Imagine this: you and your friend are on a video call. He or she picks up a book, and you feel like you’re holding the book as well. You can shake hands or give your friend a high five, even though you’re apart (分开).
A pair of special gloves might make this come true. Researchers at the University of New South Wales, Australia, have made gloves that can recreate the sense of touch. They call this haptic device (触觉装置) a “soft skin stretch device” (SSD).
The SSD works like this: One user’s gloves create 3D force signals when they touch something. The signals are sent to the other user’s gloves, which vibrate (震动) to create the same force that the first user is experiencing. This allows the second user to experience the same sense of touch.
The SSD allows you to feel force, vibration and motion(移动). “It is like wearing a second skin,” said Thanh Nho Do, one of the researchers who created the gloves.
Haptic technology is already being widely used. For example, the trackpads (触控板) in laptops (平板) use vibration to make it feel like you’re clicking (点击) a real mouse. However, it is difficult to recreate the sense of touch in virtual (虚拟的) environments or remotely (远程地), according to Mai Thanh Thai, lead researcher of the SSD project. The SSD is special because it has a high level of sensitivity (灵敏度) even when it is used continuously (连续地). This makes it feel more realistic (真实的).
The SSD could be used in medical practice. Two doctors in separate places could work together during an operation (手术)—one touches the patient’s organs (器官) with the SSD while the other doctor feels the same sensation (感觉) and completes the actual (实际的) operation.
1. What does “SSD” in the story refer to?| A．A video chat app. | B．A special pair of gloves. |
| C．A computer hard drive. | D．Winter clothing. |
| A．What the SSD allows users to feel. | B．How the SSD creates signals. |
| C．What the SSD is used for. | D．How the SSD works. |
| A．Because it creates vibrations. | B．Because it strengthens(加强) the senses. |
| C．Because it senses continuous actions. | D．Because it is highly sensitive. |
| A．The SSD aims to improve video calls. |
| B．Haptic devices are hard to use. |
| C．The SSD makes remote (远程的) operations possible. |
| D．Haptic technology is mostly used in gaming. |
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【推荐1】How do you go to school every day? By bike or on foot? You can try a new way-taking a S-Cool Bus. The S-Cool Bus is a bike bus. Thomas Tolkamp made the bike bus. It’s interesting for kids to ride the bus together to go to school.
Also, it is very safe. The bike bus has a driver and eleven chairs for kids. There is also a roof on the bus. It makes kids comfortable (舒适的) on hot days or rainy days.
Riding the bike bus is a great way for children to get to school. Kids can learn about the streets and the city very well. For most parents, it can help them save a lot of time, because they only have to drive their children home after school.
The S-Cool Bus is getting more and more popular (受欢迎的) in some countries like Germany and France. Thomas Tolkamp says, “I hope people in more countries can use the bike bus. If so, we can save the Earth (地球) in many ways.”
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. How many people can sit on the bike bus?
| A．9 | B．10 |
| C．11 | D．12 |
| A．刹车 | B．扶手 |
| C．车顶 | D．方向盘 |
| A．where kids can take a bike bus |
| B．why it is good to take a bike bus |
| C．what kids can do on the bike bus |
| D．how kids and parents use the bike bus |
| A．the bike bus is very safe |
| B．the kids can ride the bus only for fun |
| C．the parents can take their kids home on a bike bus |
| D．the S-Cool Bus is getting popular in most countries |
| A．it is interesting | B．it is safe |
| C．it can save time | D．it can save the Earth |
【推荐2】AI (人工智能) makes our lives easier and better. Let’s see the amazing AI.
Cool driverless bus
A bus door opens and you get on. Wait! Where is the driver? Here is a new kind of driverless bus called Apolong. It has 14 seats and doesn’t need a driver. The bus follows traffic rules. It stops as soon as it sees a stop light.
Your close friend
Hi, everyone. I’m Xiaobing, a chatbot (聊天机器人). I speak like a 17-year-old girl. If you feel lonely, you can talk with me. I’m talented at singing, writing poems and telling stories. I want to be your friend!
World’s first AI anchor (主播)
Hey, look! The famous Chinese anchor Qiu Hao is reporting the news for us. But, is “he” really Qiu Hao? The answer is “no”. This is the world’s first AI anchor. It looks and speaks just like a real person. It can work 24 hours and doesn’t make any mistakes. You might see it on TV soon.
Popular AI artist
This beautiful painting was at an auction (拍卖) in 2020. The painting is worth about 3,000,000 yuan! But it is not a work by a famous painter, such as Vincent van Gogh. It was painted by an AI arts. Three Frenchmen created the Al artist. It studied over 15,000 paintings. In this way, it learned to paint.
