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Read the passage carefully and complete the table with only one word for each blank.

Back in the twentieth century, robots seemed to have a big future, at least in the movies. Like the robots servants in the Star War movies. It looked as if one day robots would do all the boring or dangerous jobs while the humans sat around doing something more interesting. But people were also frightened that robots might become the bosses, not the servants.

Has it happened? You’re still unlikely to see a robot walking around your town but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Robots are used in car making, and in areas which are dangerous for humans, in bomb producing and deep-sea discovering, for example. We employ robots instead of doing the job ourselves. According to the report, there are 750,000 working robots in the world today.

These working robots definitely look like machines but many scientists are now trying to make robots look more similar to humans. So what will robots be able to do by the year 2030? There are already plans to use robots in hospitals and old people’s homes. Robot nurses will remind patients to take their medicine or tell a doctor if the patient needs attention. But many people are worried about the idea of robots looking after the old, the sick and the very young, separating them from important human contact. It may also create unemployment. It is really possible that robots will be used for many jobs in areas.

But can we be sure that the next generation robots will always follow human orders? Or even destroy them? Or will we be able to create robots with emotions? Only the future will tell.

Will robots 1. the world?
The imagination of robots in the past	The images of robots appeared in movies. Robots were thought to work for people. People have a 2. that robots would become bosses.
The use of robots at present	Robots don’t take over the world. They 3. people in some dangerous areas, from car making to deep-sea discovering.
People’s plans and 4. about robots for the future	Robots will be more like humans. They will be used in more areas, like in the hospital. It may cause problems, like the 5. of humans from each other and the unemployment.

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