It is important to know about the cultural differences that cause problems.
A．must B．dare C．need D．may
While income worry is _______ rather common problem of the aged, loneliness is another problem that ________ aged parents may face.
A. a; 不填 B. the; 不填 C. a; the D. the; the
—Please sit down and have a break. You have been working on this machine
nonstop for two hours.
—No, thanks. .
A．I’m not in the least tired B．I’m too tired to move
C．I’m not a little tired D．I’m a bit tired
假设你是小明．你家打算改善住房条件。现在有两套房子供选择：一套是郊区的传统式平房，一套是位于商业区的现代公寓楼。家里人对购买哪套更好持不同的观点。请你根据下表所给的内容，用英语给你的朋友Paul写一封信，征求他的意见。
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现代公寓楼 |
传统式平房 |
你的观点 |
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1.宽敞明亮； 2.购物、上学方便； 3.有公园等供休闲、娱乐的场所。 |
1.安静，空气清新； 2.价格便宜； 3.邻里之间交往多，氛围和谐、亲切。 |
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注意：1．表达须包括所提供的所有信息，并可适当发挥；2．词数：100左右；3．开头已为你写好，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：郊区suburbs
Dear Paul ,
Recently my family are planning to improve our housing conditions ...
Sept. 7th, Tuesday Cloudy
I watch TV until 12 o'clock last night, so I had no 1.
time to go over my lessons. I got up very late this morning 2.
that I had to hurry school without breakfast, yet I was late 3.
of the first class. When I entered the classroom, the maths 4.
teacher had to stop explaining a problem, and all my classmates 5.
fixed their eye on me. My face turned red. Something 6.
more worse happened to me in the English class. The teacher 7.
asked me to recite the text, but I could speak nothing but 8.
sorry, for I did not spend any time prepare my lessons. The 9.
teacher looked at me with his coldly eyes. What a terrible 10.
day I had! I Will never do anything like that again.
Computers might not be clever enough to trick adults into thinking they are intelligent yet, but a new study, led by Javier' Movellan at the University of Califomia San Diego, shows that a giggling (咯咯笑的) robot is clever enough to get toddlers (初学走路者) to treat it as a peer (同龄人).
The researchers stationed a 2-foot-tall robot Called QRIO in a classroom of a dozen toddlers aged between 18 months and two years. QRIO stayed in the middle of the room using its sensors (传感器) to avoid bumping (碰撞) into the kids. It was programmed to giggle when the kids touched its head, to occasionally sit down, and to lie down when its batteries died.
"We expected that after a few hours, the magic was going to disappear," Movellan says. "That's what was found with earlier robots." But, in fact, the kids remained interested in the robot over several weeks, eventually communicating with QRIO in much the same way they did with other toddlers.
The researchers measured the relationship between the children and the robot in several ways. Firstly, as with other toddlers, they touched QRIO mostly on the arms and hands, rather than on the face or legs. For this age group, "the amount of touching is a good predictor of how you are doing as a social being," Movellan says.
The children helped the robot up when it fell, and when QRIO's batteries ran out and it lay down, a toddler would come up and cover it with a blanket and say "night, night". However, when QRIO was programmed to spend all its time dancing, the kids quickly lost interest. When the robot went back to its old self, the kids treated it like a peer again.
"The study shows that current technology is very close to being able to produce robots able to develop a special relationship with toddlers," says Movellan. But, he adds, it is not clear yet whether robots can interest older children or adults in the same way.
1.What does the underlined word "stationed" in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A. Hid. B. Observed. C. Placed. D. Named.
2.At the beginning of the experiment, researchers .
A. feared that the robot would harm the toddlers
B. programmed the robot to move freely about the classroom
C. expected the robot to communicate with the toddlers
D. thought the toddlers' interest in the robot wouldn't last long
3.Kids aged between 18 months and two years behave
as social beings by.
A. giggling B: touching C. toddling D. dancing
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Giggling robot becomes one of the kids
B. Giggling robot used as a classroom assistant
C. Giggling robot makes kids more active in class
D. Giggling robot attracts more attention from kids
