A university in southeast China has a new server in     1    (it) canteen making noodles for the students. The video    2    (show) a robotic chef working in the kitchen and making noodles     3    dough (面团) at South China Agricultural University.

It was given human-like facial features (特征) and can be seen    4    wear) a face mask, hat and chef's uniform. The robot was designed    5    (improve) the traditional way of making “Dao Xiao Mian”,     6     is a specialty in Shanxi Province in northern China.

    7    traditional), a chef will hold a large piece of dough in one hand and a knife in the other before starting to peel strips(条) off the dough.     8    dough will then fall into the pot of boiling water and cook into noodles. A student said: “I’ve heard that there are always long     9    (queue) at the knife-cut noodle stall at the canteen.”

However, web users on Chinese social media said the robot chef    10     （be） not something new. The use of robots in restaurants is becoming increasingly popular in China over the past few years.

As winter comes, hands and feet can easily get cold, especially among women. Thick gloves might be a good choice,     1     sometimes wearing them is not convenient, especially when people want to do something with their hands.

However, this was not a problem for ancient Chinese people, who had     2     more exquisite tool to keep their hands warm: hand warmers. There is no accurate     3     (write) record regarding the origin of this tool, but there are some tales about its invention. One folk story concerns Emperor Yangdi from the Sui Dynasty     4     visited Jiangsu in the winter. Due to the bitter cold, the local official asked     5     (manufacturer) to make a small warmer for the emperor that could be held in one’s hands. Thus the hand warmer was created. By the Song Dynasty (960-1279), the tool was in widespread use. Techniques for producing the tool were     6     (extensive) employed in the Ming and Qing dynasties(1368-1911). Many poems and books from this period     7     (record) people using hand warmers. The Dream of the Red Chamber, the classic novel by Cao Xueqin from the Qing Dynasty, also featured a maid sending a hand warmer to the protagonist Lin Daiyu in one chapter.

    8     (make) of bronze or ceramics, ancient hand warmers had a variety of designs. Round, square and octagonal shapes are typical, with some fashioned to look like pumpkins, flowers and turtle shells. In a hand warmer, there were burning charcoal or simple coals. Some coals were mixed     9     fragments and pressed into flower shapes,     10     (release) a pleasant scent when burned.