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8. I'll give you an hour to (整理) your rooms.
8. sort out
Scientists have created a way to control a robot with signals from a human brain.
By generating the proper brainwaves―picked up by a cap with e-lectrodes (电极) that sense the signals and reflect a person's instruc?tions―scientists can instruct a humanoid robot to move to specific locations and pick up certain objects.
The commands are limited to moving forward,picking up one of two objects and bringing it to one of two locations. The researchers have achieved 94 per cent of accuracy between the thought commands and the robot's movements.
"This is really a proof-of-concept demonstration,"said Rajesh Rao,a researcher from the University of Washington who leads the project. "It suggests that one day we might be able to use semi-autonomous robots for such jobs as helping disabled peo?ple or performing routine tasks in a person's home.” The person wearing the electrode cap watches the robot's movement on a com?puter screen through two cameras installed on and above the robot.
When the robot's cameras see the objects that are to be picked up,they pass on the information to the user's computer screen. Each object lights up randomly on the computer screen. When a person wants something to be picked up and i[ hap?pens to light up,the brain registers surprise and sends this brain activity to the com?puter and then to the robot. The robot then proceeds to pick up the object.
A similar programme is used to decide where the robot will go.
"One of the important things about this demonstration is that we're using a 'noisy' brain signal to control the robot, "Rao said. "That means we can only obtain brain signals indirectly from sensors on the surface of the head,and not where they are generated deep in the brain. As a result,the user can only generate high-level commands such as indicating which object to pick up or which location to go to,and the robot needs to be autonomous enough to be able to execute such commands.” In the future,the researchers hope to make the robot more adaptive to the en?vironment by having them carry out more complex commands.
1. What is special about the robot introduced in the passage?
A. It is controlled by human thoughts.
B. It can be made humanoid,
C. It can be used to help the disabled.
D. It has high intelligence itself.
2. Which of the following is TRUE about the robot?
A. It can move forward and backward and pick up two objects at the same time.
B. It can move forward,pick up both objects and bring them to either location.
C. It can only move forward,pick up one object and put it in one location.
D. It can read all human thoughts and do as instructed.
3. What Rao says in the eighth paragraph suggests that the new robot .
A. is still at its early stage of development
B. will be widely used in our daily routines soon
C. is autonomous enough to complete complex commands
D. is only limited to doing routine work at home
4. The sixth paragraph mainly describes .
A. how the robot controls a person's action
B. how the robot picks up the right object
C. how the person controls the robot
D. how the robot finds out where to go
reflect on, upside down, sort out, leave alone,
let out, help sb out, be aware of, abandon oneself to
1. He is still thankful to the Franks who during his most difficult days.
2. The drivers avoided drinking while driving,because the police had seriously punished them for driving after drinking.
3. When seeing the snake,he a scream.
4. It is much better the likely result before you decide to do something,
5. A good and creative writer always the situations that will bring him nearer to his goal.
6. That boy is often busy the foreign stamps that he has collected.
7. She doesn't like Mrs Smith,so she always escapes with her.
8. If early explorers had come from the southern hemisphere,would our maps ap?pear ?
13. The victims of the plane crash were reported (find) .
6. At the top of the hill,the team (停止) to rest. After about ten minutes,they continued walking.
3. She (抬) her hat to me,and I winked at her.
3. 因为在事故中受伤很严重,那个人正在接受手术。
in the accident,the man is being operated on. (doing的被动形式)
5. Police have been appealing for (witness) to come forward.
4. The foreign friends you referred to are looking forward to
(show) around our newly built language lab.