Domestic robots such as the Roomba have already established themselves in the marketplace. Common household appliances such as toasters and microwaves {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(fit) with microprocessors, effectively making them robots, which are bound to do as ordered. The military has begun automating (自动化) many of its frontline systems. The future is wide open for more exploration of these{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(device).

    Automatic factories were some of the first to implement (实施，运用) robotics on the assembly line, performing tasks too dangerous or delicate for humans{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(accomplish). This has continued with whole factories{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(begin) to be automated. IBM has instituted a “lights off' factory in Texas that is {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(complete) automated. Recently Caterpillar{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(announce) plans to operate robotic heavy machinery by 2021, and has already begun transferring much of their crane operations to remote-controlled robots{#blank#}7{#/blank#}obey the orders from computer directions. The medical industry has taken advantage {#blank#}8{#/blank#}robotic surgery assistants for years, most notably the Da Vinci surgical (外科的) helper. With rising health care costs{#blank#}9{#/blank#} the increasing needs of an aging population, hospitals are planning vast expansion in the areas of {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(talent) robotics.

    For those {#blank#}1{#/blank#} have seen War for the Planet of the Apes, it's easy to come to this conclusion-the movie isn't about war or the planet, and it's not {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(necessary) even about the apes. The movie is about {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(survive) and the choices we all make when one wants to survive, good or bad.

    With a story that should have been full of conflict and violence, it takes a different approach. You may find {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(you) exposed to small pockets of action. While recent sci-fi movies have become {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(know) for their action and scenes, War for the Planet of the Apes has taken science fiction {#blank#}6{#/blank#} a thoughtful and intelligent direction.

    War for the Planet of the Apes may not be the action and monster film that you had in mind, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} it's the kind of film that will make you want to sit in silence in the theater for a few minutes after it ends, taking in {#blank#}8{#/blank#} you've just witnessed.

    The few movies that have that effect {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(be) usually about humans, but this film enables people {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(feel) that way about apes. And that is what makes it a masterpiece.

    Percy Shelley, an English poet, was born on August 4^th, 1792. He is {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(wide) thought of as one of the most important {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(figure) of the Romantic Movement in English literature. Shelley received early education at home and later, at the age of 12, {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(admit) to Eton College, which has a long history of more than 500 years, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(date) back to the 15^th century. Then he attended Oxford University shortly after he turned 18.

    As {#blank#}5{#/blank#} romantic poet, some of his poems, like Ode to the West Wind and Ode to A Skylark, are among the most famous in English. {#blank#}6{#/blank#}, in his own time, Shelley was very unpopular for his political and {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(religion) views. Fortunately, he successively(先后) met Byron and Keats and befriended with them during his tour around Europe after he married Mary Godwin, his second wife, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} later became famous as Mary Shelley, the author of the novel Frankenstein.

    About a month before his 30^th birthday, {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(welcome) his friend Leigh Hunt, Shelley sailed to Leghorn. During the stormy return voyage, his small boat sank and he drowned. It was not until days later {#blank#}10{#/blank#} his body was washed ashore.

    Tracy Wong is a well-known Chinese-American writer. But her writing skill was something she picked {#blank#}1{#/blank#} by herself. She became a part-time writer for IBM after {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(graduate) from college. Then, writing stories was {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(simple)a personal interest. Tracy sent three of her stories to a publisher. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(interest), they immediately suggested that she put them together {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(make)a single one long story and paid Tracy $ 50, 000 in advance, which was a pretty money for an unknown writer.

    Even though Tracy's {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(character) are interesting, her stories sometimes leave readers uneasy: those about the supernatural. “My mother believed I could connect with the afterlife world,” she told a close friend. “She used to have me speak with my grandmother, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} died many years ago.”

    "Can I? I don't think I can," Tracy said with a laugh. "But I do have moments when things come to me for no reason." Once, she {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(wonder) how to complete a scene set in ancient China when the doorbell suddenly rang. It was a FedEx delivery man, with a copy of a book on Chinese history. {#blank#}9{#/blank#} came without her having ordered it!

    Though she has published 10 books, Tracy has remained unchanged by her fame. She lives in the same way she lived 27 years ago — although in a {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(big) house. There's more room for joy in her life — and it wasn't just writing.