In the future your automobile will run on water instead of gas! You will be able to buy a supercomputer that fits in your pocket! You might even drive a flying car!

Not all past predictions (预言) have been proven wrong. A few of them have been surprisingly accurate. Some great thinkers predicted the arrival of the credit card, the fax machine and even the Internet-years before they happened. But for each prediction that has come true, some others have missed by a mile. Many of these predictions didn't consider how people would want to use the technology or whether people really needed these high-tech (高科技的) things in their lives or not. Let's look at some predictions from the not-too-distant past.

Robot helpers

Where's the robot in my kitchen? Nowhere, of course. And he's probably not coming anytime soon. Robots do exist today, but mostly in factories and other working environments.

Back in the 1950s, however, people said that by now personal robots would be in most people's homes.

So why hasn't it happened? Maybe because robots are still too expensive and clumsy. And probably the idea of robots cooking our dinners and washing our clothes is just too strange. At home we seem to be doing fine without them.

Telephones of tomorrow

In 1964 an American company introduced the video telephone. They said by the year 2000 most people would have a video phone in their homes. But of course the idea hasn't caught on yet.

Why? The technology worked fine, but it overlooked something obvious: people desire for privacy. Would you want to have a video phone conversation with someone after you just stepped out of the shower? Probably not—it could be uncomfortable! Just because technology doesn't always mean people will want to use it.

And finally, how about that crazy prediction of the flying car? It's not so crazy any more! But a flying car remains one of the most wonderful technology ideas to catch our imagination. Keep watching the news or perhaps the sky outside your window to see what the future will bring.

I had been staring at the white walls of the video game store for about two hours since lunch. It was a very 1 day. I glanced at the table in front of the store, and my heart 2. It was the donation table for the victims of Super Typhoon Yolanda and even though I had donated what I could, I 3 felt sad whenever I saw the people on the TV suffering.

I was broken out of my thoughts when the doors got open. Customers, 4!

It was a small girl with her mother. I5 her mom. I got to know her when she was selling clothes she 6 herself at the market.

The daughter just had a7 and her mom finally had 8 money to buy a PS3 and some games.

The girl skipped to my counter. She9 her backpack and pulled out a console (操纵台盘). Her mom handed me the games.

"Can I10 this?"

"Sure, sweetie."

I11 the console and the games, and nothing was opened. According to our 12, I returned the 13 to the girl. And she ran off as 14 as her little feet could take her. The mom explained, "She wants to sell her birthday 15, so she can donate to the 16. "

She was17 to give up her favorite games and gave to those 18. That's real generosity out there.

While I was watching her 19 to the girl at the donation table, I was reminded that even though there are a lot of 20 people in the world, there are still those people just like that little girl.

Traffic jams (堵塞) are a common problem in larger cities. In some cities, traffic jams get so bad during rush hour that it is sometimes (fast) to walk than to drive. Traffic accidents are also a problem. Sadly these problems are not easy to solve. However, a traffic system (系统) being tested in several cities in Northern Europe has led to some surprising (result).

The system (call) "shared streets". It is a system that has very few traffic laws. As a result, shared street areas have no traffic lights or street signs. Although most people would expect this to cause the number of traffic jams and accidents (go) up, until now has been a great drop in both. One reason (be) that the shared streets system encourages people to be more (care). Without traffic rules, people slow down and pay more attention each other. Normal traffic systems, on the other hand, depend on signs,  people often miss or don't follow, leading to accidents. Also, the shared streets system decreases (减少) traffic jams because without fixed (固定的) parking spaces, it is easier for cars to move around (free) when there is a lot of traffic.

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Last Saturday I went camping with several friends. In the later afternoon, we put up our tent in the middle of a field. Then we cooked a meal over an open fire. The food smelt good. After a meal, we told story and played games by the camp fire. At the eleven o'clock we felt tired but we put out the fire and got into our tent. Lie in our warm sleeping-bags we slept soundly. At midnight one boy woke up and began shouting. The tent was full water! We got out of our sleeping-bags and hurried outside. It was raining heavy. A stream had formed in the field, that wound its way across the field and flow under our tent.

One of my earliest memories was watching my mom talk on our old phone. I was fascinated that she could talk to someone who wasn't actually in the room with her.  I wondering how she managed to talk with someone she couldn't see.

 Later, we had mobile phones that could be carried around the room. Then came computers and smart phones. These days I can send an e-mail around the world in a second. My daughter's smart phone has a hundred apps and a dozen social media accounts. She stores all of her information in a mysterious place known as "the cloud", where she can take it out at any time. It seems that we are more connected in this world than ever before.

 Few take the time to talk face to face. Instead of looking into the eyes of our loved ones, we stare at our screens. It seems as if the most connected generations are also the loneliest.

Don't let technology take our time and ruin our life. Make the time to meet, to pray and to communicate with each other. Take a walk on the beach with a friend. Have a long conversation with the phones off and the hearts on.

Remember that we are here to love each other, help each other and make this world a better place.  But when it can't, turn it off.

A. That was a long time ago.

B. Connect offline as well as online.

C. Smart phones have both advantages and disadvantages.

D. We should communicate with each other with phones off.

E. When your technology can help to do these things, then use it.

F. However, what bothers me is that we rarely associate with each other nowadays.

G. When she left the room, I slowly walked over to the phone and stared at it for a while.

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Dear Mr. Henry,

……

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua