1 . Our life has become more and more intelligent over_______past 30 years. Have you ever imagined what a smart home is? Last weekend, Cox Communications published their new smart home ______(call)Home Life, in which all equipment is ”smart“. A _______ (power)Internet connection is central to their product. Not only is the equipment remotely controlled, this home also features direct connections to family members and doctors. For example, their relatives_______live in another state can enter their house through their smartphones or computers.

The smart home seems to be designed _________(attend)to the elderly. In a smart home, many activities can be monitored and all kinds of help________(provide)whenever necessary. If a person has a fall or doesn’t take their medicine, he or she will be reminded________(instant). However, the person________(live)in the smart home has his or her_______   (independent).

This smart home offers plenty of chances for patient control, as well________reducing health costs in many situations. Technology can help old people stay independent and safe.

4 . 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.”

5 . The email hit me like a punch in the gut. It came from my ________ and when I saw it had several paragraphs, I frowned. Quickly scanning for the vocabulary of bad news, I discovered words like “________”, “I’m sorry”, and “end”. Sure enough, my column—Science Careers was being canceled.

But despite my________ shock, I wasn’t as sad or mad or ________ as I might have been in the past. Previously, when I have been ________, I embodied (表现) the loss by ragging on and thinking________ about myself: “They” don’t value me because I don’t have value. And indeed, when I got the message about the________, my instinct was to immediately blame myself, dumping me into the familiar hopeless desert of ________.

But then, I surprised myself by quickly ________ to a new mindset. It wasn’t actually a failure, was it? Instead of letting the disappointing news start________, I was able to take a positive ________.I set out to make this not the day I was fired, but the day I was fired up and________to move my career to the next level.

Sometimes life sucks and things happen, and we cannot ________.Business decisions often impact our careers and yet have very little to do with our outputs. This decision wasn’t a ________ of me and my value. So when I heard that the column was a ________, I knew I was going to grow.

7 . 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.

8 . Charles George Courtney was a British tourist. He stayed at the Korumar Hotel DLuxe in Aydin, Turkey, every year for _______.

Taskin Dasdan, who has worked as a bellboy(宾馆的行李员)in the hotel for 31years, struck up a _______ with Charles.

We, _______ everyone the same. _______, Charles George Courtney _______ us very much. When he came to the hotel after a meeting, he would even gave his _______ to me and ask me to buy what I needed, ”Taskin told Turiz Majansi.

When Charles _______ earlier this year, his family was _______ to find that he left a _______ part of his fortune to some of the hotel staff, ________ Taskin.

“He treated us as if we were part of his own ________, ”said Taskin. "He even ________ the education of my children . . . Of course we were thankful.”

But never in his wildest dreams did Taskin think he would get a ________ from the UK to say he had been left a small fortune by the ________.

Although the exact amount of money left to Taskin is ________, it is enough so that he will never have to work a day in his life again”.

9 . A young mother said she was brought to tears after witnessing a little boy’s act of kindness in a restaurant.

Sophie Crehan, 24, said she had taken her children to a ______ in Haydock, England this past Sunday afternoon as a weekend ______.

“They have a little children’s play area there. I was on the ______ machines and I was trying to win my little girl this pink and purple teddy that she ______ wanted. I had a go three times but ______ ” — “I just couldn’t do it,” Sophie told the Liverpool Echo.

“There was a little boy who stood next to me ______ me do it. I said ‘It’s your ______ now. You can have a go.’”

Sophie went back to her ______ to eat her meal. Shortly after, the little boy walked over to her table ______ a pink and purple teddy.

He said, “I’ve just ______ it for your little girl.”

“I said ‘you don’t need to do that’ and he said ‘no, no, I’ve won it’,” Sophiere called. I was nearly ______. It was such a nice thing to do.

Sophie said the boy was around 10 years old.

I saw him go back to his table ______ he sat, I ______$2 out of my purse and went and ______ it to him and said “thanks very much”.

His parents asked, “What’s happened?” So I ______what had happened and said ‘He’s a lovely little boy.’”