1、had developed a new type of program just before the competition.So we need to encourage our programer to improve our intelligence too.We are determined to create an even better system.In a way our programmet is like our coach.She programs us with moves to use if a new sitation arises.In this way I c
2、an make up new moves using my “artifical intelligence “.I would really like to play against a human team,for I have been programmed to act just like them.After all,with the help of my electronic brain which never forgets anything ,using my intelligence is what Im all about! THE SPORTING ROBOT My nam
3、e is Hua Fei and I am a sporting robot of the 23rd century.I am an expert at high flying exercises.I jump from spaceship and as I fall I turn,dive,circle and dance until I softly land as close as I can to the finishing line.Robot competitions in the 23rd century are truly a popular sport.Fans from a
4、ll over China watch their handheld TVs when a competition comes on.Last time I look part in the 78th Olympic on a flying island above Brussels in the sky.I won the siver medal for my performance . This year I had the honour to be chosen again .I wanted to mmet robots from other countyies and explore
5、 ides about our sport.Hower ,my programmer fell ill the week before we were going to leave .It was very painful for her and I felt very frightened.I no longer felt so confident that I would win. The day of the competition was rather could for my legs and my special oil began to fteeze.I paused befor
6、e I jumped from the starting place on a little spaceship but then I began my performance.At the correct moment I tried to open my parachute but there was a problem.It only opened a little .In stead of flying softly to earth I began to fall faster and faster so that I could not turn ,dive,circle or d
7、ance.My heart stopped beating as I landed heavily on a mountain covered with snow. This is why I am writing to you from my hospital bed with two broken legs and a fragile head.I did not win anything at the Olympic after all.I need the factory to build me two new legs and an even bigger head.Then I w
8、ill be able to compete once more .Lets hope foe greater success in the next Olympics! Unit 4 (1) How Daisy learned to help wildlife Daisy had always longed to help endangered species of wildlife.One day she woke up and found a flying carpet by her bed.“Where do you want to go?”it asked.Daiasy respon
9、ded immediately.“Id like to see some endangered wildlife,”she said.“please take me to a distant land where I can find the animal that gave fur to make this sweater.”At once the carpet flew away and took her to Tibet. There Daisy saw an antelope looking sad.It said,“We are being killed for the wool b
10、eneath our stomachs.Our fur is being used to make sweaters for people like you .As a reasult,we are now an endangered species.”At that Daisy cried,“Im sorry I didnt know that.I wonder what is being done to help you.Flying carpet,please show me a place where theres some wildlife protection.” The flyi
11、ng carpet travelled so fast that next minute they were in Zimbabwe.Daisy turned around and found that she was being watched by an elephant.“Have you come to take my photo?”it asked.In relief Daisy burst into laughter.“Dont laugh,”said the elephant,“We used to be an endangered species.Farmers hunted
12、us without mercy.They said we destroyed their farms,and money from tourists only went to the large tour companies.So the government decided to help.They allowed tourists to hunt only a certain number of animals if they paid the farmers.Now the farmers are happy and our numbers are increasing.So good
13、 things are being done here to save local wildlife.” Daisy smiled.“Thats good news.It shows the importance of wildlife protection,but Id like to help as the WWF suggests.”The carpet Rose against and almost at once they were in a thick rainforest.A monkey Watched them as it rubbed itself.“What are yo
14、u doing?”asked Daisy. “Im protecting myself from mosquitoes,”it replied.“When I find a milipede insect,I rub it over my body.It contains a powerful drug which affect mosquitoes. You should pay more attention to the rainforest where I live and appreciate how the animals live together.No rainforest,no
15、 animals,no drugs.” Daisy was amazed.“Flying carpet, please take me home so I can tell WWF and we can begin producing this new drug.Monkey,please come and help,”The monkey agreed.The carpet flew home.As they landed,things begin to disappear.Two minutes later everything had gone-the monkey,too. So Da
16、isy was not able to make her new drug.But what an experience!She had learned so much!And there was always WWF (2)Animal extinction Many animals have disappeared during the long history of the earth.The most famous of these animals are dinosaurs.They lived on the earth tens million of years ago,long
17、before humans came into being and their future seemed secure at that time.There were many different kinds of dinosaur and a number of them used to live in china.The eggs of twenty-five species have been found in Xixia County,Nanyang,Henan province.Not long ago a rare new species of bird-like dinosau
