cou