Roll over, sit and fetch aren’t commands normally given to a robot, but the smart toy company WowWee has developed a new way of owning a puppy.
CHIP (Canine Home Intelligent Pet) is a robotic dog with blue LED eyes and pointy ears and can sit, shake, dance and make all types of dog noises. It also has tracking capabilities to help locate its owner. “The beauty about CHIP is that it has its own thing going on,” said Sufer, CTO at WowWee. “It has its own life and own kind of intelligence. Even if you’re not around, it’s always doing something.”
CHIP uses wheels to get around and is loaded with sensors(传感器) that give it a 360-degree view to find its ball. The pup is Bluetooth enabled, which connects to a wristband worn by its owner. The wristband, similar to a watch, displays icons（图标）for different commands such as a thumb-up, which allows you to give your pup a digital belly rub. With its owner wearing a smart wristband, it can even follow him around the room.
“We worked on CHIP for about five to six months,” Davin Sufer, told dailymail.com, “We typically come up with a concept, model and product and get it on shelves within a year.” The company plans to start shipping units by next fall, which will allow them to load up the robotic dog with sensors and add many more animated responses per-owner interactivity.
The high-tech toy company made its debut（处女作）in 2004 by releasing the 1.5 foot RoboSapien, which sold millions of units. MiP, which hit shelves last year, is a seven inch tall robot covered in white with black accents. Users can direct it, change its emotions and make it dance to any song on your iPad. It’s loud, fast and active.
About 15 years ago, a company called ToyQuest developed the first ever electronic robotic dog---Tekno, the Robotic Puppy. The company sold over seven million units in the first season and 40 million more during its original four years of production. Tekno was built with over 160 emotions and instructions, but most importantly offered consumers a quick look into the future.
1.According to Sufer, the amazing characteristic of CHIP is that _____.
A. it is loaded with special sensors
B. it can make all kinds of dog noises
C. it has quick response to the commands
D. it can do something without instructions
2.CHIP can follow its owner with the help of _____.
A. a watch B. a smart wristband
C. pointy ears D. blue LED eyes
3.From the passage, we can know_______.
A. CHIP can be bought in the store now
B. WowWee introduced its first product last year
C. Tekno provided the bright future of the robotic puppy
D. MiP is the first company to develop the robotic puppy
科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年山东淄博高青县一中高二4月月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：七选五
根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 选E涂AB，选F涂AC，选G涂AD。
It is generally believed that money can’t buy happiness. However, that may not be always true. According to a recent article, in the last few years, new research has given us a far deeper understanding of the relationship between what we earn and how we feel. Broadly speaking, people with higher incomes are happier than those who struggle to get by. But it also shows you need to spend wisely if you expect those bank notes to put a smile on your face. 1.
1. Buy experiences, not material goods.
In a recently published study, Professor Ryan at San Francisco State University in the US, found that when people don’t have much money to spare, they tend to stick to material goods. 2. But they actually provide both more happiness and more lasting value.
2. 3.
No matter how much money you spend on something and how special that product is, you will get used to having it over time and lose interest in it. With the same money you spend on one big object, you can buy many little things. Buying small things means you can get frequent small pleasures.
3. Be sure to buy time.
4. For example, that big house in the suburbs may seem like a good idea, but a 2014 study by researchers from University of Zurich in Switzerland found that people with longer time on the way reported lower life satisfaction, all other things being equal.
4. Try giving it away.
Elizabeth Dunn, professor at the University of British Columbia in Canada, found that in nations as diverse as Canada, South Africa and Uganda, giving away money consistently made people happier. 5. .
A. Be sure to buy what you like.
B. Here are some ways to better spend your money.
C. Buy lots of little things, rather than one big thing.
D. There are a lot of reasons someone might buy something.
E. People think experiences only provide temporary happiness.
F. This was even true when people giving away were relatively poor.
G. Consider how the things you buy will affect how you spend your time.
查看答案和解析>>
科目：高中英语 来源：2016届江苏南通、扬州、泰州高三第二次调研测试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
Although the plan is not so perfect, they are strongly opposed ______ it.
A. to not conduct B. not to conduct
C. to not conducting D. not to conducting
查看答案和解析>>
科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年山东菏泽高一上期末考试英语（A）卷（解析版） 题型：语法填空
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
( A student is talking with Professor Michael on friendship. )
S= student; M=Michael
S: Professor Michael, nowadays many 1. (teenager) can’t get along well with their friends. I’d appreciate 2. if you can give us some suggestions.
M: Ok. First, friends with the same interests should be 3. (choose). Second, you should keep in touch 4. each other and sometimes you can tell him everything. Third, a real friend is always 5. (concern) about you. When you are in trouble, he can be the first 6. (give) you a hand.
S: I see. But friendship gradually 7. (change) as we get older. What can we do with it?
M: Of course, every coin has two sides, 8. there is no doubt that friendship means giving more, and good friends should be 9. (reliable) than other common friends even though they have disagreements.
S: I 10. (entire) agree with you.
查看答案和解析>>
科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年湖北宜昌一中高二3月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：书面表达
书面表达
假如你是李华。你的美国网友Kate想阅读中文小说。请用英语给她写一封信，为她推荐一部小说。
内容提示：
1. 我推荐的小说是________； 2. 理由； 3. 祝福。
要求：
1. 字数100左右；
2. 开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数；
3. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Kate,
I’m very glad to know you are very interested in Chinese novels.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
查看答案和解析>>
科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年新疆生产建设兵团二中高一上期末考英语卷（解析版） 题型：短文改错
短文改错，文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。
I am secretary of the City Student Union (CSU). We were organizing an art exhibition for high school students in city. It will be held in the 9th of July in the Exhibition Hall of Beihai. More than 1000 painting will be on show, but high school students and teachers from all the eight districts will come to the event. As you are very popularly with us Chinese high school students, we’d like to invite for you to the exhibition. We would be grateful when you could join them that day. Looking forward to hear from you soon.
