Read the following passage and then choose the most suitable word for each space. Technology When faced with some new and possibly bewildering technological change, most people react in one of two ……….(1). They either recoil from anything new, claiming that it is unnecessary, or too complicated or that it somehow makes life less than ……….(2). Or they learn to …………(3) to the new invention, and eventually………..(4) how they could possibly have existed without it. Take computers as an ...

Read the following passage and then choose the most suitable word for each space.

Technology

When faced with some new and possibly bewildering technological change, most people react in one of two ……….(1). They either recoil from anything new, claiming that it is unnecessary, or too complicated or that it somehow makes life less than ……….(2). Or they learn to …………(3) to the new invention, and eventually………..(4) how they could possibly have existed without it. Take computers as an example. For many of us, they still represent a ……….(5) to our freedom, and give us a frightening sense of a future in which all ……….(6) will be taken by machines. This may be because they seem mysterious, and diffcult to understand. Ask most people what you can use a home computer for, and you usually get ……….(7) answers about how ‘they give you information’. In fact, even those of us who are familiar with computers, and use them in our daily work, have very little idea of how they work. But it does not take long to learn how to operate a business programme, even if things occasionally go wrong for no apparent reason. Presumably much the same happened when the telephone and the television became ……….(8). What seems to alarm most people is the speed of technological change, rather than change itself. And the ……….(9) that are made to new technology may well have a point to them, since change is not always an improvement. As discover during power cuts, there is a lot to be said for the oil lamp, the coal fire, and forms of entertainment, such as books or board games, that don’t have to be ………..(10) in to work.

When faced with some new and possibly bewildering technological change, most people react in one of two ……….(1).