Tne inhabitants of the earth are divided not only by race, nation,religion or ideology, but also, in a sense, by their position in time .Examing the present population of the globle, we find a tiny group who still live, hunting and food-foraging, as men did millennia ago .Others, the vast majority of mankind ,depend not on bear-hunting or berry-picking, but on agriculture.They live, in many respects, as their ancesters did centurise ago.These two groups taken together compose 70 percent of all living human being.They are the people of the past
By contrast, somewhat more than 25% of the earth’s population can be found in the industrialized societies.THE LEAD MODERN LIVES.They are products of the first half of the 20th century, moulded by mechanization and mass education, brought up with lingering memories of their own country’s agricultural past. They are,in effect, the people of the present.
The remaining 2 or 3 per cent of the world’s population ,however,are no longer people of either the past or the present .For within the main centres of technological and cultural change,in Santa Monica,California and Cambridge,Massachusetts,in New York and London,and Tokyo,are millions of men and women who can already be said to be living the way of life of the future. Trendmakers often without being aware of it,they live today as millions will live tomorrow ,And while they account for only a few per cent of the global population today, they already form an international nation of the future in our midst They are the advance agent of man, then earliest citizens of the world-wide super-industrial society now in the throes of birth..
What makes them different from the rest of mankind?Certainly,they are richer,better educated,more mobile than the majority of the human race .They also live longer .But what specifically marks the people of the future is the fact that they are already caught up in a new , stepped-up pace of life . They “live faster”than than the people around them.
1 The main argument in this passage is that ?
A )a small percentage of the word’population is already”living in the future”
B )the majority should say what the future will be like
C )the new “pace of life”is acturally nothing new
D )however we live ,we must all face an increased pace of life
2 According to the writer, 70%of all humans_
A )live by hunting bears or picking berries
B )still tend to live in small groups
C )are engaged in agruculture, or depend on natual food supplies in nature
D )lead lives totally different from their ancestors’
3 The “people of the present”,in the writer’s use of the words,are those who?
A )rely on their country’s agricultural past
B )sprend their time examing different races
C )have been shaped by industializtion and mass education
D )are constantly trying to change life as they see it
4 From what the writer says ,”trendmakers”are people who( )
A)live in large cities all over the world
B )dream about the future
C )set the pattern of life for the future
D )make change in culture and technology
5The most important point about the “2 or 3per cent”isnthat they( )

A )have a better education
B )travel far and wide and generally live longer
C )are trapped by environment
D )enjoy a faster pace of life

问题的答案是：ACCCA