World Book Day falls on April 23 every year. It was set up by UNESCO (联合国教科文组织) in 1955 to e1.people, especially teenagers, to discover the pleasure of the reading.

Many countries celebrate World Book Day. On that day in the UK, millions of students can buy books of special price, much l2.than usual in any bookstore. It has been done every year since 1998. World Book Day is also celebrated in China. Premier Wen Jiabao does lots of reading t3.he’s very busy. On World Book Day 2009, he called on people to do more reading. He suggested that young people should spend more time reading. “Books can’t change the world, but people can change the world by changing t4.through reading,” he said.

Reading can benefit (有益于) people in many ways. Reading helps us become more knowledgable and more intelligent. Reading helps us to follow the latest developments of science and t5.. Reading p6.us with information about other culture and places of the world. When we read, we may find many things that are u7. to us. We would have to use our brain to think about them or do more reading to find out the answers. The more we read, the more we know. The more we know, the smarter we become. Reading is also one of the most important ways to learn a foreign language l8.English. We all know that we can’t learn everything at school, for example, the ways English people are speaking and

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“Reading makes a full man.” Books, magazines, newspapers and other kinds of reading materials can help us to know more about the outside world and perfect us. Therefore, it is necessary for us to form the

h10.of reading every day.

Almost everyone stood up when the bride appeared in her white dress except the wedding conductor, because she was fixed to her chair. The marriage was held at a restaurant in Hibiya Park in central Tokyo. A four-foot-tall robot called I-Fairy directed the wedding.

“Please lift the bride’s veil(面纱),” I-Fairy said in a tiny voice with flashing eyes and long hair. As the happy persons kissed in front of about 50 guests, she shook her arms in the air. It was the first time that a marriage had been led by a robot.

Japan has one of the most modern robot industries in the world. The government actively supports to make more kinds of robots in the future. Many robot models in factories are very new. Recently Japanese companies are making robots work for people in daily life.

Honda makes a walking robot like children, and other companies have developed robots that can help old people and play baseball. In order to “touch the hearts of the people”, Kokoro makes huge dinosaur robots and other models that can smile.

“This is a lot of fun. I think that Japanese have a strong thought that robots are our friends. People in the robot industry mostly understand this, but people mainly want robots to serve them,” said Satoko Inoue, who works in Kokoro. Now the I-Fairies are in use in Singapore, the US and Japan.

1.Who was the wedding conductor?

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2.Why does Kokoro make model robots that can smile?

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3.What do Japanese think about robots?

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4.What countries use robots called I-Fairy now?

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5.What do you think of robots? (请自拟一句话回答)

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