the future.Many people will attend the seminar with dreams of starting new enterprises based 2.________ the predictions they will hear. I clicked into the websites of a few futurologists and got several predictions.
3.________ (short), computers will become 4.________ (handy).Then all of us can use our voices to control computers such as 5.________ (download) files or updating computers just by saying a few words.
By 2015, Garments will have been made of new materials that will remain 6.________ (stain) whatever you spill on them, and they will never get old and worn.
By 2025, there will have been no 7.________ (starve), no people who have to live on welfare, no discrimination, no conflict and people will have lived in peace and 8.________ (equal).
By 2030, tiny, insectlike robots may be sent around the cells of our bodies 9.________ (assess) our health, assuring us of living for at least 150 years.
By 2050, we will be linking our brains to the much 10.________ (smart) computers and a huge database, and a new type of electronic human might have developed!
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Soon it would be the holidays, but before that, there were final __1__. All the kids had been working hard for some time, reviewing their __2__. If they didn't pass the exams, they would have to __3__ them in September. There were usually a few who __4__, but Jane didn't want to be one of them. She had worked hard all year, but she was working so hard that her mother __5__ her health. She went to bed too late. The night before the big day, her mother __6__ that she should have an early night and take a sleeping pill. She promised to __7__ her up in the morning.
Jane was too __8__ to fall asleep. Her mind kept jumping from subject to subject. At last, the __9__ did work. In no time at all, she was sitting in the examination hall, looking at the paper, but she couldn't answer __10__ of the questions. Everyone __11__ her was writing paper pages and pages. __12__ she thought hard, she couldn't find anything to write about. From time to time she looked at her __13__.
Time was running __14__. There was only an hour to __15__. She started one question, wrote two sentences, __16__ and tried another. With only half an hour left she wrote __17__ two sentences. By this time she was so worried that she started __18__. Her whole body shook. It shook so much that she woke up. She was still in bed and it had all been a terrible __19__. A minute later, __20__ called her name.
1.A.harvests B.exams
C.reports D.papers
2.A.exercises B.jobs