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This is what people talk about when they talk about the future. They talk ab

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问题     This is what people talk about when they talk about the future. They talk about the past. They talk about its【B1】______ and pleasures, and the surprises and the mysteries that shaped their childhoods. They re-imagine their memories,【B2】______to fit the adult frame.
    Tomorrow is a threatening【B3】______: Sooner or later, it will be the first day in the history of the world that does not contain them. By【B4】______themselves into the futures, they dream their way around their own death.
    Or they talk about what the world would be like if today was to continue today’s politics, today’s problems, today’s prejudices. This is where【B5】______fictions come from: They are the mirror images of our own anxiety-ridden faces.
    Of course, the future will not be like today. Nor will it be like the past. It will not be like life in exile, or on a【B6】______ship. It will not be like childhood. It will be like the future.
    We don’t【B7】______that it is the best to predict our future. It is generally known that the future is full of mysteries. No matter how detailed our plans are, the future will always be confounded: no matter what we 【B8】______, we will always be wrong. We can never imagine what kind of unexpected things will happen in the coming days.
    We don’t know what kind of【B9】______will be, and we don’t know how we’ll get there. In the journey to our future, it is full of confuses and puzzles【B10】______us. There are no maps: the brakes don’t work: the driver’s blind and the doors have no handles. [br] 【B2】
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答案 scaling them up
解析 空格前的句子不缺少主干成分，由此可以推断空格所在部分在句子中作状语，因此空格处应填入动词的非谓语形式。结合录音可知，答案为scaling them up，意为“放大它们”。
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