The computers changed our lives in the 1980s, the Internet changed our lives in the 1990s, and the robots will change our lives in the new century.
Do you think there will be robots in people's homes? It's not a dream that every home will have a robot.
Now, robots are not only able to help people do the housework, they can also help the doctors do the difficult operations, play chess with people, play the piano and so on.
A new cooking robot is used in Beijing. It can cook all the dishes on the menu, you only need to wait two to four minutes, in the future, the robot will be a nurse, a security guard, or a partner in your life.
Experts(专家) believe robots will be used everywhere from the industrial( 工业的) robots to service robots. In the future, robots will become part of the family, and provide else service for people. We all look forward to the new robot age.
【小题1】     changed our lives in dm 1990s.
A. The robots         B. The compilers     C The TV sets      D. The Interact
【小题2】 According to the passage, we know that a new cooking robot is being used in          .

A．the future

B．Beijing

C．many countries

D．many families

【小题3】What can the robots do now?
A. They can help people do the housework.
B. They can help the doctor do the difficult operations
C. They can play chess with people.
D. A, B and C.
【小题4】Experts believe robots will be used           .

A．only in a hospital	B．only in a filmily
C．only in a factory	D．everywhere

【小题5】Which is the best title(标题) of the passage?

A．The computers changed our lives	B．Robots can cook
C．Robots are coming	D．Robots will be doctors

The computers changed our lives in the 1980s, the Internet changed our lives in the 1990s, and the robots will change our lives in the new century.
Do you think there will be robots in people’s homes? It’s not a dream that every home will have a robot.
Now, robots are not only able to help people do the housework, they can also help the doctors do the difficult operations, play chess with people, play the piano and so on.
A new cooking robot is used in Beijing. It can cook all the dishes on the menu, you only need to wait two to four minutes, in the future, the robot will be a nurse, a security guard, or a partner in your life.
Experts(专家) believe robots will be used everywhere from the industrial( 工业的) robots to service robots. In the future, robots will become part of the family, and provide else service for people. We all look forward to the new robot age.
【小题1】     changed our lives in dm 1990s.
A. The robots         B. The compilers     C The TV sets      D. The Interact
【小题2】 According to the passage, we know that a new cooking robot is being used in          .

A．the future

B．Beijing

C．many countries

D．many families

【小题3】What can the robots do now?
A. They can help people do the housework.
B. They can help the doctor do the difficult operations
C. They can play chess with people.
D. A, B and C.
【小题4】Experts believe robots will be used           .

A．only in a hospital	B．only in a filmily
C．only in a factory	D．everywhere

【小题5】Which is the best title(标题) of the passage?

A．The computers changed our lives	B．Robots can cook
C．Robots are coming	D．Robots will be doctors

　　Matt Mason has seen the future--and it's fun. Mason likes thinking about how machines can make our lives easier by doing the work we hate, such as cleaning. He shows a hard floor cleaning system（系统）that's built into the wall: it will blow dirt to a part of the room where it will be collected by a vacuum（吸尘器）. Then the system will drop some cleaner on the floor and an arm will mop（用拖把擦） it up. “This may trouble you,” says Kara, an expert in Mason's company. “But you can program it to come on at 3 a m, and it will just wet-mop the floor for you.”

　　When it comes to the kitchen, Bruce Beihoff, another expert at Whirlpool, is sure that in a few years, robots will be doing most of the boring work, freeing us to relax. “More than just fun, future kitchens will be environmentally friendly,” he says. “A new system will be built in the house which can recycle energy（能量）lost from your kitchen to make the whole home warm.”

　　“The fridge will be the center of the home,” says Daniel Lee, a market expert. The fridge will have a touch screen（触摸屏幕）where you can watch TV, surf the Internet, check your e-mail, keep a shopping list and order vegetables. “Your fridge is the first place you go in the morning and the last place at night,” says Lee.

　　Ever wonder why a 1.9-meter man and a 1.6-meter woman have to cook meals on counters（工作台）of the same height. “The height was decided over 50 years ago, according to the height of ordinary women,” says Jane Langmuir, an expert of cooking machines. “But times have changed. We have made a new counter where you press a button and it moves to whatever height you want.” At the same time, Ted Selker at MIT's Counter lab has made the dishmaker which lets you make dishes and bowls out of plastics at home. After each meal, the dishes are changed straight back into plastics.

(1)How many inventions are mentioned in the passage?

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A．Three.

B．Four.

C．Five.

D．Six

(2)In future, if you want to clean your house, you will ________.

[　　]

A．have a recycling system built in the wall

B．get up early to start your cleaning system

C．use your fridge to give orders to a cleaner

D．leave the work to a kind of cleaning machine

(3)What is future kitchen work like?

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A．Terrific and relaxing.	B．Easy and interesting.
C．Enjoyable and exciting.	D．Funny and amazing.

(4)Why is our fridge the first place we go in the morning and the last place at night ion the future?

[　　]

A．We will eat something in the fridge from the morning to the evening.

B．We can surf the Internet and check our e-mails from it.

C．We can buy vegetables and watch TV from it.

D．We will have some fridges in our homes.

(5)From the passage, we know ________.

[　　]

A．people will have more and more time enjoying themselves

B．future kitchens can provide all the energy for our life every day

C．the fridge can be found in the center of a future house

D．people must be expert at computers to use these inventions