Almost everyone stood up when the bride appeared in her white dress except the wedding conductor, because she was fixed to her chair. The marriage was held at a restaurant in Hibiya Park in central Tokyo. A four-foot-tall robot called I-Fairy directed the wedding.
“Please lift the bride’s veil(面纱）,” I-Fairy said in a tiny voice with flashing eyes and long hair. As the happy persons kissed in front of about 50 guests, she shook her arms in the air. It was the first time that a marriage had been led by a robot.
Japan has one of the most modern robot industries in the world. The government actively supports to make more kinds of robots in the future. Many robot models in factories are very new. Recently Japanese companies are making robots work for people in daily life.
Honda makes a walking robot like children, and other companies have developed robots that can help old people and play baseball. In order to “touch the hearts of the people”, Kokoro makes huge dinosaur robots and other models that can smile.
“This is a lot of fun. I think that Japanese have a strong thought that robots are our friends. People in the robot industry mostly understand this, but people mainly want robots to serve them,” said Satoko Inoue, who works in Kokoro. Now the I-Fairies are in use in Singapore, the US and Japan.
1.Who was the wedding conductor?
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2.Why does Kokoro make model robots that can smile?
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3.What do Japanese think about robots?
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4.What countries use robots called I-Fairy now?
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5.What do you think of robots? (请自拟一句话回答）
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World Book Day falls on April 23 every year. It was set up by UNESCO (联合国教科文组织) in 1955 to e1.people, especially teenagers, to discover the pleasure of the reading.
Many countries celebrate World Book Day. On that day in the UK, millions of students can buy books of special price, much l2.than usual in any bookstore. It has been done every year since 1998. World Book Day is also celebrated in China. Premier Wen Jiabao does lots of reading t3.he’s very busy. On World Book Day 2009, he called on people to do more reading. He suggested that young people should spend more time reading. “Books can’t change the world, but people can change the world by changing t4.through reading,” he said.
Reading can benefit (有益于) people in many ways. Reading helps us become more knowledgable and more intelligent. Reading helps us to follow the latest developments of science and t5.. Reading p6.us with information about other culture and places of the world. When we read, we may find many things that are u7. to us. We would have to use our brain to think about them or do more reading to find out the answers. The more we read, the more we know. The more we know, the smarter we become. Reading is also one of the most important ways to learn a foreign language l8.English. We all know that we can’t learn everything at school, for example, the ways English people are speaking and
w9.today.
“Reading makes a full man.” Books, magazines, newspapers and other kinds of reading materials can help us to know more about the outside world and perfect us. Therefore, it is necessary for us to form the
h10.of reading every day.
1.The lazy boy spread his things all over the floor．（改为一般疑问句）
_______ the lazy boy _______ his things all over the floor？
2.Eddie goes to the library twice a week.(对划线部分提问)
_______ ________ times a week does Eddie go to the library?
3.If you are not careful enough，you’ll probably make a mistake（保持句意基本不变）
______ be careless，______ you’ll probably make a mistake．
4.Jerry’s mother bought him two books yesterday.(改为被动语态）
Two books were ________ ______Jerry yesterday．
5.Mr.Jiang advised us which we should choose as our after-school activities．（改为简单句）
Mr.Jiang advised us which _______ _______ as our after-school activities．
1.If I _______ another chance tomorrow, I will do it better.
2.It _________ all day yesterday, so the ground is all wet now.
3.The more careful you are , the fewer mistakes you _______.
4.—Haven’t seen you for ages！Where have you been?
— I __________ in Ningxia for one year , teaching as a volunteer.
5.─Why are you in such a hurry？
─My father’s car _______ down on the way．I have to go to help him．
1.Two_______ of the land in that district is covered with trees and flowers．
2.On my desk is a photo that my father took of__________when I was a baby．
3.He behaves so__________ in public that no one likes him．
4.They run to __________, away from the fire.
5.To make a green world，we should try to reduce air _______ by walking more and driving less．
1.Your can never imagine how much difficulty they had __________(控制) the ship in the storm．
2.We are_________(期待) to speak to the old politely.
3.The match is nice and it is __________(expensive) than others in the shop.
4.Pay no attention to those who laugh at you. What ______ (be important) most is how you see yourself.
5.The washing machine was running __________ after it was repaired.
