When I was young, my parents and I {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(move) to New York from China. Although we now live in the US, we follow the customs and {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (tradition) of China. I have learned to speak several languages, English {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (include). I eat all kinds of foods and celebrate different holidays {#blank#}4{#/blank#} have something to do with culture.

    However, there {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(be) many disadvantages of being part of two cultures. Sometimes, speaking a language at home {#blank#}6{#/blank#} speaking another language in school can get confusing. Sometimes, I have trouble {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (express) my thoughts in English because they don't understand me well. Sometimes, my culture does make me feel far away from others because I feel too {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (difference).

    I am closer to the culture of China than that of the US. I don't listen to English music as {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(frequent) as I listen to Chinese music. Therefore, I feel very far away {#blank#}10{#/blank#} my friends when I don't know what song they talking about.

    One of my father's favorite {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (say) as I was growing up was “Try it!”. I couldn't say I didn't like something, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} it might be, until after I tried it. Over the years I've come to realize how much of my success I owe to my {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (accept) of those words as one of my values. My first job was just one I decided to try for a couple of years until I determined what I wanted to do as a career. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (actual) I believed I would work for a few years, get {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (marry), stay home and raise a family, so I didn't think the job I took mattered that much. I couldn't {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (be) more mistaken. I mastered the skills of that {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (begin) level position and I was given the opportunity to move up through the company into {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (differ) positions. I accepted each new opportunity with the thought, “Well, I'll try it; {#blank#}9{#/blank#} I don't like it I can always go back to my {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (early) position.” But I was with the same company for the past 28 years.

    If we are honest with ourselves, most of us have dreamed of {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (be)rich and famous. Most musicians form a band because of the same interest {#blank#}2{#/blank#}writing and playing music. They may play anywhere {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (earn)some extra money as well as achieve their dreams. However, the Monkees, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} started differently, {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(begin) as a TV show with musicians playing jokes and music in the programme. Only after a year or so {#blank#}6{#/blank#} they become more serious and they {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(produce) their own records and later became even {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(popular) than the Beatles in the USA. The band once {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(break) up and then reunited. In memory {#blank#}10{#/blank#}their former time as a real band, they produced a new record in 1996.

    In the 1980s, Paolo Dario dreamed of developing {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(high) advanced artificial limbs(假肢) to help people who really need such devices(设备), but he never expected his dream to be realized. Dario, {#blank#}2{#/blank#}professor of biomedical robotics in Italy, said that as an engineer he always wants to see such dreams come true, even if a lot of work must {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (do).

    He {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(make) the comment(评论) in Beijing last month during a keynote speech at the 2019 World Robot Conference." You have to understand the {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(exist) problem and develop robotic arms by thinking outside the box. We hope what we need for robots can become smaller and lighter. But at the same time, as a lot of technology is now used in robotic sensors (传感器), they have become much {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(large)," he said.

    A paper {#blank#}7{#/blank#}was published in the journal Nature in 2014 stated that a human can not only control artificial limbs, {#blank#}8{#/blank#}feel the different materials they are made from as well." In the future, the super robot will further enable people with disabilities to walk on {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(they) own and allow blind people {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(recover) their sight," Dario said.