You are twenty-one years old and live a happy and peaceful life. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} one day, your doctor tells you that you have a serious disease and will die soon. What would you do?{#blank#}2{#/blank#} (probable) most of us might feel very sad and give up our dreams and hopes for the future. Here is {#blank#}3{#/blank#} the great scientist, Stephen Hawking, did.

    Hawking wasn't {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (discourage) because of his physical condition.{#blank#}5{#/blank#}, he went on with his study of the universe. In 2002, Hawking was invited to China. He told Chinese students about his theories and thoughts {#blank#}6{#/blank#} some of the greatest questions: what is time, how the universe began, and what are black holes. He impressed the audience with his humor, confidence and of course his {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (wise).

    Hawking became famous in the early 1970s. In 1988, he wrote A Brief History of Time, in {#blank#}8{#/blank#} he explained difficult theories in a simple way. The book {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (sell) well since it came out.

    Stephen Hawking is a man with a strong will and he is regarded as the {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (great) mind in physics since Albert Einstein.

Rise After Falling

    A father was worried about his son, {#blank#}1{#/blank#}was sixteen years old but had no courage at all. So the father decided to call on a Buddhist monk(僧侣) to train his boy.

The Buddhist monk said to the boy's father, “I insist that your son should {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(leave) alone here. I'll make him into a real man within three months. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}, you can't come to see him during this period.”

    Three months later, the boy's father {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(return). The Buddhist monk arranged a boxing match between the boy and an {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(experience) boxer. Each time the fighter struck the boy, he fell down, {#blank#}6{#/blank#}at once the boy stood up; and each time a heavy blow knocked him down, the boy stood up again. Several times later, the Buddhist monk asked, “ {#blank#}7{#/blank#}do you think of your child?”

    “What a shame!” the boy's father said, “I never thought he would be so {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(easy) knocked down. I needn't have him stay here any longer!”

    “I'm sorry that that's all you see. Don't you see that each time he {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(fall) down, he stands up again instead of {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(cry)? That's the kind of courage you wanted him to have.

    When we read a poem, we often imagine what the poets{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (think) when they wrote or what they were doing at the time. These thoughts let us connect with the words better, as if we'd created the poem{#blank#}2{#/blank#} (we). Will a poem still mean as much if a compute writes it?

    By{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (use) algorithms (算法) , computers can now create all kinds of text, including research papers, books, news, stories and even poems. Computer-generated poems might be correct in both grammar and style, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}some say they still lack {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (create) and true meaning.

    Australian researcher Oscar Schwartz created a website{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(call) "bot or not". On his site, you can read poems and guess whether they{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(write) by a human or a computer. Schwartz recently gave a speech at TedX Sydney, in {#blank#}8{#/blank#}he stated that some of the website's poems were able to{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(foolish) 65 percent of human readers.

    He said that on his website, he hoped people would question the difference between humans and machines—and be able to identify what it is {#blank#}10{#/blank#}makes us human.

Meet Alexa, Your Digital Roommate

    Who is Alexa? She is a digital assistant that is part of the voice-activated Echo Dot "smart speaker" produced by Amazon. This year Saint Louis University in Missouri has placed one of the speakers in every dorm room {#blank#}1{#/blank#} its campus. Students can ask the virtual assistant anything from "When are the football teams playing?" to "What's the square root of 1440?"

    SLU student Brendan McGuire said: "Instead of searching on the Internet while I {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (tap) away at my computer, I can just ask Alexa: Hey Alexa, ask SLU what's the molecular(分子的)weight of water? And I can have the answer without {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(interrupt) my process." That's exactly {#blank#}4{#/blank#} school officials had in mind when they decided to provide the smart speakers free of charge for students.

    "The students we attract {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (drive) to achieve success in and out of the classroom," David Hakanson, SLU's vice president, said. "Every minute we can save our students from having to search for the information online is another minute {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (commit) to their education."

    Saint Louis University is the first in the U.S. {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (include) an Echo Dot smart speaker in every campus living space. Other colleges have also found ways to offer the technology to students. This year Northeastern University in Boston installed 60 speakers in public places {#blank#}8{#/blank#} students could get answers to common questions.

    At Arizona State University, engineering students living in the brand-new residence hall have the option of adding an Amazon Echo Dot to their rooms. "Our focus is putting this technology into the hands of our students in a way{#blank#}9{#/blank#} will build an ecosystem. {#blank#}10{#/blank#} supports voice technologies throughout the ASU campus," said Heredia, a director at ASU.