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2). It will be common for women to live to over 100 in the year 2070.
3). Infant mortality will continue to fall sharply.
4). Life expectancy will not carry on rising as dramatically as in the past.
5). One day we may be able to live forever.
6). Scientists understand much more about the ageing process nowadays.
7) Replacing body parts is now a common operation.
8). There will be a cure for blindness in the future.
Task 2. Give your viewpoint on the following topics.
1) How long are we living now?
2) Why are we lasting so much longer?
3) Is immortality a realistic prospect? How that can be done?
TEXT 10
Exercise 1. Before reading the text discuss the following questions.
1). Do you have a mobile phone? How long have you had it?
2). What do you use it for? How often do you use it?
3). Is it an important part of everyday life in your country?
Exercise 2 . Match the words and phrases with their definitions.
a) stagnate
v(stagnated)
b) ubiquitous
adj.(ubiquity)
c) taciturn adj.
d) dexterity n
e) blur v(blurring)
1. to become or make sth, become difficult to distinguish
clearly
2. skill in using your hands or your mind
3. seeming to be everywhere or in several places at the
same time
4. tending not to say very much, in a way that seems
unfriendly
5. to stop developing or making process
HOW THE MOBILE PHONE CHANGED THE WORLD?
The number of global phone users had doubled in two years to pass the 1 billion
mark, China had just overtaken America as the world’s largest market and across
Africa subscriptions were doubling.
In Europe the market may have stagnated but across the world the mobile has
leapt from obscurity towards ubiquity, The tool, once considered a toy for the elite,
has today crossed social and geographical boundaries to find its way into the hands of
the young, the old, the rich and the poor, even in communities largely untouched by
the technologies.
It was amazed to see how fast, how far and with what diversity the mobile phone
has spread. Because it extends a most basic human quality – the ability to
communicate – there are few aspects of life that it fails to touch.
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