Research workers have long __________(1) whether it is possi

Research workers have long __________(1) whether it is possible to foretell the
future.In the sixteenth century,the writer Nostradamus __________(2) ten
volumes of four-line poems,making all kinds of predictions about what was going
to ____________(3) in the future.For example,he predicted that the King of
France,Henry the Third,would be __________(4) from a wound in his eye during a
fight.Four years later,the king died,exactly as Nostradamus foretold.
However,many of Nostradamus’s other predictions __________(5) to be highly
inaccurate.