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Microsoft’’s founder is authoring another volume of predictions about technology’’s future, (47)______ it’’s impact on world health and education. When Bill Gates released his first book, The Road Ahead, in 1996, he (48)______ technical wonders we take for granted now. He saw that, in the future, music would be kept as digital bits of information, rather than on CDs and (49)______. He foresaw the workforce displacement that the Web enables. And he predicted a dramatic rise in shopping on the Net, changing consumer habits forever. Now Gates is ready to look into his crystal ball again. There’’s little question, though, that the book will spark quite a bit of (50)______. The Road Ahead was a best seller, selling 2.5 million copies to date, according to Microsoft. Gates followed that book up with one written specifically for executives, called Business @ the Speed of Thought, which (51)______ a much smaller, elite audience. But Gates’’s latest look into the crystal ball will likely once again attract a wide audience. The new book will assume a certain amount of technical knowledge, then go on to explore how Gates thinks technology will (52)______ the way people communicate, entertain themselves, and work, according to the company. It will also talk about the ability of technology to address issues that are central to Gates’’s philanthropy —world health and education. "The book is going to be a compilation (汇编) of what he’’s thinking about," says spokesman "It’’s going to talk (53)______ where the next big technical (54)______ are going to come from, and the impact they’’re going to have." However, as prescient as Gates was in The Road Ahead, some of Gates’’s predictions haven’’t materialized. For example, he forecast that students would be able to ask computer programs out loud about the cause of the American Civil War, and get a (55)______ response in reply. But it didn’’t (56)______. At least, not yet. But like so many predictions, Gates might not actually have been wrong, just early. Word Bank A) predicted B) about C) breakthroughs D) detailed E) happen F) cassettes G) interest H) transform I) promote J) over K) targeted L) including M) communicate N) member O) reply