可能这些推测会让人觉得未来的人类是非常丑陋的动物（creature），这可能是正确的。但是不管未来的人类怎样变化，他们和我们还是有很多相似（have a lot common）的地方的。他们仍然是人类，有着和我们一样的思想（thought）和感情（emotion）。  

1. The passage tells us about________. 
  [A] how man's life will be in the future 
  [B] how future man will look like 
[C] the fact that man's organs will function differently in the future 
  [D] the fact that man is growing uglier as time passes
答案：B 主旨题。文章主要讲的是B，未来的人类长的什么样？第一句话what will man like in the future—in 5,000 or even 50,000 years from now?接下来的段落都是关于这个问题的回答。 

2. There is evidence that man is changing______. 
  [A] man has been growing taller over the past 500 years 
  [B] man has got stronger eyes than he ever had 
  [C] man's hair is getting thinner and thinner 
  [D] man's limbs are getting weaker because he tends to make less use of them
答案：D细节题。哪一项能证明人类在不断的变化？D，人类的四肢越来越虚弱了，因为不经常用它们。文章第一段最后一句话Forman is slowly changing all the time,接着就举例子Let us take an obvious example. Man even five hundred years ago, was shorter than he is today. 所以选择D。 

3. Man's forehead will grow larger because______. 
  [A] he will use of only about 20% of the brain's capacity 
  [B] the other 80% of his brain will grow in due time 
  [C] he had rather narrow forehead a few hundred years ago 
  [D] he will have to use his brain more and more as time goes on 
答案：D 细节题。人类的前额变的越来越打的原因是什么？D，随着时间的推移，他用脑也更加频繁。文章第三段，As time goes on, however, we shall have to use our brains more and more, and eventually we shall need larger ones. This is likely to bring about a physical change tool the head, in particular the forehead, will grow larger，随着时间的流逝我们将更加频繁的用脑，最终导致我们对更发达的大脑的需求，并带来我们头部的变化，特别是前额会变的越来越大。

4. Future man will probably_______.  
  [A] have smaller eyes 
  [B] see better 
  [C] have larger eyes 
[D]gave to wear better glasses  
答案：B 细节题。未来的人类很可能会怎样？B，越来越好。文章第四段，But over very long period of time it is likely that man's eyes will grow stronger，可以看出人的视力是越变越好了。

5. The reason for believing that future man will be different is that he_______. 

  [A]is always 
  [B]hopes for a change 
  [C]never stops changing 
  [D]will live a different life 
答案：C 细节题。让人相信未来的人类跟现在不同的理由是？C，从未停止变化。文章第一段，but we can be sure that he will be different from what he is today. For man is slowly changing all the time，可以看出是由于 人类一直在慢慢的变化。

Passage 2  
Questions 6 to 1O are based on the following passage: