My love of making things began when I was a kid. I really became excited 【小题1】 inventing after I learned about Thomas Edison.

One day in fourth grade, 【小题2】 teacher gave us a project (项目) in class. We had to write to a company and learn about the products. I thought and thought. 【小题3】, I chose the Thomas Edison Company. Soon after, the company sent me a book about the life of Thomas Edison. How I enjoyed reading and rereading about his【小题4】! I like the recorded sound and the electric light most. The inventions appeared clearly in my brain.

My dad noticed my interest in inventing and 【小题5】 me. He showed me how to 【小题6】 my ideas into plans and then into new things 【小题7】. Once, I surprised my dad with a model plane I made. Later, we found a similar model plane in a store. I learned that different inventors often invent similar things. It is not unusual for this to happen. I also learned that not all great ideas work 【小题8】. Failure is a 【小题9】 part of the inventing.

As my father and I worked together, I began to 【小题10】 that my dad was quite an inventor himself. He was always looking for a better way to do a simple job.

Mobile payment giant Alipay on Thursday announced a major upgrade to its 'Smile to Pay' service, in order to make its facial-recognition process closer to shop owners and【小题1】 (customer).

The new version, called Dragonfly, is basicly a plug-and play device that Alipay is 【小题2】(say) to be just one-tenth the size of a traditional self-service POS machine. It’s so small【小题3】 it can be placed in a small bag.

"The cost to use Dragonfly is 80 percent 【小题4】(low) than traditional self-service POS machines which【小题5】 (main) serve large businesses," he told 【小题6】 Alipay Open Day event in Shanghai.

Tens of thousands of shop owners across 300 cities in China offer Alipay's facial recognitionpayment. Zhong said the updated functions would be introduced to all Alipay self-service POS machines,【小题7】 (include) the KFC canteen in Hangzhou where the solution debuted a year ago.

Yuan Linhua, assistant vice-president of marketing at supermarket chain CP Lotus, noted that with the【小题8】 (develop) of Alipay's Smile-to-Pay solution, a cashier now can carry three POS machines at once, and the efficiency of supermarket checkouts 【小题9】 (improve) by 50 percent so far.

Facial-recognition payment is   a safer and more convenient method than the traditional use of passwords, according【小题10】 Pan Helin, a postdoctoral person at the Chinese Academy of Fiscal Sciences. He predicts the sector to experience "explosive" growth in the coming three years.

When we watch movies about the future, we sometimes see 【小题1】 (robot). They are usually like human servants. They help with the housework and do jobs like working in dirty or     【小题2】 (danger) places. Today there are already robots working in factories. They do simple jobs over and over again and never get 【小题3】 (bore).

Scientists are now 【小题4】 (try) to make robots look like humans and do the same things   【小题5】 we do. However, some scientists think that it will be difficult 【小题6】 (make) them really think like a human. For example, scientist James White thinks that robots will never be able to wake up and know where they are. 【小题7】 many scientists disagree with Mr. White. They think that robots will even be able to talk like humans 【小题8】 25 to 50 years.

Some scientists believe that there 【小题9】 (be) more robots in the future. However, they agree it may take hundreds of years. These new robots will have many different shapes. Some will look like humans, and others might look like animals. We never know 【小题10】 will happen in the future!