[单项选择]Without electricity, human life ______ quite different today.
A. is
B. will be
C. would have been
D. would be

[填空题]Without electricity human life (be) ______ quite different today.

[单项选择]The furniture delivered by the shop is quite different from ______ in the exhibition hall.
A. that
B. those
C. the one
D. the ones

[单项选择]

Prolonging Human Life

Prolonging human life has increased the size of the human population. Many people alive today would have died of childhood diseases if they had been born 100 years ago. Because more people live longer, there are more people around at any given time. In fact, it is a decrease in death rates, not an increase in birthrates, that has led to the population explosion.
Prolonging human life has also increased the dependency load. In all societies, people who are disabled or too young or too old to work are dependent on the rest of society to provide for them. In hunting and gathering cultures, old people who could not keep up might be left behind to die. In times of famine, infants might be allowed to die because they could not survive if their parents starved, whereas if the parents survived they could have another child. In most contemporary societies, people feel a moral obligation to keep people alive whether t
A. the industrial development
B. an increase in birthrates
C. cultural advances
D. a decrease in death rates

[单项选择]
Prolonging human life has increased the size of the human population. Many people alive today would have died of childhood diseases if they had been born 100 years ago. Because more people live longer, there are more people around at any given time. In fact, it is a decrease in death rates, not an increase in birthrates, that has led to the population explosion.
Prolonging human life has also increased the dependency load. In all societies, people who are disabled or too young or too old to work are dependent on the rest of society to provide for them. In hunting and gathering cultures, old people who could not keep up might be left behind to die. In times of famine, infants might be allowed to die because they could not survive if their parents starved, whereas if the parents survived they could have another child. In most contemporary societies, people feel a moral obligation to keep people alive whether they
A. an increase in birthrates
B. the industrial development
C. a decrease in death rates
D. cultural advances

[简答题]Without electricity,there would be no modern industry.

[填空题]Close human ties may make life longer, but not fuller.

[填空题]S4. Most human beings live a life or far beyond the present and the near future.

[多项选择]Science and Human Life
In modern times science to human beings is like food to our bodies. ____________________
But when it is wrongly used, its destructive power is uncontrollable and terrible. ____________________
People are trying hard to make better use of science. ____________________

[单项选择]Prolonging human life has increased the size of the human population. Many people alive today would have died of childhood diseases if they had been born 100 years ago. Because more people live longer, there are more people around at any given time. In fact, it is a decrease in death rates, not an increase in birthrates, which has led to the population explosion.
Prolonging human life has also increased the dependency load. In all societies, people who are disabled or too young or too old to work are dependent on the rest of society to provide for them. In hunting and gathering cultures, old people who could not keep up might be left behind to die. In times of famine, infants might be allowed to die because they could not survive if their parents starved, whereas if the parents survived they could have another child. In most contemporary societies, people feel a moral obligation to keep people alive whether they can work or not. We have a great many people today who live past th
A. Sympathetic.
B. Unfriendly.
C. Optimistic.
D. Critical.