PowerPoint Presentations(PPT)are taking the place of writing on the blackboard with chalk. Someday, will robots take the place of human teachers?
In Japan, a robot is going to enter classrooms to help teachers. Last week the Japanese company Honda Motor Co. showed the public its robot at a Tokyo museum. The robot's name is Asimo. Students will see Asimo in science classes and learn the wonders of science.
Asimo is 130 centimeters tall with a round head. It can jog, walk up stairs and wave. It can also avoid things on its way and have simple talks with you. Asimo is an experienced worker for humans. It has worked as a guide in showrooms. But this will be the first time it works as a teaching assistant in classrooms and in formal teaching!
How will Asimo help in class?A teacher explained the way Asimo worked to students in last week's show. Asimo has sensors(感应器)inside its body to keep its balance.
The smart Asimo tilted(倾斜)its body when it stood on a shaking platform(平台). Asimo kept its balance. But a wooden person beside Asimo fell(See the above picture).
When you walk, you pass your weight from the heel to the toe. The Japanese teacher explained this with Asimo at the museum. He moved the robot in slow move. Asimo made learning science more interesting for students!
Asimo will soon help teach thousands of primary students and junior high schools in two Japanese cities. Hopefully, robot teachers will arrive in our classrooms in China one day.
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1. What's the name of the robot?
2. What does the robot look like?
3. Why can the robot keep its balance?
4. What will students think of learning science with the help of the robot?
5. According to the passage, will robots take the place of human teachers someday?
Students learn their lessons in class. They sit in the classroom
How to teach yourself? The first thing you must do is reading. Read something you are
3 . “It hurts me more than you,” and “This is for your own good.” My mother used to say so years ago when I had to learn Latin, clean my room, stay home and do homework.
That was before we entered the permissive period in education in which we decided it was all right not to push our children to achieve their best in school. The schools and the educators made it easy on us. They taught that it was all right to be parents who take a let-alone policy (不干预政策), We stopped making our children do homework. We gave them computers, turned on the television, left the teaching to the teachers and went on vacation.
Now teachers, faced with children who have been developing at their own pace for the past 15 years, are realizing we've made a terrible mistake. One such teacher is Sharon Klompus who says of her students-“so passive”- and wonders what happened. Nothing was demanded of them, she believes. Television, says Klompus, contributes to children's passivity. “We're talking about a generation kids who've never been hurt or hungry. They have learned somebody will always do it for them. Instead of saying 'go look it up', you tell them the answer. It takes greater energy to say 'no' to a kid.”
Yes, it does. It takes energy and it takes work. It's time for parents to end their vacation and come back to work. It's time to take the car away, to turn the TV off, to tell them it hurts you more than them but it's for their own good. It's time to start telling them “no” again.
1. What can we infer from the first paragraph?| A．The writer's mother is strict with him | B．The writer developed himself naturally |
| C．The writer didn't have to stay home | D．The writer's mother used to let him learn Latin |
| A．allowing behaviour | B．providing help |
| C．accepting opinion | D．having discussion |
| A．It's time to be more strict with kids | B．Kids should have more activities at school |
| C．Parents should leave their children along | D．Kids should have a good example to learn from |
4 . American schools begin in September after a long summer holiday. There are two terms in a school year. The first term is from September to January, and the second term is from February to June. Most American children begin to go to school when they are five years old. Most children are seventeen or eighteen years old when they finish high school.
High school students take only five or six subjects each term. They usually go to the same class every day, and they have homework for every class. After class, they do a lot of interesting things.
After high school, many students go to colleges. They usually have to pay a lot of money. So many college students work after class to get money for their studies.
1. American schools begin in __________.| A．September | B．July | C．May | D．February |
| A．has to stay at home | B．can go to high school |
| C．is old enough to go to school | D．always plays at home |
| A．do the homework | B．go to work |
| C．play basketball | D．do many interesting things |
| A．help their parents | B．get money for their studies |
| C．help others | D．learn some useful things |
| A．Most American children begin to go to school when they are five years old. |
| B．American students have three terms in a year. |
| C．High school students take seven subjects each term. |
| D．American students don’t like to go to school. |
