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Do You Think You Will Have Your Own Robot?

When we watch movies about the future, we sometimes see robots. They are usually like human servants. They help with the housework and do jobs like working in dirty or dangerous places.

Today there are already robots working in factories. Some can help to build cars, and they do simple jobs over and over again.     1     Fewer people will do such jobs in the future because they are boring, but robots will never get bored.

Scientists are now trying to make robots look like humans and do the same things as we do. Some robots in Japan can walk and dance. They are fun to watch. However, some scientists believe that although we can make robots move like people,     2     让它们真正像人类一样思考将是很困难的. For example, scientist James White thinks that robots will never be able to wake up and know where they are.     3     但是许多科学家都不同意怀特先生的观点. They think that robots will even be able to talk like humans in 25 to 50 years.

Some scientists believe that there will be more robots in the future.     4     However, they agree it may take hundreds of years. These new robots will have many different shapes. Some will look like humans and others might look like animals. In India, for example, scientists made robots that look like snakes.     5     If buildings fall down with people inside, these snake robots can help look for people under the buildings. This was not possible 20 years ago, but computers and rockets also seemed impossible 100 years ago. We never know what will happen in the future!

2 . It’s a typical day at school. You’re playing soccer with your friends. One of them kicks you the ball and you run for it. You trip. You fly through the air. You land—hard, right on your face! The next moment, you’re in the nurse’s office. Your bleeding nose is being checked by laser sensors (激光传感器) that coming out of a...robot? Has the nurse’s office been taken over by sci-fi aliens (外星人) from outer space?

No. You’ve just been pushed forward 15 years into the future. And it’s a future that Susan Epstein, a computer science professor who teaches artificial intelligence, is really excited to think about. “I am crazy about this kind of thing! You could go up to the robot, put your nose in, and the machine would decide whether you needed to be treated, and how.”

Aside from being cool, an AI nurse has other advantages. It doesn’t need to take vacations. It doesn’t need to get paid a salary. And it might figure out what’s wrong with your nose faster than a human would. There are all kinds of ways that AI could be used to help make us healthier and researchers are studying how to use AI to diagnose (诊断) lung disease, cancer, and more.

Our robot nurse isn’t meant to completely take the place of humans, though. “It would work with real, live nurses and doctors,” says Epstein, “there are things humans are good at, like building trust among members of our own species or comforting someone who’s hurt or sick. A big part of medicine is the relationship between a doctor and a patient.”

Epstein points out that AI programs will never be perfect—no matter how much we might want them to be. But if AI can diagnose a deadly disease more precisely even 10 percent of the time, think of how many lives it could save. “Besides”, says Epstein, “I think there are probably patients who might prefer to have a machine for a doctor!” Would you?

1. What’s the function of para 1?

A．To introduce a scientific study.

B．To lead to the topic of the text.

C．To describe an experience of the writer.

D．To give an example to support an argument.

2. What can be inferred from Epstein’s words in para 4?

A．Humans are better at treating patients than AI doctors.

B．AI doctors alone can cure patients of most of the diseases.

C．Patients’ trust in doctors may affect their treatments positively.

D．Patients may receive as much comfort from AI doctors as from humans.

3. What is true about AI doctors and nurses according to the text?

A．They are better at trust-building.

B．They will take over humans.

C．Their biggest strength is being cool.

D．They are life-saving if properly used.

4. What’s Epstein’s attitude towards AI doctors and nurses!

A．Negative.

B．Favorable.

C．Doubtful.

D．Unclear.

3 . Holding the large and heavy “brick” cellphone he’s credited with inventing 50 years ago,Martin Cooper talks about the future.

Little did he know when he made the first call on a New York City street from a heavy Motorola prototype(原型)that our world would come to be encapsulated on a sleek glass sheath where we search，connect,like and buy.

Cooper says he is an optimist. He believes that advances in mobile technology will continue to transform lives but he is worried about risks smartphones pose to privacy and young people.

“My most negative opinion is we don’t have any privacy anymore because everything about us is now recorded someplace and accessible to somebody who has enough intense desire to get it,” the 94-year-old said in an interview in Barcelona at MWC, the Mobile World Congress, the world’s biggest wireless trade show, where he was getting a lifetime award.

Cooper sees a dark side to the advances, including the risk to children. One idea, he said, is to have“various Internets intended for different audiences.”

Cooper made the first public call from a handheld portable telephone on a Manhattan street on April 3,1973,using a prototype device his team at Motorola had started designing just five months earlier.

Cooper used the Dyna-TAC phone to famously call his opponent at Bell Labs, owned by AT&T. It was literally the world’s first brick phone,weighing 2.5 pounds and measuring 11 inches.

Cooper spent the best part of the next decade working to bring a commercial version of the device to market.

The call helped kick-start the cellphone revolution (革命).

Cooper said he’s “not crazy” about the shape of modern smartphones. He thinks they will develop so that they’ll be “distributed on your body,” possibly as sensors“measuring your health at all times.”

Batteries, he said, might be replaced by human energy.The body makes energy from food,he argues, so it could possibly also power a phone.Instead of holding the phone in the hand, for example, the device could be placed under the skin.

1. What does the underlined part “a sleek glass sheath” in paragraph 2 refer to?

A．A smartphone.	B．A Motorola prototype.
C．A “brick” cellphone.	D．An original cellphone.

2. What is Cooper’s attitude about the future of the mobile phone?

A．Most negative.	B．Very subjective.
C．Doubtful and Disapproving.	D．Optimistic but also concerned.

3. What can be inferred about children from paragraph 5?

A．They should be provided with a different Internet from adults.

B．They should have easy access to various Internets.

C．They should be introduced to different audiences.

