1、话题语篇专攻练17科普发明(二)(建议用时35分钟). 阅读理解AWhether 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 Jib
2、o. 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 l
3、ater 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 doesnt just deliver general answers to questions; it responds based on what it learns about each individual in the household. It can
4、 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
5、 Robots is one company bringing social robots to the market. The companys “Oshbot”robot is built to assist customers in a store, which can help the customers find items and help guide them to the products location in the store. It can also speak different languages and make recommendations for diffe
6、rent 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 fo
7、r us, but with us, ”said Breazeal. 【文章大意】社交机器人在未来的几年里会变得越来越普遍, 给人们生活带来很大变化。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. 【解析】选B。细节理解题。根据第二段可知家用机器人做一些家务
8、, 而社交机器人更像是人类的伙伴, 能分辨人的喜怒哀乐。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. 【解析】选D。细节理解题。根据第三段第二句和最后一句可知,
9、 你可以要求Jibo机器人执行各种任务, 它能够提醒人们服药。3. What can Oshbot work as? A. A language teacher. B. A tour guide. C. A shop assistant. D. A private nurse. 【解析】选C。推理判断题。根据第五段第二句话可知, 这种机器人能帮助顾客在商店购物, 帮忙找要买的东西和确定东西所在的位置, 由此推断是购物助手。4. We can learn from the last paragraph that social robots will_. A. train employeesB.
10、be our workmatesC. improve technologiesD. take the place of workers【解析】选B。推理判断题。根据最后Breazeal的话可知, 受过训练的机器人不是为我们工作的, 而是和我们一起工作的, 故答案B正确。5. 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.
11、An introduction to social robots. 【解析】选D。主旨大意题。文章开头提到社交机器人会越来越普遍, 接下来介绍了几种不同的机器人以及它们的功能, 故答案D正确。BGone are the days when children satisfied themselves with simple games of hopscotch(跳房子)or tag. There are practically no more“simple toys”in the toy market nowadays where its slowly being led by more com
12、plicated devices. Children have more discerning taste when it comes to their playing pleasure. So in an age where cellphones and digital cameras are just all too common, whats really the buzz about the wonders of a robot toy? To put things simply, an electronic robot toy is an extremely sophisticate
13、d(精密的)piece of technology especially for children who have always been used to playing with either plastic, wooden or luxurious toys. The high-tech robot toy, Robo Sapien promises to be a whole more than just a simple robot toy. A smart robot toy like this actually tries to break the mold ordinary p
14、lastic robot toys that only has blinking lights and beeping sound effects. Robot toys that are available in the market today are far more sophisticated than that especially since theyve been able to make these robot toys more interactive. Video games cannot be considered as a robot toy. The once pop
15、ular Tamagotchi may look like a video game but it is actually a robot toy. Video games are just electronic role playing mind games where you have a specific goal that must be taken care of while a robot toy like the Tamagotchi is actually highly dependent on the interaction between the Tamagotchi an
16、d the user. There are actually all sorts of robot toys available in the market today, from highly sophisticated, not to mention, costly, Robo Sapien to outdated Tamagotchis to high tech robot toy pets that have caused quite a stir even in Japan where people dont really have that much time to take ca
17、re of a real dog. Robo pets have been creating a lot of buzz in the toy market because of their highly innovative design and almost life like actions. Come to think of it, not only children are getting into the whole robot toy craze, with many grown adults now getting more and more hooked to the rob
18、ot toys in the market. 【文章大意】本文主要介绍了现在的孩子们玩的游戏再也不是原先那种简单的跳房子和捉人了, 他们现在玩的玩具是一些高科技的复杂的电子玩具, 不但具有闪光灯和叫声而且可以和他们进行互动等。6. From the first paragraph, we can infer that_. A. kids value their good memories of playing simple gamesB. kids nowadays arent easily satisfied with a robot toyC. cellphones and digital
19、 cameras are electronic toys tooD. kids show good judgement about the quality of toys【解析】选D。推理判断题。根据第一段的Children have more discerning taste when it comes to their playing pleasure. 可知现在的孩子们在选择玩具方面是有见识的。7. What distinguish a robot toy from ordinary plastic toys? A. It can be interactive. B. It has bl
20、inking lights. C. It has beeping sound effects. D. It is simple to operate. 【解析】选A。细节理解题。从第二段的since theyve been able to make these robot toys more interactive可知a robot toy是互动的。8. Why are video games not considered as a robot toy? A. Because they dont depend on the user to function well. B. Because t
21、hey are an audio visual device for playing games. C. Because the users have to take care of them. D. Because they usually get a goal for the users. 【解析】选B。细节理解题。结合第三段的Video games are just electronic role playing mind games where you have a specific goal that must be taken care of可知电子游戏只是电子角色所扮演的益智游戏
