AI DPSK 原创 素材来源:THiNK 新素材
[2026 原创] A long time ago, people were very different from the way we are now. For example, if you find a really old house somewhere, you will see that the doors are usually much lower than they are today. Why? Because hundreds of years ago, people were shorter. Over time, the human body has changed a lot.
Can we expect the human body to keep changing in the future? For sure, the main reason is that we have more and more technology, and it's changing how we live. What kind of changes can we expect? Well, no one can be 100 per cent sure, but here are some possible changes.
In the future, people will probably be even taller. Most of us now have much better food than people in the past, so we grow more. But we will get weaker in more than one way. Our muscles (肌肉) will not be as strong as now, because we won't do lots of physical work.
We are already using our feet less, and our hands more (think about cars and computers). So we can expect that our legs will get shorter and our feet smaller. At the same time, our fingers will get longer. And our fingers and eyes will both get better to adapt to new life, because they will have to do more work together.
What about the mouth? It will get smaller, because we needn't talk so much with the help of technology. And last but not least—we won't have much hair on our bodies as now, because we don't need it to keep ourselves warm anymore.
Will all these things happen? And if so, when? These are questions that no one can answer for sure.
()1. 新考法开篇方式 How does the writer start the text?
A. By telling a story.
B. By giving an example.
C. By asking a question.
D. By listing numbers.

()2. What will our muscles be like in the future according to the text?
A. They will get better.
B. They will disappear.
C. They will be as strong as now.
D. They will be weaker than now.
()3. What does the underlined phrase “adapt to” mean in the fourth paragraph?
A. Be happy with. B. Be used to.
C. Be mad at. D. Be beneficial to.
()4. What can we infer about the future from the text?
A. People may be even shorter.
B. People will get stronger in more than one way.
C. Humans' legs will get longer and the feet smaller.
D. People's appearance will be different from that of people today.

1. B 推理判断题。根据“For example, if you find a really old house somewhere, you will see that the doors are usually much lower than they are today.”可知,作者通过举例开启文章,故选B项。
2. D 细节理解题。根据“Our muscles will not be as strong as now, because we won’t do lots of physical work.”可知,未来我们的肌肉会比现在弱,故选D项。
3. B 词义猜测题。根据“And our fingers and eyes will both get better to adapt to new life, because they will have to do more work together.”可知,手指和眼睛会变得更好是为了适应新生活,adapt to意为“适应”,与be used to意思相近,故选B项。
4. D 推理判断题。文章介绍了未来人类在身高、肌肉、四肢、嘴巴、毛发等方面可能发生的变化,由此可推断出未来人类的外貌会与现在的人不同,故选D项。

新素材素材话题:可识别海底污染物的水
下机器人
[2026 陕西渭南期末] Scientists have
created an underwater robot and it can tell different kinds of pollution at the bottom of the sea. 5 It can also give them a chance to remove the things that can cause the most harm to
the environment.
The robot weighs nearly 100 pounds (1 pound≈453.6 grams) and uses special cameras to take 3D pictures. It was created by a team at Skarv Technologies.
6 First, the robot swam up and down in a row at about six feet(1 foot=30.48 centimetres) above the lake bed, collecting information with the special cameras. Then a computer turned the information into a map, which showed different kinds of rubbish in different colours.
A total of 3,894 objects were found in the lake and divided into different kinds. “There’s too much rubbish,” a member of the Skarv Technologies team said. “7”
It is not always possible for clean-up teams to remove all the rubbish they find underwater. Besides, 8 The robot will be used to help the teams find the most harmful things. And the teams spend their time, efforts and money removing them first. “Glass isn’t the real pollution,” said
Fossum. “So if you know there’s an area with a lot of glass, 9 Instead, you should pay more attention to the things that are putting heavy metals into the environment.”
Besides helping to check the pollution, the robot can also tell the positions of animals in the sea. It can avoid hurting the animals while the clean-up teams are removing the rubbish.
A. it still needed to be tested.
B. you can probably ignore (忽视) that.
C. The researchers put their work to the test at a lake.
D. The robot will help clean-up teams find the rubbish.
E. there is something more important to be cleaned.
F. The robot can clean the rubbish on the ground on its own.
G. There is somewhere around 165 to 300 tons of rubbish in the lake.

5. D 根据上下文可知,此处应介绍机器人的作用,选项D(机器人将帮助清洁团队找到垃圾。)符合语境。
6. C 根据该段内容可知,此处详细描述了机器人在湖里进行测试的过程,选项C(研究人员在一个湖里对他们的工作进行了测试。)符合语境。
7. G 根据There’s too much rubbish可知,此处应介绍湖里有多少垃圾,选项G(湖里某处大约有165到300吨垃圾。)符合语境。
8. E 根据上下文可知,清洁团队不可能移除他们在水下发现的所有垃圾,除此之外,还有更重要的东西要清理,选项E符合语境。
9. B 根据上下文可知,玻璃不是真正的污染物,应该更关注那些把重金属排入环境中的东西,由此可知此处是说可以忽略玻璃,选项B符合语境。