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    I was on a plane that was about to take off when my phone rang. It was my neighbor saying I needed to get to the hospital, for my wife Mary {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (take) to hospital, and when I arrived doctors were trying to make {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (she) come back to consciousness, but it was no good.

    I explained to my {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (child) that Mummy had died. Within hours they were running around the garden, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (chat) with their grandad while I was in a deep sorrow. I went through the motions of being a dad—cooking, cleaning, washing—but inside I felt hollow. One of the hardest things {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (cope) with was that the boys had lost their mother. Mary and I were everyone's favorite couple. The physical loss of not having her around was {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (extreme) painful. For a year, I was in the {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (deep) of misery. Then I decided that we had to get through this. I began to date Emma, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} had been a childhood friend, and Mickey couldn't wait for us to get married so he could call her Mum. It wasn't long before George warmed to her, too—she is wonderful with them. Two years later we got married and life started to look rosy. Emma and I have had two boys to add {#blank#}9{#/blank#} our family.

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    Hotel guests in China might no {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(long) have to worry about waiting in line to check in. At the Alibaba's futuristic hotels, guests can scan their IDs, take a photo and input personal details using a machine to check {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(they) in. The smart equipment will then provide a room key card after the information {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(check). The process will take less than a minute, according to company. Targeting only Chinese customers for now, the new service will be {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(gradual) expanded globally. The rapid growth of mobile usage and mobile payment adoption can show {#blank#}5{#/blank#} convenient people's life, is becoming in China.

    Alibaba isn't the only company {#blank#}6{#/blank#} introduces high-tech hotels. Smart LYZ, a Shenzhen-based company which focused {#blank#}7{#/blank#} developing AI technology and smart hotels, opened the first ever fully automated (自动化) hotel in Chengdu, Sichuan, back in January. {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(travel) can book a room through Smart LYZ's WeChat website, check in through a facial recognition machine, unlock the door with a {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(give) passcode or through its mobile app and finally, check out by pressing a button on the app. The AI Smart Room will undoubtedly be extremely attractive for guests, {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(create) the way for a new level of modernization and consumers' satisfaction.