1 . On May 4, Fan Jinshi donated 10 million yuan to set up the Fan Jinshi Education Fund. Fan is ______ as a famous archaeologists (考古学家) in China, and her ______ will support further research into Dunhuang.

All people present were ______ by her love for Dunhuang. Fan Jinshi, also ______ as “the Daughter of Dunhuang”, ______ from Peking University and then ______ for the Northwest Desert. Since then, she has ______ herself to protecting the caves in history.

Fan used ______ technologies to protect the caves, and now Dunhuang ______ tourists from around the world.

Today, Fan is still trying to promote talks and ______ between Peking University and the Dunhuang School.

Fan said, “Though now I work, I am a student of Peking University, and I was able to ______ to the caves in Dunhuang. I hope that the fund can help ______ the Dunhuang studies of Peking University.”

The fund ______ Fan’s prize money and her savings. She believes in taking money from the right place and spending it in a ______ way to ensure that it is used for the benefit of society.

Fan Jinshi’s speech ______ so many people, and the research on Chinese archaeology will continue developing.

2 . Andrew Powell was pulling envelopes from the large mailbox outside his contemporary house when he noticed something ______: A tiny doll couple were sitting on a love seat inside the mailbox. A small note was attached.

“We’ve decided to live here,” the ______ read. It was signed from Mary and Shelley. Andrew initially figured that somebody must have left them there ______ . So he asked the neighbors whether anybody had left ______ in his mailbox, and everyone said no. Soon, Andrew and his wife discovered that the small couple had ______ a tea table, a pretty carpet and a pillow.

Over the next few months, additional items mysteriously ______: a bed, a painting and a wood-burning stove, to name a few. For Christmas 2022, a decorated tree was left with tiny presents. But the gifts were taken back right after Christmas ______ Andrew could open the boxes to see if anything was inside.

More than a year later, Mary and Shelley are still living rent-free in the mailbox, to the delight of the neighbors who now ______ Andrew’s updates on the village’s website to check the ______. Andrew first posted about the tiny dolls on Aug. 21, 2022, hoping his fellow villagers might help solve the ______.

“It’s just somebody out there who is having some fun, giving us all a little community ______. But whoever is doing this is obviously very ______ and clever,” says Andrew’s next-door neighbor.

Andrew says he now doesn’t want to know who is ______ for the mail-box affair because he’s hoping it will continue. “Also, people in the neighborhood are ______ it and some ask if I’ve thought about installing an outdoor ______ , but personally, I like the mystery of it.”

3 . Nowadays robots can not only talk and dance, but also answer your questions in English. They are “ __________ ”. The following is the first China-made “beauty” __________ .

A new 168cm high “beauty” robot who has not yet been __________ looks wonderful in a red wedding __________ . She can act as a tour guide, a receptionist, _________ a hostess.

Her face __________ the beautiful facial characteristics of many girls. And her eyes can move.

“The robot is the first human simulation (仿真) __________ in China, and she is __________ with the most advanced voice and movement control technologies and __________ communicate with humans,” said Li Chengrong, chief __________ of the robot, who works for the Chinese Academy of Science Institute of Automation .“She replies ‘ __________ ’ if you praise her by saying ‘You are so __________ ’.”

The sentences that the robot can understand and say are __________ at present. “We will improve her in the future, to make her talk __________ with human beings,” Li said.

__________ the “beauty” will work as a receptionist and tour guide in Sichuan Science Museum, she has been programmed to __________ the southwestern dialect that is popular in inland Sichuan Province.

Li said the lab __________ for designing and making the robot was 300,000 yuan (37,500 U.S.dollars). The robot is equipped with interactive technologies. It is _________ to the most advanced robot in the world—Asimo, __________ by Japanese auto­maker Honda Asimo, __________ can walk at a speed of one mile per hour and climb up and down stairs,costs about one million U.S dollars.

4 . I was born near New Your City. My parents loved music. They weren’t rich but there was always ___________ in our home: jazz, folk and pop music.

By the time I was 12, I ___________ the words of hundreds of songs. I used to ___________ in front of my bedroom mirror and pretend that I was ___________ the guitar. One day, my father ___________, seeing me and laughing. I felt ___________. A few weeks later, however, father came home with a large parcel under his arm. “It’s ___________ you, Tommy.” he said. “It’s special ___________ for your 13th birthday.” That was my first electric guitar. I took it ___________ out of the parcel, with a big smile on my ____________.

