In the future, more and more people will move to big cities. To prepare for this, cities are becoming smarter and more efficient     1     the help of big data (大数据).

The local governments     2     (collect) lots of important information already: there are sensors (传感器) that measure noise, pollution and traffic. This is known     3     “smart city technology”. In the future, this data will make our lives much     4     (easy) by helping us save energy and keep the city tidy. There might even be smart lamp posts which can clean the air, or robots that empty rubbish bins for     5     (we) when they are full. Experts believe that technology will change     6     cities look like. If self-driving taxis can use smart city data to find the best way to take you to your destination (目的地), there will be much fewer traffic jams and much more space for people to walk or ride     7     bike. People will     8     (probably) stop buying cars together. Smart city technology     9     (help) prevent traffic jams in the future.

In a word, some     10     (difference) will be found in the cities of the future. What kind of city would you like to live in when you grow up?

【推荐2】William Shakespeare was a writer of plays and     1    (诗歌). Some of his most famous plays are Hamlet,   Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. He wrote thirty－seven plays in all. They are     2    (仍然)   popular today.

He was born in 1564 in England. At school he liked     3    (看)   plays. He decided to be an actor when he finished school at the age of fourteen. In 1582, he married a farmer's daughter. She was eight years older than he was. Their first child was a daughter.     4    (后来)   they had twins. In 1585,   Shakespeare left his hometown,   Stratford－upon－Avon. His wife and children stayed behind. No one     5    (知道)   why he left or what he did between 1585 and 1592.

At twenty-eight he moved to London and     6    (加入)   a theatre company which opened the Globe Theatre in 1599. He became an actor,   and he also wrote plays. He usually acted in his     7    (自己的)   plays. He earned almost no money from his writing. But he made a lot of money from     8    (表演). With the money he bought a large house in his hometown.

At the age of forty-nine,   Shakespeare retired(退休) and went to live in Stratford－upon－Avon. He     9    (去世)   at the age of fifty-two. He left his money to his family. He left his genius to the world. You still see his plays in English and in many other     10    (语言). He is one of the most famous writers in the world.

Welcome to Great minds. Today we are going to talk about three famous people in history.

Albert Einstein was born in Germany in 1879, and died in the US in 1955. He is c    1     to be the greatest scientist of the 20th century. His t    2     explain the way the universe works. In many photographs, you can see his smiling face.

William Shakespeare lived about 400 years ago. D    3     his life, he wrote around 39 plays as well as hundreds of poems. He’s the most popular writer in the English language. One of his most famous plays is called Romeo and Juliet.

Confucius lived over 2,000 years ago in China. He was a teacher and p    4    . He spent much of his life t    5     and meeting many different people. He is remembered for his wise saying. They were written down by his students.