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Science Fact and Science Fiction
When writers attempt to anticipate the future, they often only succeed in providing an interpretation of the present. This (1)_______ be seen in the fantasies produced by science fiction writers in the middle of the twentieth century. Almost nothing has turned (2)_______ the way that these writers expected. Although they (3)_______ manage to predict intelligent robots, they completely (4)_______ to anticipate the development in communications technology that would make them possible. This (5)_______ that science fiction written before 1980 now seems absurdly dated, and what strikes you most (6)_______ the curious absence of personal computers, e-mail and the Internet. Science fiction writers, it seems, were remarkably (7)_______ on the uptake when (8)_______ came to grasping the extent to (9)_______ the nature of communication would change. Instead, their focus was (10)_______ much on rocket technology and space travel. For they (11)_______ not to know that the lunar landings, so exciting at the time, would actually lead nowhere. There are no human colonies on the Moon, (12)_______alone on Mars and the idea that people might eventually populate the cosmos seems even (13)_______ within the realms of possibility now than it did then, despite half a century of bewilderingly rapid technological progress. What's (14)_______, scientists have even begun to ridicule the notion, fundamental to much science fiction, that one day we just (15)_______ encounter intelligent aliens. 127 Reading Comprehension A. Before reading the passage, look at the words below and make sure you understand them. Write their Belarusian/Russian equivalents in the gaps.
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