Who invented them first? How did they have such clever ideas? We always don’t know. There have been many thousands of inventions, large and small, in the human history. Some of these inventions have changed the world. Such as paper, printing, radio, telephone and computer, and we know the inventors. But we have forgotten most of the other inventors.
Who invented the clock, for example, or the lock to the door? We don’t know. There have been thousands of inventors and we should grateful to them for their clever ideas. Will you be one of them when you grow up?
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【小题1】Most things in your school bags are made of _________.
| A．paper | B．wood | C．metal | D．nylon |
| A．their children were at school | B．they hoped to save some money |
| C．they have a lot of clever ideas | D．they have good machines |
| A．who invented paper and printing | B．who invented clocks and doors |
| C．when the first key was invented | D．how much the silk cost |
| A．the names of the inventors of paper | B．the names of the inventors of telephone |
| C．the names of the inventors of lamp | D．the names of most inventors |
| A．if you are an inventor | B．if you want to be an inventor |
| C．what’s invented by you | D．how many inventors you know |
Is that Yao Ming playing basketball? It looks like him, but it is a robot! The Yao Ming robot was one of the many “stars” at the World Robot Conference (世界机器人大会). It was from Aug. 23 to 27 in Beijing.
Robots from the world came to WRC. Some can work in factories. Some go to outer space or underwater. But service robots were the most popular at the WRC. Service robots can help do many jobs in our daily lives, such as washing, teaching and playing sports.
For example, the Yao Ming robot can teach kids how to play basketball. If schools use it, it can bring lots of fun to PE classes.
Alpha 2 is a housekeeper robot. If you want to turn off the lights, or TV, just tell it before going to sleep, children may also want to hear Alpha 2 tell them a bedtime story.
A supermarket robot makes shopping easier. You can talk with the robot. It will help you find things. It also carries them for you. You can even use the robot to pay for your things.
Do you want to have a service robot, too?
【小题1】How long was the WRC?| A．Two days. | B．Five days. | C．One week. | D．One month. |
| A．Factory robots. | B．Space robots. |
| C．Service robots. | D．Underwater robots. |
| A．售货员 | B．厨师 | C．教练 | D．管家 |
| A．Turn off the TV. | B．Find things in the supermarket. |
| C．Tell a bedtime story. | D．Teach children to play basketball. |
| A．Robots. | B．Stars. | C．Jobs. | D．Sports. |
Several companies are racing to produce electronic paper and ink, complete with colors and moving imagines. One idea would be to create a newspaper like The Daily Project in the Harry Potter books. Its pages would hold video clips of baseball games instead of just black-and-white photos.
Electronic paper is not a new idea. A company in Massachusetts called E ink, for example, has been working for years on such a technology. Little electricity determines(决定)whether each microsphere(微球)looks black or white at any given time. Together, microspheres make up words and imagines. The techniques seems promising for creating still imagines that can be changed when needed, but the process(进程)is too slow for good videos.
Scientists in the Netherlands now report a new type of e-paper technology. By using layers(层) of oil, the requirements. They can also make images which change fast enough to meet standard video requirements. They can also make brilliant colors,. So far, however, each image is smaller than the fingernail.
For now, reading and watching TV will have to return two separate activities. Keep your eyes open, though, in the future, TV watching and reading might be part of the same work.
【小题1】According to the passage, kids soon can _______.
| A．be allowed to watch TV | B．watch TV while doing their homework |
| C．watch Harry Potter on TV | D．be allowed to read a newspaper |
| A．Make the Harry Potter TV program | B．create a newspaper like the The Daily Project |
| C．provide baseball games for kids | D．produce electronic paper with colors and moving images |
| A．Images | B．Electricity | C．Oil and ink | D．Fingernail |
| A．Electronic paper is not a new idea. |
| B．Microspheres make up words and images . |
| C．Now TV watching and reading is part of the same work. |
| D．Scientists use layers of oil in a new research. |
My friend John has got a restaurant in a big city. It Is near a supermarket. He gets ten robots for the restaurant. He bought them from a foreign company in the United States when he decided to open a restaurant last month. Each robot costs 20, 000 yuan. The restaurant is not big, but very popular in that city. Now more and more people come there for dinner.
The robots have different jobs in the restaurant. Two robots cook different kinds of food; one washes the dishes; one cleans the floor and the others give food to the guests. Although all the staff((员工) are robots, it is not expensive to eat in this restaurant. Because John doesn't need to pay for the robots every month!
Robots do most of the Jobs in the restaurant, but John is still very busy. He must do many things to keep the robots working well. Luckily, John is good at studying robots and he knows robots very well. I think in the future, there will be a lot of robot-themed restaurants(机器人主题餐厅) around the world.
【小题1】Where is John's restaurant?| A．It is behind a park. |
| B．It is next to a cinema. |
| C．It is next to a supermarket. |
| A．Six | B．Five | C．Four |
| A．Playing games. | B．Cooking food | C．Studying robots. |
| A．John’s restaurant is in a small city. |
| B．the robots cost John 200,000 yuan |
| C．John is always free because of the robots. |
| A．The restaurant is big and clean. |
| B．It is expensive to eat in the restaurant. |
| C．The restaurant is popular in John's city. |
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