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How will geography influence your life? For some children around the world, the environment they grow up in has a huge effect 1. their lives. This is the case in Madagascar, an island country in Africa, where a 3D-printed school is now 2. (build).
Maggie Grout was just 15 years old when she set up a non-profit(非盈利的)3. (organize)—Thinking Huts. Now 22, she is raising money to build a 3D-printed school 4. (power)by solar energy. Maggie took the lead role and worked with university professors through the whole process of building the 3D-printed school. They chose Madagascar because it needs more schools. Many children in that country don’t have the chance 5. (receive)education. Besides, it has a lot of sunshine, which can be made into energy to power things.
Maggie first drew a design for the school. She thought about 6. things the people needed and where they worked best.
Next, Maggie found an architect(建筑师)and 3D printing company for the job. To make it 7. (environment)friendly, they used a special 3D printer to build the school. It meant up to 50 per cent less concrete(混凝土)used and less CO₂. Plus, the school could be completed in just a week. They also used local materials to build the doors, windows and roofs.
What’s more, Thinking Huts will get local workers to learn how to use a 3D printer so that they can build more schools on 8. (they)own in the future. Maggie plans to print more new schools in other parts of Madagascar because one in five children don’t have primary school to attend there.
So far, Maggie’s charity 9. (raise)125,000. “It’s good news to me. Of course, we need more,” Maggie told Springwise website. Doing charity work is 10. (mean)and she is glad to carry on with it.

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In the world that we are creating very quickly, we’re going to see more and more things that look like science fiction, and fewer and fewer things that look like jobs. For example, our cars are very quickly going to start driving 1. (they). That means we’re going to need fewer drivers. At the same time, there might be some new 2. (kind)of jobs in the future. Let’s have a look at some of them.
Robots will become more common in our homes and schools, so we’ll need people who know 3. to fix them. These workers will be like robot doctors, 4. (find)out what’s wrong with a robot and helping it get better.
Imagine going on vacation to space! In the future, more people might be 5. (interest)in space travel, so we might need guides who can show tourists around the stars and planets.
As AI is developing fast, we’ll need people to check if it works 6. (proper). We call these people AI rule keepers. They will make sure that AI won’t do 7. (something)harmful to humans.
School might look different in the future, with lessons 8. (design)just for us. Then we’ll need personal learning planners. These planners would create special learning plans for each student, so that everyone could get what they need 9. (succeed).
These are just a few examples of the jobs we might have in the future. The best way to get ready for these future jobs is to be open to new ideas and never stop 10. (learn). Knowledge will remain important, and problem-solving and critical(批判性的)thinking skills will be needed for our future education and work.