1. The fact about Apolong is that ________.| A．the bus door can’t open itself | B．it stops as soon as it sees a stop light |
| C．there are 24 seats in it | D．it doesn’t follow the traffic rules |
| A．go out to play with you | B．talk with you if you feel lonely |
| C．sing | D．be your friend |
| A．was at an auction in 2019 |
| B．is worth about 3,000,000 yuan at an auction |
| C．is a work painted by Vincent van Gogh |
| D．was studied by three French artists over 15,000 times |
| A．AI makes our lives harder and worse. |
| B．This new kind of driverless bus also needs a driver to control it. |
| C．Xiaobing is a 17-year-old girl. |
| D．The AI anchor can work 24 hours and doesn’t make any mistakes. |
【推荐3】Don’t you think robots are a part of your life? In factories, robots put together everything from toys to cars. Some homes have robots that sweep floors or mow the lawn (剪草坪). And more robots are soon to come.
| Like a Human Robots don’t expect any thanks for all the work they do for us. After all, they don’t have feelings. But that may be changing with Nexi, a robot created by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nexi can move its face to show anger, happiness or sadness. It can also raise its eyebrows (眉毛) to show surprise. |
| Household Helpers How would you like a robot to help clean up your toys, or one that plays hide-and-seek with you? Nao can be programmed to do both those activities, and more. A two-foot-tall robot, Nao was designed by a company in France to be a helper and companion (伙伴). It can talk, walk and even remember faces, voices and places. |
| Robots at Work Need a lift out of bed? RIBA, short for “Robot for Interactive Body Assistance”, will lend its helpful arms! Some patients at hospitals and nursing homes have a hard time getting in and out of bed. RIBA can gently lift a patient out of bed and help him or her into a wheelchair (轮椅). |
| Water Bots Robots that work in water—and look like sea creatures (生物)—are making news lately. One of them is a robotic fish. Researchers built the robotic fish to swim in water to find out pollution. There’s even a robotic penguin (企鹅) called the AP, which can move in water in all directions. |
| A．head | B．face | C．arm | D．leg |
| A．Nexi. | B．Nao. | C．RIBA. | D．AP. |
| A．looking for fish | B．picking up rubbish |
| C．studying sea creatures | D．finding out pollution |
【推荐1】Jessie is an eleven-year-old student in Star Primary School. It is a big school with many trees and flowers. There are 1,800 students and 220 teachers in it. There are sixty classrooms in the classroom building. And every class has 30 students. Here is a map of her school. Let’s have a look at the map!
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Jessie likes her school very much. But she likes the music classroom best because it is very special. There are some desks in it, but there aren’t any chairs. Guess! Where do they sit? They sit on yoga balls. They are red, orange, blue and green. They are for students. Sitting on yoga balls is so fun. All the students like them very much. There are many pictures on the wall and there are many flowers in the front of the classroom. They make the classroom very beautiful.
1. There are ________ dinning hall in Jessie’s school.| A．one | B．two | C．three | D．four |
| A．library | B．science building |
| C．office building | D．classroom building |
| A．sports hall | B．science lab |
| C．school gate | D．art and music building |
| A．there are no flowers | B．there aren’t any chairs |
| C．there are many maps | D．there are many computers |
| A．Jessie likes the dinning hall best | B．there are 30 students in the school |
| C．Jessie’s school is big and beautiful | D．the dinning hall is next to the gate |
【推荐2】The Tianchi Meteorological Station is one of China’s best weather stations. It was really difficult to set up and develop this station.
The Tianchi station is at an altitude (海拔) of about 2,620 meters and is about 150 meters away from Tianchi Lake on the top of Changbai Mountain. Weather workers there not only enjoy wonderful sights, but also work under terrible weather conditions.
The average temperature there is -7.3℃ with the lowest of -44.0℃. Every year, there are strong winds in about 269 days with some up to 74 kilometers per hour. Snow can be seen in about 250 days. And there are 56 days of thunderstorms.
The station was set up in 1958 to improve weather information collection. These days, workers also need to pay attention to the effects of climate change and protect the wildlife in Changbai Mountain. Workers stay at the station from June to September. In other months, they check the equipment to keep everything in working order.
Since the station was set up, many workers have done their part in collecting weather information from Changbai Mountain. Jiao Xiangzhao, 53, is one of them. He has worked there for 24 years. He still remembers his first day of work.“Because of the heavy snow, the car we took had to stop when we were one-third of the way to the station. We took four hours to get to the mountain top with heavy bags,” he said.
Over the past years, conditions have improved a lot. Since 2010, new equipment has been used at the station. In 2016, a new building of 1,000 m² was built. Workers could work more safely there.
Working at the station may be hard but important. Jiao feels happy that he can help change the world for the better through his job.
1. What is the main idea of Paragraph 3?| A．The setting up of the weather station. |
| B．The weather conditions at the station. |
| C．The difficulty in working at a high altitude. |
| D．The beautiful sights of Changbai Mountain. |
| A．To report the terrible weather. |
| B．To check the equipment in the mountain. |
| C．To improve the weather information collection. |
| D．To keep wild animals safe in the mountain. |
| A．Easy. | B．Helpful. | C．Safe. | D．Successful. |
【推荐3】We often talk about the weather. If we want to know about the weather, we can turn on the radio and listen to the weather report. We can also turn on the TV and watch the Weather Show. We can just read the newspaper, then we can get the weather. Sometimes we can ask other people in two different ways, “What is the weather like today?” or “How’s the weather today?” Sometimes you call at 121 for the weather.
When it is cold, we shiver(颤抖) and need to wear warm clothes and scarves. When it is raining, we need raincoats or umbrellas. When it is hot, we need a cool place and want a cold drink.
1. You can watch the Weather Show ________.| A．on the radio | B．on TV | C．at 121 | D．in the newspaper |
| A．hotel | B．fire | C．weather | D．food |
| A．cold | B．warm | C．hot | D．rainy |
| A．raincoats | B．umbrellas |
| C．to call 121 | D．to wear warm clothes and scarves |
