1 . E-schoolbags

Is your schoolbag too heavy? The e-schoolbag will help you. It is said that e-schoolbags are going to be brought into _______ in Chinese middle schools soon.

Heavy schoolbags have been a serious _______ for a long time. But the e-schoolbag will _______. An e-schoolbag is _______ lighter than a usual schoolbag. Perhaps, the e-schoolbag should be _______ an e-text-book. It is a small computer for students. It is as _______ as a usual book, _______ it can still have all the things for study, such as textbooks and exercise books. They can be made _______ chips (芯片) like stamps. The students can read the text page by page on the screen, take notes, and even send e-mails to their teachers. They only need to _______ the right chip into the e-schoolbags. Then they can use them.

Some people say ________ e-schoolbags can be easily broken, while others say it is not good to students’ eyes. But only time will tell.

When you think of robots, you might think of something to finish boring tasks, _________ engineers are making robots that can do much more interesting jobs.

Howie Choset at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh is a roboticist, a person _________ designs, builds or programs robots. When Choset was a kid, he was interested in anything that _________—cars, trains, animals. Later, in high school, he built mobile robots similar _________ small cars. Hoping to continue _________robots, he studied computer science in college. Some robots can move only forward, backward, left and right, _________ snakes can twist in many directions. “Snakes are far more interesting than the cars,” Choset said.

After he started working at Carnegie Mellon, Choset and his colleagues there began developing _________ own snake robots. A typical snake robot is made up of a lot of metal containers linked together, each with a motor and electronic parts _________. Choset’s team programmed robots to perform the same movements like real snakes. The robots also moved in ways that snakes _________ don’t, such as rolling. Choset’s snake robots could crawl __________ the grass, swim in a pond and even climb a flagpole.

6 . The computer is fast, and never makes a mistake. On the _________, people are too slow, and full of _________ sometimes. That’s what people _________ say when they talk about computers. For over a quarter of a century, scientists have been _________ better and better computers. Now a computer can do a lot of _________ jobs wonderfully. It is widely used in factories, hospitals, post offices and airports. A computer can report, decide and control it in almost every field. Many computer scientists are thinking of making the computer “think” like a _________. With the _________ of a person, a computer can draw pictures, produce music, talk with people, play chess, recognize voices, translate languages and so on. Perhaps computers will one day really think and feel. Do you think that people will be afraid when _________ find that the computer is too clever to listen to and serve people? No, people will make _________ use of the computers in the future. Computers will not take the __________ of man. Because man is always the master of the computer.

7 . The Chinese girl Zheng Daizi is a famous ________ in England. The Nokia company asked her to design a phone that is not ________ for the environment. As a result of her research, she found that normal phone batteries (电池) are expensive and bad for the environment. It also uses many good resources to ________ a normal battery. So she wanted to design a battery that is ________. Then a Nokia cellphone that drinks ________ was born.

The cellphone had a bio-battery. It gets power from sugar. So users only need to put a glass of cola into it, and then watch the cola turn into ________. Once the battery dies, only oxygen and water are ________. Bio-battery can ________ three to four times ________ than the usual batteries.

In fact, Zheng said that ________ cola, but also soda with sugar can be good resources to power the cellphone.

8 . What will life be like in the future? Let’s just close our eyes _______ think.

Computers will be able to show their feelings. They will think _______ than the human mind. We will become more and more _______ computers and the Internet, and _______ more and more time in front of computers and forget what our real needs are. Many of us will _______ overweight and weigh 250 kg!

We will have nanobots (纳米机器人) and use them when we are _______. For example, when we have a stomachache, we will swallow (吞服) a very small robot and _______ will travel through our stomach, taking video of what’s happening there. The video will _______ the doctor to find out our problems quickly.

Genetic engineering (基因工程) will make the human perfect. Babies will grow up to play basketball as well as Yao Ming or _______ Liu Yifei. We will be able to ________ plants and animals! Do you want your dog to be a tree?

9 . We are now living in the 21st century. Life now is much more _____ than before. Many changes (变化) have happened.

Tony is a _____ in Grade 8 at an American middle school. He felt surprised and _____ on his first day of school because he found his classroom filled with technology equipment (科技设备).

In Tony’s classroom, there are many electronics, like iPads. This term they will _____ the electronics to take notes, watch videos and do some homework. “It’s relaxing,” said Tony. “I often _____ my maths problems on my iPad and ask my classmate or teachers for help.”

With the help of new technology, students can finish their homework _____. “Technology is quite common in most of our classrooms now,” the headmaster said. “We’re trying to develop technology to open up the world to kids. It can _____ the outside world in and lets kids know more.”

Mr Miller, a science teacher _____ “It is a quick way for students to know the outside world,” he said. Mr Miller considers himself as a guide (向导) of learning instead of as a teacher. “If they have a _____, I will try to teach them how to find the answer,” he said.

Dale, Tony’s classmate, loves technology. He was not interested in class before, but now he likes the classes very much. “The classes help me use what I have ______ in the computer lessons.” Dale said. “Most importantly, I enjoy the classroom because, of course, it will help my studies.”

Look at the bus. It’s a little _______ from other buses. It’s black and white, and has two black “_______” on the top, just like a panda. The lights of the bus are its “eyes”. This is the popular _______ Bus in China. The bus is 12 meters _______ and there are 23 seats on it.

You can find _______ cool things when you get on the bus. First of all, you can _______ for it by scanning (扫描) your hands if you forget to take money, phone or bus cards. _______ surprise is the small computer on the back of each seat, you can watch a movie _______ the way on the bus. Also, there are some cameras on the bus. If someone steals (偷) things, the cameras can help the police find the _______. What’s more, there is no driver on the bus, but it can stop at red lights and all the stops. It only needs someone to watch all the way just in case (以防万一), so it ________ runs a little slowly.

Would you like to take such a bus to go to school?