High school students have defeated {#blank#}1{#/blank#} artificial intelligence device designed to pass the national college entrance exam, in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province.

    Forty-three students from liberal arts classes at Chengdu Shishitianfu High School joined the two-hour contest {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (finish) a math test in the standard national entrance exam against the robot, the brainchild of four years' research by Zhun Xing Yun Xue Technology Co.Ltd.

    Students scored 106 points {#blank#}3{#/blank#} average, outperforming the computer program that had 93 points. She Yujia, a student in the contest, said she felt like {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (fight) the program on behalf of humans, especially after Google's AlphaGo {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (beat) professional Go player Lee Sedol of South Korea last year.

    Researchers who developed the AI test taker, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} is also part of a project by the Ministry of Science and Technology, said the failure was due to a poor understanding of concepts in some math problems.

    Lin Hui, CEO of the developing company, said more efforts {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (make) to fix bugs and improve performance of the program in the near future, with a focus on math {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (apply).

    Chinese students are usually separated into science and liberal arts classes at high school, a practice that allows them to stay {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (compete) in the college entrance exam by choosing {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (prefer) subjects. Math tests for liberal arts students are usually easier than those given to science students.

    A teacher once told each of her students to bring a clear plastic bag and a large bag of potatoes to school. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} every person that the students refused to forgive in their life, they {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(choose) a potato, wrote on {#blank#}3{#/blank#} the name of that person and the date, and then put it in the plastic bag. Some of their bags were quite heavy.

    They were then told to carry these bags with them everywhere for one week,{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (put) them beside their beds at night, on their car seats when driving, and next to their desks at work.

    During this time,{#blank#}5{#/blank#} they carried the bags around with them, they realized what a weight they were carrying, and{#blank#}6{#/blank#}they needed to pay attention all the time, so as not to forget them or leave them in {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (embarrass) places. Of course, the potatoes were becoming {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (rot), and smelled very bad.

    This is the same as the price we pay for keeping our pain and {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (happy) with us! Forgiving others is not only a gift to them, but also a very good gift to {#blank#}10{#/blank#}！

You Are a Time Traveler

    Time travel has long fascinated people. Traveling to the past or future would allow you to live in exciting periods of history or get a glimpse(一瞥) of {#blank#}1{#/blank#} the future holds. Think about it. If you could travel in time, where would you go? Perhaps you would voyage far ahead of the present day {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (meet)your future self! What about watching an original performance of {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Shakespeare play in Elizabethan England? Or maybe you would pay a visit to {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (you)as a baby.

    Since these ideas are universally appealing to everyone, it is {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (nature)that time travel interests so many writers, filmmakers, and scientists. It has been depicted in a {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (various) of media, such as literature, film, and science reports. But you might be surprised to realize that {#blank#}7{#/blank#} the smallest sense of the term, we are all time travelers. Even as you sit here {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (read)this article, time is racing forward. The future becomes the past as soon as it happens. The present is so fleeting(稍纵即近)! Everything you do quickly {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (become) part of the past, and so it is that we move through time. The famous scientist Albert Einstein, assigned a mathematical formula to this idea, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} is called The Theory of Relativity.

My wife and I like watching plays, so we will go to the theater whenever we have time. But before we buy tickets, we would like to know if the play is good or bad. When a new play comes, we {#blank#}1{#/blank#}  (usual) read the newspaper to get information about it. Last week a new play was put on at the theater. The newspaper said it was very {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (interest) so we decided to go on Saturday night. My wife took a long time to make her {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (decide) about what to wear and we left our house a little late. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} the time we got to the theater, the first act had already {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (begin). After the play was over, we met some friends, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} lived next to us several years ago. Then we went dancing. By the time we got home, it was about two o'clock in the morning. I'm not used to {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (stay) out so late and I was {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (extreme) tired.

When I was younger, I did not have the money to go out for {#blank#}9{#/blank#} evening like this. Though I can afford it now, I don't have the energy{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(enjoy) it.

I used to frequently visit an old age home{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(manage) by the little sisters of the poor in our city Hyderabad. A. P., India. There I met a gentleman by the name of Kurien in his late{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(eighty). He served the Indian army and retired. He has one son who is well educated and also married.

Mr. Kurien felt down with the life in his house{#blank#}3{#/blank#}decided to move into this old age home here in Hyderabad. We both began to share a lot of thoughts whenever we met and slowly it was a{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(day) affair that I used to spend some time with him discussing what he was doing in the army, camp fun etc.,{#blank#}5{#/blank#}he used to share with lots of joy.

I used to carry with me some snacks which we both used to sit under a tree and eat. I saw him really very happy in my{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(present). One day he told me with tears in his eyes "I really found a very good friend in you. I feel like{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(live) some more years to spend happy time with you.

As we departed, I told him, "Do not worry. We will have enough time together in the future." I had an official meeting and could not go to the old age home the next day. The day after when I reached the home, his room{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(lock). I enquired and found that he was no more. He died{#blank#}9{#/blank#}very night we both met last.

I really miss him. I have not given him anything worthwhile except{#blank#}10{#/blank#}I used to listen to his words and share his thoughts.