填空题.When writers attempt to anticipate the future, they often only succeed in providing an interpretation of the present. This can be seen in the 31 produced by science fiction writers in the middle of the twentieth century. Almost nothing has turned out the 32 that these writers expected. Although they did 33 to predict intelligent robots, they completely tailed to anticipate the development in communications technology that would make them 34 . This means that science fiction written before 1980 now seems absurdly dated, and what strikes you most is the 35 absence of personal computers, e-mail and the Internet. Science fiction writers, it seems, were remarkably 36 at understanding new things when it came to grasping the 37 to which the nature of communication would change. Instead, their focus was very much on rocket technology and space travel. For they were not to know that the lunar landings, so exciting at the time, would 38 lead nowhere. There are no human colonies on the Moon, let alone on Mars and the idea that people might eventually populate the cosmos seems even less within the realms of possibility now than it did then, despite half a century of confusingly 39 technological progress. What's more, scientists have even begun to ridicule (嘲笑) the notion, fundamental to much science fiction, that one day we just might 40 intelligent aliens. A. actually B. fantasies C. difficult D. rapid E. reality F. manage G. hardly H. extent I. value J. possible K. slow L. encounter M. present N. curious O. way