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WorksheetsRobots and Volunteering Quiz
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Worksheet time: 3hrs 52mins
Robots are already a part of (1) (a) life.
(2) ________________ use robots to make (3) ________________.
People
things
Robot (4) ________________ can take food (5) ________________ in (6) ________________.
helpers
places
homes
(7) ________________ are working on a (8) ________________ of helper robots for people to use in hospitals and in their homes.
Scientists
team
These provide fun (9) (a) .
They can guide a person's movements to help them (10) ________________ (11) ________________ (12) ________________.
learn
dance
exercise
Some people have (13) ________________ with (14) ________________ skills and (15) ________________.
challenges
motor
communication
So the number of (16) (a) people who need help is growing.
Robots are (17) (a) good for the elderly.
They can even keep an elderly person (18) (a) .
Exciting (19) ________________ (20) ________________ are happening quickly.
developments
changes
We help our (2) ________________ and family, and we usually feel good (3) ________________.
friends
about it
However, helping (4) (a) is important as well.
(5) (a) isn't just a nice thing to do.
A (6) (a) studied kids between the ages of 11 and 14.
Every year for four years, she asked them to (7) (a) how they helped others.
She also asked them how they (8) (a) about themselves.
Teens who helped both loved ones and strangers had higher (9) (a) one year later.
Volunteering is more (10) ________________ for teens because it is more (11) ________________.
beneficial
social
This builds (12) (a) .
It only takes a few (14) (a) hours a week to volunteer.
Reading to elderly people, putting away food in a (15) ________________ center, and (16) ________________ books in the (17) ________________ are just a (18) ________________ ideas.
food
community
library
few
You will feel (19) (a) about helping others.
Terry Fox was (1) (a) in Canada in 1958.
(2) ________________ growing up, Terry loved to play (3) ________________.
While
hockey
When he was 18, Terry (4) ________________ (5) ________________ in his right (6) ________________.
discovered
pain
leg
He went to a doctor and got some (7) (a) news.
He had (8) (a) .
The doctors had to cut off Terry's right leg.
Terry didn't let that stop him. He learned how to use an (9) (a) leg.
He (10) (a) to play sports.
While in the hospital, Terry met other young cancer (11) (a) .
He (12) ________________ to run (13) ________________ Canada to raise money for cancer (14) ________________.
decided
across
research
He called this the (15) (a) of Hope.
Terry started his Marathon of Hope on April 12th, 1980.
(16) ____________, after 143 days and 5,373 kilometers, Terry had to (17) ________________.
Unfortunately
stop
His cancer had come back. Terry Fox died a few months later at the age of 22.
(18) ________________ Terry never finished his Marathon of Hope, he (19) ________________ many people.
Although
inspired
Now, once a year, people around the world do the Terry Fox Run.
They run in memory of this Canadian (20) (a) hero and continue to raise money for cancer research.
Vinny Desautels has always been a (1) (a) boy.
When he was five, he (2) ________________ ________________ that some (3) ________________ get cancer.
learned
kids
They need wigs. Vinny wanted to help, so he (5) ________________ to (6) ________________ his hair.
decided
grow
But first, he had to (7) (a) it grow long.
Vinny stopped getting (8) (a) .
His hair grew (9) ________________ his (10) ________________.
longer
shoulders
Some other kids thought he looked (11) (a) .
They even (12) (a) at him.
But Vinny didn't (13) ________________ the (14) ________________.
mind
teasing
He knew it was for a good cause.
After two years, Vinny finally got a haircut.
He (15) (a) sent 33 centimeters of his hair to a charity called Wigs for Kids.
A few weeks later, Vinny's eye became (16) (a) .
He also had a painful bump on his hip.
Doctors discovered that Vinny had a (17) (a) bone cancer.
Now he had to fight his own (18) ________________ against the (19) ________________.
battle
disease
Vinny took medicine that made his hair fall out.
It was difficult, but Vinny was brave and never stopped smiling.
He was right to be (20) (a) .
Before the internet, it was harder for young writers to (1) (a) their work.
Today, all they need is a blog.
Blogs are a good way for writers to (2) ________________ their ideas, (3) ________________ their skills, and build a (4) ________________.
share
improve
community
Blogs provide (5) (a) for writers.
Many write about their (7) (a) or travels.
Blogs let writers write about their (8) (a) .
There are (9) (a) of blogs online.
To (10) ________________, the writing must be interesting and (11) ________________.
succeed
engaging
This will help a blogger (12) (a) readers.
When a writer has a lot of readers, (13) (a) begin to notice.
They want the (14) ________________ to (15) ________________ those readers.
blogger
keep
Advertisers might ask the blogger to write about their products.
The future Earth seems like (9) ________________.
a paradise
a nightmare
a desert
But then he (10) ________________ his time machine.
loses
finds
repairs
He begins to (11) ________________ ________________ it because he wants to go back to his (12) ________________ time.
miss
hate
love
While (13) ________________, he (14) ________________ a (15) ________________, less friendly people called the Morlocks.
traveling
waiting
hiding
They live (16) ________________, and they have taken his time machine!
underground
in the sky
in the forest
He has many (17) ________________ trying to get the machine back, and some of them are (18) ________________ (19) ________________.
adventures
troubles
friends
Will he get the time machine back and return to the past?
