While reading. 1. TRUE / false: Look at the article’s headline and guess whether these sentences are true (t) or false (f): A. Computers will match men and women in

BEFORE READING

1. TRUE / FALSE: Look at the article’s headline and guess whether these sentences are true (T) or false (F):

a.	Computers will match men and women in perfect marriages.	T / F
b.	Machines will be more intelligent than humans within two decades.	T / F
c.	A leading scientist likes painting pictures using very small robots.	T / F
d.	The scientist suggested that machines inside us is natural progress.	T / F
e.	A US organization asked scientists for 18 21^st-Century challenges.	T / F
f.	The scientist in the article has no background in computing.	T / F
g.	Technology developments will increase by 50 times in 32 years.	T / F
h.	Things we see in sci-fi movies will become commonplace in reality.	T / F

2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article:

1.	leading	a.	speed
	predicted	b.	point out
3.	within	c.	future
4.	upcoming	d.	developer
5.	extension	e.	top
6.	identify	f.	specialists
7.	experts	g.	forecast
8.	pioneer	h.	inside
9.	pace	i.	sci-fi
10.	science fiction	j.	addition

3. PHRASE MATCH: Match the following phrases from the article (sometimes more than one combination is possible):

1.	computers will be as intelligent	a.	part of our everyday lives
	overtake the power	b.	18 top intellectuals
3.	tiny robots	c.	powerful memories
4.	make us think faster and give us more	d.	as humans
5.	technology will be a further	e.	called nanobots
6.	one of	f.	challenges
7.	identify our greatest technological	g.	speech recognition
8.	a very impressive	h.	extension of that
9.	He also pioneered automatic	i.	of the human brain
10.	more and more a	j.	background in science

GAP FILL: Put the words into the gaps in the text.

A leading US scientist has __________ that computers will be as intelligent as humans by 2029. Futurologist Dr Ray Kurzweil told the American Association for the Advancement of Science that in the __________ future, machine intelligence will __________ the power of the human brain. He said that __________ two decades computers will be __________ to think quicker than humans. Dr Kurzweil painted a picture of us having tiny robots called nanobots implanted in our brain to __________ our intelligence and health. He told reporters that these microscopic nanobots would work with our brains to make us __________ faster and give us more powerful memories. Kurzweil explained that we are already “a human machine civilization” and that the upcoming technology “will be a __________ extension of that."		able near boost further overtake predicted think within
Dr Kurzweil was one of 18 __________ intellectuals asked by the US National Academy of Engineering to __________ our greatest technological challenges. Other experts included Google __________ Larry Page and the human genome pioneer Dr Craig Venter. Kurzweil has a very impressive background in science and innovation. He was an innovator in various __________ of computing, including the technology __________ CDs. He also pioneered automatic speech recognition by machines. He predicts the pace of new inventions will increase greatly from now, saying: "…the next half century will see 32 times more technical __________ than the past half century." This means __________ from science fiction movies, like Blade Runner, The Terminator and I Robot, will become more and more a part of our __________ lives.		progress identify behind fields everyday top scenes founder

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