Tony, a household robot made in Larry’s company, was going to be tested out by Larry’s wife, Claire. Although Claire didn’t like the idea at first, her husband persuaded her,     1     (tell) her the robot wouldn’t harm her or allow her     2     (harm). At the first sight of Tony, she felt     3     (alarm) to discover that he looked more like a tall and handsome man than a machine.

On the second morning, when Tony offered to help her with dressing, Claire felt embarrassed. But     4     (gradual), Tony began to win Claire’s trust. He helped Claire realise her dream of making her home elegant, gave her a new haircut, improved the makeup she     5    (wear) and gave her advice on her dressing. He also suggested that a party     6     (hold) to invite some friends, including Gladys,     7       was everything Claire wished to be. Tony helped to transform the house. Finally,     8     party arrived. As the clock struck eight, the     9     (guest) were coming soon. Claire dismissed Tony for the rest of the night, but he took Claire     10     his arms. He told her that he did not want to leave the next day. Then the front doorbell rang.

The Paleozoological Museum of China, one of the largest natural museums in Asia, was opened in Baoding, North China’s Hebei Province, in January,     1     (serve) as a crucial component in the broader effort to relocate non-capital functions outside Beijing.

This newly     2     (establish) museum, covering around 80, 000 square meters with a total construction area of around 73, 000 square meters, is thought of     3     a national-level theme museum in the field of natural sciences.

The museum, themed around nature, life and humanity, provides a series of systematic     4     (presentation) on paleontology and evolutionary biology. It tells the stories of natural history, and     5     (set) to promote the natural concept that “humans and nature are a community of life”.

The exhibits, numbering around 6,000 items,     6     (primary) come from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology. Among the displayed items     7     (be) rare treasures, including one of the world’s few well-preserved pterosaur (翼龙) eggs, the world’s     8     (early) known jawed fish species, as well as the longest and largest individual horse skull.

“The Paleozoological Museum of China will become one of     9     landmark buildings in Baoding,     10     is just in need of a cultural salon like this to showcase its cultural feature,” noted Gao Tianwei, project manager of the museum.

The Icehotel is the world’s first ice hotel in northern Sweden. The hotel, including the chairs and beds, is constructed from snow and ice blocks,     1     are taken from the nearby Tome River. Artists are invited to create different     2     (room) and decorations built by ice. Besides bedrooms, there is a bar with glasses made     3     ice. Each suite is unique and the architecture of the hotel is changed     4     (annual), as it is rebuilt from scratch.   

    5     (design) the main hall and the imaginative suites, artists around the world send applications to the Icehotel each year. When spring comes,     6     is pitiful to see everything melt away and return to the Tome River.     7     the Icehotel only exists between December and April, it     8     (consider) as one of the Seven Wonders of Sweden recently.   

At the Icehotel the beds are bedded with furs and people are given special equipment to use while     9     (sleep) in the hotel. The guests sleep in polar-tested sleeping bags. Since there is no heating in     10     hotel, the bedroom temperature remain constantly around -5℃. The ice suites do not have any bathroom facilities but bathroom for guests can be found in a warm building close by.

Every day, thousands of tourists from around the world plan their trips to the Great Wall of China.

Despite the wall’s 5,500-odd miles,     1     (spread) from east to west across the country, most travelers find     2     (them) at either the Badaling or Mutianyu sections, the two areas closest to Beijing. These visitors rise early from their downtown hotels, pack themselves into buses and wait in long queues     3     (see) the magnificent structures that consist of the Great Wall.

But what if there was another way?

An hour-long drive north of the     4     (crowd) capital is Commune by the Great Wall, a popular weekend getaway for Beijingers     5     a series of modern buildings consist of a luxury hotel, with award-winning design among yellow-leaved gingko trees. It is not only the rural surroundings     6     attract travelers to the town of Yangqing. Beyond the usual services — an expansive breakfast buffet and cozy bed sheets — Commune by the Great Wall     7     (provide) a rare opportunity to simply walk to the Wall. Just 20 minutes by foot from the hotel reception     8     (be) the Shuiguan section of the wall.

Commune by the Great Wall won     9     special praise at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2002, the year the 12 core buildings     10     (complete).

Bookstore brand targets isolated areas closer to cultural traditions, helping them open a prosperous new chapter, Yang Yang reports.

Five years ago, Qian Xiaohua, founder of Librairie Avant-Garde, a bookstore brand based in Nanjing, Jiangsu province,     1     (come) to Kaiping, a county-level city of Jiangmen, Guangdong province, to look for a site in the countryside     2     might be transformed into a modern bookstore. “We believe that Chinese culture     3     (root) in the rural areas.     4     (promote) Chinese culture, we first need to bring the rural areas to life. So, for us, opening bookstores in the countryside is more     5     (value) and meaningful than doing so in the cities,” says Qian.

Diaolou refers to the multi-story defensive village houses in Kaiping, combining Chinese and Western structural and decorative forms. In June 2007, UNESCO added Kaiping Diaolou and Villages to     6     (it) list of World Heritage sites. Five years ago, while traveling around to visit the Diaolou, Qian was impressed by the five giant white-walled Diaolou towers. Light and spacious, they     7     (full) satisfied Librairie Avant-Garde’s     8     (requirement) for a public space.

After a year and a half of design and construction, on November 11, Jiangmen Kaiping Avant-Garde Bookshop was opened, covering an area of 1,553 square meters.     9     total of 38,000 books are displayed throughout the five buildings. The opening day saw hundreds of people from nearby cities     10     (visit) the bookstore. This bookstore can enrich people’s cultural life and improve local tourism.

