Part 2

For questions 9-16, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). In the exam, write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on tho separate answer sheet.

Example: IN

Datamac

Datamac was the greatest machine 0 _____ the world. Its business 9 facts: it accepted 10 , stored them, tested them and delivered them.

It was located in Tokyo, where it received messages and questions from all 11 the world. It sent answers to every town and city in every 12 . An army of workers fed it with facts all the time. Other workers moved about inside Datamac and 13 after it.

Datamac had a very special duty. It was in 14 of all the facts about every person in the world. Each day it brought these four million facts together, and answered the question: “15 will happen tomorrow?” Every city in the world received report for its own part of the country. And the complete World Report 16 to the Chief of the Correction Force in Tokyo. John Williams had been Chief for only three weeks. By now he was not afraid of the World Report every morning. It was just a pile of papers, fifteen centimetres thick.

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