Учебное пособие по развитию навыков устной речи и чтения для студентов 1 курса технических специальностей

2. Answer the questions on the text.

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  What kind of science is futurology? How is it defined?
  
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  What other names of this science are mentioned in the text? Which one appeals to you?
  
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  Who coined the term “futurology”? When?
  
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  Why is it less popular nowadays?
  
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  What does futurology mainly focus on?
  
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  What is its attitude towards supernatural means of prediction?
  
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  What methods are used by futurists today?
  

3. Match the italicized words from the text (see the box) with the meanings
(1-10) below.

to plot	professed	to call for	foresight	evident
to fall from favor	to presage	lay	with respect to	to anticipate

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  not trained or not knowing much about a particular profession or subject:
  
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  to ask publicly for something to be done;
  
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  easy to see, notice, or understand;
  
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  to be a sign that something is going to happen, especially something bad;
  
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  used to describe a feeling or attitude that someone says they have, but which may not be true;
  
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  to draw marks or a line to represent facts, numbers etc.;
  
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  to stop being liked by people in authority;
  
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  he ability to imagine what is likely to happen and to consider this when planning for the future;
  
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  concerning or in relation to something;
  
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  to expect that something will happen and be ready for it.