Energy

　　Bill Joy, green technology expert in California, says:” The most significant breakthrough would be to have an inexhaustible source of safe, green energy that is substantially cheaper than any existing energy source.”

　　Ideally, such a source would be safe in that it could not be made into weapons and would not make hazardous or toxic waste or carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas blamed for global warming.

　　Society

　　Geoffrey Miller, evolutionary psychologist at the University of New Mexico, says: The US will follow the UK in realizing that religion is not a prerequisite (前提)for ordinary human decency.

　　“This, science will kill religion-not by reason challenging faith but by offering a more practical, universal and rewarding moral framework for human interaction.”

　　He also predicts that “absurdly wasteful” displays of wealth will become unfashionable while the importance of close-knit communities and families will become clearer.

　　These three changes, he says, will help make us all” brighter, wiser, happier and kinder”.

　　1. What is john lngham’s report about?

　　A) A solution to the global energy crisis

　　B) Extraordinary advances in technology.

　　C) The latest developments of medical science

　　D) Scientists’ vision of the world in half a century

　　2. According to Harvard professor Steven Pinker, predictions about the future_____.

　　A) may invite trouble

　　B) may not come true

　　C) will fool the public

　　D) do more harm than good

　　3. Professor Bruce Lahn of the University of Chicago predicts that____.

　　A) humans won’t have to donate organs for transplantation

　　B) more people will donate their organs for transplantation

　　C) animal organs could be transplanted into human bodies

　　D) organ transplantation won’t be as scary as it is today