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#初中英语#拓展训练#词语填空

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法和上下文意思连贯的要求，在空格处填入适当的词(含首字母、中文提示）或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空(至多2个词）。

More than machines

When I was a boy, we had a tiny television set. It only had one c________(频道）. Still, I would always be in my chair when cartoons came on.
The one I liked best was The Jetsons (《杰森一家》). It was a cartoon series set in a future _______was full of fantastic machines that could do anything. I always smiled when I watched it and dreamed of a day when I would have machines like this to do all my work, so I could just sit back and r_______.
Now my life is full of machines like these. But if anything, I seem to have more ________(do) than ever.Just today I had to spend most of the morning __________(download) a new version (版本) of my word processing program so I could write this article. When I first started out, I wrote my stories on lined notebook paper and it took half the time. Last week, I spent most of another morning trying to get my new coffee _________(make)to work right. I seem to be drowning in a sea of new rules and problems that come with new t_______(技术）.
Now don’t get me wrong. Computers and machines have done a lot to help all of us. I just want us to be able to use them without them using us.We always seem to be b_______because we’re spending all of our time using these machines.
I hope that in the future, machines can be more user-friendly so we don’t spend all our time on _______. With machines we can live an easier life, _______they can never replace time spent with family and friends.

Keys for your reference:

1.channel

2.that

3.relax

4.to do

5.downloading

6.maker

7.technology

8.busy

9.them

10.but