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.”

In the past few years, more than half of bookstores in China have closed down, 【小题1】 is the result of the 【小题2】 (compete) from online bookstores. But the success of Sisyphe Bookstore, one of the 【小题3】 (big) privately-owned bookstore chains in China, may serve as 【小题4】 amazing example.

【小题5】 (found) in 1993, Sisyphe started to transform and upgrade its business in 2009 to seek its profitability. Now, it not only devotes itself to 【小题6】 (sell) books, but also combines the functions of bookstore, café and sale of creative cultural products. Sisyphe opens its bookstores in shopping malls in order to take advantage of the large number of consumers of shopping malls to sell its books, and it also 【小题7】 (able) people to enjoy spending time reading and drinking coffee. 【小题8】 return, bookstores have improved the cultural atmosphere of shopping malls, so 【小题9】 is mutually (共同的) beneficial to have such cooperation.

So far, the government 【小题10】 (offer) tax reduction for bookstores to encourage the development of physical bookstores. Perhaps it is early to say the boom of physical bookstores has come, but definitely, we see the light.

Rare Piece of Chinese Art Found at US Home Sale

A small bowl 【小题1】 (buy) for $35 at a home in Connecticut turned out to be a rare piece of ancient Chinese art. The bowl is worth between $300,000 and $500,000. It 【小题2】 (go) up for sale at an auction to be held by Sotheby's (苏士比拍卖行).

Sotheby's says the object was found at a yard sale in the New Haven area last year. A collector of 【小题3】(antique) saw the bowl at the sale, paid $35 for the bowl and later emailed information and photos to Sotheby's asking for 【小题4】 estimate of its value.

Two experts from Sotheby's confirmed the bowl was from the 1400s when they were able to look at it 【小题5】person. McAteer said all the information helped them identify it as a product of the early Ming period. But now only six other such bowls are known to exist, most of 【小题6】 are in museums. 【小题7】 the bowl ended up at a Connecticut yard sale remains a mystery. It is possible that the bowl 【小题8】(pass) down through generations of the same family who did not know how special it was.

McAteer said. "It's always really 【小题9】( excite) for us as specialists when something that we didn't even know but existed is 【小题10】(seeming) out of nowhere.