In California, another interesting kitchen robot has been developed, called Readybot. It can pick up objects and either store them in cabinets (橱柜) or put them in the trash. It also carries a separate floor-cleaning robot that can operate by itself. Unlike the Japanese robot, Readybot just looks more like a large box with arms and wheels.
Readybot was created by engineers and designers who established a club called the Readybot Challenge. They believe that in the future millions of robots will be needed in homes to perform ordinary household tasks. Readybot is just the first step in their plan to create a robot that can do jobs not only in kitchens but in other rooms of homes and in offices as well.
Clearly there are technological difficulties to solve before robots can cook a complete dinner, and there are also many safety concerns (忧虑). Not everyone (especially parents) would be comfortable with the idea of robots in their house,manipulatinghot pans and sharp knives. The European Commission recently funded(资助) a project to study these concerns. According to lead researcher Professor Chris Melhuish, “Enabling robots to work safely with humans is a key need for the future development of robotics.”
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A. is more popular B. performs more jobs
C. moves more quickly D. looks more like a person
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A. drive you around B. clean your kitchen
C. prepare food for you D. work for office workers
3.
A. inventing B. avoiding C. controlling D. making
4.
A. have shown great interest in kitchen robots
B. can’t wait to use kitchen robots in their homes
C. might think that kitchen robots could be dangerous
D. found out how to operate robots safely
假如你是李华，是美国某所学校的交换生，你几天前在美国的一个商店买的手机坏了。请你根据以下提示，给该商店客服发一封电子邮件。
(1)写作目的；
(2)具体问题：如手机黑屏，不能重启等；
(3)解决办法：如维修，更换新手机等。
注意：(1)词数在100字左右；
(2)可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
(3)开头语已为你写好。
Dear Sir or Madam,
My name is Li Hua, an exchange student from China._________________________________
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Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
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（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，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限一词;2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Two years ago my husband buy me a bicycle. If you live in a town, it is often fast than a car and you don’t have to worry parking. You can leave them in any place you like. As it has a seat at the back or a basket at the front, it’s convenient for me to take my little daughter to school, and go shopping. I use it most in summer while the weather is warm and dry. It can be unpleasant in winter, though, when the weather is cold and rain. It can also be dangerous. You should be careful of on a bicycle. Accidents are not the only problem. One day I went shop and came back to find my front wheel gone. Now I have three strong lock.
Do you find it hard to memorize words? You must not be the only one. It could be 1.(help) if you say the words aloud. But this often isn’t good in a quiet classroom.
Now, researchers from the University of Waterloo, Canada, have come up 2.a new idea. They suggest 3.(draw) a picture of what you are trying to memorize!
The researchers did a study 4.(base) on the idea. They first gave a group of students some words such as “apple” or “balloon”. Then they gave the students 40 seconds, during 5.the students could either write the words again and again, or draw a picture.
When the time 6.(be) over, the researchers asked the students to do something else, like sing a song. After that, they gave the students 60 seconds to write down as many words 7.they could remember. The results showed that those who drew the words did a much 8.(good) job than those who wrote them.
So the next time you are having a hard time memorizing a word, 9.(draw) it! No worries if you’re not good at drawing. The 10.(research) say the quality of the drawing doesn’t matter at all.
My husband, Rashid, arrived in New York on his own from India. He stayed in a _______for a short time while _______for a house for me and our children.
During the first week of his _______, he went out one day to do some shopping. He came back in the late afternoon to discover that his suitcase was _______. He was extremely worried _______ the suitcase had all his important papers, _________ his passport.
He reported the _________ to the police and then sat there，lost and _______ in strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again from a distant country while trying to_______ in a new one.
Late in the evening, the phone rang. It was a(an) __________. He was trying to pronounce my husband’s name and was asking him a lot of questions. __________ he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can（垃圾桶）__________had been left out on the footpath.
My husband__________ to their home to find a kind family holding all his papers and documents. Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of __________papers. Her parents had carefully sorted them out, although they had found mainly __________ addresses on most of the documents. At last they had seen a half-written __________in the pile in which my husband had given his new __________ number to a friend.
That family not only restored(归还) the important documents to __________that day but also restored our faith and __________ in people. We still remember their __________ and often send a warm wish their way.
1.A. school B. museum C. hotel D. shelter
2.A. leaving B. looking C. waiting D. paying
3.A. design B. change C. offer D. stay
4.A. gone B. shared C. cost D. returned
5.A. if B. as C. though D. after
6.A. including B. containing C. case D. holding
7.A. thought B. complaint C. case D. pain
8.A. happy B. lonely C. satisfied D. confident
9.A. grow up B. break down C. lie down D. settle down
10.A. officer B. stranger C. friend D. passenger
11.A. Then B. So C. But D. Yet
12.A. where B. what C. that D. it
13.A. moved B. rushed C. skated D. wandered
14.A. unfamiliar B. favorite C. similar D. expensive
15.A. suitable B. flexible C. convenient D. foreign
16.A. e-mail B. letter C. paragraph D. essay
17.A. flight B. bus C. telephone D. diploma
18.A. us B. you C. them D. me
19.A. friendship B. justice C. trust D. devotion
20.A. curiosity B. confidence C. patience D. kindness
Have you ever heard of an insect called the cicada(蝉)? 1. But they have an interesting internal clock that tells them when to go aboveground.
Every 17 years, billions of the noisy Brood V cicadas(十七年蝉) will swarm(成群出现) to northeastern parts of the US, including New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. 2.But there are usually a lot less of them compared to the Brood V cicadas.
3. According to Discovery News, these insects started their lives in 1999. And as their 17-year life cycle comes to an end, they go aboveground when their underground homes get warmer 64 degrees Fahrenheit (about 18℃) to be exact.
Then the females will lay hundreds of eggs in trees, and after about four to six weeks, the mother and father cicadas will die. 4.
While they can be kind of annoying, these insects don’t harm humans, but they do make a lot of noise during their time aboveground. 5.
However, since there are so many of the 17-year cicadas, the amount of laid eggs can sometimes harm small trees and bushes. But after this summer, these insects will mostly mind their own business until 2033.
A. That sound is the male cicadas attracting the female cicadas.
B. The cicada insects are common in summer, especially in August and can be found in July as well.
C. There are other kinds of cicadas that come around once a year or every 13 years.
D. The baby cicadas will go underground, and the 17-year cycle will start over again.
E. As a matter of fact, people like to eat them in some cultures.
F. Well, a special kind of these insects live underground in the US for most of their lives.
G. This is what makes Brood V cicadas so special.