D．They should use various Internets for learning materials.

4. According to Cooper, how might smartphones be powered in the future?

A．By body sensors.	B．By human body.
C．By solar energy.	D．By advanced batteries.

4 . Here is a page from a magazine called Future. Read the following information about things that may happen in twenty years.

    1    

Cars will run on solar power and will be much cleaner and safer. For example, if you are too close to another car or if you are driving dangerously, your car will slow down or stop by itself. It not only prevents the pollution of the environment but also decreases the rate road killers.

    2    

New cities will have to be built in the sea. Some cities on water will have two levels (层). People will live on the upper level; the lower level will be used for traffic, shops and factories, which will be a better way of solving the problem of increasing population and cities.

    3    

Biotechnology (生物技术) will make everything we eat better and healthier. Plants without insects or illnesses (病虫害) will be developed. The taste of fruit and vegetables will be better and food will be kept longer. At that time, people will have no need to worry about whether their diet is safe or not, because these foods have been tested again and again. They surely are safe.

Ways of curing illness

Many new ways to cure illnesses will be found. People will use products of genetic engineering (基因产品) to cure more illnesses. However, some new illnesses will appear.

A. New energy used on transportation
B. Green food
C. Ways of keeping healthy
D. Future living conditions

5 . 阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Are all changes good?

It is a commonly held belief that as people get older, they become resistant to change. Their complaints that things used to be better in the past or     1     some new development is no good can be dismissed as the unavoidable thoughts of people who    2     (simple) don't like change and are therefore     3     (able) to see the benefits of progress.

But is this automatically true? Are the views of an older person on a new development always to be disregarded? This would suggest that every new development must be a good     4     and surely that cannot logically be    5     case.

Take    6     (architect) for example. In the 1950s and 1960s, many older British people were highly critical of the new concrete housing blocks that suddenly sprang up in cities,     7     (say) that they were ugly and depressing places to live in. They were     8     (tell) that they were simply being old-fashioned and that they were incapable of appreciating the advantages of these new buildings, which had replaced the streets of small houses that they were familiar with.     9     decades later, these very same blocks were being pulled    10    , as new generations decided they were both ugly and bad for society.

6 . 请根据以下表格所提供的内容写一篇英语短文，向外国朋友简要介绍你家乡脱贫攻坚的成就。可适当增加一些细节，使行文连贯。开头已经给出，不计入总词数。

In the past	Today
narrow muddy path, not convenient	cement road, wide and safe
carried water from wells	running water, do washing at home
grew sweet potatoes and corn; poor…	fruit, tea, tobacco; develop tourism: rich...
你有何感想?

注意：词数：80左右。

Great changes have taken places in my hometown over the past years.

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7 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

People have lived in cities for thousands of years. Yet even just 100 years ago, more people     1     (live) in the country than in cities. Today, with the population in the world     2     (increase) sharply, more people move to cities for various     3     (reason). For many it is for work or education. Some are     4     (simple) attracted to city life. By the year 2030, it is thought     5     more than sixty percent of the world's population will be living in cities. More and more cities will become megacities (特大城市), and they will     6     (find) in different parts of the world.

Maybe one megacity is not the same as another     7     they do have common problems, such as air     8     (pollute), housing problems, traffic jams and so on. Making these cities work well for every person living in them will be     9     great challenge in the future. However, we do believe when people work together, they can find solutions which will help make these megacities happy, healthy and     10     (excite) places to live in.

8 . Japanese automaker Toyota has announced its “Woven City” plan, which aims to create a “smart city of the future". It will be a “living laboratory” for technologies including self-driving systems, high-speed internet connectivity to link major information and communication systems.

The main streets in Woven City will be divided for different purposes. One part will be used for faster vehicle traffic. Another will be designed for people riding bicycles. The third part will be used for walking. To move people through the city, only fully-autonomous, zero emission Toyota vehicles will be allowed on the roads. In and throughout Woven City, Toyota e-Palettes will be used for transportation and deliveries.

The city will be fully sustainable(可持续的)，with buildings made mostly of wood to cut carbon footprint to the minimum. The rooftops will be covered with solar panels to produce power in addition to power produced by H2 fuel cells. Houses will be equipped with the latest AI technologies, such as in-home robotics to assist with daily work and to check people' s health, Both neighborhood parks and a large central park for recreation and social gatherings are designed to bring the people together.

Toyota plans to populate the city with Toyota Motor Corporation employees and their families, visiting scientists and industry partners. The plan is for 2, 000 people to start, adding more as the ;project develops.

“Building a complete city from scratch, even in a small size like this, is a unique chance to develop future technologies. With people, buildings and vehicles all connected and communicating with each other through sensors, we will be able to test connected AI technology in both the virtual(虚拟的) and the physical areas to maximize its potential,” said Akio Toyoda，president of Toyota Motor Corporation.

Experts say smart cities, like Toyota's“Woven City”，will greatly improve our living conditions.

1. What is the “e-Palette” in paragraph 2?

A．An intelligent robot,	B．A driverless car.
C．An autonomous bike.	D．A slow vehicle.

2. What can we say about Woven City?

A．All the houses are built with wood only.	B．Only Toyota workers live there.
C．It is designed to hold 2,000 people,	D．Just green power is used in the city.

3. What does Akio Toyoda mean?

A．He is not satisfied with the small size of the city.

B．It is difficult to build a complete city of the future.

C．The city is a good platform to test future technologies.

D．Toyota is committed to improving the living conditions.

4. What can be the best title for the text?

A．What Does a “City of the Future" Look Like?

B．Can Toyota's Woven City Become a Reality?

C．Toyota's Plan for a “City of the Future"

D．New Technologies for Future Cities