Alexander Graham Bell was an influential scientist, engineer and {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(invent). He was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is widely credited with the invention of the first telephone. Bell's mother and wife{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(be)both deaf, which had an effect{#blank#}3{#/blank#}his work.

    When he was 23, Bell and his parents moved to Canada. Bell studied the human voice and worked with different schools for{#blank#}4{#/blank#}deaf. He experimented with sound, working with sound, working with equipment used to send different{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(message)and record sound. He worked on acoustic telegraphy(声报机)with an electrical designer {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(name)Thomas Watson.

    On February 14, 1876, Bell and Elisha Gray, an American electrical engineer, both filed patents(申请专利)covering the transmission (传送)of sounds telegraphically. Finally, Bel{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(give)the patent. A few days{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(late), he succeeded in{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(get)his telephone to work.

    Bell improved the design and by 1886 more than 150,000 people owned telephones in the United States. He once said, “The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to {#blank#}10{#/blank#}he is speaking.”

    Two weeks after the popular show Chinese Poetry Conference, a new program, Reader (朗读者), has become much {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (popular) than it.

    The weekly talk show, hosted by the famous hostess Dong Qing, invites people from all walks of life {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (read) aloud poems, essays and book excerpts (节选) they like or wrote. The guests who join{#blank#}3{#/blank#} it also share their own life stories and explain the reason why particular pieces touched their hearts. Viewers can often be moved to tears {#blank#}4{#/blank#} they listen to those stories.

    Three days after its first broadcast on CCTV-1，Readers has been {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (great) successful and interested thousands of people. Through the poetic words, Readers has made {#blank#}6{#/blank#} public pay attention to the {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (lose) habit of reading aloud. Readers is one of the cultural TV {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (program) to restore (恢复) the country's love for literature. Its success is very {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (encourage) in today's television world where TV series {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (play) a leading part so far.

    With the{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(invent) of personal computers, the Internet and cell phones, people now have more immediate access to others and information{#blank#}2{#/blank#}any time in history. Losing that access can lead to "disconnect anxiety'',{#blank#}3{#/blank#}is a psychological term used to describe the{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(anxiety) feelings that people experience when they are unable{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(use) their cell phones or cannot log on to the Internet. Some people{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(affect) by disconnect anxiety may start to feel upset when{#blank#}7{#/blank#}cannot reach their friends online. Others get really worried when they are not able to respond to emergencies, and this makes them feel {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(help). Still others are so dependent on their cell phones that they are frightened of missing any phone calls. Cell phones and the Internet {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(become) the most important technological tools to these people, who cannot afford to live{#blank#}10{#/blank#}these things.

After a lot of preparation, Joseph Lockwood and Philippa Amos were finally ready to start their journey into the Amazon rainforest. They were feeling {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(cheer) as they sailed down the great river. Eventually, they got out of the boat and walked into the darkness of the jungle. Neither of them had ever been in such an extreme situation before, using just a compass (指南针) to find the area where the kind of frog they wanted to study {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (live). Suddenly, Joseph, who was holding the compass, tripped and lost it in a river. The situation seemed hopeless—how would they find the frogs now? But just {#blank#}3{#/blank#} they started to feel really sad and worried that their journey {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (be) a failure, they saw the frogs they had come to look for.