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It’s a question anyone might ask in the future: Should your household robot be cool? Or practical? For Sony Corporation, robots ought to be entertaining. The company’s 41 robot, SDR—4 X, can sing and dance.

But for automaker Honda Motor Co Ltd, such 42 should perform useful tasks for their 43 masters.

“It is in the end a machine, a 44 ,” said Masato Hirose, Honda’s chief engineer.

Sony’s chief researcher Toshi Doi said robots performing such tasks as 45for ill or disabled people would not necessarily need a human 46  .

“The attractiveness of the SDR—4 X is its 47”, he said.

“It has feelings. It has instincts(直觉).” Drawing from its 48of 60,000 words, an SDR—4 X robot 49 last week that it can ask a 50 in a high voice: “Please 51still for a minute while I memorize your face.”

It also 52 off its ability to walk on uneven(不平的)floors, and come to its owner when it’s 53. While Honda’s robot is 54 used mainly for entertainment, it is 55 that one day it will be a useful companion. So its robot have been 56to be 120cm tall – more than twice the height of the SDR—4 X. Hirose said 120cm is the 57a robot that moves around a home should be.

“If you are going to have something that can move with 58 in a human surroundings(环境), then it is better to 59 the robot like a human,” he said.

Hirose said that he hopes the robot will be 60 enough so that he can buy one for himself and let it get him a beer.

41. A. earliest           B. latest            C. coolest                            D. smallest

42. A. matters          B. people          C. machines              D. inventions

43. A. human            B. own               C. creative                 D. all

44. A. tool                  B. robot             C. toy                          D. slave

45. A. looking            B. working        C. leaving                   D. caring

46. A. form                B. character     C. job                           D. ability

47. A. appearance   B. purpose        C. personality           D. material

48. A. storage           B. use                C. making                   creation

49. A. said                  B. announced  C. showed                  D. imaged

50. A. friend              B. partner                  C. servant                  D. guest

51. A. hold                 B. lie                   C. take                        D. make

52. A. left                            B. showed        C. put                          D. dropped

53.A. tired                 B. called            C. controlled             D. made

54.A. also                   B. still                C. again                      D. even

55. A. sure                 B. hoped           C. reported                D. described

56. A. expected        B. raised           C. proved                   D. designed

57 A. cheapest         B. dearest                  C. smallest                D. biggest

58. A. ease                B. care               C. difficulty                D. foot

59. A. buy                   B. use                C. invest                     D. design

60. A. useful              B. smart            C. cheap                     D. small

Answer

 41-45 BCAAD 46-50 ACACD 51-55 ABBAB 56-60 DCADC

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