Tony gave Claire a new hairstyle and improved her makeup. As he was not allowed to 【小题1】 her to the shops, he wrote out a list of things that he would need for his work on the house. Claire went 【小题2】 and bought these things. She had an 【小题3】 to paint her nails, then she went into an expensive clothes shop. The saleswoman there was 【小题4】 to her, so she rang Tony and told him she was being treated 【小题5】 . He spoke to the woman, who immediately changed her attitude. Claire thanked Tony, 【小题6】 him that he was a “dear”. As she turned around, there stood Gladys Claffern. How awful to be 【小题7】 by her, Claire thought. By the look on her face, Claire knew that Gladys thought they were in a 【小题8】 . After all, she knew Claire’s husband’s name was Larry, not Tony. 【小题9】 it was completely innocent, Claire felt 【小题10】 .

Image waking up one morning【小题1】 the option of staying in bed and 【小题2】 a button to send a robot to do all the work for you. How cool that would be! It may seem like building【小题3】in the air, but given the rate at 【小题4】 artificial intelligence, or AI, is being developed, in the future such dreams may actually come【小题5】.

The President of the Weldon Institute was 【小题1】(目瞪口呆的); his companion was 【小题2】(十分震惊的). But neither of them would allow any of 【小题3】(他们的惊讶被人瞅见).

That is a foretaste of the nature of the relations that were to obtain between the master of the “Albatross” and his guests, not to say his prisoners. Manifestly he wished to give them time 【小题4】(冷静下来), 【小题5】(去欣赏偌大的机器) which was bearing them through the air, and doubtless 【小题6】(去称赞发明者). And so he went off to the other end of the deck, leaving them 【小题7】(去检查机器的布局) and the management of the ship or to give their whole attention to the landscape which was unrolling beneath them.   

In fact, the speed 【小题8】(已经翻倍), and now 【小题9】(已超越任何东西) that had ever been attained by terrestrial Engines. Torpedo-boats do their twenty-two knots an hour; railway trains do 【小题10】(一个小时六十英里); the ice-boats on the frozen Hudson do their sixty-five miles an hour; a machine built by the Patterson company, with a cogged wheel, has done its eighty miles; and another locomotive between Trenton and Jersey35 City has done its eighty-four.

But the “Albatross,” 【小题11】(以全速), could do her hundred and twenty miles an hour, or 176 feet per second. This speed is that of the storm 【小题12】(能把树连根拔起的). It is the mean speed of the carrier pigeon, and is only surpassed by the flight of the swallow (220 feet per second) and that of the swift (274 feet per second).

In a word, as Robur had said, the “Albatross,” by using the whole force of her screws, could 【小题13】(创造两百个小时的或不到八天的全球之旅).