MAN'S BEGINNING TO EAT MEAT HAD AS ITS FIRST DIRECT CONSEQUENCE A....

6. Man's beginning to eat meat had as its first direct consequence A. a flat muzzle B. canine teeth C. the use of tools D. increased barbarity B. Choose the most suitable word for each space: Someone once described the age we live in as that of a vanishing world, one in which the familiar is constantly disappearing forever and technological change is often difficult to (1)____with. So it should come as no surprise to most of us to hear that yet another part of everyday life is (2)______ to go for ever. Still, when I read recently that within the next decade money as we (3)______ it will probably cease to exist to technologically advanced countries, I had to read the article twice to make sure it wasn't April 1

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(4)______ to Professor Gerry Montague of the Institute for Economic Reform, the familiar (5)____and banknotes will soon be replaced entirely by credit cards of various kinds. And the shop of the future (the 'retail outlet' as Prof. Montague put it) will be (6)______ directly to the network of banking computers. The assistant will simply key in your bank account code number and the (7)______ you have spent, and thank you politely. You won't have to dig deep in your (8)_____ for change or pretend at the pub that you have left your money at home. You may not even have a number for your (9)______ as such, as the computer may by then be able to read your handprint. So no more credit card frauds (10)______ . But I am afraid that I shall (11)______ money. I have felt strongly attached to it, ever since I received my first pocket money when I was five, and kept it in a money-box. Even if my credit card of the future will be able to tell me exactly how much (12)_____ power I have left in the computer files, even if it lights up and plays a happy (or sad) tune at the same time, nothing will be able to replace the sheer pleasure I gained from (13)____ The coins in my money-box. Not to (14)______ the other obvious problems which will be caused by (15)______ of real money - like how to start a football match, for example!