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Self-driving cars may sound like something from a futuristic sci-fi novel. However, with advanced trials expected from 2021, they are a lot     1     (close) to reality beyond your imagination, and they could really help you.

The introduction of self-driving cars could have a major impact     2     how older adults go about their daily lives. It     3     (hope) that these cars will help reduce the social isolation and     4     (lonely) we often experience as we get older. Additionally, this technology has the potential to enable a greater level of independence for disabled people. This is     5     (particular) important for older people, as 44 percent of State Pension age adults reported disability in 2017/18.

Connected and automated vehicles (also known as CAVs), are vehicles     6     could perform many of the functions of today's human drivers in the future. This might be difficult     7     (imagine), but now connectivity and driver-assistance features     8    (be) common in cars.

Today, vehicles can connect to the internet to provide drivers with information on road, traffic     9     weather conditions. They can also take over limited parts of the driving task, like     10     (use) advanced emergency braking to help avoid crashes.

【推荐2】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Are You Ready to Hug a Robot?

Getting hugged tends to be a powerful positive emotional experience. Hugs have been shown to enhance social bonding and emotional well-being. However, not everyone can get a hug     1     they need one. Some people are lonely and do not have anyone to hug them. Others may be in long-distance relationships     2     it is not easy to get physical affection from their partner. In this case, they     3     receive fewer hugs than they like.

How can this problem be solved?     4     scientists have proposed is to develop hug robots. This could offer lonely people the positive effects of getting hugged without the need     5    (seek) a person who could hug them. Nevertheless, designing a hug robot is not an easy task. For example, if the robot is very large and made mostly of metal, people might be frightened of it,     6     happily hugging it. Therefore, psychological research is needed.

A new study, which     7    (publish) in International Journal recently, focuses on the development of Moffuly-II, a newly developed hug robot, which can move its arms to perform different small gestures during the hug. When two people hug, they often do specific things with their hands, such as clapping the     8    (hug)person on the back to signal sympathy. It is important that a hug robot can perform similar gestures, too. In the study, the scientists wanted to know whether these gestures would make a robot hug     9    (appealing). Volunteers who Moffully-Il hugged generally preferred hugs with gestures to gesture-less hugs. They felt that the robot was more friendly when    10    (perform) gestures.

The findings of the study indicate that it is possible to design a robot that people enjoy to hug. Details matter here, as the intra-hug gestures played a significant role in determining how much the human volunteers enjoyed the hug.