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听力原文：W: What are you going to do over winter vocation？
M: I had planned on going hiking in a National Park, but I'll just stay here and focus on my reading and write a research paper.
Q: What will the man do？
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The author feels it is a beautiful day, though it is windy, because he/she has passed his/her exams.
"The world catches you up" (Para 3 ) means that you are trying to achieve the impossible things by trying to be free.
In Copernicus' time, people still believed that all things—the sun, the stars, and the planets—moved around the earth. It was an old belief that few men had ever questioned. Aristotle bad based his theory of astronomy on this belief. Because the church had long been the center of learning, the theory was also linked to religious beliefs.
In 1506, Copernicus returned to his homeland. A few years later, he began to work for the church. All those years, Copernicus carded on his work in astronomy. He had just the most basic equipment and, like other scientists of his day, made observations with only his eyes. Still, using mathematics and logic, Copernicus worked out a different theory that the planets go around the sun.
Copernicus did not announce his ideas. He did not want to make trouble. But he could not hide the scientific troth. So he talked about his theory with his friends, who strongly advised him to have his works published. His great book On the Revolution of the Heavenly Bodies, appeared at the very end of his life. Copernicus saw the first copy on the day when he died, May 24,1543.
Which of the following is true about Copernicus？
When a magazine for high-school students asked its readers what life would be like in twenty years, they said: machines would be run by solar power. Buildings would rotate so they could follow the sun to take maximum advantage of its light and heat. Walls would "radiate light" and "change color with the push of a button". Food would be re placed by pills. School would be taught by electrical impulse while we slept. Cars would have radar. Does this sound like the year 2000？ Actually the article was written in the 1958 and the question was, "What will life be like in 19787"
The future is much too important to simply guess about, the way the high school students did, so experts are regularly asked to predict actually. By carefully studying the present, skilled businessmen, scientists, and politicians are supposedly able to figure out in advance what will happen. But can they？ One expert on cities wrote: cities in the future wouldn't be crowded, but would have space and fields. People would travel to work in "airbuses", large all weather helicopters carrying up to 200 passengers. When a person left the airbus station, he could drive a coin-operated equipment with radar. The radar equipment of cars would make traffic accidents" almost unheard of". Does that sound familiar？ If the expert had been accurate, it would, because he was writing in 1957. His subject was "The City of 1902".
If the professionals sometimes sound like high-school students, it is probably because future study is still a new field. But economic forecasting, or predicting what the economy will be, has been around for a long time. It should be accurate and generally it is. But there have been some big mistakes in this field, too. In early 1929, most forecasters saw an excellent future on the stock market. In October of that year, the stock market had its worst losses ever, ruining thousands of investors who had put their faith in financial forecasters.
One forecaster knew that predictions about the future would always be subject to significant errors. In 1957, H. J. Rand of Rad Corporation was asked about the year 2000. "Only one thing is certain," he answered. "Children born today will have reached the age of 43."
The high-school students' answer to "what will life be like in 19787" sounds ______.
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