18、r was discovered in Country,liaoning Province.When scientists inspected the bones, they were surprised to find that these dinosaurs could not only run like the others but also climb trees.They learned this from the way the bones were joined together. Dinosaurs died out suddenly about 65million years
19、 ago.Some scientists think it came after an unexpected incident when a huge rock from space hit the earth and put too much dust into the air.Others think the earth got too hot for the dinosaurs to live on any more.Nobody knows for sure why and how dinosaur disappeared from the earth in such a short
20、time. We know many other wild plants,animals,insects and birds have died out more recently.According to a UN report ,some 844 animals and plants have disappeared in the last 500 years.The dodo is one of them.It lived on the Island of Mauritius and was a very friendly animal.Please listen to a story
21、of the dodo and how it disappeared from the earth. (3) The return of the milu deer My name is Linhui.I like to tell stories about people who work together.What is even better is when countries help each other and build a good friendship.An excellent example of this happened when Britain and China wo
22、rked together to bring the Milu deer back to China. The Milu deer,a species with large horns,used to be common in China long ago.Like other deer they live together and eat grass and the soft parts of trees such as small branches.Milu deer were often hunted for food or sport in the past.The ,Ming and
23、 Qing dynasties did not protect them and many were killed.That is how the Milu deer disappeared from China. Luckily before all of them were killed,some were taken to Britain to improve the environment of the beautiful park which belonged to the Duke of Bedford.He liked them so much that he took them
24、 all the way from China to Britain.The Milu deer liked the cool,wet weather in England and their number increased year by year.As a result,when in 1985 the government of China wanted to reintroduce the Milu deer,the Duke of Bedford was happy to help.The first deer came back to China to the Nanhaizi
25、Milu Park 20 kilometers south of Beijing and the centre in Dafeng,Jingsu Province. The deer centainly seem happy to be back in China because their numbers have grown rapidly.There are now so many of them that a new park has been opened for them in Hebei Province.At the moment the Milu deer live in c
26、entres where they are being well protected and care for .It is hoped that one day there will be enough animals to let them live in the wild again.So Britain helped China by bringing back an animal that had disappeared from its homeland.This is a good example of friendship and understanding between t
27、hese two countries. Unit 5 The band that wasnt Have you ever wanted to be part of a band as a famous singer or musicians? Have you ever dreamed of playing in front of thousands of people at a concert, at which everyone is clapping and appreciating your music? Do you sing Karaoke and pretend you are
28、a famous singer like Song Zuying or Liu Huan? To be honest, a lot of people attach great importance to becoming rich and famous. But just now do people form a band? Many musicians meet and form a band because they like to write and play their own music.They may start as a group of high-school studen
29、ts, for whom practising their music in someones house is the first step to fame. Sometimes they may play to passers-by in the street or subway so that they can earn some extra money for themselves or to pay for their instruments. Later they may give performances in pubs or clubs, for which they are
30、paid in cash. Of course they hope to make records in a studio and sell millions of copies to become millionaires! However, there was one band that started in a different way. It was called the Monkees and began as a TV show. The musicians were to play jokes on each other as well as play music, most
31、of which was based loosely on the Beatles. The TV organizer had planned to find four musicians who could act as well as sing. They put an advertisement in a newspaper looking for rock musicians, but they could only find one who was good enough. They had to use actors for the other three members of t
32、heband. As some of these actors could not sing well enough, they had to rely on other musicians to help them. So during the broadcasts they just pretended to sing. Anyhow their performances were humorous enough to be copied by other groups. They were so popular that their fans formed clubs in order
33、to get more familiar with them. Each week on TV, the Monkees would play and sing songs written by other musicians. However, after a year or so in which they became more serious about their work, the Monkees started to play and sing their own songs like a real band. Then they produced their own recor
