Since the beginning of the 21st century, artificial intelligence (Al)     1    (find) its way in different areas in the entertainment industry. Disney, which is one of the world’s leading entertainment     2    (company), has decided to make use     3     the technology in its theme parks,where robot cartoon characters will soon walk among guests. Disney will also make     4     (it) robots Micky Mouse and Donald Duck communicate with tourists.

“I think Al is going to be     5    (immense) important for what we do,” said Jon Snoddy, an official of the entertainment company. “Robot characters that can move around among our guests need to understand where they're going and know     6     to behave in a world with humans.”

However, the company also knows some of the fears surrounding Al. “    7     （scare）kids won't be part of what we do,” said Mr. Snoddy. “We will go and do tests in our parks to find out what kids find     8    （interest）about these things. We will carry out tests     9    （make） sure the robot characters make     10       positive impression on kids. ”

2 . Gregory Talley used to sleep in a park or under a bridge. The 50-year-old has been homeless for more than 10 years.

“It is hard. It’s hard to live homeless. You filled every day trying to find cut where you are going to get something to eat. If I hadn’t found wonderful Fairfax County Kennedy Shelter, I wouldn’t know where I would be by now. I might be dead,” Talley said.

The Kennedy Shelter is one of the facilities New Hope Housing provides for homeless people.

Pam Micheli has devoted her life to making the lives of this vulnerable（易受伤的）population better as executive director of the non-profit organization.

“I went to Africa in 1985. And I saw a huge amount of poverty, but I saw so much hope. And I decided that I should try to do something that would bring hope to people,” Michell said.

When Michell began working with New Hope Housing 25 years ago, its three shelters had about 80 beds. Now, it has 350 beds and serves about 1,500 homeless people every year. She has expanded the program beyond just providing beds for the night.

“We do outreach（拓展）, we do prevention, we do permanent housing. We do transitional housing. We have an education program with all sorts of different things to move people to end their homelessness,” she said, “Our Out of Poverty program is not just about money. It’s about you could be spiritually poor, you could be relationship poor ... you could be educationally poor. So it is focusing on how you get out of this poverty that has brought you to being homeless. The program tries to teach the shelter residents self-reliance（自立）and work values, and includes courses on planning and personal responsibility.

“I learned I still have opportunities to change it and I can change it,” said shelter resident Lewis Webster. “It is just about going forth in doing necessary work to do it. I mean if you really want better, you would do better and that’s the frame of mind of me now.”