George Bernard Shaw was interested in the way people spoke. He argued that he was never{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (mistake) about a person's status. However, Professor Higgins thought a superior social position was more dependent on grammar and pronunciation. Actually, his view was only accepted by a {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (hand) of his followers. Eliza, a flower girl, was ambitious to improve herself. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (force)to earn money herself because her family was poor, she dreamed of working in a proper flower shop. George Bernard Shaw teamed {#blank#}4{#/blank#} with Professor Higgins to help her. An English teacher {#blank#}5{#/blank#}  (hire) to give her lessons. But after her first lesson, she was {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (apparent) disappointed because the teacher was so impatient with her. Actually, Eliza didn't give it up easily. {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (look) ahead, she decided to work hard. Knowing it was impossible {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (accept) in that profession if she did not speak correct English, she asked Professor Higgins to give her lessons. Trained for several months, she set out to speak in {#blank#}9{#/blank#} more attractive accent. Shortly, she became known as “the London songbird” {#blank#}10{#/blank#} her spoken English became so pleasant.

    Paper-cutting is a Chinese folk art {#blank#}1{#/blank#} a long history. It {#blank#}2{#/blank#} back to the time of the Northern and Southern Dynasty. By the Southern Song Dynasty, paper-cutting had become an important part of everyday life.

    There are three {#blank#}3{#/blank#} of paper cuts which people still make today. Paper cuts used for {#blank#}4{#/blank#} are often seen on windows and gates. They are usually {#blank#}5{#/blank#} up during holidays to bring good luck. They are also used on presents A present for parents whose child has {#blank#}6{#/blank#} been born might show a paper cut of children, for example. Paper cuts which show the Chinese character for double {#blank#}7{#/blank#} are often used to celebrate weddings.

    Paper cuts used for religious purposes are often found in temples. They are also used {#blank#}8{#/blank#} offerings to the dead People to whom the dead person was {#blank#}9{#/blank#} would make these offerings on special days and during festivals.

    The third kind of paper cuts are those used to make {#blank#}10{#/blank#} on clothing.

    The Historical Change of Reader's Digest

    During World War I, Mr. DeWitt Wallace was wounded in a battle. During his recovery in the hospital, he read a lot of magazines and {#blank#}1{#/blank#} a lot of interesting information. At the same time, he also found that few people had time to read so many magazines that he realized the idea of excerpting (摘录) these articles and publishing them.

    He was {#blank#}2{#/blank#} to publish a pocket magazine they called Reader's Digest with his wife Lila Acheson. They opened an office downstairs in an illegal hotel in Greenwich Village, New York, and spent only $5,000 in capital and began {#blank#}3{#/blank#} subscribers. After a period of hard work, the first volume was {#blank#}4{#/blank#} published on February 5, 1922. Its purpose is to inform the readers in daily life and give the readers entertainment, encouragement and guidance. The first article, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} How to Stay Young Mentally, was one and a half pages long.

    In 1920, he put {#blank#}6{#/blank#} selected articles into Reader's Digest samples and displayed them to major publishers in the United States. He hoped that someone would be willing to publish them, but they were all {#blank#}7{#/blank#}. Mr. Wallace did not give up and decided to publish it himself. He worked at home with his wife, and finally published the first issue of Reader's Digest in February 1922. The first was printed in 5,000 copies, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} at 25 cents, and sent to 1,500 payment subscribers by mail. By 1935, the circulation of Reader's Digest had reached one million copies.

    The Chinese {#blank#}9{#/blank#} of Reader's Digest was first published in March 1965. The first editor-in-chief was Lin Taiyi, the daughter of Mr. Lin Yutang, master of literature. In November 2004, Reader's Digest and Shanghai Press and Publication Bureau announced the {#blank#}10{#/blank#} of a long-term publishing cooperation.

    For several decades, various types of artificial intelligence kept shocking the world. Robots could {#blank#}1{#/blank#} people in highly competitive games and then quickly destroyed their human competitors.

    AI long ago mastered chess, the Chinese board game Go and even the Rubik's cube, which it managed to solve in just 0. 38 second.

    Now machines have a new game that will allow them to {#blank#}2{#/blank#} humans: Jenga, the popular game in which players {#blank#}3{#/blank#} remove pieces from an increasingly unstable tower of 54 blocks, placing each one on top until the entire structure would {#blank#}4{#/blank#}.

    A newly released video from MIT shows a robot developed by the school's engineers playing the game with surprising accuracy. The machine is equipped with a soft gripper (夹子), a force-sensing wrist and an external camera, allowing the robot to detect the tower's {#blank#}5{#/blank#} the way a human might do

    Unlike in purely recognitive tasks or games such as chess or Go, playing the game of Jenga also requires mastery of physical acts such as pushing, pulling, placing, and arranging pieces. It must {#blank#}6{#/blank#} interactive physical operation, where you have to touch the tower to learn how and when to move blocks.

    Imitating it is rather difficult, so the robot has to learn in the real world, by working with the real Jenga tower. Recently, a relevant research was published in the journal Science Robotics. Researchers say the robot demonstrates that machines can learn how to perform certain tasks through actual touching instead of relying heavily on visual {#blank#}7{#/blank#}. That physical {#blank#}8{#/blank#} is significant, researchers say, because it provides further proof that robots can be used to perform {#blank#}9{#/blank#} tasks, such as separating recyclable objects from landfill trash and assembling consumer products.

    In a cellphone assembly line, the felling of any component is coming from force and touch rather than vision. To become an accomplished Jenga player, the robot did not require as much repetitive practice as you might imagine. Hoping to avoid reconstructing a Jenga tower thousands of times, researchers developed a method that allowed the robot to be trained on about 300 games. Researchers say the robot has already begun facing off against humans, who remain {#blank#}10{#/blank#} players—for now.