Food will be different in the future.On the downside，fish will be     1     (small)，largely due to global warming，according to a study    2     (publish) by Yale University.Fish size will shrink (缩小) by up to 30 percent in the coming decades.

On the upside，your water will be exquisite (极好的).“People will pay a lot     3     (get) perfect water，”believes Thomas Frey，founder and executive director of DaVinci institue，a futuristic think tank in Colorado.“But it will be     4     (exact) what you should be drinking.It may have more vitamin C or oxygen.”

In restaurants，Frey predicted，“robotic kitchens will prepare individualized menus     5     customers.Already people are picky about eating or not eating certain things     6    they will be even more so in the future.You may order a cheeseburger or chicken wing and it will be individualized for you with robots adding trace elements which will improve your health.”

And the meat may come from somewhere other than a farm.

“We already have lab­grown burgers     7     come from stem cells，but so far it’s just beef and chicken and fish，”said Frey,     8     (add) that it will get more specialized.“Restaurants will want other     9     (kind) of meat，all grown in labs with stem cells.”

“And, if you happen to bring an impatient baby，there     10     (be) lab­grown breast milk，”said Frey.

Liu Lijia takes a break from her computer screen in Beijing and places two     1     (order) on her mobile phone, one for herself and another for a friend in the southern city of Guangzhou some 2, 200 km away.

Before long, brick-and-mortar chain stores(实体连锁店) in the two cities have the orders     2     (deliver)—two tea drinks blended with fruits and cheese. While     3     (take) sips of the tea-based beverages, the pair post snapshots on social media to show their visual “tea party”.

In recent years, China     4     (see) a boom in “new tea beverages” that combine brewed tea, fresh fruits and vegetables, sometimes laced with dairy products or juice, which are     5     (particular) sought-after among young people like Liu.

    6     natural ingredients, fancy designs and digital services, such drinks cater to the spending habits and aesthetics of young consumers, a group that seeks novelty and has relatively strong buying power,     7     observers believe reflects a new consumer market.

As lightweight commodities, new tea drinks     8     (expect) to meet young people’s desire for relaxation and social sharing, and have even become     9     vehicle for social life.

“People say that a cup of tea beverage a day keeps     10     (tired) away, and I do agree with that,” Liu said.

Whether tiny and used for delicate needle work     1     large and employed to make clothing, as well as for other purposes , traditional Chinese scissors are distinctive.

Scissors were once handmade by a Chinese man who also made metal     2    (knife) in his shop. Today’s scissors, often made of steel rather than iron, are produced in larger workshops     3    (employ) a combination of traditional and modern methods. These workshops produce a range of all-purpose scissors capable     4     cutting anything from sheet metal to fine silk.

No scissor producer in China is more famous than the Zhang Xiaoquan Scissors Factory,     5    (found) in 1663 in Hangzhou,     6     currently produces about 45 million pairs of 120 different styles each year.     7    (original), production required 72 steps, but this has been reduced to 24. One unique feature of the Zhang Xiaoquan brand is that beautiful landscapes and images of birds, flowers, and animals are still hand-carved along the surface of each pair. The     8    (company) scissors won various international honors, besides having been designated(指定) as “Imperial Palace Scissors” by the Qing emperor’s court. Up to now, identified as deserving protection along with     9    (diversity) centuries-old craft products, Zhang Xiaoquan     10    (recognize) as a laozihao or “heritage brand”.

The long history of the Chinese knot(中国结) dates back     1     ancient times when people first used knots for fastening, wrapping, hunting and fishing. Recent     2     (discover) include 100,000-year-old bone needles used for sewing and bodkins(锥子), which were used to untie knots, but because of the nature of the materials, few examples of prehistoric Chinese knots exist today.

The knot was developed into     3     art form during the Tang and Song dynasties and it became much    4     (popular) later in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

One major characteristic of decorative knot work is     5     all the knots are tied using one thread. When     6     (finish), the knot looks the same from both front and back. The knot can come in a variety of colours such as gold, green, blue or black. However, the most     7     (common) used colour is red. This is because it stands for good luck and prosperity(繁荣).

Making the Chinese knot is a three-step process, which includes tying, tightening and adding. There are many different shapes of Chinese knots,     8     (offer) blessings of happiness, love and good luck.

In Chinese, “knot” means reunion, friendliness,     9     (warm), love,etc. Up to now, many people in China     10     (use) the art of the Chinese knot in their necklaces, buttons and even hangings for cars or mobile phones.