For Dr Cynthia Breazeal,it's just about time to celebrate. The robotics researcher and professor was just getting ready to throw a party when The Huffington Post spoke with her yesterday,only hours after she and her team attracted international attention with the first appearance of Jibo,the world's first family robot.

Jibo,which stands just under a foot tall,can see,hear,speak,learn,help and relate. It can take pictures,track faces,recognize where sound is coming from and—ideally―help organize and simplify your life.

  On Wednesday,Jibo began its crowdfunding (民間集資) campaign on Indie-gogo. The bot is selling for $ 499 to consumers and $ 599 to developers. Accord?ing to Breazeal,the crowdfunding approach is their way of getting feedback on the prototype (模型) from the most interested community of bot-enthusiasts out there.

  The bot has a creative design that gives it something between a human and desk lamp appearance. Its midsection and "head" can turn,which helps it show tHe difference between "awake" and "asleep". Even in its prototype stage,Jibo dances? introduces itself,listens to voice commands and displays images on its 5. 7 inch touchscreen LCD display.

  "For a social robot it brings together a set of expertise that is not typical?" Breazeal said. Jibo is able to look around the room and change the focus of your camera. Breazeal plans to incorporate Bluetooth and a cloud-based update system― both things that didn't exist just a decade ago.

  When you take Jibo home,it will guide you through connecting to a Wi-Fi net?work and will take specific steps to learn more about you. The first thing it does is register your face and voice,asking you a few questions and explaining how it can help you.

5. We can infer from the first paragraph that      .

   A. Breazeal was trying to sell Jibo

   B. Jibo still needed further improvement

   C. Breazeal needed money to create Jibo

   D. The invention of Jibo was worth celebrating

6. Why did Breazeal hold the crowdfunding campaign?

   A. To attract robot enthusiasts.

   B. To raise money for her projects.

   C. To make her invention known.

   D. To know what people think of her invention.

7. When you bring Jibo home,you should first      .

   A. take steps to know it   B. connect it to the Internet

   C. ask it a few questions   D. introduce yourself to it

8. What is the text mainly about?

   A. The world's first family robot.

   B. A crowdfunding campaign.

   C. Dr Cynthia Breazeal's celebration.

   D. The recent development in robotics.

[文章大意]這是一篇說明文。文章主要介紹了世界上的第一臺家用機器人。它能使我們的生活更方便。

5. D推理判斷題。根據(jù)第一段可知,Jibo的出現(xiàn)引發(fā)了全世界的關(guān)注。

Cynthia Breazeal博士在接受采訪時正要舉行慶祝會,由此可推知,Jibo的發(fā)明值得慶祝,故答案為D.

6. D細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段中的最后一句"...the crowd-funding approach is their way of getting feedback on the pro?totype (模型) from the most interested community of bot-en-thusiasts out there."可知,Cynthia Breazeal博士舉行募捐會的目的是獲得人們對Jibo的反饋。

7. B細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)最后一段"When you take Jibo home,it will guide you through connecting to a Wi-Fi network...”可知,當你把Jibo帶回家時,首先要將它連接到互聯(lián)網(wǎng),然后它才能了解你。

8. A主旨大意題。根據(jù)整篇文章的介紹以及第一段中的最后一句"…with the first appearance of Jibo,the world's first family ro-bot."可知,本文的主題是介紹世界上的第一臺家用機器人。

題目來源:全品作業(yè)本高中英語選修6新課標人教版 > Unit 2 Robots

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