Most of us are ___ with virtual reality, or VR, from sci-fi and may even have tried a cheap headset at home or in school.
Conscious
Known
Aware
Familiar
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But did you know VR is __ transforming the real world? Here are some examples:
Yet
Albeit
Still
Already
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Car manufacturers use VR to build virtual prototypes, which is far quicker and enables them to make ___ changes to their designs before building anything.
Ready
Hurried
Express
Rapid
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Sportspeople, including golfers, skiers, cyclists and Formula One drivers, use VR to ___ courses and learn their way around the track from the safety and comfort of their own training centre.
Preview
Search
Probe
Inquire
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The heritage industry uses virtual ‘walkthroughs’ to allow people to experience fragile sites, ___ as Stonehenge,
Similar
Such
How
Like
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archaeological digs, and prehistoric cave ___.
Apartments
Dwellings
Livings
Housing
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In the world of ___
Caring
Healthcare
Medical
Healthy
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VR has been used to train medical staff, but even more radically, it allows for ‘telesurgery’, in which a surgeon operates on a patient ___.
Remotely
Casually
Accidently
Incidentally
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Regarded (1)___ many as the most important of all British music festivals, the ‘Glastonbury Festival’ is known the world over as a true modern-day celebration of the original ‘hippie’ culture of the 1960s. (USE ONE WORD ONLY!)
By
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Roughly (2)___ five years there is no festival. (USE ONE WORD ONLY!)
Every/Each
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so that the farmland on which the massive celebration of music and art takes place can (3)___ allowed to recover. (USE ONE WORD ONLY!)
be
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Each summer, more than 175,000 people descend on the small English town of Mendip, in Somerset, eager (4)___ witness the year’s greatest assembly of artists (USE ONE WORD ONLY!)
to
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(5)___ order that so many revellers can be accommodated safely, and in relative comfort, a medium sized city is constructed. (USE ONE WORD ONLY!)
in
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Hundreds of bars, shops, food stalls, showers and toilets (6)___ erected, and first-aid and security tents dot the site. (USE ONE WORD ONLY!)
are
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This large organisational effort, (7)___ starts shortly after each year’s festival ends, (USE ONE WORD ONLY!)
which
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This large organisational effort is made possible by approximately 2,000 volunteers, (8)___, in exchange for basic shelter and food provisions, look after the crowds of happy ‘party people’. (USE ONE WORD ONLY!)
