Robots in class

    Over 600,000 children in the United States spend their long time in hospital each year．Many of them say that they have difficult in returning to school after hospital stays．Thanks to technology，kids who are sick in the hospital no longer have to miss time in the classroom．

    A program called PEBBLES makes it possible for kids in hospital to take part in classroom discussions by using robot．PEBBLES(Providing Education by Bringing Environments to Students)supplies robots to help kids who are staying in hospital keep up with their classmates．

    For Achim Nurse，a 13-yers-old patient at Blythedale Children’s Hospital in Valhalla，New York，PEBBLES helped him so much．When he first learned about the program，he wasn’t so sure it would work．    

   “When I first saw it，it looked difficult，”said Achim．

    However，after 30 minutes of working with the robot，Achim discovered that he had gotten good at operating it．

    The robots work in pairs—一one in the hospital with the student，the other in the classroom．

    The robot in the classroom gives the student in the hospital a feel of“tele-presence．”A live picture of the students is shown on a video screen in the classroom．Meanwhile，in the hospital room，the student knows clear about what is going on in the classroom．

    The robot at the school has four wheels．so it can move around from class to class．Its“face” is an auto-focus(可以自动调焦的)camera．By using a control box，the student call turn the robot’s head，raise its hand，and adjust the volume(音量)．It is even equipped with a scanner(扫描器)and printer，so if the teacher want to have an exercise or testing class，the student can participate from the hospital．

   “The robot is greeted by students in the classroom．It is also greeted by the sick student。”said Andrew Summa，national director of the robot project．

根据短文内容完成下面各题。

1．Try to use the phrase underlined in the first paragraph to make a sentence．

2．Guess the Chinese meaning of“keep up with”．

3．The robot is greeted by students in the classroom．It is also greeted by the student in the hospital．(改写为同义句)

4．According to the passage，we can know that____

  A．We can operate this kind of robot easily．   

  B．the student in hospital cannot adjust the volume by using control box．

  C．The teacher wants to have a test in the class now. Although the student in the hospital has this kind of robot，he also cannot participate it．

5．What do you think of the robot project in the United States? Do you think it can help sick students? What do you think are its limitations?

Thousands of years ago，human(人类)didn’t live in towns．Sometimes they would live in caves(洞穴)or build camps in the forest．
Only about thirty people  1   in each camp．The men would go hunting while the woman and children  2 food from trees around the camp．All the food was  3 among people in the group．Every few weeks they moved to another place to find more food．It was a simple life，but people had to be  4．They had to make everything that they needed，and they had to know a lot about plants and animals．
Nowadays most people live in towns and cities，and they work in offices and factories．Life is 5 than in the old days．There are fewer  6 ，but there is less excitement．Some people go  7 excitement  sailing round the world．climbing mountains，or exploring(探测)caves．
Most people look forward to the  8 ,a time when they can enjoy a change from the normal life．For some this means going camping．But camping today is  9 from camping in the past．Gas cookers，ready-made food and air-beds mean people can camp much more  10 than they did in the old times．
1．A．lived         B．talked       C．came        D．danced
2．A．planted       B．collected     C．watched     D．bought
3．A．found        B．used         C．shared      D．sold
4．A．polite        B．kind         C．calm       D．clever
5．A．worse        B．faster        C．easier       D．harder
6．A．dangers       B．stories       C．people      D．animals
7．A．waiting for    B．looking for    C．turning on   D．putting on
8．A．dreams       B．gifts         C．meals       D．holidays
9．A．away        B．different       C．free        D．far
10．A．slowly       B．terribly        C．comfortably  D．hopefully

Mo was born into a farming family in a village in Shandong province .He grew up listening to folk stories about gods, spirits foxes .Those stories later became the inspiration (灵感)for Mo’s writing.

Mo left school at the age of 12 and started to work in the fields . Although he was tired after his daily hard work ,Mo was always hungry for books .However, there were very few in the village .He read his older brothers’ textbooks and even dictionaries .He helped others with farm work in exchange for books . “When I finished reading all the books around ,I thought I was the most knowledge man in the world ,”he told Xinhua.

After Mo left his hometown and joined the army in 1976,he began to read widely ,including works by Lu Xun and many other famous writers .He studied from these writers but did not copy them .Instead ,he developed his own style .As the first Chinese citizen（公民）to win a Nobel Prize in literature, Mo told a group of reporters in his hometown shortly after he won the award . “I grew up in an environment filled with folk culture .It enters my novels whenever I pick up a pen This has affected ,even decided my style.”

1.When did Mo Yan leave school and start to work in the fields ?

A．at the age of 12.                        B．at the age of 11.

C．at the age of 13                         D．at the age of 15

2.Mo Yan is from_____

A．Shanxi            B．Jiangsu            C．Shandong         D．Guangdong

3.Mo Yan developed his own style_______

A．while listening to folk stories about gods ,spirits and foxes

B．during his dairy hard work in the fields.

C．when he won the Nobel Prize in literature.

D．after he studied from many famous writers.

4.Which of the following is wrong __________?

A．Mo Yan left school when he was very young.

B．Mo Yan was the most knowledgeable man in the world.

C．Mo Yan read many books when he was very young.

D．Mo Yan is the first Chinese citizen to win a Nobel Prize in literature.

5.What can we learn from Mo Yan’s success(成功)？

A．Rome was not built in a day.               B．Easier said than done.

C．Well begun , half done .                  D．The older, the wiser.

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Teachers Wanted

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You need to:

·Help our son with Chinese.

·Read to him.

·Play with him.

·Go to movies with him.

You need to work at my home. We live in (居住在) Taipei Road, next to the Zhongshan Bus Station(公汽站).

Please call (02)2956-4938. Ask Miss Liu.

1.The teacher can work for __________ months at this family.

A. six                  B. seven                C. eight            D. nine

2.The teacher must (必须) __________.

A. work every weekend

B. work at the kid’s home

C. help the kid learn English

D. work eight months a year

3.On Monday the teacher __________.

A. can’t work

B. works three hours

C. can have ￥ 135

D. comes in the morning

4.Which is Not True(不对)?

A. The teacher can get ￥30 an hour on weekends.

B. The student is a boy of six.

C. The teacher can call Miss. Liu.

D. The teacher can take a bus to work