Now I am living in the year 3000. Life in the year 3000 is very different ______ life in the 21st century. We still do many things as before, but we do them ______. For example, we now have e-friends to help us and stay with us. An e-friend is ______ machine and it looks just like a person. It can walk and talk and ______ almost everything we do. My e-friend is a lot like ______ and we have a lot of fun together. She ______ me with my homework and we often go swimming. She will take care of me if anything happens, ______ I always feel safe when we are together. She also sends me useful ______, and I can learn a lot from her. It’s great to have the e-friend. I am never lonely and I enjoy ______ with my e-friend.

I would like to tell you more about life in the year 3000, but I have to send my e-friend to clean up my room. Maybe one day, I ______ back to visit you.

We often watch movies about the future. What will the future and our lives be like in 20 years? Our world will be much _________ than now. There will be less pollution. There will be more robots in our lives. They can help us finish housework _________. They can also help us do some simple jobs. Fewer people will do such jobs because these jobs are boring. What’s more, the robots will have _________ own feelings such as sadness and happiness. We may feel relaxed after working for a long time by _________ with them. Some will look like humans and _________ may look like animals.

How about me? Maybe in 20 years, I think I will be a pilot. As a pilot, I want to travel all over the world _________ many interesting people. I will keep _________ dog in my home. It may bring me some fun. And I will also have a robot helper. _________ I leave my city because of work, the robot will help me to look after it. During the holiday, my robot will make different plans _________ me and tell me how much money each plan needs. Then I can choose the best plan of them.

No one __________ what will happen in the future. So let’s wait!

Our school is going to build a new classroom building. Our teacher asks ________ to make a “time capsule(胶囊)” together. What is ________ time capsule? It is a box ________ you can put something in it for people in the future. When workers start ________ the building, they will put our time capsule inside the wall. Maybe in a hundred years, someone ________ it. So, what to put in it? Someone says we can put in a ________ with popular music of today. People in the future will know ________ kids like us enjoyed listening to. Someone else thinks of leaving today’s drawing. It ________ show what our world is like. There are many other good ideas—a favourite book, pictures of our school and pictures of us. I think we can all write a short letter ________ them. Other students like the idea.

Everyone is ________. What would you put in a time capsule if you were making one?