What if in 100 years we could (9)............... straight to our next holiday destination?

Read then choose True or False

Greert Vinck is 29 years old. He lives in Belgium. He has collected teabags since he was five years old. Now he has more than 12,000 teabags. Perhaps you think it is strange to collect teabags, but a lot of people do this. There are about 200 teabag collectors in Belgium and the Netherlands. Greert Vinck also exchanges teabags with people from France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Greece, Sweden, Iceland, the USA, Canada, Brazil and Argentina. If your hobby is collecting teabags, why not exchange them with him?

Choose A, B or C to fill in the blank.

Thinking about how we might be (6)............... in 10,20 or even 500 years is enough to make the mind melt. Will we still even be (7)…… planes (perhaps we (8) ............... flying our cars from Seattle to Paris)? What if in 100 years we could (9)............... straight to our next holiday destination?

While we (10)..............., engineers and designers all over the world are testing out what could become the (11) ............... of the future. Witness the just-launched prototype of the 'Superbus', (12)………. by CNN as the love child of a DeLorean and a stretch limo. We get die feeling these (13)…….. are often designed to be fast, fuel-efficient and, well, out-of-this-world.

Granted, some of them may never (14)............... to our roads, skies or 'teleportation passageways', but it's fun envisioning what the (15) ............... may hold.

Read the passage, and then tick the correct answer: true (T), or false (F).

Vehicles in the near future, will be fuel efficient, zero emission, and use high tech electronics and software to assist drivers in a variety of ways. Vehicles will communicate with each other, with the road and with traffic signals. Autos and trucks of the future will use vision enhancement devices to help you navigate through bad weather, let you see around them, or warn you of a possible collision with a pedestrian or animal. They will also let you know if you are getting drowsy or straying from your lane. In twenty years, cars of the future will be different than the automobiles of today, and so will the driving experience.