“What would you do if you{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(know) this was the last night of the world?” The two small girls{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(play) blocks on the rug when Mr. Johnson asked{#blank#}3{#/blank#}wife the question. There was{#blank#}4{#/blank#}easy, clean smell of fresh coffee in the evening air.

     He put forward that question, stirring his coffee slowly and{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(stare) into its{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(deep). “It's just a feeling; sometimes it{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(fright) me; sometimes I'm not{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(scare){#blank#}9{#/blank#} you. It first happened about four{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(night) ago.”

    Global warming has caused a rise in sea levels,{#blank#}1{#/blank#}has increased the amount of salt in fresh water used on seaside farms. As a result, farmers are{#blank#}2{#/blank#} (increase) unable to use fields close to the sea.{#blank#}3{#/blank#}a farmer in the Netherlands is now using a mixture of sea and fresh water {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (grow) tasty vegetables.

    It is in his eight areas {#blank#}5{#/blank#}he teamed up with scientists such as George Hambley to make the first attempt. Separate {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (pipe) pumped mixed water. And a computer program controlled the levels of salinity and water{#blank#}7{#/blank#} (call) “Sensor”. The researchers said they were able to harvest vegetables from most of{#blank#}8{#/blank#}eight test areas. They said the vegetables were smaller than{#blank#}9{#/blank#}grown in fresh water. However, due to more sugar and salt in the water, they taste{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(good).

    Increasingly, Americans are becoming their own doctors by going to diagnose their symptoms, order home health tests or medical devices, or even self-treat their illnesses with drugs from Internet pharmacies(药店).Some avoid doctors because of the high cost of medical care, especially{#blank#}1{#/blank#} they lack health insurance. Or they may stay away because they find it{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(embarrass) to discuss their weight, smoking, alcohol consumption or couch potato habits. Patients may also fear what they might learn about their health, or they distrust physicians because of negative {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (experience) in the past. But{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(play) doctor can also be a deadly game.

Every day, more than six million Americans turn to the Internet{#blank#}5{#/blank#}medical answers— and most of them aren't nearly sceptical enough of what they find. A 2002 survey by the Pew Internet &American Life Project found that 72 percent of those{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(survey) believe all or most of what they read on health websites. They shouldn't look up “headache” and the chances of finding {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(rely) and complete information, free from a motivation for commercial gain,{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (be) only one in ten, reports an April 2005 Brown Medical School study. Of the 169 websites the researchers rated, only 16 scored as “high quality”. Recent studies found faulty facts about all sorts of other disorders, causing one research team to warn that a large amount of incomplete, inaccurate and even dangerous{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (inform) exists on the Internet.

    The problem is most people don't know the safe way to surf the Web. “They use a search engine like Google, get 18 trillion choices and start clicking. But that's risky, because almost anybody can put up a site that looks authoritative ( 权威的), so it's hard to know if what you're reading is {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(reason) or not,” says Dr. Sarah Bass from the National Cancer Institute.

    Moving silently through Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's "FlyZoo" hotel, black disc-shaped robots about a metre in height deliver food and drop off fresh towels.

    The robots are part of a set of high-tech tools that Alibaba {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (say) extremely cuts the hotel's cost of human labour and removes the need for guests to interact {#blank#}2{#/blank#} other people.

    Inside the hotel, softly-lit white panelled walls bring to mind {#blank#}3{#/blank#} insides of Hollywood spaceships. Guests check in at reception desks that scan {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (they) faces, as well as passports or other ID. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (visit) with a Chinese national ID can scan their faces using their smartphones to check in ahead of time.

    At the hotel's restaurant, taller capsule-shaped robots deliver food that guests {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (order) via the FlyZoo app while at a separate bar, a large robotic arm can mix more than 20 different types of cocktails. Facial recognition cameras add charges to the room rate {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (automatic).

    The hotel does employ humans, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} Alibaba refused to tell how many. This includes chefs and cleaners as well as reception staff, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} will assist with conventional check-in procedures for guests unwilling to have their faces {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (scan) and want to use electronic key cards.

    Summer is over, but there's no reason to be upset as that means autumn is upon us, arguably the {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (good) season of the year.

    Beijing's autumn is extremely short, so parks around the city fill up fast with people coming to see the season's sight—a show of changing {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (color) as the trees turn from dark green to deep red. There are plenty of places in the city center {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (catch) the golden Gingko leaves, but I'm heading just outside of the Fifth Ring Road to see the season on {#blank#}4{#/blank#} larger scale.

    Despite parks like Xiangshan getting so busy {#blank#}5{#/blank#} you need tickets a week in advance, there are still areas well-known and {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (frequent) visited by the Beijing crowds, and Baiwangshan, one of such places, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (locate) 3km from the Summer Palace to the city's North West. It offers hiking tails and beautiful views of the city and {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (surround) forests.

    I love coming to Beijing's parks at this time of year because I can always enjoy {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (I), bathing in the last of the good weather and golden colors. You never know {#blank#}10{#/blank#} you're going to find around every corner.