查看答案和解析>>
科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年新疆生产建设兵团二中高一上期末考英语卷（解析版） 题型：完形填空
完形填空
My nephew's 10?-year-?old son came for a visit one hot, July weekend. I persuaded him to______ inside and joined him in a game. After______ for an hour, I suggested that we relax for a while. I______ my favourite recliner (躺椅) to let my neck muscles relax. He had slipped out of the room and I was catching a few enjoyable ______ of peace and quiet.
“Look, Alice，” he said enthusiastically as he______over to the chair where I was sitting. “I found a kite. Could we go outside and______it？”
Glancing out of a nearby window, I noticed it was ______ outside. “I'm sorry. Tripper，” I said, sad to see his______eyes. “The wind is not______today. The kite won't fly.”
The ______10?-year?-old replied, “I think it's windy enough. I can get it to fly，” he answered ______ he hurried out to the back door.
Up and down in the yard he ran, ______the kite attached to a small length of string. He ran back and forth, as hard as his ten-?year-?old legs would carry him, looking back ______ at the kite behind. After about ten minutes of unsuccessful determination, he came back in.
I asked, “How did it ______？”
“Fine，” he said, not wanting to admit______. “I got it to fly some.”
As he walked past me to return the kite to the closet shelf, I heard him say under his breath, “I guess I'll have to wait for the ______.”
At that moment I heard another voice speak to my ______. “Alice, sometimes you are just like that. You want to do it your way ______ waiting for the wind.”
And the voice was right. We usually want to use our own efforts to ______ what we want to do. We wait for the wind only after we have done all we can and have exhausted our own ______. We must learn how to rely on him in the first place!
1.A. live B. stay C. study D. lie
2.A. playing B. resting C. challenging D. arguing
3.A. cleaned up B. jumped off C. fell into D. cut down
4.A. moments B. hours C. times D. periods
5.A. sent B. ran C. left D. climbed
6.A. decorate B. drop C. hang D. fly
7.A. hot B. still C. noisy D. fine
8.A. bright B. disappointed C. dull D. satisfied
9.A. staying B. stopping C. going D. blowing
10.A. clever B. talented C. determined D. fearless
11.A. after B. unless C. as D. until
12.A. following B. making C. pulling D. watching
13.A. angrily B. nervously C. doubtfully D. hopefully
14.A. go B. come C. make D. fly
15.A. win B. defeat C. mistake D. luck
16.A. wind B. order C. news D. sunshine
17.A. heart B. memory C. dream D. world
18.A. because of B. instead of C. except for D. as for
19.A. imagine B. decide C. apply D. complete
20.A. courage B. patience C. strength D. knowledge
查看答案和解析>>
科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年新疆生产建设兵团二中高一上期末考英语卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
Mr. Wang made up his mind to devote all he could ____ his oral English before going abroad .
A. improve B. to improve
C. to improving D. improving
查看答案和解析>>
科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年福建三明一中高二下第一次月考英语卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中, 选出最佳选项。
The ocean bottom, a region nearly 2.5 times greater than the total land area of the earth, is even today largely unexplored. Until about a century ago, the deep ocean floor was completely inaccessible and hidden beneath waters averaging over 3,600 meters deep. Totally without light and in the case of intense pressures hundreds of times greater than at the earth’s surface, the deep-ocean bottom is a strange environment to humans, in some way as frightening and remote as the outer space.
Although researchers have taken samples of deep-ocean rocks for over a century, the first detailed global study of the ocean bottom did not actually start until 1969, with the beginning of the National Science Foundation’s Deep Sea Drilling Project(DSDP). Using techniques first developed for the offshore oil and gas industry, the DSDP’s drill ship, the Glomar Challenger, was able to maintain a steady position on the ocean’s surface and drill very deep waters, taking samples of rocks from the ocean floor.
The Glomar Challenger completed 96 voyages in a 15-year research program that ended in November 1983. During this time, it sailed 600,000 kilometers and took almost 20,000 samples of rocks around the world. Those samples have allowed geologists to reconstruct what the planet looked like hundreds of millions of years ago and to make out what it will probably look like millions of years in the future. Today, largely on the strength of evidence gathered during the Glomar Challenger’s voyages, nearly all earth scientists agree on the theories of plate tectonics (构造学) and continental drift that explain many of the geological processes.
The sample of rocks drilled by the Glomar Challenger have also provided a climatic record stretching back hundreds of millions of years. The information of past climatic change can be used to predict the future climate.
1.What does the underlined word “inaccessible” in paragraph1 mean?
A. unrecognizable B. unreachable
C. unusable D. unreasonable
2.Which of the following is TRUE about the Glomar Challenger?
A. It is a military submarine.
B. It is used to develop tourism.
C. It has gone on over 100 voyages.
D. It made its first DSDP voyage in 1969.
3.The Deep Sea Drilling Project was significant because it was _____.
A. the first detailed exploration of the ocean bottom
B. conducted by geologists from all over the world
C. supported entirely by the gas and oil industry
D. an attempt to find new sources of oil and gas
查看答案和解析>>
湖北省互联网违法和不良信息举报平台 | 网上有害信息举报专区 | 电信诈骗举报专区 | 涉历史虚无主义有害信息举报专区 | 涉企侵权举报专区
违法和不良信息举报电话：027-86699610 举报邮箱：58377363@163.com
