-- I _____ it for 2 days.

    Do you know what our {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (live) will be like in the future? I think each family will have {#blank#}2{#/blank#} robot. The robot will look like a human. You can ask it to do everything {#blank#}3{#/blank#} you. It will serve you twenty-four {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (hour) a day and never rest. It can talk with you when you get {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(boring). It is a difficult question that you don't know whether it is a human or a robot when you meet it {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the street.

    People will spend less time {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (work) and have more time to travel. The cars in the future will be able {#blank#}8{#/blank#} fly freely in the sky because every car has wings. Robots will take you to any place you want {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (visit).{#blank#}10{#/blank#}  (Take) the cars will be very safe because the robots drive them for you.

    Some people have a very poor sense {#blank#}1{#/blank#} direction. Unluckily, I am one of them. I {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (visit) a place many times but I may still get lost there the next time.

    When I was a little girl, I never dared to ask {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (stranger) the way. And so I used to walk round in circles and hope that by chance I would get to the place I was going to.

Now, I am {#blank#}4{#/blank#} longer shy to ask people for directions, but 1 often receive helpless or even wrong information. So I try to avoid {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (give) people wrong directions. If anyone asks me the way, I will say," Sorry, I am a stranger here."

    Once on my way {#blank#}6{#/blank#} work, I was stopped by a man. He asked me {#blank#}7{#/blank#} could tell him the way to the Friendship Building, I gave him my usual reply. But just as I walked on only a few steps, I found {#blank#}8{#/blank#} he had asked the way to my office building. However, I had no time to turn back and look for him. I was rushing to meet with someone at my office and I didn't want to keep him {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (wait).

    When I just got to my office, the secretary (秘书) showed in the man who had asked me for directions. Imagine how embarrassed I was and how {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (surprise) he was when we saw each other at the first sight!

    Max is an actor. But he has already {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (be)out of work for 15 years. One of the main reasons is that he always forgets his lines. Then one day he got.a phone call from a director {#blank#}2{#/blank#} wanted him for a part in a play. The play was one of {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(famous)one at that time,but he only played a small part in it. All he had to say was"Jim, I hear the train coming!"After several sleepless {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(night), the actor decided {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(take) the role.

    Opening night arrived, and while he was waiting {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(nervous) on the backstage,the actor practiced over {#blank#}7{#/blank#}over again, "Jim, I hear the train coming!"The time for his scene finally came.As {#blank#}8{#/blank#} actor came onto the stage,he heard a noise {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (come) from the distance,getting nearer and nearer.He turned {#blank#}10{#/blank#}and asked the director,"What's that noise?"