After I lost my right hand in a car accident two years ago, I began to withdraw into myself,【小题1】(believe) I would never be able to lead a normal life again. I【小题2】(equip) with an artificial hand, but it did not feel like part of me.

Even simple things like getting dressed were unbelievably difficult. Three months ago,【小题3】, all that changed when I was given the chance to test a new robotic hand.

Scientists have made great progress in robotic technology in recent years, and their work on robotic limbs【小题4】 (change) my life. With my new hand, I can move my individual fingers and hold on to small things like pens and pencils. More【小题5】 (amazing), my robotic hand is capable of feeling varying degrees of pressure, just like a real hand. In addition, it looks very lifelike with special materials【小题6】(use) on the outside.

I have rediscovered all the hobbies【小题7】I had enjoyed before my accident. For example, I have been cooking for my family again【小题8】I got my new hand. Not only can I do more, but I have also become【小题9】(confident) and outgoing. I’m so grateful for all the new【小题10】(possibility) my robotic hand has opened up.

Yuan Longping, known as the “father of hybrid rice”, was born in 1930. 【小题1】 (learn) that farmers often had poor harvests and sometimes even had a serious 【小题2】 (short) of food to eat, he chose to study agriculture and graduated from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953.

Since his graduation, Yuan 【小题3】 (devote) his life to finding ways to produce more rice. Through constant effort, he overcame enormous technical difficulties 【小题4】 (develop) the first hybrid rice 【小题5】 could be used for farming in 1974. This hybrid enabled farmers to expand their output 【小题6】 (great).

Today, 【小题7】 is estimated that about 60 percent of domestic rice consumption in China is comprised 【小题8】 crops come from Yuan’s hybrid strains. Yuan’s innovation has helped feed not just China, but many other 【小题9】 (country) that depend on rice as well.

Though Yuan’s hybrid have made him quite 【小题10】 (wealth), he doesn’t lead a life of leisure. Instead, he donates much money to support agricultural research.

Technophobes are people who hate modern technology, 【小题1】(probable)because they don’t understand it, or because they are afraid of doing something wrong and 【小题2】(ruin)the equipment.

However, this is not a new phenomenon(现象). At the turn of the 20th century, when electricity was set up in many homes, signs 【小题3】(place)on the wall next to the light-switches advising people 【小题4】 were used to gas lighting not to light the electricity with a match!

There were many cases where people were unaware of how to use new machines, causing 【小题5】(embarrass)in the would-be user and amusement in the observer.

When 【小题6】(video)first came on the market, a woman, who had never seen a video-tape before, took one tape out of the box 【小题7】 began shaking it violently. Seeing this, her husband asked her what she 【小题8】(do). She replied, “Shaking the tape. 【小题9】 says on the tape ‘Shake before use’”. Her husband told her the name of the film was “Shake Before Use”!

Whatever your phobias(恐惧), new technology is here to stay until someone comes along and invents something newer for us 【小题10】(use).