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For questions 1-8, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap.
In a city that prides itself 1. being endlessly connected, it is oddly difficult to decide what, exactly, we are connected 2.. The phones we carry have become both a map and a mirror: they tell us where we are, who is nearby, and what we should want next. Yet, while the technology promises convenience, it also insists on a kind 3. permanent availability, as though there were no legitimate reason to be offline. People who once would have read a book 4. a train now scroll through feeds that have been designed to keep them there, not because they must, but because it feels easier than choosing something else. There is, too, the quiet worry that the self we present—carefully edited, brightly lit—might be the one that others come 5. believe, even when it is not the one we recognise. Unless we learn to treat attention as our own resource, rather 6. as something that can be bought and sold, we may discover that the “future” has arrived without us noticing what it has taken 7. us, or how difficult it may be to get it 8..