Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank before the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please write down the corresponding letter for each item in the blanks. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.A) worse E) imagine I) human M) biggestB) create F) dreaming J) impossible N) copyC) ability G) better K) much O) robotD) possible H) wood L) independently"Robot". It is a word that seems very modern; a word that creates a strong mental picture; a picture of something that looks and acts like a human. Robots are not underline(26) of course. They are machines.The word "robot" and robots themselves, are less than 100 years old. But humans have been underline(27) of real and imaginary copies of themselves for thousands of years. Early people made little human statues out of clay. And they cut underline(28) and stone to make them look like humans.What is the future of robots? The goal of scientists is to underline(29) a true human-like robot. Some experts have described this robot of the future as one that can act underline(30) in the physical world through its own senses and actions. Humans have the underline(31) to see, hear, speak and solve problems. Engineers have built robots that have one or two of these abilities. But it takes a number of big expensive computers to make the robots work.

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank before the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please write down the corresponding letter for each item in the blanks. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. A) worse E) imagine I) human M) biggest B) create F) dreaming J) impossible N) copy C) ability G) better K) much O) robot D) possible H) wood L) independently "Robot". It is a word that seems very modern; a word that creates a strong mental picture; a picture of something that looks and acts like a human. Robots are not $\underline{26}$ of course. They are machines. The word "robot" and robots themselves, are less than 100 years old. But humans have been $\underline{27}$ of real and imaginary copies of themselves for thousands of years. Early people made little human statues out of clay. And they cut $\underline{28}$ and stone to make them look like humans. What is the future of robots? The goal of scientists is to $\underline{29}$ a true human-like robot. Some experts have described this robot of the future as one that can act $\underline{30}$ in the physical world through its own senses and actions. Humans have the $\underline{31}$ to see, hear, speak and solve problems. Engineers have built robots that have one or two of these abilities. But it takes a number of big expensive computers to make the robots work.