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21 Complain about the present situation and express your wish about some
future actions. Begin your sentences with if only or I wish.
Model:
You don't expect your headache to go away.
- I wish my headache would go
away. (If only my headache went away)
1.
You don't expect the weather to clear up.
2.
You don't expect the Rescue
Services to arrive soon.
3.
You don't expect Steve to be more careful.
4.
You don't
expect them to invite you to their wedding party.
5.
You don't expect his honour to
be satisfied.
6.
Smith is a fair player. You don't expect him to be dropped from the
team.
7.
You don't expect your boss to think of this possibility for you.
8.
You don't
expect him to use his influence on your behalf.
9.
You don't expect your wife to be
promoted soon.
10.
You don't expect the strategic considerations on your firm's
further development to be put into practice in the foreseeable future.
11.
You don't
expect this company, despite of its small financial backing, to be the first to crack.
12.
Some economists don't expect tight monetary and fiscal policies to keep
inflation under control.
SPEAKING
22 Work in pairs. Read the following predictions made in the 1970s and
say which, to your knowledge, have come true. Which are likely to come
true?
“Slave robots are likely to appear. It also may be possible to devise a way for a
disembodied brain to be kept alive so that it can give instruction to a robot which
will act as its body”.
“By 2000 it might be possible to inject new knowledge into the brain, and brain-
computer links are likely to have been devised”
Desmond King-Hele, an authority on earth satellites
“The first intelligent computer will be the last machine man will need to make –
and quite possible the last that he’ll be permitted to make.”
Arthur C. Clarke
“Science will someday be able to preserve people after death. Brain transplants
will probably never be possible. Science will be able to reprogram gametes by
changing the composition of the nuclear acids that determine heredity, thus
modifying the embryo at its start. “
From the People’s ALMANAC by David Wallechinsky and Irving Wallace
23 Prepare a list of your own predictions for such fields of our life as
education, medicine, entertainment, commerce, space exploration.