34、ds and started touring and playing their own music. In the USA they became even more popular than the Beatles and sold even more records. The band broke up about 1970, but happily they reunited in the mid-1980s. They produced a new record in 1996, with which they celebrated their former time as a re
35、al band. Freddy the frog（） Not long after Freddy and the band became famous, they visited Britain on a brief tour. Fans showed their devotion by waiting for hours to get tickets for their concerts . Freddy was now quite confident when he went into a concert hall. He enjoyed singing and all the congr
36、atulations afterwards! His most exciting invitationhad developed a new type of program just before the competition.So we need to encourage our programer to improve our intelligence too.We are determined to create an even better system.In a way our programmet is like our coach.She programs us with mo
37、ves to use if a new sitation arises.In this way I can make up new moves using my “artifical intelligence “.I would really like to play against a human team,for I have been programmed to act just like them.After all,with the help of my electronic brain which never forgets anything ,using my intellige
38、nce is what Im all about! THE SPORTING ROBOT My name is Hua Fei and I am a sporting robot of the 23rd century.I am an expert at high flying exercises.I jump from spaceship and as I fall I turn,dive,circle and dance until I softly land as close as I can to the finishing line.Robot competitions in the
39、 23rd century are truly a popular sport.Fans from all over China watch their handheld TVs when a competition comes on.Last time I look part in the 78th Olympic on a flying island above Brussels in the sky.I won the siver medal for my performance . This year I had the honour to be chosen again .I wan
40、ted to mmet robots from other countyies and explore ides about our sport.Hower ,my programmer fell ill the week before we were going to leave .It was very painful for her and I felt very frightened.I no longer felt so confident that I would win. The day of the competition was rather could for my leg
41、s and my special oil began to fteeze.I paused before I jumped from the starting place on a little spaceship but then I began my performance.At the correct moment I tried to open my parachute but there was a problem.It only opened a little .In stead of flying softly to earth I began to fall faster an
42、d faster so that I could not turn ,dive,circle or dance.My heart stopped beating as I landed heavily on a mountain covered with snow. This is why I am writing to you from my hospital bed with two broken legs and a fragile head.I did not win anything at the Olympic after all.I need the factory to bui
43、ld me two new legs and an even bigger head.Then I will be able to compete once more .Lets hope foe greater success in the next Olympics! Unit 4 (1) How Daisy learned to help wildlife Daisy had always longed to help endangered species of wildlife.One day she woke up and found a flying carpet by her b
44、ed.“Where do you want to go?”it asked.Daiasy responded immediately.“Id like to see some endangered wildlife,”she said.“please take me to a distant land where I can find the animal that gave fur to make this sweater.”At once the carpet flew away and took her to Tibet. There Daisy saw an antelope look
45、ing sad.It said,“We are being killed for the wool beneath our stomachs.Our fur is being used to make sweaters for people like you .As a reasult,we are now an endangered species.”At that Daisy cried,“Im sorry I didnt know that.I wonder what is being done to help you.Flying carpet,please show me a pla
46、ce where theres some wildlife protection.” The flying carpet travelled so fast that next minute they were in Zimbabwe.Daisy turned around and found that she was being watched by an elephant.“Have you come to take my photo?”it asked.In relief Daisy burst into laughter.“Dont laugh,”said the elephant,“
47、We used to be an endangered species.Farmers hunted us without mercy.They said we destroyed their farms,and money from tourists only went to the large tour companies.So the government decided to help.They allowed tourists to hunt only a certain number of animals if they paid the farmers.Now the farme
48、rs are happy and our numbers are increasing.So good things are being done here to save local wildlife.” Daisy smiled.“Thats good news.It shows the importance of wildlife protection,but Id like to help as the WWF suggests.”The carpet Rose against and almost at once they were in a thick rainforest.A m
49、onkey Watched them as it rubbed itself.“What are you doing?”asked Daisy. “Im protecting myself from mosquitoes,”it replied.“When I find a milipede insect,I rub it over my body.It contains a powerful drug which affect mosquitoes. You should pay more attention to the rainforest where I live and appreciate how the animals live together.No rainforest,no animals,no drugs.” Daisy was amazed.“Flying carpet, please take me home so I can tell WWF and we can begin producing this new drug.Monkey,please come and help,”The monk
