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For questions 1-15, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space. There is an example at the beginning (0). TOMORROWS WORLD WILL BE A LITTLE LATE In a report for the US magazine Wired, a large number of academics, writers and experts were invited to (0) make their predictions for the future. In some respects they are quite cautious, ruling (1) __________ ideas that they believe belong (2) __________ science fiction more than to practical reality, at (3) __________ in the next half-century or so. In other areas, (4) __________ , they foresee changes before too long. On the roads, self-driving taxis and cars, in (5) __________ satellites guide the vehicle from office to home, or to holiday destinations, could arrive by 2019, (6) __________ to the experts. By 2034, (7) __________ than 50 per cent of people in industrialized countries, (8) __________ is forecast, will drive clean electric vehicles. In space, a landing of humans (9) __________ Mars could be the highlight of 2020, say writers and scientists at NASA. Aliens may be contacted in 2025, but even 2050 is (10) __________ soon for androids like C-3PO in Star Wars. On the James Bond-style personal jetpack, Noah Rifkin, director of technology deployment at (11) __________ United Statess Department of Transportation, said that companies are unlikely to put enough money (12) __________ research and development (13) __________ they know how many people might want to buy it. At work, all the technologies needed to do (14) __________ with the need for paper have already been invented, yet Don Norman at Apple Computer forecasts that people (15) __________ always want paper, although society may be 80 per cent paperless in 2009.

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