【推荐2】After a long day’s study at school, you are very tired. So after school you go home to relax. When you get home, a robot greets you. He’s happy to see you and helps you take your school things to your room. He listens to you talk about your school life and tells you a new joke. And he tells you to call your cousin and to say happy birthday. And then he helps you with your homework.

This is your future, and the robot’s name is NAO. NAO has a small body, big eyes and a large head. He can walk and dance. He listens and talks, and he even learns and thinks for himself. His creators (创造者) predict that the robot will be in people’s homes before 2040.

This $16,000 robot knows who you are. NAO can even express emotions (表达情感). He is a self-guided(自动导向的)robot. A self-guided robot can sense (感觉), think and act. Other robots might do some easy things. For example, a robot might sense things using cameras and think using computers, but with no arms, he can’t act. Another robot can move and sense things, but he can’t think for himself. These aren’t self-guided robots. But NAO can do them all.

1. What does the underlined word “greet” in this article mean?

A．讨厌

B．远离

C．打败

D．问候

2. What does the robot tell you to do to your cousin?

A．say happy birthday

B．dance

C．send a birthday gift

D．help you with your homework

3. What does NAO look like?

A．He has small eyes and a small head.	B．He has big eyes and a large head.
C．He has a large body with a large head.	D．He has a small body with small eyes.

4. When will people have robots like NAO in their homes?

A．In 2040.

B．During 2040.

C．After 2040.

D．Before 2040.

5. Which of the following is TRUE according to the article?

A．NAO isn’t a self-guided robot.	B．NAO is more than fifteen thousand dollars.
C．NAO can’t even express emotions.	D．NAO can’t help kids with their homework.

【推荐3】Do you know these fun facts? More than 3 billion people use the Internet;more than 200 billion emails are sent every day; the first computer mouse was made of wood...

    1     What do you know about the history of computers?

    2     Early computers could also do simple math like a calculator. In the 1930s, Alan Turing had the idea for a computer you could program to do different things.

    3     In the 1970s, computers were smaller and cheaper so people started to use them at home. In the 1980s, computer games were very popular. Lots of people bought computers just to play games. In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, which is a way to organize information on the Internet.     4    

Today people can use smartphones to play games, send emails and go on the Internet.     5    

根据材料内容，从下面五个选项中选出能填人文中空缺处的最佳选项，使文章意思通顺、内容完整。

A．Computers can do lots of jobs. They can do math, store information, or play music. You can use a computer to write or to play games.

B．In 1958, Jack Kilby invented the microchip. Microchips are tiny but can store lots of information.They helped make computers smaller.

C．Now people all over the world can look for and share information on websites.

D．The first computers were very big. They were the size of a room! They were so big that people didn’t have them at home.

E．In the past a simple computer was the size of a room. Now it can go in your pocket!

【推荐2】Yushancun Community (社区) needs some volunteers (志愿者) to help people in need. Let’s have a look at who needs help and what they want.

根据上述内容，选择最佳选项。
1. From the above board, we know all of them want to buy ________.

A．rice

B．fruit

C．vegetables

D．crayons

2. If Jason has some meat, apples, a basketball and some books, he can call ________.

A．738-5926

B．626-2005

C．787-5269

D．372-5823

3. If Lingling wants to buy something for Bob, maybe she will ________.

A．go to a bookstore	B．pay for $120
C．visit Room 301, Building 2	D．buy some biscuits and bananas

4. The underlined word “GOODS” in the board means ________.

A．食物

B．文具

C．商品

D．快餐

5. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．James is a 7-year-old boy in Building 3.

B．Cindy lives in Room 503, Building 1.

C．Ms. Zhang and Cindy lives in the same building.

D．The volunteer will buy some fast food for Bob.

【推荐3】根据短文内容，判断下列句子的正 (A)与误 (B)。

Here are introductions about science fiction movies, I think you must be interested in them.

The Time Machine

This movie is based on a science fiction story. A scientist and inventor decides to prove that time travels possible. He wants to change the past. To test his idea, he travels 800, 000 years into the future with the help of his own invention—a time machine… It will be put on in the National Theater from Aug. 25th to 29th.

E.T.

A group of aliens（外星人） visit the earth and one of them ,E.T., gets lost and is left on this planet. He is found by a 10-year-old boy, Elliot. Soon the two begin to communicate and start a different kind of friendship. E.T. wants to go home, but if Elliot helps him, he’ll lose a friend… It’ll be shown in the National Theater from Aug. 26th to 30th.

Mission to Mars

In the year 2020 A.D, a mysterious storm kills all but one crew（全体船员）member of the first manned mission（使命）to Mars. A rescue mission is launched… It will be on in the National Theater from Sept. 1st to 5th.

1. The movie The Time Machine is based on a science fiction story.
2. E.T. talks about a story between an alien and a young boy.
3. Mission to Mars will be put on From Sept. 2nd to 6th in the National Theater.
4. We will have two choices for movies if we go to the National Theater on Aug. 28th.
5. From the third movie, we can infer that no crew member maybe survive（幸存）.