Preparing for NMT.

The incredible pre-historic Chauvet cave art in France is painted in 1        [bright, keen, fair, sharp] colours and dates back to a period around thirty thousand years ago when early humans first started to create rock art. Although various 2               [illustrations, models, cases, examples] of this art have been found in caves in Western Europe, very few people have seen the art at Chauvet because it is located 3       [deep, thick, long, dense] inside an inaccessible underground cave system. Those who have seen it say that it is very impressive, showing animals 4             [by means of, apart from, as well as, such as] horses, rhinos and cows, and that the artwork is good enough to 5         [rival, compare, compete, oppose] modern compositions. The first scientists to 6        [arrive, reach, meet, know] the Chauvet paintings missed some other important 7           [instances, matters, details, issues] however. The walls of the cave are also marked with a series of lines and symbols, that were initially 8          [believed, regarded, thought, agreed] as insignificant. But recent research has suggested that these marks may represent humankind’s first steps towards the development of writing, which is 9           [resulting, having, making, causing] people to rethink their ideas about when written communication first started.

At the 1          [moment, present, current, minute] if we want mobile 2        [line, entry, access, link] to the Web, we have to travel around with things like tablets and smartphones in our bags or pockets. But the inventor of something called the Gesture Interface has 3         [come, thought, found, done] up with a way of doing this using only something we’ve 4           [delivered, fetched, brought, carried] around with us for millions of years – our hands. The idea is 5         [based, started, founded, begun] on simple technology that is already in existence. 6             [Along with, Instead of, Except for, Apart from] carrying around the usual hardware, you have a small wearable device on your hands. This contains a projector, a camera and wireless technology to 7          [sign, download, log, connect] you to the Web. It also has sensors which read and interpret simple hand gestures. For example, when you want to 8       [make, take, do, get] a photograph, simply make a frame around the image with your hand and click your fingers. The device 9         [works, reckons, meets, knows] out what you want and operates the camera.

Your colleague talks a lot and you find it annoying. What could you say?