When you come back home     1     a hot summer night, you find that the air conditioner     2    (work) for 20 minutes to cool the room. This is     3     example of the convenience a smart home brings.

A smart home is a convenient home     4     users can remotely control appliances and devices from anywhere through the internet. There are    5    (count) kinds of smart home products, from heating to lighting to entertainment and security. Heating products equipped with temperature or humidity sensors can automatically turn on or off when     6    (require). Some appliances even have self-learning skills and can learn the homeowner’s schedules and make adjustments     7    (according).

    8    , there are still a few issues with smart products. Some are not as easy to stall by users as advertised. Apps associated with smart appliances are always badly designed and frustrating. What’s worse, every device has its own app, leading to an overwhelming number of apps for consumers    9    (deal) with.

Good news is that based on smart homes are smart communities whose goal is to improve the overall quality of the community,     10    (provide) convenient services, like applying for water delivery and reporting for repairs, and mutual assistance in daily life for its residents.

7 . Future living: what will the home of tomorrow look like?

What will our homes be like in the future? Growing cities, shrinking living spaces, and climate change are major challenges     1    (face) urban planners and architects. We’re sharing three trends with you     2     will shape the home we live in tomorrow.

Energy efficient and carbon neutral

One of the greatest challenges for homes of the future is our increasing energy consumption, something that cannot be covered by fossil fuels going forward.     3    the impact of climate change becoming notable, it’s perfectly understandable that the buildings of the future could function as environmentally friendly power plants. Solar collectors and heat storage systems allow     4     are known as ‘plus-energy buildings’ to produce 100 percent renewable energy for emission-free operation.

The trend to downsizing

Living more efficiently not only means improving energy use and reducing one’s own carbon footprint, but also building to save space. Rooms     5    (design) to be multifunctional when there’s not a dedicated room available for every potential purpose. Modular and flexible furnishing systems that can be adapted to the individual floor space and room zones will replace     6    (fix) structures, ensuring that there’s room for everything even in a small space.   

Trends for living and working under one roof

Over the last few months, the office     7    (become) a feature in many people’s homes. For a number of years now, the home office has been evolving from a make-do desk into a comfortable long-term solution. This development means we need to ask     8     how we should construct our living spaces to allow us to concentrate and work productively.   

    9     you rent or own your own home in the future, what’s clear is that the home of tomorrow will be smarter, more flexible, and more sustainable. It will offer us space     10    (live), sleep and work both indoors and outdoors.

Want to have fun with characters like Harry Potter or Kung Fu Panda? You will get the chance to do so by     1     (visit) the Universal Beijing Resort (UBR).

Located in Beijing, the UBR is the     2     (five) Universal Studios theme park     3     (global), and the first in China. As planned, it’s expected to speed the establishment of Beijing as     4     international business center and build up the     5     (confident) of China’s culture and tourism industry.

The UBR is fully aware     6     cultural preferences of Chinese friends. For example, the Kung Fu Panda Land of Awesomeness has pavilions, small bridges and flowing water. Lanterns are hung in many places. Accompanied with Chinese music, visitors can eat     7     (variety) of Chinese snacks in restaurants     8     look like ancient buildings.

Apart from Chinese cultural factors, “made-in-China” also shines in the UBR. For example, there is a huge rock in the theme land of Jurassic World, which     9     (make) up of more than 10,000 steel parts built by Chinese engineers. Visitors can see a rock standing tall and spring water falling from a height of 50 meters. It took an amount of wisdom and power     10     (build) such a fantastic park.

One of the most popular city walk routes in Shanghai is Fuxing Road in the downtown area of the city. With trees     1     (give) shade from the sunlight, the street is home to many historic buildings of special     2     (significant) to China. Among them is the former residence (宅第) of a famous Chinese architect.

Zhuang Jun (1888-1990),     3     name was also spelt as Chuang Tsin, was one of the first professional architects in modern China, and     4     (create) a series of landmark buildings in Shanghai and other major cities across the country. He also compiled (编写) the first English-Chinese dictionary of architectural engineering terms in     5     1950s.

The residence was designed by himself and constructed in 1921.     6     (locate) at 45 Fuxing Road West in Xuhui District, it is a brick-concrete three-storey garden house. It occupies a long and narrow L-shaped area of 306 square meters, consisting     7     two sets of units. The outer wall is light yellow, while the corners     8     (decorate) with tooth-shaped red bricks. Two fireplaces were built in the sitting room     9     the guest room.

Zhuang and his family lived in the house for decades and he died there in 1990. The house was listed as a     10     (culture) relic preservation site of Xuhui District in 2017. Today it is still a private residence and visitors can only appreciate it from the outside.

The Two Tree Coffee, located in the Liyukou Village of Huyi District in the city of Xi’an, quickly went viral (走红) on social media.

The popularity of the cafe is     1    (large) due to the boom (暴涨) in cultural and ecological tourism in recent years,     2    (combine) with the government’s efforts at environmental preservation.

In recent years, the Chinese government     3    (strengthen) the long-term protection project, and adopted     4    (measure) such as the establishment of the five-level forest chief system. More and more urban residents, especially those     5     Xi’an, are attracted to the mountain villages for slow-paced vacations.

Wang visited many places before     6    (decide) to build the cafe here. “Cafes are among the favorite businesses of young people, and they provide     7     strong sense of uniqueness when they appear in the countryside,” she said. “People come here not only to consume coffee,     8    to ‘pay’ for the green ecology and the pastoral (田园的) environment.”

In front of the cafe is a tourism highway,     9    connects the store with many artistic villages along the mountain range. Art helps the villages to become     10    (fashionable) and livable, while retaining their natural beauty, than before.