Вставьте в пропуски глаголы “can/can’t”, ”could/couldn’t” или” will/won’t be able to”. In 1623, William Schickard, a German scientist, designed a calculating machine. It (1) … multiply long numbers. Unfortunately, that first calculator was destroyed by fire, therefore Schickard (2) … finish his project. Unknown to the world for more than three centuries, it was rediscovered in 1957 and led to the creation of modern computers.
Nowadays computers (3) … do lots of things, of course. There are computers in almost every school and office. We use them to talk to people all over the world and we play great games on them, too. However, they (4) … replace real people as they (5) … only follow our instructions.
In the future computers (6) … talk and to think as well as to do what they (7) … do in the past. Yet they will always be machines and they (8) … fall in love and be our friends.

1 A: Maya (won) a new laptop on the quiz show last night.

B: Yeah. I (have just heard). Isn't she lucky?

2 A: (Have you seen) my new profile picture on Facebook?

B: Yes, I (was) on Facebook last night. It's a cool photo.

3 A: My dad (has had) this laptop for years. He needs to get a new one.

B: You can get cheap ones now. My dad (bought) a new one last month.

4 A: Boris (has not visited) us for ages. Is he all right?

B: Yeah. I (chatted) with him online the other day.

5 A: Olaf (told/has told) me you got a new smartphone.

B: Yes, it's great.

1. She loves Paris. She has been there many times.

2. Bill has worked in that company for 3 years. (He still works there).

3. They went to London on holiday last summer.

4. I`ve read that book. It ́s good.

5. His parents were here yesterday.

6. They went to Germany when he was only 4.

7. Did you watch any film last night?

8. I had a couple of toasts for breakfast this morning.

9. He has lived in Rome since he was a teenager.

10. The house looks different. Have you painted it?

11. I didn´t see you in class last Friday.

12. Shakespeare wrote over one hundred