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Social robots are going to become a lot more common in the next few years,     1     in the home or the workplace. Social robots are about to bring technology to the everyday world in a more humanized way, said Cynthia Breazeal, chief scientist at the robot company Jibo.

    2     household robots today do the normal housework, social robots will be much more like companions than mere tools. For example, these robots will be able to distinguish when someone is happy or sad. This allows them     3     (respond) more appropriately to the user.

The Jibo robot,     4     (arrange) to ship later this year, is designed to be a personalized assistant. You can talk to the robot, ask it questions, and make requests for it to perform different tasks. The robot doesn’t just deliver general answers to questions; it responds based on     5     it learns about each individual in the household. It can do things such as reminding an elderly family member to take medicine or taking family photos.

Social robots are not just finding their way into the home. They have potential applications     6     everything from education to health care and are already finding their way into some of these spaces.

Fellow Robots is one company     7     (bring) social robots to the market. The company’s “Oshbot” robot is built to assist customers in a store, which can help the customers find items and help guide them to the product’s location in the store. It can also speak different languages and make recommendations for different items based on what the customer is shopping for.

The more interaction the robot has with humans,     8     (much) it learns.But Oshbot, like other social robots,     9     (not intend) to replace workers, but to work alongside other employees. “We have technologies to train social robots to do things not for us, but with us,” said Breazeal.

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Who was the inventor the ATM (Automatic Teller Machine)? The people have     1     (argue) for years. Now the UK government is     2     (clear) saying it was James Goodfellow    3    invented the ATM.

Back in the mid-1960s, James Goodfellow was working       4    a development engineer for Glasgow firm Kelvin Hughes, and had been responsible for inventing a way to enable customers to withdraw cash from banks when Saturday opening ended. “Most people    5     (work) during the week couldn’t get to the bank. They wanted a solution to it. The solution    6     (be) a machine which would issue cash on demand to a     7     (recognize) customer, he said. “I set about    8    (develop) a cash-issuing machine       9    (make) this a reality, I invented the pin (personal identification number) and an associated coded token (代币).”

The cash machine has become a world-conquering piece of technology. There are now 3 million ATMs worldwide, with the number forecast to hit 4 million by 2020. The good news for Goodfellow is that people are beginning to know him for his invention. Even     10    (good) for him, the Home Office has now officially recognized his other achievements.

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The World Expo 2020 will be held in Dubai,in the United Arab Emirates (UAE),between October next year and the following April,     1     the design of the China Pavilion （展馆） has been made public in the city.

The blueprint for the China Pavilion     2     (present) at a ceremony last Wednesday.With the design presented,the next step is to speed up construction.         3    (occupy) an area of more than 4,600 square meters,it will be one of the largest at the expo.Its     4    (inspire) was drawn from a Chinese lantern,    5    symbolizes hope and a bright future.It combines Chinese elements with modern technologies and shows China’s latest achievements    6    science and information communication.The China Pavilion will be built with the theme “Building a community with a    7     (share) future for mankind--Innovation and Opportunity.”

The Dubai World Expo is a platform to display the economic and social development of the participating     8    (country).It also showcases the bilateral     9    (friend) exchange between the UAE and other countries.

The UAE plays a big role in China’s Belt and Road Initiative and says it hopes the World Expo will help to improve ties with China . The World Expo has been     10    (irregular) held once every few years since 1851 and each Expo lasts for six months or so.

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You may love going to the beach, having fun in the waves，surfing and enjoying the sun and the sand. But what do you know about beaches?

    1     (actual), a beach is made up of small loose rocks,     2     turn into sand and they all get together at the shore of a body of water. But how are they made? Well, they     3     (create) by waves or currents (洋流). A current is like a large river inside the ocean that often     4     (flow) from one place to the next. These currents are caused by changes in temperature as well as the wind.

The shape of the beach depends on how the waves move around. Some waves move things up the beach and others move things down the beach. On       5     (sand) beaches, the waves move sand away from the beach,     6     (make) gentle slopes (斜坡). If a wave is not strong enough     7     (move) sand away, you will get a steeper beach.

Today, with the     8     (appear) of beach towns, more and more people prefer to spend their holidays on the beach. If you want to have     9     wonderful time at the beach, then look for a beach that has a Blue Flag status because it is usually safe and has a high standard     10     water quality.

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TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) refers to the study of human physiology, pathology, disease diagnosis and the     1     (prevent) and control of diseases. For thousands of years, the Chinese people     2    (pile) rich experience in fighting against diseases, thus     3    (form) their own unique medical theory. In terms of the research approaches, TCM regards each individual     4    a whole entity with the focus on zangfu (the organs inside a human body) and jingluo (the primary channels that crisscross the body). It has its own     5    (base) principles of diagnosis and treatment, which build the foundation of a systematic theory.

TCM is often interpreted to be the medical science developed by the Han Chinese. There are many other     6    (branch)of medicine in China, such as Tibetan medicine and Miao medicine,which can be called the ethnic medicine.

    7     (current), acupuncture(针灸)has aroused the interest of the international medical science circle.     8    the WHO has proved is that it can help ease post-surgery pains, discomfort caused by pregnancy, chemotherapy and toothache. Meanwhile,     9     effectiveness of acupuncture and herbs is also well proved by scientific evidence. On May 2, 2002, the WHO issued a document     10     called on more than 180 countries to adopt TCM as an alternative in their medical policies.