The day that you enjoy all{#blank#}1{#/blank#} satisfaction of having all the housework done by a robot might still be a few decades off. But increasingly engineers are saying that{#blank#}2{#/blank#} (robot) are going to make the leap from the factory floor to your family room.

    Bill Gates once predicted the “Dawn of the Age of Robots”. What's behind this new era? It's{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (part) a matter of technology. Devices that can recognize and respond to a human voice have been developed. There are now a few different ways for robots {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (move) around. They can walk crawl or ride on wheels. They are being made smaller and smaller these days and also {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (become) more and more efficient.

    A bigger part of the story depends{#blank#}6{#/blank#}the consumers. People around the world have tirelessly searched for ways to get{#blank#}7{#/blank#} (lazy) from the 1950s{#blank#}8{#/blank#} the television remote control was invented. Also {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (consider) the increasing wealth of people ，engineers believe the time appears ripe to introduce robots to ease our daily lives. Robots will do most of the basic housework {#blank#}10{#/blank#}just help you have more fun on the basketball court.

    Human tower-building, or castell（叠人塔）, is a great team sport. This kind of sport can organize {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (hundred) of individuals to work together to climb several meters up to the air. The lower can involve as many as 400 people and reach a {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(shock) height. The world record for the {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(tall) tower belongs to the team Minyons de Terrassa, which defeated competitors{#blank#}4{#/blank#}half a meter during the event in 2015.

    The unusual tradition dates back to the 18th century and. as CBS News reported, the 26th competition{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(take) place in Catalonia, Spain not long ago.{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (win) the event, a team called Colles assembled to build the most complex castells. The {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(construct) process was only half the battle. {#blank#}8{#/blank#} the Colles achieved their maximum height, they then had to take apart themselves without toppling over（倒掉）.

    According to Times of Malta,{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (rough) 20,000 people gathered to witness {#blank#}10{#/blank#}competition. This year the Castellers de Villafranca team was crowned victorious, marking their eighth win in a row.

Trees, plants and flowers are all around us and we enjoy their beauty every day. However, we are so used to them {#blank#}1{#/blank#} we may even take them for granted without {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(realize) how much inspiration they have given us. In fact, nature has inspired many of the most {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(fascinate) designs around us, including those in architecture. Nature {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (present) in various architectural designs.

Today, architects continue to explore ways {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (capture) the beauty of natural forms, to mimic the way nature works or even to make natural organisms part of a building. ArtScience Museum, Singapore was designed to show the {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (connect) between nature and the modern city environment in which it sits. Visitors are often amazed to find themselves in an urban building that so {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(true) captures the beauty of natural forms. Harare's Eastgate Centre is {#blank#}8{#/blank#} superb example of biomimicry (仿生学). To use biomimicry is to create structures {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(base) on natural forms and processes. Creating buildings such as these enables us to live {#blank#}10{#/blank#} closer harmony with our environment.