When Alexis Lewis was 7 years old, he set out with his family on a trip to explore different parts of the country. During their many hours on the road, his grandfather, a rocket scientist, would _______ his cool ideas with Alexis about science. _______, everything his grandfather said _______ Alexis to become an inventor.  

Fast forward to the 2017 Kid Inventors’ Day event_______ on January 17 in Brooklyn, New York. Alexis, who is now 17, was one of seven kid inventors who attended the _______. With an audience of 50 people in _______ and more than 100 others tuning in on Facebook Live, Alexis _______ his award-winning invention, the Bamboo Travois. It is a lightweight device made of bamboo, a net rope _______ wheels. A person can use the travois to carry someone else while walking long _______.  

Alexis also __________ another one of his inventions: the Emergency Mask Pod. It is a football-shaped canister (小罐) that contains a smoke mask and can be thrown __________ the window of a burning building. People inside the building can put on the mask to __________ themselves from smoke inhalation (吸入). Local firefighters helped him test the __________ by throwing it hundreds of times into second-story windows of buildings.  

The world needs new thinkers like Alexis and other young inventors who __________ the event. Kids are the ones who can solve the problems that the older generation creates. It’s our job as adults to show kids the possibilities of __________ they can make and create.

Surgery (外科手术) can be frightening at any age. However, one ___________ is working to reduce patients’ fears in a unique way. Modesto Medical Center in California has two___________ cars for its smallest patients to ___________ into operating rooms to help calm their nerves.

Modesto Medical Center has two cars for its ___________ surgical patients: a black Mercedes and a pink Volkswagen Beetle. The center bought the first car, but the second was generously _________by an employee and her family.

Employees of the center ___________ the cars reduce kids’ _________, anxiety and fear before they go into the operating room. “When the children find out they can ride in a cool mini car, they _________ and in most cases, their fears ___________,” Nurse Kimberly Martinez, who __________ up with the idea, said.

“In addition, when ____________see their children put at ease, it puts them at ease as well,” Martinez added.

Martinez said she notices an immediate difference since they’ve __________ the cars, and said she hopes the __________ have a lasting influence. “It can be difficult for a young ____________ to be taken away from their parents as they ____________ into surgery,” she said. “This truly helps everyone involved.”

According to Martinez, the cars are __________ made just for kids, aged 2—7. Both are__________ with a stereo (立体声系统), which has a variety of preloaded music and an MP3 player, as well as functioning headlights, taillights and dashboard lights. They can be __________ by the kids themselves, or by remote__________. The cars are very____________—they have working doors, a seatbelt and a horn (喇叭).

It is proved that a young scientist named Will Smith has invented a kind of advanced and intelligent robot. The small robot may help children who are _______ from a long-term illness in hospital or at home.

Whoever has had a long-term illness knows that recovering at home can be _________, as everyone can’t keep them _________, especially when their family go out to work. These children may feel _______ from their friends and classmates, which can be particularly _________ of children. They may feel _________. Now these children may have a high-tech friend to help _________ the sense of loneliness. The friend is a robot, which takes their _______ at school. Through the robot, the children can _______ teachers and classmates. They __________ participate in class from __________ they are recovering. Mr. Smith, the inventor ____________ how it works. He says the child uses a tablet or phone to start the robot. Then the __________ uses the same device to control the robot’s movements at school, the robot becomes the ears and __________ of the child, so that he or she can take part in classroom activities—____________ you’re at home or from a hospital bed. The robot is ____________ with microphones that makes ____________ easy. It will become ____________ to the public, for not only does it look simply cool but people can afford it. ____________, it will help some children feel ____________ lonely while they are absent from class.