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Future idioms
on the cards = probably will
Yes, doing some study is on the cards tomorrow
bank on
= almost certainly will happen
You can bank on the Internet being more popular in the future.
SAMPLE QUESTION:
How do you think housing will change in the future?
It is difficult to predict the future, but I think there are going to be some
major changes with regard to residential buildings.
I'm not sure exactly what will happen, but one possibility is the rising
demand for housing and the scarcity of land may
lead to people only living
in apartment buildings and so I think the disappearance of detached
houses is
on the cards.
Furthermore, this might sound a bit crazy, but I think one day, we may
even have to start building houses on the ocean. There just doesn't seem
to be enough land left in many metropolitan areas like Shanghai to build
anywhere else.
