Alice: Frank, have you got a hobby?

Frank: Well I don't think I have one. How about you?

Alice: I have several {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (hobby), reading, gardening…… but {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(collect) stamps is the one I like {#blank#}3{#/blank#}.

Frank: How Interesting! How {#blank#}4{#/blank#} have you been collecting stamps?

Alice: 12 years so far, since I was 9.

Frank: You must have a lot of stamps then.

Alice: Sure, I have thousands of stamps from more {#blank#}5{#/blank#} 20 countries.

Frank: Wow, unbelievable! I also want to have a hobby, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} I just don't have the time.

Alice: What {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (keep) you so busy?

Frank: I travel a lot on business.

Alice: Then how do {#blank#}8{#/blank#} kill time on your trips?

Frank: Sometimes I read {#blank#}9{#/blank#} book.

Alice: I have one idea. You can join a reading club.

Frank: Reading club? What do you do there?

Alice: We read books and organize discussions.

Frank: {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (sound) great!

    There has been w recent I ret id in the food service industry toward lower fat content and less sail. This trend, which was stalled by the medical community (医学界{#blank#}1{#/blank#}． a method of fighting heart has disease, has bad some unintended side {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(effect) such as overweight and heart disease—the very the thing the medical community was trying to fight.

    Eat and salt ate very important parts of a diet. They are required{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(process) the food that we eat, to recover from injury and for several other bodily functions. When fat and salt{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(remove) from food, the food tastes as if it is missing something. As {#blank#}5{#/blank#}result, people will cat more food to try to make up for something missing. Even {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(bad), the amount of fast food that people eat goes up. Fast food {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(be) full of fat and salt; by{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(eat) more fast food people will get more salt and fat than they need in their diet.

    Having enough fat and salt in your meals will reduce the urge to snack between meals and will improve the taste of your food. However, be{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(care) not to go to extremes. Like anything, it is possible to have too much of both,{#blank#}10{#/blank#} is not good for the health.

    If a little humanlike robot begged you not to shut it off, would you show sympathy?

    In an experiment {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (intend) to find out how people treat robots when they act like humans, many participants struggled to power down a begging robot named Nao. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} experiment was conducted by researchers in Germany, whose findings {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (publish) in the scientific journal PLOSOne.

    Nao, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} was designed to beg about half of the participants not to switch it off but not the other half, was used {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (measure) if his begging affected how people reacted.

    In one previous experiment, researchers found that people preferred communicating with robots with complementary (互补的) personality characteristics to {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (they) own. And since robots can exhibit social characteristics either {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (speak) with human voices or taking the shape of a human body, the research suggests that people tend to react “{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (especial) social to them.”

    The researchers said a possible {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (explain) for their results was that people regarded Nao's begging {#blank#}10{#/blank#} “a sign of making its own decision.”

When the knife you're using cuts your finger instead of the tomato, you might think it is no big deal. A small cut will {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (usual) heal well without medical care but any time the skin gets broken, there is a risk of infection. Here's {#blank#}2{#/blank#} to care for cuts at home.

Stop bleeding by {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (press) a clean, soft cloth against the wound for a few minutes. If the wound is bleeding a lot, you'll need to keep up the pressure for a much {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (long) time (sometimes up to 15 minutes). If the wound is small, the bleeding should stop in a few minutes.

Clean the wound. Run warm water over the cut for 5 minutes. Then use soap {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(wash) the skin around the cut gently and thoroughly. If there's dirt in the wound, remove it if you can—a soft, damp cloth can be {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(help).Cleaning the wound helps get infection-causing bacteria out of the {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (injure) area. If you can't get all the dirt out, call your doctor's office.

Dry the area lightly and cover it with gauze (纱布) or some other type of bandage. A bandage helps prevent germs from getting into the wound, {#blank#}8{#/blank#}can help avoid infection. If the bandage gets wet or dirty, change it right away.

{#blank#}9{#/blank#} is also necessary to take off the bandage and gently wash the injury every day. Watch for {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(sign) of infection. If it appears to be worsening or becomes swollen or red, see a doctor right away to treat the infection.