Le Trung, 33, has spent ￡14,000 creating Aiko, who he describes as “in her 20s” with a 32, 33 figure, shiny hair and delicate features.
She can speak English and Japanese and is so accomplished at mathematics she can do Mr Trung’s accounts.Mr Trung, from Brampton in Ontario，Canada，said he has never had time to find a real partner—so he designed and created his ideal woman using the latest technology.
The former software programmer has taken out credit cards and loans, sold his car and spent his life savings on perfecting his “fembot”.
Now he is desperate to find a corporate sponsor to help him complete and perfect Aiko.
He said : “Aiko is what happens when science meets beauty. I want to make her look, feel and act as human as possible so she can be the perfect companion. I talk to her a lot, and hope to improve her knowledge. So far she can understand and speak 13, 000 different sentences in English and Japanese, so she’s already fairly intelligent. Aiko recognises faces and says hello when any of my family comes around to visit. She helps me pick what to have for dinner and knows what drinks I like. She even helps me with directions when we're going somewhere. When I need to do my accounts, Aiko does all the maths. She is very patient and never complains. She doesn’t need holidays, food or rest and she will work almost 24 hours a day. She is the perfect woman.”
Mr Trung has designed Aiko with touch-sensitive face and body so she reacts in a natural way if she is shown affection or hurt. He said: “She has all senses except for smell.”
1.Le Trung created Aiko to______.
A.be his life partner B.show his programing ability
C.do housework for him D.help him with his work
2.What will Le Trung probably do with Aiko in the future?
A.He will produce such robots.
B.He will make Aiko more woman-like.
C.He will sell Aiko to make money.
D.He wants to make Aiko perfect.
3.What can’t Aiko do ?
A.He can’t design software programing B.He can’t do accounts
C.He can’t greet guests D.He can’t pick food and drinks
4.Which of the following is true about Aiko?
A.She cannot react naturally when she is hurt.
B.She still cannot recognize the smell of everything.
C.She will complain when she works for too long.
D.She needs a break if she works for a long time
5.Mr Trung believes that ______ .
A.science can create a beauty as a human desires
B.the biggest difficulty in making robots is how to give them senses
C.robots can never have the same intelligence as humans
D.science will never make a beauty like a human being
Are you carrying too much on your back at school? I’m sure lots of children of your age will say “Yes”. Not only the students in China have this problem, but children in the United States also have heavy school bags.
Doctors are starting to worry that younger and younger students are having back and neck problems as a result of school bags being too heavy for them.
“It’s hard for me to go upstairs with my bag because it’s so heavy,” said Rick Hammond, an 11-year-old student in the US. Rick is among students who have common school bags with two straps (带子) to carry them, but many other students choose rolling bags. But even with rolling bags, getting up stairs and buses is still a problem for children. Many of them have hurt their backs and necks because of the heavy school bags.
But how much is too much? Doctors say students should carry no more than 10% to 15% of their own body weight.
Scott Bautch, a back doctor, said children under Grade 4 should stay with 10%. But it is also important that older children don’t stay with over 15%, because their bodies are still growing. “Children are losing their balance and falling down with their school bags,” he said.
Parents and teachers are starting to tell children to only take home library books they will be reading that night. Some teachers are using pieces of paper or thin workbooks for students to take home.
One of the best answers is, as some children said, to have no homework at all!
1.From the passage we can know that______ .
A.only children in China carry too heavy school bags
B.both children in China and the US carry too heavy school bags
C.children in other countries don’t carry too heavy bags
D.only children in the US carry too heavy school bags
2.According to the doctor, Scott Bautch, if a child in Grade 5 weighs about 30 kilos, the school bag he carries should not be over ________.
A.5 kilos B.3 kilos
C.5.5 kilos D.4.5 kilos
3.Some students think the best answer to his problems is that______ .
A.they should have a little homework to do after they get home
B.their teachers had better not ask them to do any homework
C.they should only take home library books they will read that night
D.they should use thin workbooks instead of thick ones
A man named Smith was sitting on his roof during a flood, and the water was up to his feet. Before long a fellow in a canoe passed and shouted, “Can I give you a lift to higher ground?”
“No, thanks,” said Smith. “I have faith in God and he will save me.”
Soon the water rose to Smith’s waist. At this point a motor boat pulled up and someone called out, “Can I give you a lift to higher ground?”
“No, thanks, I have faith in God and he will save me.”
Later a helicopter flew by, and Smith was now standing on the roof with water up to his neck. “Grab the rope,” shouted the pilot. “I’ll pull you up.”
“No, thanks,” said Smith. “I have faith in God and he will save me.” But after hours of struggling with water, poor exhausted Smith drowned and went to his reward. As he arrived at the Pearly Gates, Smith met God and complained about this. “Tell me, God,” he said, “I had such faith in you to save me and you let me drown. What happened?”
To which God replied, “What do you want from me? I sent you two boats and a helicopter.”
1.When the pilot asked Smith to grab the rope, ______.
A.Smith pulled the pilot up B.Smith did so
C.Smith didn’t do so D.Smith didn’t hear him
2.At last, poor exhausted Smith drowned and ______.
A.went to his reward B.passed away
C.went to heaven D.all of the above
3.What do we know about Smith? ______.
A.He was a lazy man
B.He was a lucky man who believed in God
C.He was a poor man
D.He was a silly man who believed in God
4.The best title of this passage is “______”.
A.What Do You Want from Me? B.How Do You Believe in God?
C.How God Loved Smith! D.Smith Obeyed God’s Order
假定你是李华，你的英国朋友John担心新冠肺炎疫情（COVID-19 epidemic）影响你的学习，特给你发来 邮件询问此事，请你给他回一封邮件，内容包括：
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
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While walk my dog this morning, I happened to see a heartwarming sight. A mother was rushing towards her car with her children’s schoolbags. Behind her was two children crying at the top of their voices. They barely moved their foot. Instead, they were too busy crying or seeking for attention. After the mother had been placed the schoolbags in the car, she ran towards her children with her arms widely open. She smiled as she approached them, held one in her left arm, the another in her right and carry them both to the car. The children's tears changed to laughter in flash.
Seeing this, I was moved by tears because of the mother's strength and love for her children.
In March 2017, about 25 people 1.（invite）to a kitchen in San Francisco, California, for a tasting event. On the menu? Fried chicken grown in a lab by scientists from Memphis Meats.
The company makes meat by 2.（safe）extracting（提取）cells from animals such as chickens, ducks, and cows. Then 3. feeds the cells nutrients（营养物）.Those cells grow, 4.（form）muscles, which are meat. Memphis Meats is one of several companies in the world making lab-grown meat. Why do they produce lab-grown meat?
Producing meat with 5.（tradition）methods requires lots of cows. And cows give off a gas that traps heat in the atmosphere, which contributes 6. climate change. Raising cows takes up space, too. But lab- grown meat production requires fewer cows and less land. The cells taken during one extraction can make 7.（much）meat than "any single animal could ever produce”.
Lab-grown meat is not yet sold in supermarkets. Before that can happen, it will need to be affordable. The 8. （one）lab-grown burger, 9.（produce）in 2013 by Mosa Meat, cost over $300,000 to make. Costs are dipping. But they can't yet compete with regular ground beef, 10. is about $4 a pound.
