Exercise 2 ( ). Fill the gaps with one of the words below.
to cure, robots, environmentally-friendly, enthusiasm, ready-made, foresee, Mars, exploration
Future life
According to the recent survey, people expect that home life will be better. Most people believe that by 2050 (1) will be doing the housework and we will be eating (2) food. A lot of people think that we might only cook for fun in the future.
Space (3) will become increasingly popular. Fifty per cent of the people we talked to believe that man will regularly visit (4) . They also believe that travel on our own planet will probably change. Almost everyone thinks that there will be no cars in the city centers. Some even think that (5) electric or solar-powered cars will have replaced the cars we use nowadays. Pollution is something that seems to worry many people. Some fear that it will continue to get worse, and that our planet will become impossible to live on. Others even (6) that one day we'll have to pay for clean air just like we do now for clean water.
On the other hand, people seem to be quite optimistic about the benefits of genetic engineering, as they think scientists will use it (7) diseases like cancer and AIDS. If scientists manage to find a cure for these, we'll have a much healthier society. Some people worry about the future, while others are full of hope and (8) . No matter how dark or bright it may seem, it is up to us to look after our planet and try to make it a better place to live.
