Question

Write one suitable word in each numbered space to complete this passage:
It would seem an undeniable (1)______________that technology and science have been responsible for mankind’s slow (2) __________________from the caves of the Stone Age to the high-rise buildings of the 20th century. Beginning with primitive man’s (3)_________________ of fire and his attempts at tool-making, humans have sought ways of mastering their environment. The (4) ___________________of the wheel, the development of agriculture, the invention of the printing press, the discovery that electricity can (5)__________________harnessed –each new advance has added to man’s growing ascendance over his world. At the start of the twenty-first century, much of the Western world lives in a (6)_____________________of comfort unimaginable even fifty years ago. Agricultural methods have advanced to the (7)___________________that land previously(8)___________________ of feeding hundreds can now feed thousands. Communication between opposite sites of the planet can take (9)___________________instantaneously. We are on the (10) ______________ of cloning human beings, a scientific breakthrough that twenty years ago seemed science fiction.

Answer 1

1. fact
2. progress
3. control
4. invention
5. be
6. state
7. extent
8. incapable
9. place
10. brink