Instead of cruising in on a hoverboard, I rode my bike to t

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Instead of cruising in on a hoverboard, I rode my bike to the office today. The bicycle was invented in the 19th century. Instead of taking a pill for breakfast, I had a bacon roll, cooked using gas. Science fiction has ________ to us.Making predictions is tricky, especially about the future, as physicist Niels Bohr joked. In science fiction, you can’t escape that ________ though. Since its birth in the 19th century, writers have ________ imagined the things to come: devices that humankind will invent to make life easier. But in so many instances, those promises have not come to pass. The biggest ________ are in travel—jet packs, hoverboards and flying cars are yet to fill the skies. Air travel has become significantly cheaper and wide-reaching, but only using distinctly 20th-century technology: commercial aeroplanes are much the same as they were 50 years ago.________ is what science fiction frequently delivers, but its arrival in the real world has been unpredicrable. Domestic robots with a degree of intelligence are yet to ________, though robotic vacuum cleaners are commercially available—even if they are fairly hopeless. Video calls have now arrived—sort of—but conferencing on Skype is still dissatisfying. In mobiles, video call technology is now available, so when your dad rings to update you on his vegetable patch, he’ll be able to ________ your look of boredom.The truth is that we quickly ________ the astonishment of invention: our wonderment is soon replaced with the feeling of nothing new. We should try to stay in that period of ________. It is astonishing that the contents of every book ever written can be stored in a small box. Or that you can carry 10,000 albums on an object kept in your pocket. Or that almost all the information in the world can be accessed almost anywhere at any time. All these ________ are dependent on the emergence of the microchip and its place in computers. Yet sci-fi didn’t ________ the dominance of the computer in running our lives.But the real area where ________ far outstrips（超越）predictions is medicine. Sure, fiction would describe humans as“disease-free”but without going into detail.“Disease-free”humans are still absent, but the progress made in ________ life is breathtaking. With relative ease, we can sequence anyone’s genome（基因组），giving a read-out of our entire genetic code. This means we can find out the underlying genetic cause of thousands of diseases in minutes.Photosensitive implants now exist that can replace damaged cells in the retina（视网膜）and can, thus ________ sight to the blind. While the inventions of science fiction can show great ideas we’d like to happen, nothing ________ the inventiveness of people in the real world.【1】A.turned B.lied C.objected D.talked【2】A.opportunity B.challenge C.imagination D.conflict【3】A.hesitantly B.critically C.temporarily D.tirelessly【4】A.disappointments B.advancements C.enjoyments D.experiments【5】A.Modernization B.Exploration C.Automation D.Transportation【6】A.materialise B.identify C.honour D.liberate【7】A.imagine B.feel C.see D.ignore【8】A.arouse B.discover C.forget D.evaluate【9】A.frustration B.amazement C.boredom D.limitation【10】A.modes B.worries C.potentials D.actions【11】A.predict B.overlook C.motivate D.prevent【12】A.quality B.obstacle C.passion D.reality【13】A.maintaining B.creating C.researching D.encountering【14】A.show B.lend C.restore D.label【15】A.guarantees B.overestimates C.releases D.outperforms