Read the text below which is entitled "Congress Caps another Disappointing Year" in order to answer questions 27 to 30.

The author points out that "Funding for all other federal R&D programs collectively will barely increase", which means it will

From the text, it can be deduced that

the industrial society was replaced by the information society.

In the text, the writer refers to “robots” using all the synonyms below, EXCEPT:

In “An Ishiguro made of circuitry and silicone might soon be answering his own questions.” (lines 64-66), “might” can be correctly substituted by:

In the text,

a “porch” (l.13) is another word for garage.

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“all of” (l.18) can be correctly replaced by most of.

In the text,

the expression “fly-on-the-wall” (l.7) means to be able to watch what people are doing without their noticing you.

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the adjective “ordinary” (l.9) is synonymous with unusual.

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the determiner “any” (l.1) means some.

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the verb “to gel” (l.8) means to disrupt.