This story has (20) ________________ science fiction fans for more than 100 years.
entertained
bored
confused
In the story, Dr. Jekyll is a nice, (6) ________________ -________________ scientist.
well-respected
evil
crazy
He is always doing research in his (7) ________________.
laboratory
home
office
He has a (8) ________________ friend named Mr. Hyde.
dangerous
kind
rich
Hyde is dangerous and (9) ________________.
violent
friendly
helpful
He even kills someone.
But the story has a big surprise: Jekyll and Hyde are the same person!
Dr. Jekyll has (10) ________________ a special (11) ________________.
created
found
lost
When he drinks it, he becomes the dangerous Mr. Hyde.
For a while, he enjoys (12) ________________ two different people.
being
seeing
meeting
But then something goes wrong.
He cannot change back into Dr. Jekyll.
Now what should he do?
Can he live as Mr. Hyde (13) ________________?
This story is about (14) ________________ (15) ________________.
good
evil
both
It shows how people can be (16) ________________ good and evil.
both
neither
only
This (17) ________________ is (18) ________________ interesting to readers, because the novel is (19) ________________ to this day.
story
book
tale
It has even become part of the English language.
For hundreds of years, English people have told stories about a (1) ________________ named Robin Hood.
hero
villain
thief
He lived in the (2) ________________, taking things from rich people and giving them to poor people.
forest
city
castle
(3) ________________ to the stories, he did this because he was an (4) ________________ of the king.
According
Contrary
Opposed
We know that in the (5) ________________ 1300s, a man named Robert Hood lived in England.
early
late
mid
He (6) ________________ a group to fight (7) ________________ the king, but the group lost.
formed
joined
led
They then had to (8) ________________ in the (9) ________________.
hide
run
fight
For years, he was part of a group of robbers living in the forest.
Maybe he was the hero that people now call Robin Hood.
But not everything about Robert Hood's life (10) ________________ the stories.
matches
contradicts
supports
One (11) ________________ is Maid Marian.
difference
similarity
fact
In the stories, Robin Hood fell in love with a woman named Maid Marian.
(12) ________________ ________________, Robert was (13) ________________ long before he became a (14) ________________.
Interestingly
Surprisingly
Sadly
His wife's name was Matilda.
The Robin Hood stories are (15) ________________.
legendary
fictional
real
This (16) ________________ they are very old, and they may or may not be about (17) ________________ people.
means
shows
explains
It is hard to be (18) ________________ about (19) ________________ so far in the past.
certain
uncertain
clear
But people will continue to enjoy sharing these exciting stories (20) ________________ way.
in
by
through
Humans have a (1) ________________ (2) ________________ to (3) ________________.
desire
need
wish
They want to live for (4) ________________ ________________ ________________ (5) ________________.
as long as possible
a short time
a long time
This is why scientists study health and aging.
They want to know how people can live (6) ________________, longer lives.
healthier
better
happier
(7) ________________ (8) _______________ means how long the average person will live.
Lifespan
Age
Duration
A hundred years ago, the average lifespan (9) ________________ was only about 34 years!
This does not mean that people (10) ________________ died in their 30s.
Sadly, because of (11) ________________, almost half of children did not survive to age 10.
disease
war
poverty
Most other people lived into their 50s or 60s.
This is why the average lifespan was low.
Over the past (12) ________________, (13) ________________ (14) ________________ have improved children's health.
centuries
decades
years
People of all ages get better medical care as well.
Now the average lifespan for (15) ________________ is just over 72 years.
women
men
children
For men, it is just over 68.
Of course, some people live much longer than average.
The oldest person in (16) ________________ lived to 123.
history
recent times
the world
Lifespans in most (17) ________________ are (18) ________________ going up.
countries
cities
regions
But they (19) ________________ cannot keep rising forever.
certainly
probably
definitely
Most scientists say that 123 is close to the (20) ________________ lifespan for humans.
maximum
average
expected
Some people love (1) ________________ foods.
bitter
sweet
sour
Others can't (2) ________________ them.
stand
eat
taste
Scientists now think they know why.
Studies have found that people can be (3) ________________ into three groups: nontasters, (4) ________________ -tasters, and super-tasters.
classified
grouped
sorted
The (5) ________________ (6) ________________ these groups is the number of (7) ________________ ________________ that they have.
difference
similarity
factor
Taste buds are the parts of your (8) ________________ that taste food.
mouth
tongue
nose
They are in the (9) ________________ (10) ________________ that you can see on your tongue.
bumps
cells
layers
Some people have a lot more of these bumps than others do.
Many people think of the heart as the most important in the human body.
Your lungs are in your (a) .
They are not equal in __________, as the left lung is a little smaller to make __________ for your heart.
size
room
When you __________, your chest gets bigger because __________ in your lungs __________ air.
breathe
air
fills
Big data is big (a) today.
Data becomes big (a) because people spend so much time on computers.
Of course, just (a) data is not enough.
In order to be useful, the numbers must be studied.
If you visit the U.S., you will __________ something about the road signs: They measure __________ in miles, not kilometers.
learn
distance
An inch was originally __________ of a __________.
the width
man
This caused a lot of (a) .
Honeycombs have (a) symmetry.
Peacocks are an example of (a) symmetry.
Spider webs have (a) symmetry, or symmetry around a center point.
When we __________ future __________, we usually can't be __________ we're right.
predict
events
sure
The probability of an event is (a) as a number.
A good example is the (a) .
You can use the same __________ with a game of __________.
method
chess
How about getting hit by lightning?
