What if you arrived home to find it delicious hot meal waiting for you, prepared by your very own kitchen robot It might sound like science fiction. but professors at the university of Tokyo have taken the first steps toward making that scenario a reality. The team recently introduced a humanoid kichen robot that can pour and other drinks into cups and serve the m to guests.When teating is over, the robot can also wash the dishes and put them away.

In Califormia, another interesting kitchen robot has been developed, called Readybot. It can pick up objects and either srore them in cabinets (櫥柜）or put them in the trash. It also carries a separate floor-cleaning robot that can operate by itself.Unlike the Japanse robot,Readybot just looks more like a large box with arms and wheels.

Readybot was created by engineers and designers who who etablished a called the Readybot Challlenge. They believe that in the future millions of robots will be needed in homes to perform ordinary household tasks. Readybot is just the step in their plan to create a robot that can do jobs not only in kitchens but in other rooms of homes and in offces as well.

Clearly there are tcchnogical difficulties to to solve before robots can cook a Complete dinner, and there arc diso many safety concerns (憂慮） .Not everyone (especially parents) would be comfortable with the idea of robots in their house, manipulating hot pans and sharp knives. The European Commission recently furtded(資助） a project to study these concerns. According to lead researcher Professor Chris Melhuish,“ Enabling robots to work safely with humans is a key need for the future developmem of

robots.”

1.Compared with Readybot, which of the following is true about the Japanese robot?

A. It is more popular.

B. It performs more jobs,

C. It moves inore quickly.

D. It looks more like a person.

2.What can Readybot be used to do?

A. drive you around

B. clean your kitchen

C. prepare food for you

D. work for office workers

3.what's the meaning of Ac underlined word “manipulating ” in the last paragrsph?

A. Inventing

B. Avoiding.

C. Controlling.

D. Making.

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I was 20 years old when my mother passed away.It was the first real blow that life had dealt me，and I thought I would never recover.Then，by the time the following spring came，the pain was almost bearable and again I could find pleasure in the miraculous reward of nature.

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D. the author’s father lived long while the man’s mother died very young

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Our lifestyles today are very busy. We have families, school, sports, entertainment and social activities to fit into a time that seems never enough. We need to be healthy to meet the demands of daily life. But what does it mean to have a healthy lifestyle?

To have a healthy lifestyle, we need to：

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◆do exercise often

◆have time to relax

◆get enough sleep to give our bodies time to grow healthy and strong

Read about a normal day in the lives of two children：

Abbey gets up at 7：00 a．m., feeds the dog, and has cereal and a glass of juice for breakfast. She walks to school with her friend, Julia. She has a bag of chips for a morning snack, drinks water, and has a chicken and lettuce sandwich with a banana for lunch. She likes to play soccer with her friends at lunch and morning break?time. She walks home with Julia, has some crackers with cheese and juice for afternoon snack and plays with the dog for a while. She plays computer games for an hour or two before dinner, then has a shower and does her homework. She watches her favourite television show for an hour, then usually goes to bed at about 9：30 p．m.

Carl gets up at 8: 30 a．m. and has two pieces of bread with jam and a glass of milk for breakfast. His mother drives him to school on her way to work. He eats cookies with juice for morning snack and a pot pie ordered from the school lunch room with juice for lunch. He likes to play card games with his friends at lunchtime and climb the fixed equipment at morning break?time. He catches the bus home, has a cereal bar and a can of soda for afternoon snack, then watches some television. He has a shower before dinner, then plays computer games for an hour or two. He goes to bed at about 10：30 p．m.

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1.About a healthy lifestyle, the writer DOESN'T talk about ________.

A. diet B. exercise

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A. Abbey plays soccer with her friends at school.

B. Abbey does her homework first after school.

C. Carl goes to school by bus every day.

D. Carl has juice for breakfast.

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