Whether in the home or the workplace, social robots are going to become a lot more common in the next few years. Social robots are about to bring technology to the everyday world in a more humanized way, said Cynthia Breazeal, chief scientist at the robot company Jibo.
While household robots today do the normal housework, social robots will be much more like companions than mere tools. For example, these robots will be able to distinguish when someone is happy or sad. This allows them to respond more appropriately to the user.
The Jibo robot, arranged to ship later this year, is designed to be a personalized assistant. You can talk to the robot, ask it questions, and make requests for it to perform different tasks. The robot doesn’ t just deliver general answers to questions; it responds based on what it learns about each individual in the household. It can do things such as reminding an elderly family member to take medicine or taking family photos.
Social robots are not just finding their way into the home. They have potential applications in everything from education to health care and are already finding their way into some of these spaces.
Fellow Robots is one company bringing social robots to the market. The company’ s “ Oshbot” robot is built to assist customers in a store, which can help the customers find items and help guide them to the product’ s location in the store. It can also speak different languages and make recommendations for different items based on what the customer is shopping for.
The more interaction the robot has with humans, the more it learns. But Oshbot, like other social robots, is not intended to replace workers, but to work alongside other employees. “ We have technologies to train social robots to do things not for us, but with us,” said Breazeal.
1.How are social robots different from household robots?
A.They can control their emotions.
B.They are more like humans.
C.They do the normal housework.
D.They respond to users more slowly.
2.What can a Jibo robot do according to Paragraph 3?
A.Communicate with you and perform operations.
B.Answer your questions and make requests.
C.Take your family pictures and deliver milk.
D.Obey your orders and remind you to take pills.
3.We can learn from the last paragraph that social robots will ______.
A.train employees
B.be our workmates
C.improve technologies
D.take the place of workers
4.What does the passage mainly present?
A.A new design idea of household robots.
B.Marketing strategies for social robots.
C.Information on household robots.
D.An introduction to social robots.
When planning a vacation，many people consider the popular tourist sites they want to visit.But that’s not what my husband and I did when we planned our vacation to Japan.We thought about the kind of farm we wanted to visit.
Ours was far from a typical(典型的)vacation.We were WWOOFing! WWOOF stands for World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms.The organization connects people interested in organic farming.Volunteers，known as WWOOFers，help their hosts with daily activities.These include everything from baking bread to picking vegetables.Hosts provide volunteers with food and provide a place for them to stay.
My husband and I certainly felt like family when our host met us at the train station.She told us to call her Okasan—Mom.Likewise，we called her husband Otosan—Dad.Okasan and Otosan own an organic vegetable farm that tries to provide the local people with fresh，healthy food.When no WWOOFers are around to help，the farm work is done only by Otosan and Okasan.As part of the family，we were able to enjoy the fruits of our labor at every meal.Eating fresh vegetables three times a day combined with six hours of farm work，certainly did our bodies good.We planted vegetables and cleared rocks from fields.We also packed the vegetables so they could be sold at the market.
Perhaps the most challenging thing we did was weeding a rice field.It was quite challenging because the leaves and roots of the weeds look very similar to the rice.It’s not until both plants are mature (成熟的) that you can clearly tell them apart—only one produces rice.
WWOOFing is unlike anything I’ve ever done before，and I can’t wait to do it again! Let’s WWOOF!
1.What do we know about WWOOF?
A.It belongs to a Japanese farm.
B.It helps the poor do farm work.
C.It provides tourists with hotels.
D.It is an organization connected with farming.
2.What can we infer from Paragraph 3 about Okasan and Otosan’s farm?
A.It benefits both the locals and WWOOFers.
B.It attracts many visitors every day.
C.It provides free food for the locals.
D.It is supported by the government.
3.What does Paragraph 4 mainly talk about?
A.The method of producing rice.
B.The hard time of the farm family.
C.The difficulties in weeding a rice field.
D.The most challenging thing for WWOOF.
4.The author would most likely describe her WWOOFing as ________.
A.satisfying B.worrying
C.boring D.tiring
When people think of working animals，what often comes to mind are dogs that watch sheep，horses that work on farms and animals that perform in movies.But there are lots of other jobs animals have had over the years.
Dogs have greater sense of smell than humans.This made dogs the traditional hunting partners，making their owners able to follow foxes and other animals.Police departments have taken advantage of this skill to help find missing people and escaped criminals.Recently，dogs have been trained to find drugs and explosives (爆炸物).
The honey－guide lives in the southeast African nation of Mozambique.It has developed a win－win relationship with a group called the Yao.If a Yao member makes a certain sound，the honey－guide will fly from tree to tree directing him to a hidden bee box.Once the box is discovered，the person breaks open the box for honey，and the honey－guide could enjoy the honey，too.
Ferrets (雪貂) are cute and furry animals that are from 1.5 to 4 pounds.People have taken advantage of a ferret’s natural ability to run through tiny space.Ferrets wear a special harness(甲胄) that makes them able to pull a string through hundreds of feet of tiny space，which is then used to pull computer wires through tiny space.
Baby flies are called maggots.The job of a maggot is to eat and grow until it turns into a fly.This is similar to how a caterpillar eats and grows until it becomes a butterfly.However，there is a big difference between these insects.Caterpillars feed on plants，while maggots eat meat.Actually，they only enjoy bad meat.Maggots are used with patients who get serious infections that can’t be treated with antibiotics (抗生素).The maggots are used to the infected area for a number of days.They eat the dead part but leave the living part alone，thereby helping patients recover from the infection.
1.From the passage，we can learn that dogs ________.
A.are the friendly friends of sheep
B.have developed a win－win relationship with people
C.have greater sense of smell than foxes and other animals
D.help human beings a lot in many areas
2.With the help of the honey－guide，the Yao member can ________.
A.find the hidden bee box
B.develop a great relationship with bees
C.pay attention to dangerous things
D.stay away from criminals
3.What can we know from the passage?
A.The honey－guide can be used as medicine.
B.People can learn much from dogs and horses.
C.Ferrets are good at running through tiny space.
D.The baby fly is always called the caterpillar.
4.People can take advantage of the baby flies to treat ________.
A.burns caused by explosives
B.terrible cancers
C.harm caused by bees
D.serious infections
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听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1.What does the speaker’s father do?
A.An engineer. B.A soldier. C.A doctor.
2.What’s the relationship between Simon and Diana?
A.Husband and wife.
B.Brother and sister.
C.Uncle and niece.
3.Where does the speaker’s aunt live now?
A.In Australia. B.In Germany. C.In China.
4.How old is Tom now?
A.Six months old. B.Two years old. C.Three years old.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1.What did the man buy at the new market?
A.A volleyball. B.A suitcase. C.Some shorts.
2.Who bought a silver phone?
A.David. B.Betty. C.John.
3.What did Anna get?
A.A CD. B.A schoolbag.
C.A magazine.
4.How many people are there in the man’s family?
A.Five. B.Six. C.Seven.
