Fill in each blank with one suitable word
We live surrounded by objects and systems that we (1)...for granted,
(2)....which profoundly (3)... the way we behave, think, work, play, and
in general lead our(4)..... Look, for example, at the place in
(5)... you are reading this now, and see how much of (6).... surrounds
you is understandable, and how much of it you could (7)... build
yourself or repair if it (8)...cease to function. When we start the car
or (9)... the button in the elevator, or buy food in the supermarket, we
(10)... no thought to the complex devices or systems that (11)... the
car move, or the elevator rise, or the food appear on the shelves.
(12)... this century we have become increasingly (13)... on the
products of technology. They have already changed our lives: at the
simplest (14)...., the availability of transport (15)... made us
physically less fit than our (16)... . Many people are alive only because
they have been given immunity to (17)... through drugs. The vast
(18)... of the world’s population relies (19)... the ability of
technology to provide and transport food. We are (20).... to feed or
clothe or keep ourselves warm without technology.
KEY
1 take
2 but/ yet
3 affect/ influence
4 lives
5 which
6 what
7 actually
8 should
9 press/ push
10 give
11 make
12 Throughout
13 dependent/ reliant
14 level
15 has
16 ancestors/ (grand)parents/forebears
17 disease
18 majority
19 on
20 unable
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