22、。9. People like Robo pets because_. A. they dont cost people a lot of moneyB. they arent easily out of dateC. they are exactly like a real animalD. they are highly sophisticated technological products【解析】选C。细节理解题。由倒数第二段的Robo pets have been creating a lot of buzz in the toy market because of their hi
23、ghly innovative design and almost life like actions可知这些电子宠物几乎和真的一样。. 阅读填句根据短文内容, 从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。Seeing with SoundAccording to a British news report, some blind people may finally get a chance to“see”. _1_Dr. Peter Meijer, a scientist at Philips Research Laboratories in the Netherl
24、ands, has developed a new system called the vOICe. The three middle letters in vOICe stand for“Oh, I see. ”Meijers groundbreaking technology may change the lives of visually impaired people all over the world. A wearable setup of vOICe system consists of a head-mounted camera, stereo headphones and
25、a notebook PC. The system translates visual images from a camera into complex sounds. _2_The program is based on the theory that people can hear certain sounds and learn to translate them into meaningful mental images. Everything has its own unique sound. _3_The height of an object or person could b
26、e determined by pitch(音调). And a built-in color identifier speaks out color names when it is turned on. What the vOICe users have to learn is which sound goes with which object. Meijer says that he is counting on the brains ability to adapt. _4_Within two weeks, most people who experiment with the v
27、OICe system are able to identify objects such as walls and doors. They are also able to identify certain situations, including whether the lights in a room are on or off. _5_Meijer thinks that translating will eventually become automatic for many users of the vOICe, bringing a form of vision to them
28、 for the very first time. A. Brighter areas sound louder than darker areas. B. It then sends these sounds to a person through headphones. C. However, they are not learning to see with their eyes; they are learning to see with their ears. D. The vOICe system is aiming to treat blindness by translatin
29、g images from a camera into audio signals. E. Meijer supposes that the brain is interested in the information“content”, but not the information“carrier”. F. To evaluate the new systems effectiveness, a number of visually impaired people were chosen to test the vOICe. G. Over time, some users have ev
30、en learned to“watch”television or“recognize”the outlines of buildings as they walk. 【文章大意】本文主要介绍了科学家们发明了一种名为The vOICe的系统, 它可以让那些盲人们能够通过声音而看到物体等情况。1. 【解析】选C。前面see加了引号, 注意引号的作用; 这里的see实际上就是听, 只有C项才能把上下文联系起来。2. 【解析】选B。说明了本系统的工作流程, 先把图像转化成声音, 然后再把声音通过耳机传给人。3. 【解析】选A。前一句话: Everything has its own unique s
31、ound. 表明“任何事物都有自己独一无二的声音”, 而A项是一个具体的实例, 并且与下句并列。4. 【解析】选F。根据关键词test和experiment; 选项和下文都是说明有关测试的问题的。5. 【解析】选G。G项谈的是实验的结果。. 短文改错假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文, 请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误, 每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加: 在缺词处加一个漏字符号(), 并在其下面写出该加的词。删除: 把多余的词用斜线( )画掉。修改: 在错的词下画一横线, 并在该词下面写出修改后的词。注意: 1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限
32、一词。2. 只允许修改10处, 多者(从第11处起)不计分。Dear Tom, I am glad to hear that you are going to Canada to study. So I was writing to tell you anything about this country. Locating in North America, Canada is the second large country with the largest number of lakes in the world. The majority of people lives in the
33、center of the country. However, I suggest that you chose to study in the east, because there are many international students here and the tuition is lower. During your study, you can take the part in more activities after class, where you can make more friends from different country. In this way, yo
34、ur life will rich and colourful. Hope you will have a wonderful life there. Yours, Li Ming答案: 1. 【解析】第二句中wasam。写信的动作是正在进行的, 所以用现在进行时。2. 【解析】第二句中anythingsomething。在肯定句中表示一些情况要用something。3. 【解析】第三句中LocatingLocated。be located in坐落在某地。locate与主语Canada是被动关系, 应使用过去分词作状语。4. 【解析】第三句中largelargest。the second l
35、argest意为“第二大”。5. 【解析】第四句中liveslive。The majority of people作主语, 谓语动词取决于people, 所以用复数。6. 【解析】第五句中chosechoose。suggest后跟宾语从句应用虚拟语气, 即should+动词原形, should可省略。7. 【解析】第五句中herethere。这里指的是in the east, 所以用there表示“在那里”。8. 【解析】第六句中去掉the。take part in是固定短语, 意为“参加”。9. 【解析】第六句中countrycountries。different后要用复数形式。这里是说来自不同的国家, 不止一个, 所以用复数。10. 【解析】第七句中will后加become。rich是形容词, 不能作谓语。will后缺少系动词。outdated adj. 过时的exhibition n. 展览estimate v. 估计recycle v. 回收upgrade v. 升级vacuum n. 真空represent v. 代表device n. 装置technology n. 技术exist v. 存在9
