Alexis Lewis, a 7-year-old girl, set out with her family on a trip to explore different parts of the country. During the hours on the road, her grandfather, a rocket scientist, would ________ cool ideas with Alexis about science. Eventually, everything her grandfather said ________ Alexis to become a(n) ________.

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

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

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

In Nairobi, Kenya, Richard Turere, a twelve-year-old Maasai boy, had come up with a surprising invention. His family raised cattle, and one of the biggest __ was protecting them at night from lion attacks. Richard had noticed that a still campfire didn’t fear the lions, __ walking around waving a torch did seem to work. The lions were apparently afraid of __ lights! Richard had somehow taught himself __ by messing around with parts taken from his parents’ radio. He used that knowledge to __ a system of lights that would turn on and off in order, __ a sense of movement. It was built from scrapyard (废弃场) __ —solar panels, a car battery, and a motorcycle indicator box. He installed (安装)the lights and the lion attacks __.

News of his invention spread and other villages wanted in. Instead of seeking to __ the lions as they had done before, they installed Richard’s “lion lights”. Both villagers and pro-lion(亲狮的)environmentalists were __ .

Because of his invention, Richard won a(n)__ to one of Kenya’s best schools, and was __ to give a TED Talk. He got on an airplane for the first time in his life and __ to Long Beach, California. As he walked onto the TED stage, you could tell he was nervous, but that only made him more__ . As Richard spoke, people were focusing on every word he said, and every time he smiled, the audience __ . When he finished, people just stood and cheered.

Paen Long has had a dream ever since he saw a plane for the first time at the age of six. His dream was to _______ a plane. Last year, the 30-­year-­old man started building his plane _______. “I was afraid that people would _______ me, so sometimes I worked at night,” he said. It was a long time before he put his dream into practice. Paen Long tried to build his own plane, using the money he had _______ from running his own garage. He has spent three years _______ instructional videos in order to learn how to make a plane.

It took him a year to build his plane, using mostly recycled materials. The plane’s first _______ came at 3 p.m. on 8^th, March. Local villagers gathered excitedly to watch the plane fly._______, the plane only got 50 m in the air before crashing (撞击) to the ground. “When all people were looking at me, I felt very _______,” he said.

Although the first try failed, Paen Long remains _______. His next project is to build a seaplane. Paen Long thinks the plane will cost over $10,000. “I never feel ________ for spending all my money building a plane,” he said.

His wife, Hing Muoyheng,________ about her husband, especially as they have two young sons. However, she has no ________. “I don’t know how planes work and he doesn’t have any ________ to help him. He can only search for information himself,” she said. “I tried to ask him to ________ a few times because I was afraid, but he said he wouldn’t give up, so I have to support his ________.”