For Dr Cynthia Breazeal,it's just about time to celebrate. The robotics researcher and professor was just getting ready to throw a party when The Huffington Post spoke with her yesterday,only hours after she and her team attracted international attention with the first appearance of Jibo,the world's first family robot.
Jibo,which stands just under a foot tall,can see,hear,speak,learn,help and relate. It can take pictures,track faces,recognize where sound is coming from and—ideally―help organize and simplify your life.
On Wednesday,Jibo began its crowdfunding (民间集资) campaign on Indie-gogo. The bot is selling for $ 499 to consumers and $ 599 to developers. Accord?ing to Breazeal,the crowdfunding approach is their way of getting feedback on the prototype (模型) from the most interested community of bot-enthusiasts out there.
The bot has a creative design that gives it something between a human and desk lamp appearance. Its midsection and "head" can turn,which helps it show tHe difference between "awake" and "asleep". Even in its prototype stage,Jibo dances? introduces itself,listens to voice commands and displays images on its 5. 7 inch touchscreen LCD display.
"For a social robot it brings together a set of expertise that is not typical?" Breazeal said. Jibo is able to look around the room and change the focus of your camera. Breazeal plans to incorporate Bluetooth and a cloud-based update system― both things that didn't exist just a decade ago.
When you take Jibo home,it will guide you through connecting to a Wi-Fi net?work and will take specific steps to learn more about you. The first thing it does is register your face and voice,asking you a few questions and explaining how it can help you.
5. We can infer from the first paragraph that .
A. Breazeal was trying to sell Jibo
B. Jibo still needed further improvement
C. Breazeal needed money to create Jibo
D. The invention of Jibo was worth celebrating
6. Why did Breazeal hold the crowdfunding campaign?
A. To attract robot enthusiasts.
B. To raise money for her projects.
C. To make her invention known.
D. To know what people think of her invention.
7. When you bring Jibo home,you should first .
A. take steps to know it B. connect it to the Internet
C. ask it a few questions D. introduce yourself to it
8. What is the text mainly about?
A. The world's first family robot.
B. A crowdfunding campaign.
C. Dr Cynthia Breazeal's celebration.
D. The recent development in robotics.
[文章大意]这是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了世界上的第一台家用机器人。它能使我们的生活更方便。
5. D推理判断题。根据第一段可知，Jibo的出现引发了全世界的关注。
Cynthia Breazeal博士在接受采访时正要举行庆祝会，由此可推知，Jibo的发明值得庆祝，故答案为D.
6. D细节理解题。根据第三段中的最后一句"...the crowd-funding approach is their way of getting feedback on the pro?totype (模型) from the most interested community of bot-en-thusiasts out there."可知，Cynthia Breazeal博士举行募捐会的目的是获得人们对Jibo的反馈。
7. B细节理解题。根据最后一段"When you take Jibo home,it will guide you through connecting to a Wi-Fi network...”可知，当你把Jibo带回家时，首先要将它连接到互联网，然后它才能了解你。
8. A主旨大意题。根据整篇文章的介绍以及第一段中的最后一句"…with the first appearance of Jibo,the world's first family ro-bot."可知，本文的主题是介绍世界上的第一台家用机器人。
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[2015山东济南第三次诊断] Robots that can chat,find misplaced glasses,draw aeroplanes and play with your children are attracting thousands of visitors during an expo in Tokyo as Japan adapts to changes in society.
Robots,such as the sound-sensitive Chapit,answer simple ques?tions and even joke with people to help them fight loneliness and stay alert in old age.
Japan has one of the world's fastest-ageing societies and the government pre?dicts that by 2050 the proportion of people over 65 will reach 40 per cent. "Many ol?der people in Japan live alone and have no one to talk to," said Kazuya Kitamura,representative of the expo organizer. "Communication robots accompany people and don't mind listening to the same stories over and over again." Matsumoto's " Personal Mobility Robot", equipped with four cameras and a sen?sor to recognize the user's centre of gravity,is designed to help the old move around without pressing buttons,using joysticks (操纵杆) or rotating wheels as in traditional wheelchairs.
The robot can also help find misplaced glasses by identifying them with a sen-
sor.
Other robots,such as the award-winning "DiGRO" can support busy parents who have little time to play with their children. The robot can use the Internet to find a simple image and then draw pictures,keeping children company while parents work.
While Chapit,a relatively simple robot, managed to attract a corporate partner,many researchers,such as Kiyoshi Matsumoto,a professor at the University of To?kyo,struggle to attract sponsors for more expensive projects.
"We have developed a robot that can assist many people,but we still haven't found a sponsor," said Matsumoto,who added that the cost of the machine,if massproduced,would be comparable to that of a car. "In the current economic environ?ment there are few companies willing to invest in such a costly project," he said.
1. It can be inferred from the text that .
A. many children lack love from parents
B. robots helpful to the old will be in great demand
C. robots are the most useful to children
D. robots do better than people in healthcare
2. It is difficult to find sponsors for robots because .
A. Japan is suffering economy depression
B. the robots are of poor design
C. the production of robots costs a lot
D. the future market is worrying
3. What is the author's attitude towards the robots referred to?
A. Unsatisfied.
B. Doubtful.
C. Favourable.
D. Regretful.
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A study of English learning problems was carried out among106 foreign students. 19. This was followed by speaking. Writing increased as a problem as students discovered difficulties in writing papers that they were now expected to hand in. 20.
The information gained helped us in determining where special attention should be paid in our course. Although many students have chosen to join the course with a reasonable motivation,we considered it important to note what seemed to encourage interest. 21. To use the same method would be selfdefeating because it might reduce motivation,especially if it has failed in the past. 22.
Variety of activity was also seen as a way of maintai?ning or increasing motivation. Several years ago we had one timetable that operated throughout. 23.
This led up to a major rethink,so finally we brought it in?to line with the expressed language needs of the students.
A. It shows that most students considered understanding spoken English their biggest problem.
B. Nearly all the students have experienced some kind of grammarbased English teaching.
C. However,we soon found that both the students and the teachers lost interest halfway.
D. Therefore a different method may help because it is different.
E. English learning problems should be studied again.
F. Teaching content should be changed halfway.
G. Reading remained as a significant problem.
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