We all know that computers changed (改变) our lives in the 1980s. We realized that the Internet changed our lives in the 1990s. Can you predict that robots will change our lives in the future? It’s not a dream that every home will have a robot. We believe that there will be robots in people’s homes.
Now, robots are able to help people do the housework. They can also help doctors do difficult operations, play chess with people, play the piano and do some other things.
It is really funny to have a cooking robot. It can cook all the dishes on the menu. What you only need to do is just to wait for two to four minutes. You’ll be surprised at how delicious the food will taste.
In the future, the robot will be a nurse, a guard or a partner in your life. Robots will become part of the family, and provide close service for people. We all look forward to the new robot age.
【小题1】What changed our lives in the 1990s?
| A．Robots. | B．Computers. | C．The TV. | D．The Internet. |
【小题2】What can’t the robots help people do?
| A．Think instead of us. | B．Play chess with people. |
| C．Play the piano. | D．Do difficult operations. |
【小题3】Which of the following is NOT true?
| A．Having a cooking robot is really funny. | B．The robot can cook all the dishes on the menu. |
| C．You need to wait two or four hours for the meal. | D．The food will taste delicious. |
【小题4】What’s the meaning of the underlined word “age”?
【小题5】What’s the main idea of the passage?
| A．A funny cooking robot. | B．The Internet in our lives. |
| C．The importance of computers. | D．Robots in the future. |
