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«Discoveries and Inventions»
Improving our lives
Provide better mobility
Improve housing and lifestyle
Give easier access to information
Set examples of innovation and creativity
Help to avoid mistakes
Help people in menial work
Make travelling more convenient
Provide better communication
Improve efficiency and productivity
Save time
Provide better entertainment
Make studying easier
Provide access to numerous resources
Create new opportunities to make money
Automate boring tasks
Boost motivation of students
Harming our lives
Make you lazy
Lead to loss of some human abilities
Be too complicated to use
Increase loneliness
Reduce creativity
Replace people at work
Lead to neglect of real life
Distract from work
Be too expensive
May be risky
Make people dependent
Increase unemployment
Can be distracting
Disconnect people from face-to-face relationships
1. People have learnt much from behaviour of animals. (Present Perfect, т.к. действие, произошедшее в неустановленное время в прошлом. При этом действие более важно, чем время)
2. People thought the Earth was flat. (Past Simple, т.к. общеизвестный факт в прошлом)
3. Many years ago people used to live with very few things and used to have a lot of time to think. (Конструкция used to, т.к. говорится о том, что что-то когда-то происходило, но в настоящем времени не происходит)
4. Today people have many electronic devices at their homes and use them every day. (Present Simple, т.к. повторяющиеся действия в настоящем)
Read the text and fill in the gaps with the words from those below. Three words are extra.
Cloning has become a very serious issue and a lot of people are worried about the possible consequences it could bring. But if we try to play with (1) _____, it will fire back. The consequences might be horrible! Cloning is a very complicated subject. On the positive side, there is the possibility of curing and finally putting an end to disease and famine. On the negative side, there is the potential abuse of the system, by designing your own (2) ______ and even having factories for creating babies! These are the two extremes though, and we have a long way to go before we can reach this. Think what cloning techniques could (3) _____. If there is a childless couple, a sample of the mother’s DNA could be extracted and modified so that she could have children. This would bring happiness to so many families and there is nothing (4) ______ with it. But what if a mother wanted to choose exactly what her child would look like? This sounds quite frightening. The society where people would look the same (5) _____ each other is quite scary. Almost everyone would be good-looking and fit and intelligent. Would you want to live in a world like that? How do we make sure that it isn’t taken too (6) ______? There are also a lot of people who say that curing some diseases is wrong. Maybe they are right; maybe we should be careful how we use cloning. It’s one thing to rid of diseases like cancer and AIDS, but how do we decide what to cure and what (7) ______ to cure? Another problem is if we do eradicate diseases and famine, won’t the population of the world suddenly increase? This could be (8) _______ for the world. The Earth would be overpopulated and we would eventually run out of space and resources. There would have to be a restriction on how many children each mother can have. Clearly this is a (9) ______ problem. We can either overpopulate the world, or we can exist as we are at the moment.
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