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Gap fills exercise

May 21, 2015 - pdf

Complete the following sentences.
The third great defect of your civilization is that it does not know what to do with its knowledge. Science, …………………. (as / though) we have seen, has given us powers fit ………………….. (for / to) the gods, yet we use them like small children.
For example, we don’t know how to use our machines. Machines were …………………. (made for being / made to be) man’s servants; ………………….. (yet / though) he has grown so dependent …………………. (on / of) them that they are in a fair way to become his masters. Most men already ………………….. (spend / spent) most of their lives looking after and waiting …………………. (after / upon) machines. Machines are stern masters. They have to be fed ……………….. (with / by) coal, and ………………… (gave / given) petrol to drink, and oil to wash with, and they must be kept ………………. (at / on) the right temperature. If they don’t get their meals, they grow sulky and refuse to work, or burst …………………. (of / with) rage and blow up.

Answers

The third great defect of your civilization is that it does not know what to do with its knowledge. Science, as we have seen, has given us powers fit for the gods, yet we use them like small children.
For example, we don’t know how to use our machines. Machines were made to be man’s servants; yet he has grown so dependent on them that they are in a fair way to become his masters. Most men already spend most of their lives looking after and waiting upon machines. Machines are stern masters. They have to be fed with coal, and given petrol to drink, and oil to wash with, and they must be kept at the right temperature. If they don’t get their meals, they grow sulky and refuse to work, or burst with rage and blow up.

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