By the time I was 15, I left school and started ____________ in night clubs because I could hear lots of different bands there. Later, I ____________ a job at a dance club and worked for two years. I was then writing my own songs. ____________, no one was paying any attention. One night, I gave a tape of ____________ songs to the man in charge of the music. He ____________ it and started playing it. After a while, people started to ask him to play my ____________. Then, a recording company offered me a contract (合同) to ____________ an album (唱片). ____________, one of the songs, “Turning Me On”, became ____________ in China, Japan and Singapore.

I don’t know why but I became a ____________ in Southeast Asia.

5 . Nisha Blackwell was putting herself through nursing school when she was laid off for the third time. To make matters worse, she couldn’t______ a gift after being invited to attend the birthday party of a close friend’s daughter just a few days later. “That’s______ I looked around and I said, ‘What do I have?’ I had a sewing machine still in a box,” she says.“ And 1 had this bag of clothes.’

Nisha had cloth and a sewing machine, but she didn’t______ know how to sew. So she turned to YouTube, and video by video, taught herself, “I was typing into YouTube: How to______a sewing machine...“ she remembers. I probably didn’t make the machine work______midnight and this was in the hot summer when my house didn’t have air conditioning. I remember just sting there, just sweating to death, but so______to make this thing for this party!”

She ______ making a box of hair bows(蝴蝶结发饰). She went to the party, restless, ______how people would receive the fact that they were handmade.“ It felt like it took forever to get to my gif,“ she says. “ I was so ______ because I kept imagining that these hair bows would just be like pieces of cloth that came out, and I felt like I must have done something wrong. But something ______happened. My friend _______the box out onto the high chair and I remember   all of the parents coming up to me saying, so ________! ‘Where did you get them? How did you do that? Can you make me some?’”

Nisha left the party with six customers and started getting _______ soon. She began training   other women from her______to produce the product.

“If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path. I make sure that I am looking back and helping, and make sure that I’m not just doing something that is only ______me.” Nisha says.

7 . In 2013 I took a trip by myself to London and on my first day there I________my way along the busy streets to Piccadilly Circus to buy________to see the show“Billy Elliot the Musical”.

________it was my first time in London, I stopped to ask a local lady for ________She was in her 60s with well groomed (修饰的) hair and________a pretty, smart suit. So British! She had a lovely nature and we soon got________.When she discovered I was travelling on my own and________in the arts, she very generously________me a free member's entry (准入) to an impressionism exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art________her personal guest.

Feeling very special and almost like a local, I went________her through the splendid building, past the long waiting line of________visitors at the ticketing desk. I spent some time with her and other ________of the Academy admiring the inspiring originals I had only seen in________books when I was a student. The experience felt quite ________, but it did happen. She was so open and warm-hearted, so willing to help. ________her was one of the highlights (精彩部分) of my________and she made me feel very welcome________I was so far from home. The________of a friendly stranger made a lasting impression on________-a travelling art-lover who will________value it.

8 . A Happy Birthday for All

For her ninth birthday, Mary asked for some unusual birthday gifts such as soap, schoolbags and Towels. But Mary didn’t want these _________ for herself. She wanted to give them to other people.

At school, Mary’s teacher _________ her students, “You can’t always be self-centered. You have to _________ others.” Mary’s classmates had helped to _________ supplies for a school in Africa. But Mary wanted to do more. With help from _________ parents, Mary researched local charities(慈善机构)and _________ a shelter(庇护所)that helps women and children in need.

After finding out what supplies the shelter _________ , Mary included a list with each party invitation. Mary’s friends brought shelter supplies to her _________ party. Those who couldn’t come to her birthday party _________ gave gifts. She had so many gifts that they __________ her family’s truck! “It was like we were going on vacation.” Mary said with a __________ . She said it was fun to watch the pile of donations(捐赠物) __________ . Mary collected $650 in cash donations and more than $1,000 worth of __________ for the shelter in the end. __________ Mary went with her parents to send the supplies to the shelter, people there __________ her with another birthday party. They had __________ a cake for her and gave her a __________ signed(签名)by everyone there.

Mary hopes other children will hear about her __________ birthday and choose their own charity to support. “I felt really __________ when I did it,” she said. “You’re not just giving them something; you’re __________ them with their whole life.”