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初中二年级

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计划与愿望

你想象过我们未来的城市会是什么样吗？本文作者描述了他自己的看法。

In the future cities, will we have smart buildings and flying cars? Or robots that will pick up our rubbish? What about schools? Will we still travel to school or will we study online from home?

在未来的城市，我们会有智能建筑和飞行汽车吗？或者机器人会捡起我们的垃圾？学校呢？我们还会去学校还是在家上网学习？

Maybe ... or maybe not, but what we do know is that in the future, cities are going to have more and more people living in them. More than half the world’s people already live in cities, and by 2050, cities will become home to about 6.5 billion people. That’s a lot of people and very little space! More people means that we’re going to have more pollution, traffic and noise. It also means that we’ll need more homes, schools, hospitals, jobs and transport. We’ll need more resources, like water and energy, and more ways to grow food too. Oh, and more parks to play in!

也许...也许不是，但我们所知道的是，在未来，城市将会有越来越多的人生活在其中。世界上超过一半的人口已经生活在城市中，2050年，城市将成为约65亿人的家园。那是很多人，空间很小!更多的人意味着我们将有更多的污染，交通和噪音。这也意味着我们将需要更多的房屋，学校，医院，工作和交通工具。我们将需要更多的资源，如水和能源，以及更多的方法来种植食物。哦，还有更多的公园可以玩!

Many cities are already planning for the future. For example, Bristol is a cycling city in England. You can hire (租借) a bike (instead of taking a car or bus) and ride in cycle lanes which are separated from the traffic. In Singapore, people are looking “up” to grow food! To save space, they grow vegetables in lots of layers (层) in special tall buildings, called “vertical farms”. And in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, there are “floating houses” built on water instead of on land!

许多城市已经在规划未来。例如，布里斯托尔是英国的自行车城市。你可以租一辆自行车(而不是坐汽车或公共汽车)，在与车流分开的自行车道上骑车。在新加坡，人们正在寻找 “种植” 食物!为了节省空间，他们在特殊的高层建筑中种植多层蔬菜，称为 “垂直农场”。在荷兰的阿姆斯特丹，有建在水上而不是陆地上的 “浮动房屋”!