35. Ответ: 1) damage 2) dream 3) threat 4) problem What Does the Future Hold? Have you ever thought about the future? One of the most amazing predictions I have heard about the twenty-first century is that we will be living longer and longer. Scientists will have 30_________ up with a cure for a lot of the most common diseases that people die of at the moment. They say that by the year 2050, the average person's lifespan will have 31_________ to one hundred years. They also predict that work will take 32_________ less of our lives and we will have more free time to spend. Robots, which will look more and more like human beings, will have taken 33_________ a lot of the boring everyday jobs we do today. In the next ten years, the Japanese will have 34_________ a robot that understands human speech. This is not science fiction: the optimists say that by the year 2020 we will have created humanoids with brains similar to those of an adult human being. This will 35_________ about a big change in the way we live. However, many experts feel pessimistic about the future. They predict that people themselves will look like robots. They will have microchips in various parts of their body, which will connect them to a wide variety of gadgets. Some experts even see robots as a 36_________ to human freedom. They are afraid that we will not be able to control them and that in the end, they will control us.