1 . If you think of the jobs that robots could never do, you would probably put doctors and teachers atop of the list. It’s easy to imagine robots and factory workers. But are we underestimating what robots can do?

In some cases, they already do better than doctors at diagnosing illness. Also, some patients might feel more comfortable sharing personal information with a machine than a person. Could there be a place for robots in education after all?

British education expert Anthony Seldom thinks so. He even has a date for the robot takeover of the classroom:2027. He forecasts that robots will do the main job of disseminating knowledge and teachers will be like helpers. Intelligent robots will read students’ faces, movements and even brain signals. Then they will pass the information on to each student in the way he or she can understand.

However, it’s not a popular opinion. Most people think it’s impossible that robots will have the ability to really connect with humans like another human can.

One thing is certain, though. A robot teacher is better than no teacher at all. In some parts of the world, there aren’t enough teachers and 9%-16% of children under the age of 14 don’t go to school. That problem could be partly solved by robots because the owners can teach anywhere.

Being a teacher is a difficult job and teachers often feel overworked. Perhaps the question is not “Will robots replace teachers?” but “How can’t robots help teachers?” Teachers spend a lot of time doing non-teaching work, including more than 1 hour a week marking homework. If robots could cut the time teachers spend marking homework and writing reports, teachers would have more time and energy for the parts of the job humans do best.

1. What does the author mainly intend to show in the first paragraph?

A．Robots can do creative work.

B．Robots will replace doctors soon.

C．Robots work better than humans.

D．Robots can do more jobs than imagined.

2. What does the underlined word “disseminating” in paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Storing.	B．Spreading.
C．Analyzing.	D．Replacing.

3. Which word best describes the public’s attitude to Anthony Seldom’s forecast?

A．Unacceptable.	B．Uncreative.
C．Unconcerned.	D．Reasonable.

4. What’s the main idea of the text?

A．What robots are never able to do.

B．What the weaknesses of robots are.

C．Whether robots will evolve by themselves.

D．Whether robots will completely replace human teachers.