Mr Smith just opened a small restaurant. To attract (吸引)People, he put up a notice (通知) in front of the restaurant. It said, "Meals on the house for three days."

The next day, a foreign student passed by the restaurant. He didn't know much English. It was lunch time and he felt very hungry. He walked to the restaurant and saw the notice. "American people are really funny; They even have dinners on the house! But how can I get up to the top of the house?" He said to himself.

He looked around and found a ladder (梯子). But when he reached the top, he heard someone shouting at him, "Hey! What are you doing up there?"

"Doesn't your notice say 'Meals on the house for three days'? Is it just a joke?" the foreign student asked.

When people heard this, they all laughed, "Do you know what that means? It means all the food here is free these days."

1.Mr Smith put a notice in front of the restaurant, because .

A. he wanted to make a joke on people

B. he wanted more people to have meals there

C. he wanted to make the restaurant more beautiful

2.What did the foreign student think of American people?

A. Friendly. B. Funny. C. Outgoing.

3.The foreign student climbed to the top of the house in order to .

A. make a joke B. have lunch C. use the ladder

4.How did the foreign student get to the top of the house?

A. He used a ladder.

B. He used the notice.

C. He jumped.

5."Meals on the house" in the passage probably means .

A. serving meals only on the house

B. eating something special on the top of the house

C. you can eat meals but pay nothing for them

Americans love cars. They have more than 250 million (百万) cars ---about one car for every 1.2 people. But these cars cause (引起) too much air pollution. Even children know that cars need gas (汽油) to run. If there is no gas, today's cars will become tomorrow's about the cars in the future, they usually think of hydrogen (氢气) cars, electric (电的) cars and flying cars.

Hydrogen cars might be the cars of the future. They don't cause pollution and the hydrogen turns into water after it is used. The first hydrogen car was made by Honda. It was very expensive and didn't run very far.

There are some electric cars on the market, but they can't run very far or very fast. In the future, there will be a lot of electric cars on the road. When the batteries (电池) are better and cheaper, electric cars will become more popular.

There will be another kind of car --- flying cars. They will be able to run in the air. But now there is only one company, MDI, making this kind of car.

1.We can know from the text that there are about _ people in American.

A. 250 million B. 300 million C. 208 million

2. Hydrogen turns into after it is used.

A. water B. air C. gas

3.Which of the following is TRUE about electric cars?

A. They can run fast but not very far.

B. They are very popular with people now.

C. They are still too expensive for people to buy.

4.How many kinds of cars are mentioned in the passage?

A. Two B. Three C. Four

5. What is the best title for the text?

A. Cars in the future.

B. Americans and cars.

C. Air pollution.

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Robots are coming into every aspect (方面 ) of our lives. There are mainly three kinds of robots.

There are factory robots, like the robots that put together parts in the car factory. Then there are the service robots that do jobs for humans, like Roomba, the robot household cleaner that is popular in the US now. The third kind is field (领域) robots, for example, some robots are made to work in some hard environments and many robots are already servicing our mines (矿藏) and farms.

"Many people think that robots should look like human, but that's wrong. Most robots are built into machines. Anything that can move by itself is a robot." says a robot specialist (专家) Jonathon Roberts.

Already we have tractors (拖拉机) that can drive themselves, underground trucks that can work by themselves for mining, and robots that can work underwater. Starbug, an underwater robot, is widely used (广泛使用 ) now. It can go into water on its own and come back after collecting information, and it has cameras to take pictures. It only weighs about 25kg, so one person can take it and put it in a suitcase.

Claude Sammut is a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of New South Wales. He says the future for field robots is great. For example, people are making 'smarter' cars. Some car factories are trying to make special cars that can drive itself when the driver falls asleep.

Types of robots

● 1. --- robots work in factories.

●2. ---robots do jobs for human at home.

● Field robots--- robots work in different fields, for example, in 3.

like mines and under water.

4. robots

● 5. a household cleaner

●Starbug -- a(n) 6. with cameras on it; can go off and 7. on

its own; only weighs about 25kg

8. of some specialists

●Jonathon Roberts -- It's wrong to think that robots should 9. .

Robots are 10. and anything that can move by itself is a robot.

● Claude Sammut -- The future for field robots is great. Cars can drive

itself in the future.

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