【推荐3】Corks is now an incredibly happy and loving dog with a love for life. However, you might never guess the ___ story of his past.

Late last year, Corks was found ____. Doctors believed that he might have been dragged(拖拽)behind a car, causing serious injuries to his legs. Corks was treated and placed in a ___ , but the scars (伤疤)of the wound he’d experienced ran_____.

Rescuers from Dogs Without Borders stepped in to ___ him. “ Careful of people and considered ____,Corks was about to be put down at the shelter,” Corks’ rescuers wrote. “He had lost so much ___ in humans.

Now, at least, Corks was safe. In time, Corks’ body began to recover, __ his heart was slow to follow. Hearing Corks’ story, Wilson ___to take him in-soon realizing that Corks clearly wasn’t used to kindness. Under Wilson’s ___and constant doting, the sad dog began to open up to her. Wilson said,” At first, ___to let a single person touch him, he now loves to jump up and ___me with kisses all over the face.

Corks, who was once considered broken, was whole again. ___ the difficulties he had faced, a happier life was never out of reach. His happiness and joy now ___ . “He amazes me every day. “ Wilson said. “Getting a dog like Corks to trust you can be ___, but love and patience can truly work miracles (奇迹).”

【推荐2】These days, the custom that wives should cook has changed in Japan, especially people in their 20’s and 30’s tend to think so. Among_________in that age group, both husbands and wives have_________and they are very busy, so they tend to think that sharing the housework is_________.

But not everyone _________because husbands do not have enough chance to know how to _________.   Up to now, they have been used to seeing two_________: their mothers cook every day and their fathers_________ those dishes.   

Recently some cooking schools for_________ have opened. I have read several articles about the schools.   Students of the cooking schools are mostly middle-aged men who are_________of their retirement (退休), because they work from morning to night at their__________, so they do not know how to cook. __________, their wives cook__________; they have many hobbies, and they know how to enjoy their spare time. After these men retire, they tend to do nothing in their__________ hours. So these men are__________to cook not only as a hobby, but also because it is necessary to them.   

In Japan, the famous cooks are almost all male, __________the famous cooking teachers are almost all __________.I think that this tendency (倾向) also comes from our__________beliefs: being a cook is considered a business and being a cooking teacher is considered an extension (延伸) of cooking as __________.I believe this tendency will__________in the future. We will have many chances to cook without __________whether we are husbands or wives.

【推荐3】April Fool’s Day is a western festival. No one _______ exactly when and how April Fool’s Day began.

However, there are some stories about _______ it came into being. One story _______like this: in the sixteenth-century France, the start of the new year was on April first. It was celebrated _______much the same way _______it is today with parties and dancing into the late hours of the night. Then in 1562, Pope (教皇) Gregory introduced a new calendar (日历) for the Christian world, and the new year fell on January first. There were some people, _______, who hadn’t heard or didn’t believe the _______in the date, so they _______to celebrate New Year’s Day on April first. _______played tricks on them and called them “April fools”. They tried to make them believe that something false was ________. In France today, April first is called “April Fish”. French children fool their friends by taping a paper fish to their friends’ ________. When the “young fool” ________this trick, the prankster (恶作剧者) shouts “April Fish!”

Today Americans play small tricks on friends and strangers alike on the first of April. One ________trick on April Fool’s Day is ________to a friend’s shoe and saying, “Your shoelace is united (开了).” School children might tell a classmate that school has been canceled. ________the trick is, if you fail for the joke the prankster shouts “April Fool!”

In Britain today, on the first of April, even ________newspapers, radio and TV programs tell big lies. You ________read a science ________showing that doctors have found a way to cure AIDS, ________you would probably listen to a piece of news about an UFO________on an island.

【推荐2】Ask Siri if she’s a woman. Go ahead; try it. She’ll tell you she’s _______. “Like cacti, a certain species of fish,” she might say. So is Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft’s Cortana, Samsung’s S Voice, and Google Now. But, man, do they ever sound a lot like women? _______, we think of them as ladies too. In Old Norse (古挪威语), Siri translates to “a beautiful woman who leads you to victory”. We assign female pronouns to them, and, in turn, they fold female turns of phrase into their robotic and occasionally silly answers to our requests.

If we prize gender diversity (多样性) in other areas of daily life, why does our tech sound so _______? The biggest reason for the female phone fixation rests in social science. “Research indicates there’s likely to be greater acceptance of female _______,” says Karl MacDorman, a professor at Indiana University who specializes in human computer interaction. MacDorman and his team played clips of male and female voices to people of both genders, then asked them to identify which they _______. The researchers also measured the way participants responded to the voices. In a 2011 paper, they reported that both women and men said female voices came across as warmer. _______, women even showed a subconscious preference for responding to females; men remained subconsciously neutral.

Why the _______? Stanford University communications professor Clifford Nass wrote that people tend to see female voices as helping them solve their problems by themselves, while they view male voices as authority figures who tell them the answers to their problems. We want _______ to help us, but we also want to be the boss of it, so we are more likely to choose a female interface (接口程序).

This tendency suggests that companies will make a better impression on a _______ group of customers with a woman’s voice. But not just any voice. It has to ________ a brand’s personality. For help with that, companies often turn to Greg Pal, vice president of marketing, strategy, and business development at Nuance Communications, which licenses its ________ of more than 100 voices. Pal insists that some brands choose male speakers. He turned on his iPhone and pulled up the Domino’s Pizza app, which has an assistant, Dom. He sounded like a high school English teacher — educated and helpful but not ________. That’s about right for a brand attempting to ________ guys ordering pies before the big game.

As voice technology improves, though, designers say diversity will too. Many devices already let you ________ a voice interface. For example, Homer Simpson, a famous cartoon character, can tell you where to take a left on our GPS device. And Siri can become a sir, if you take the time to ________. Want to know how to do it? Ask her. She’ll tell you in her uniquely warm, helpful and female tone.