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【题目】Robots at the World Expo 2010 Shanghai play football，practice tai chi , play the violin, prepare Chinese dishes and care for the elderly. Scrap metal robots created by a Chinese farmer can pour tea and paint pictures.

Global designers of robots are making them more capable, powerful and affordable, so they will play more roles in more sectors, from manufacturing to health care, and they can help around the house.

Now Toyota, the world's biggest car maker, and Canon, the biggest camera maker, have joined research and development to make robots a practical reality, like a PC.

The Expo Shanghai is a place where China can learn about advanced robotics, and a stage for made-in-China robots.

Developers are taking robots from “Star Wars” and top laboratories and putting them into the industrial sector, even in consumer markets. They are used in health care, computer programming, manufacturing and culture.

The goals are to add more practical functions and to cut prices, and lower cost comes with higher volume.

“The World Expo is a unique opportunity to demonstrate French technology，”says Bruno Maisonnier，chief executive of Aldebaran Robotics, which shows Nao robots in the France Pavilion.

More than 700 Nao robots, which cost 1,000 to12,000 euros (US $ 14,640) each, are sold mainly to research organizations, including 60 to 70 in China.

The French-based company aims to promote robots in the general public market starting from late2011，with entertainment or learning functions at a "reasonable price", according to Maisonnier.

Visitors to the Japan Pavilion are struck by Toyota's dextrous Partner Robot playing the Chinese folk song Jasmine Flower on the violin. Other robots play other instruments, but the violin is the most complicated.

Many people were so enchanted by the robotic musician that they overlooked other Partner Robots, designed to be personal assistants especially for Japan's aging population. One can even carry passengers.

【1】 Robots at the World Expo 2010 Shanghai are designed to be __________

A. enjoyable and interesting

B. practical and affordable

C. good-looking and considerate

D. funny and relaxing

【2】 Toyota and Canon have joined research and development to make robots, which shows __________

A. robots are not too difficult to design

B. they want to abandon their present career

C. they are more fit to make robots

D. robot manufacture will become a big market

【3】 From the passage we can see Nao robots are designed __________

A. to show robots can be made cheaply

B. to meet the need of research

C. to serve the needs of every one of us

D. to show robots can be intelligent

【4】 What's the best title of the passage?

A. Advanced robots in the world

B. Robots in the future

C. Robots, practical and affordable

D. Robots show at the World Expo 2010 Shanghai

Answer 1

【答案】【1】 B

【2】 D

【3】 B

【4】 D

【解析】【1】推理判断题。本次展出的机器人更符合生活的需求，因此实用，同时价格上也考虑到了人们的承受力，突出了可承受的特点。故B项正确。

【2】推理判断题。这两个公司分别是世界上最大的汽车与照相机公司，他们之所以把目光转向机器人,是因为他们看中了机器人的市场潜力。

【3】推理判断题。根据倒数第四段中的 “...are sold mainly to research organizations ”可知，Nao 机器人的设计目的是用于科学研究。

【4】主旨大意题。全文讲述了2010年上海世博会上展览的机器人。