Sports shoes that work out 【小题1】 their owner has enough exercise to warrant time in front of the television have been devised in the UK. The shoes — named Square Eyes — contain an electronic pressure sensor and a tiny computer chip to record how many steps the wearer has taken in a day. A wireless transmitter passes the information to a receiver 【小题2】 (connect) to a television, and this decides how much evening viewing time the wearer deserves, based on the day’s efforts.

The design was inspired by a desire to fight 【小题3】 the rapidly ballooning waistlines among British teenagers, says Gillian Swan, 【小题4】 developed Square Eyes as a final year design project at Brunel University to London, UK. “We looked at current issues and childhood overweight really stood out,” she says. “And I wanted to tackle that with my design.” 【小题5】 a child has used up their daily allowance gained through exercise, the television automatically 【小题6】 (switch) off. And further time in front of the TV 【小题7】 only be earned through more steps.

Swan calculated how exercise should translate to television time using the recommended daily amounts of 【小题8】. Health experts suggest that a child take 12,000 steps each day and watch no more than two hours of television. So, every 100 steps recorded by the Square Eyes shoes 【小题9】 (equal) precisely one minute of TV time.

Existing pedometers（计步器）normally clip onto a belt or slip into a pocket and keep count of steps by measuring sudden movement. Swan says these can be easily tricked 【小题10】 recording steps through shaking. But her shoe has been built to be 【小题11】 (hard) for lazy teenagers to cheat. “It is possible, but it would be a lot of effort,” she says. “That was one of my main design considerations.”

Tins of cooling ointment (清凉油) have become a currency for Chinese traveling in Egypt.

【小题1】(visit)the complex of ancient temples at Karnak, Chinese tourist Mr. Ye lost his way among the stone churches and pillars.

An Egyptian guide gave him directions. To show his 【小题2】(appreciate), Mr. Ye handed him a small red tin the size of a large coin. Inside 【小题3】(be) a cooling ointment that has the function of refreshing mind and preventing pain. Mr. Ye brought 50 tins with him on his six-day tour to hand out as tips.

"Before I came to Egypt, the tourism agency told me 【小题4】(repeat) to bring cooling balm as a gift to make the trip 【小题5】(easy)," said Mr. Ye, a 25-year-old 【小题6】family sells Chinese medicine online. Egyptians, he said, are very nice to Chinese tourists, 【小题7】they love this little gift."

Egyptians sometimes demand the balm by running a thumb across their foreheads. Li Xiaodong, an Egyptologist at China's Northeast Normal University, believes Chinese travelers initially brought cooling balm for 【小题8】(person) use because it's very hot in Egypt, then 【小题9】(discover) Egyptians liked it.

Some Chinese tourists said giving gifts feels better than handing over money. "If you give essential balm, 【小题10】is more like you're giving it to friends," said one Chinese tourist.

Amazon is publishing a new and improved Kindle. It’s 【小题1】 (thin) and lighter than the former one, and has a rounded design that makes it easier for one 【小题2】 (hold) it with one hand. But what’s most interesting is its characters for 【小题3】 blind.

The previous fourth-generation Kindle Touch, which 【小题4】 (come) out in 2011, has speakers, headphone jacks, and text-to-speech functions. It is the last Kindle 【小题5】 is accessible to those who have trouble seeing text. When Amazon updated its LCD-screen Fire tablets, the company removed the audio character from the Kindle’s e-reader line, thus 【小题6】 (make) it inaccessible to blind users.

The new Kindle will come with Bluetooth wireless technology. Much like Amazon’s voice-controlled Echo, the new Kindle reads e-books aloud when 【小题7】 (connect) to bluetooth headphones or speakers. How easy it will be for blind people to pair the Kindle with a bluetooth audio device will 【小题8】 (true) determine its accessibility. According to Amazon, the new Kindle may have no【小题9】 (difficult) in pairing with bluetooth, as long as the host device has good text-to-speech technology, such as a built-in screen reader.

【小题10】 Amazon isn’t the only e-book seller choice for blind people, it has a majority share of the US e-book market, according to The journal.