China’s first Artificial Intelligent (AI) coffee shop made its first appearance. It is in the _______ Chinese city of Shenzhen, showing that AI has walked closer to people’s life, _______ it was only opened for visitors to experience _______ Shenzhen (International) Science Film Week in 2017.

Service in this coffee shop is _______ offered by robots. It is a creative place _______ together by IngDan from China and the robot design company Rethink Robotics from the United States.

Visitors are surprised to see robot coffee masters _______ coffee and robot waiters serve. Things such as voice-controlled lights and music playing also make them _______.

Customers make orders _______ directly speaking to the robots. These machine waiters can understand not only Putonghua, _______ Cantonese, a dialect (方言) spoken by the local people. They can understand English ________.

The AI coffee shop has attracted many people ________ want to experience robot services, and some joked that coffee made there had the ________ of intelligence. The robot can also communicate with customers and express ________ if their services are praised.

“Artificial Intelligence is being used in ________ fields today,” said a person in the experience centre. It is expected that AI restaurants, bedrooms, study rooms and other products will ________ in the near future.

“Bing Dwen Dwen” and “Shuey Rhon Rhon” are the Mascots (吉祥物) of the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (冬奥会和残奥会).

“Bing Dwen Dwen” is designed based on the image of the panda. The mascot mainly has two parts—ice and panda. The ice represents purity (纯洁) and perseverance. The panda represents honesty, health, liveliness, and loveliness. The mascot also reflects the winter events and modern technology. The flowing bright colored lines symbolize the ice sports track (轨道) and 5G technology. The heart pattern (心形图案) in the left-hand palm represents the warm welcome from the host country to friends around the world. “Bing Dwen Dwen” looks like an astronaut implying (暗示) the creation and exploration of the future.

“Shuey Rhon Rhon” is designed based on the image of lanterns. As a world-recognized Chinese symbol for over 2,000 years, the lanterns represent harvest, celebration, warmth and light. The color of the lanterns is “Chinese red” and it expresses the atmosphere of the 2022 Chinese New Year. The mascot represents friendship, courage and strength, reflecting the fighting spirit of the Winter Paralympic athletes.

In August 2018, the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games launched a worldwide competition to design the mascots for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. It received a total of 5,816 designs and only 10 passed the selection.

A high school student caused an online storm when she posted photos of herself in a Chinese style dress.

Keziah Daum is an 18-year-old high school student from Utah (犹他州) in the United States. She wore a traditional Chinese style dress-qipao-to her prom (舞会). Daum didn’t know the history of the dress before buying it. She simply found a beautiful dress in an old shop and decided to wear it to the prom.

“I am so happy that I can wear such a beautiful and elegant (优雅的) dress,” says Daum. “Now I know there is lots of history behind the nice-looking dress. I’m showing great respect to it.”

With a long history, qipao was created in the 1920s in Shanghai and it was made fashionable (时兴的) by upper-class women. In 1929, qipao was chosen to be one of the national dresses. Qipao has actually become a symbol of traditional Chinese culture. And Chinese cultural treasures are worth spreading all over the world.

Li Hao, a 13-year-old schoolboy in Shanghai enjoyed many snacks during Spring Festival. “I love chocolate and chips very much.     26     But I can’t help eating them,” Li said.

Recently, an online list of favorite snacks in China became popular. It said that peanuts, walnuts (核桃) and chocolate are good for our health, and lollipops (棒棒糖) are “bad”. Almost every kid in the world loves snacks.     27     Although some snacks like chocolate and candy are found everywhere, others are special to a country or a culture.

In Japan, matcha (抹茶) is a kind of green tea powder. It’s made from tea leaves.     28     In fact, matcha was born in China but took off in Japan. Biscuits or cookies covered with chocolate are also a Japanese favorite.

Potato chips and French fries are very popular in the U.S. They are cheap but tasty. But they are high in calories (卡路里).     29     Popcorn (爆米花) is another typical snack. People eat it when they are watching sports games or visiting the amusement park. Most cinemas also sell popcorn.

In the UK, many people sit down for snacks at around 4 p.m. every day.     30     Traditional afternoon tea is biscuits and tea. People also have scones with jam and cream, which is probably the most classic English snack.