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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 the rush to declare every new gadget “revolutionary”, it is easy to forget that technology rarely arrives as a clean break 1. what came before. A device may look sleek, but it still depends 2. networks, minerals and labour that have been extracted, shipped and assembled somewhere else, often out of sight. While consumers argue about whether a phone’s camera is better than last year’s, the more awkward question is what, exactly, should happen 3. the old one. In many cities there are collection points, yet people do not always use them, either because they doubt that anything will be recycled, 4. because it is simply easier to leave the item in a drawer. If governments were serious, they would require manufacturers to take responsibility 5. their own products, not just at the moment of sale but long after 6.. Unless that happens, the promised “future” will be built 7. yesterday’s waste, and we will pretend not 8. notice.