1. For the information systems to work properly, you need to ---- the technology to suit the situation.

2. Though it is fashionable to denounce negative campaigning, every political expert knows it can be ---- effective.

3. Copper is replacing aluminium in the metal interconnections on some chips to improve ----.

4. It is hoped that these ---- projects will lead to a better understanding of typhoons and improve short-term weather forecasting.

5. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if science and scientists were taken more ---- in the political process?