【推荐1】Imagine you walk into your office, with the temperature just right. You sit down and begin your active day. This is a kind of smart office that ________ are trying to make. It uses technology to ________ workers to perform at their best while at work.

Sitting in front of a desk for too long can be ________ for your health. For example, it can cause back pain. Sunon, a company in Zhejiang, built UP7 to help solve this. As a ________ lifting desk, UP7 can tell how long a user has been sitting in the chair. When it reaches the ________ set by the user, it’ll “tell” the user to ________ and walk around. It does this by sending messages to the user’s phone. The company also designed a type of smart chair to ________ with the desk. The chair is comfortable. It can adjust（调整）the arms and height according to your body shape.

In smart offices, you ________ won’t use paper notebooks. Instead, you can try electronic paper books, N10, created by Hanvon Technology in Beijing, is a new “notebook” like this. It uses a screen that doesn’t produce much light. Users ________ with an electronic pen. It truly feels like writing on real ________, completely meeting workers’ needs. Notes recorded can be easily organized, searched and stored.

【推荐2】Robots often appear in science fiction (科幻小说). The robots in those stories can often think, listen, talk and _________ easily on two legs.

_________ robots are becoming more and more complex (复杂的), they are still not like fictional (科幻的) robots. In real life, robots come in different shapes and _________. They can be tall, short, thin or fat. Some robots have long legs and are able to walk. Others move on wheels (轮子). They can be _________ or they can be very complex.

Many robots look like humans and some of them can _________ speak, but they are very different from us in lots of _________. They cannot see, hear or think by themselves. They cannot laugh or cry because they have no feelings (情感). Someone has to _________ them and decide what things they will be able to do.

Robots make our lives easier. They don’t _________ doing dirty or difficult jobs, and can work for long hours without (不) getting tired or bored. Some robots work in very dangerous places—under the sea or _________ space.

Scientists are making better robots all the time. One day probably every __________ will have its own robot to tidy bedrooms, do the dishes or do anything you tell it to do! Do you believe so?