  Cosmological alpha-attractor models in \cN=1 supergravity are based on
hyperbolic geometry of a Poincar\'e disk with the radius square {\cal
R}^2=3\alpha. The predictions for the B-modes, r\approx 3\alpha {4\over N^2},
depend on moduli space geometry and are robust for a rather general class of
potentials. Here we notice that starting with M-theory compactified on a
7-manifold with G_2 holonomy, with a special choice of Betti numbers, one can
obtain d=4 \cN=1 supergravity with rank 7 scalar coset \Big[{SL(2)\over
SO(2)}\Big]^7. In a model where these 7 unit size Poincar\'e disks have
identified moduli one finds that 3 alpha =7. Assuming that the moduli space
geometry of the phenomenological models is inherited from this version of
M-theory, one would predict r \approx 10^{-2} for 53 e-foldings. We also
describe the related maximal supergravity and M/string theory models leading to
preferred values 3 alpha =1,2,3,4,5,6,7.
