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  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 (民间集资) 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.

Answer 1

[文章大意]这是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了世界上的第一台家用机器人。它能使我们的生活更方便。

5. D推理判断题。根据第一段可知，Jibo的出现引发了全世界的关注。

Cynthia Breazeal博士在接受采访时正要举行庆祝会，由此可推知，Jibo的发明值得庆祝，故答案为D.

6. D细节理解题。根据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博士举行募捐会的目的是获得人们对Jibo的反馈。

7. B细节理解题。根据最后一段"When you take Jibo home,it will guide you through connecting to a Wi-Fi network...”可知，当你把Jibo带回家时，首先要将它连接到互联网，然后它才能了解你。

8. A主旨大意题。根据整篇文章的介绍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，本文的主题是介绍世界上的第一台家用机器人。