Imagine you are at a new school. It’s lunch time, but you don’t have ________ to sit with. You want to join someone at their table, ________ you are not sure if they are friendly. This was the situation that Natalie found herself in when she started at a new school. What should you do if you are in this situation?

Natalie’s ________ of solving the problem was to create an app. She knows what it feels like to be alone at a new school. She found it difficult to make new friends and had to ________ a new table at lunch every day. If she sat by herself, she felt lonely. But if she asked to join someone and was ________, she felt embarrassed. She created a lunch-planning app to help students like ________ find people to have lunch with.

The app called Sit With Us is ________. If a student is having lunch at noon, he or she can create an invitation. Other students can open the app and ________ that invitation. They can then use the app to decide when and where to ________. This allows students to make ________ online instead of face-to-face. It is the reason why the app can work so ________: it lowers the risk of being refused and the embarrassment that goes along with it.

Natalie is happy to see that many people like her app, ________ those who suffer from bullying (遭受欺凌). Soon after she made her app ________ to the public, she won a prize for it. She also appeared in many news stories.

Natalie’s journey has not only led to the creation of a successful app, but has also allowed her to share her story and inspire others. She was even invited to speak at a university. In her ________, Natalie wanted people to know that you don’t have to do something ________ to change lives. Sometimes, a simple thing like having a friend to enjoy lunch with can make a difference in creating a more welcoming school environment.

【推荐2】What do you think our life ____ like in 30 years? I think each family will have a robot. The robot will____like a human. You can ask it ___ everything for you. It will help you 24 hours a ____ and never rest. It can talk with you when you ___ bored. It is a difficult question that you don’t know if it’s a human or a robot when you meet it on the street.

People will spend _____ time working and have more time to take a holiday. The cars will____fly freely in the sky ____ every car will have wings(翅 膀 ） with it. Robots will _____ you to any place you want to visit._____ the cars will be safe because the robots will drive them for you.

【推荐3】Inventions make our life easier and better. A big invention makes us feel it all the time. There are also small inventions around us which are ______ and interesting.

Do you ever find it annoying to look for the TV remote? Are you tired of ______ shoes when playing different sports? Don't worry. Students at Clayton Middle School in the US might be able to ______ you.

Dylan Glick, an 8-grade student, thought ______ the idea of a "retractable remote(可伸缩遥控器)". The remote has a rope to connect with its resting place. ______ people push a button on the remote, the rope will give the remote back to its resting place.

"It is something that I would use, and I'm sure ______ parents would use, too." said Glick. He said that sometimes at night when he wants to go to bed, he needs at least ten minutes ______ the remote. So he came up with the ______.

Allison Bicking, also a student in Grade Eight, had ______ similar idea. Bicking is a soccer player. She ______ spiked shoes when she practices running. If she plays soccer after she runs, she has to change her shoes.

To solve the ______, she designed many kinds of shoes. Finally, she invented "speedy spikes(钉鞋)" after three months' hard ______. The spikes are retractable with a small button on each shoe. If you push the button, the spikes will come out or go back into the shoe ______, making the shoes suit different kinds of sports. It seems that inventing something is not ______. Inspirations(灵感) always come from your daily life, so keep your eyes open. Maybe the next great ______ who will make a difference to our life is you!

【推荐2】What _______ our life be like in the future? It will be different ________ the life today. Each family will have a ________ in the future. You can ask it to do everything ________ you. It will serve you ________ hours a day. It can talk with you when you are ________. It can help you ________ housework. It’s great ________ a robot. The robot will ________ like a human. You won’t know whether(是否) it is a human ________ a robot when you meet it on the street.

People will have ________ time to work and more time to travel. The vehicles (交通工具) in the future will fly freely in the sky because every vehicle will have wings with it. They will ________ you to any places you want to visit. You can go to ________ during your travel when you feel tired. All vehicles will be ________ because they’re driven by robots. ________ great it is!

【推荐3】In real life, robots are mainly used in factories. They do many different jobs. ________, those jobs are too dangerous, difficult or boring for humans.

Robots also help disabled people and people who cannot look after themselves. For example, scientists are making robots to ________ the blind. Now, only a few blind people have a guide dog to help them. However, in the future, there might be ________ robot dogs working as guide dogs than now.

Recently, one robot dog was ________. It is called Meldog. It has wheels and usually “walks” in front of its owner. It is very clever. It knows the ________ of its owner’s walk, so it will never walk too fast or too slow. Meldog talks to its owner by radio. The owner wears a ________ belt (皮带). This belt sends instructions to the owner from Meldog, such as, “Stop here”, “Turn left” and “Turn right”.

In the United States, another type of robot can help disabled workers ________ problems in their jobs. This robot, called Kilory. It can hear the sound of its owner’s voice and then ________ instructions such as “Turn the page” and “Make a cup of coffee”. Robots are also used in some American ________. They can do simple jobs. For example, they shave (刮胡子) patients, brush their teeth and take meals from the kitchen to patients’ rooms. It never gets lost because this robot ________ a map of the hospital in its computer memory.