Ⅱ.认真阅读下面的短文,根据短文的内容从四个选项中选择一个最佳答案 Scientists are racing to build the world's first thinking robot. This is not science fiction: some say they will have made it by the year 2020. Machines that walk, speak and feel are no longer science fiction. Kismet is the name of an android (机器人) which scientists have built at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Kismet is different from the traditional robot because it can show human emotions. Its eyes, ears and lips move to show when it feels happy, sad or bored. Kismet is one of the first of a new generation of androids—robots that look like human beings—which can imitate human feelings. Cog, another android invented by the MIT, imitates the action of a mother. However, scientists admit that so far Cog has the mental ability of a two-year-old. The optimists say that by the year 2020 we will have created humanoids (机器人) with brains similar to that of an adult human being. These robots will be designed to look like people to make them more attractive and easier to sell to the public. What kind of jobs will they do? In the future, robots like Robonaut, a humanoid invented by NASA, will be doing dangerous jobs, like repairing space stations. They will also be doing more and more of the household work for us. In Japan, scientists are designing androids that will entertain us by dancing and playing the piano. Some people worry about what the future holds, will robots become monsters? Will people themselves become increasingly like robots? Experts predict that more and more people will be wearing micro-computers, connected to the internet, in the future. People will have micro-chips in various parts of their bodies, which will connect them to a wide variety of devices. Perhaps we should not exaggerate the importance of technology, but one wonders whether, in years to come, we will still be falling in love, and whether we will still feel pain. Who knows?
1. Kismet is different from traditional robots because it ______.
A.can think for itself
B.has eyes, ears and lips
C.can look after two-year-olds
D.can express human feelings
A B C D
D
[解析] Kismet不同于传统的机器人,because it can show human emotions,因为它能显示出人类的情感。答案为D。
2. A common feature of the new generation of robots mentioned in the passage is that they ______.
A.can act like a mother
B.have the mental ability of a two-year-old
C.look and act like human beings
D.can do entertaining work
A B C D
C
[解析] 文章中提到的新一代机器人的共同特点是C项,它们看上去、做事情像人类,原因在第三段第三、四句,Kismet is one of the first of a new generation of androids—robots that look like human beings...the action of a mother。答案为C。
3. Which of the following statements is not true according to the passage?______
A.It's possible to plant micro-chips in human bodies.
B.Human beings will do less household work because of robots.
C.No one is completely sure what technology will do for us in the future.
D.Robots with human brains will surely be created by 2020.
A B C D
D
[解析] 题干问,下列哪项不正确?A、B、C项文中都有提到,D项,到2020年,有人脑一样大脑的机器人肯定会被造出来,不正确。文章第四段段首说The optimists say that by the year 2020, we will have created humanoids with brains similar to that of an adult human being。答案为D。
4. According to the passage, future robots will be designed ______ to do all the following except
A.working in the space
B.falling in love
C.entertaining people
D.thinking like a human being
A B C D
B
[解析] 按照文章内容,未来的机器人将被设计用来做的情况在文中第四段,A项working in the space,C项entertaining people,D项能在一定程度上像人一样思考,均有提到。答案为B。
5. What is the writer's attitude to robots in the future?
A.从下列单词中选择适当的词填空,每个词只能用一次。 agreed alone but hungry luckily passed past quarreled shop time wait where Once, a new policeman caught a thief in a small town, and decided to bring him hack to the police station in the city. On their way they came to a shop 1 bread was sold. "We have no food, and we must be 2 after a while. Let me go into the shop and buy some bread for us. 3 here for me." the thief said. The policeman 4 with him and waited in the street for a long time, but the thief didn't come out of the 5 . The policeman began to be worried, and ran inside. He couldn't see the thief 6 the back door of the shop. The policeman had to go hack police station 7 , and he was very unhappy. 8 , the policeman caught the thief at the same place the next day. When they walked on the same street and 9 the same shop, the policeman said to the thief, "Wait here, last 10 you ran away from the shop. This time, I'll go in and buy the bread, and you must wait here for me."
B.根据课文的内容在每个空白处填入一个恰当的词。 It was Mother who first saw that there was something wrong with me. I was about four months 1 at the time. She noticed that my 2 fell backwards when she tried to feed me. She attempted to correct this 3 placing her hand on the back of my neck to 4 it steady. But when she took it away, back it 5 drop again. That was the first warning 6 . Then she became aware of other defects as I got older. She saw that my hands were clenched nearly all of the 7 ; my jaws would either lock together tightly, 8 they would suddenly become limp and fall loose. At six months I could not sit 9 without having a mountain of pillows around me. At twelve months it was the 10 Very worried by this, Mother told my father her fears, and they decided to seek medical advice without any further delay.
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Ⅴ.根据所学课文内容完成下列句子
1. When the doctors said he was mentally defective and would remain so, Christy' mother firmly believe that ______.
though his body was crippled, his mind was not
2. In the text The Letter "A", most of the doctors said that the boy was ______.
mentally defective and would remain so
3. In the story "The Letter 'A'", when the narrator was very young his relatives suggested his parent put him in ______.
a home for idiots
4. The relatives and friends advised his mother ______.
to treat the boy kindly, sympathetically, but not seriously
5. His mother had been trying to teach him to ______.
communicate
6. When he was five, he was ______.
still as helpless as a newborn baby
Ⅵ.将下列句子译成英语
1. 我们确信她会成功。
We are assured of her success./We are assured that she will succeed.
2. 我们正在考虑如何安排好这次旅行。
We are thinking of how to organize the trip well.
3. 无论敌人什么时候来,他们必将被彻底消灭。
No matter when the enemy come, they will be wiped out completely.