選修7 Unit 2 Robots - Reading SATISFACTION GURANTEED Larry Belmont worked for a company that made robots. Recently it had begun experimenting with a household robot. It was going to be tested out by Larry's wife, Claire. Claire didn't want the robot in her house, especially as her husband would be absent for three weeks, but Larry persuaded her that the robot wouldn't harm her or allow her to be harmed. It would be a bonus. However, when she first saw the robot, she felt alarmed. His name was Tony and he seemed more like a human than a machine. He was tall and handsome with smooth hair and a deep voice although his facial expression never changed. On the second morning Tony, wearing an apron, brought her breakfast and then asked her whether she needed help dressing. She felt embarrassed and quickly told him to go. It was disturbing and frightening that he looked so human. One day, Claire mentioned that she didn't think she was clever. Tony said that she must feel very unhappy to say that. Claire thought it was ridiculous to be offered sympathy by a robot. But she began to trust him. She told him how she was overweight and this made her feel unhappy. Also she felt her home wasn't elegant enough for someone like Larry who wanted to improve his social position. She wasn't like Gladys Claffern, one of the richest and most powerful women around. As a favour Tony promised to help Claire make herself smarter and her home more elegant. So Claire borrowed a pile of books from the library for him to read, or rather, scan. She looked at his fingers with wonder as they turned each page and suddenly reached for his hand. She was amazed by his fingernails and the softness and warmth of his skin. How absurd, she thought. He was just a machine. Tony gave Claire a new haircut and changed the makeup she wore. As he was not allowed to accompany her to the shops, he wrote out a list of items for her. Claire went into the city and bought curtains, cushions, a carpet and bedding. Then she went into a jewellery shop to buy a necklace. When the clerk at the counter was rude to her, she rang Tony up and told the clerk to speak to him. The clerk immediately changed his attitude. Claire thanked Tony, telling him that he was a "dear". As she turned around, there stood Gladys Claffern. How awful to be discovered by her, Claire thought. By the amused and surprised look on her face, Claire knew that Gladys thought she was having an affair. After all, she knew Claire's husband's name was Larry, not Tony. When Claire got home, she wept with anger in her armchair. Gladys was everything Claire wanted to be. "You can be like her," Tony told her and suggested that she invite Gladys and her friends to the house the night before he was to leave and Larry was to return. By that time, Tony expected the house to be completely transformed. Tony worked steadily on the improvements. Claire tried to help once but was too clumsy.She fell off a ladder and even though Tony was in the next room, he managed to catch her in time. He held her firmly in his arms and she felt the warmth of his body. She screamed, pushed him away and ran to her room for the rest of the day. The night of the party arrived. The clock struck eight. The guests would be arriving soon and Claire told Tony to go into another room.At that moment, Tony folded his arms around her, bending his face close to hers. She cried out "Tony" and then heard him declare that he didn't want to leave her the next day and that he felt more than just the desire to please her. Then the front door bell rang. Tony freed her and disappeared from sight. It was then that Claire realized that Tony had opened the curtains of the front window. Her guests had seen everything ! The women were impressed by Claire, the house and the delicious cuisine. Just before they left, Claire heard Gladys whispering to another woman that she had never seen anyone so handsome as Tony. What a sweet victory to be envied by those women! She might not be as beautiful as them, but none of them had such a handsome lover. Then she remembered -Tony was just a machine. She shouted "Leave me alone" and ran to her bed. She cried all night. The next morning a car drove up and took Tony away. The company was very pleased with Tony's report on his three weeks with Claire. Tony had protected a human being from harm. He had prevented Claire from harming herself through her own sense of failure. He had opened the curtains that night so that the other women would see him and Claire, knowing that there was no risk to Claire's 。
A1 1、frighten frightened 2、waste waste 3、decision decide 4、behaves behaviour 5、cross crossed 6、mess messy 7、sound sounds 8、explained explanation A2 1、as 2、on 3、with of 4、at 5、by 6、to 7、towards B1 1、surfing 2、practise 3、chatting 4、smoking drinking 5、to respect 6、to do 7、talking 8、playing 9、learning B2 1、goes through 2、depend on 3、normal 4、at the same time 5、tends to 6、out of control 7、make a choice 8、along with 9、balance 10、confused C1 1、whom 2、which/that 3、which 4、whom 5、that 6、whom 7、where 8、when 9、that 10、where C2 2、刪去it 3、which→why 4、that→where 5、that→where 6、person后+who 7、way后+in 8、while→when 9、which→when 10、which→why D1 1、treat 2、clinic 3、vacation 4、chance 5、mess 6、teenager 7、surprise 8、refuse 9、why 10、rude D2 1、The soup smells delicious!I can't wait to taste it. 2、We can't speak Italian,so what are we supposed to say when we arrive there? 3、Don't forget to bring an umbrella as if it seems to rain. 4、She insists on going to Africa to study on wild animals although her family ask her not to do that. 5、Their team which is the best of this country deserves to win this match. 6、She is tired and feels like having a good sleep. 7、This is your fault and it's unnecessary to defend yourself. 8、Now that John has arrived,let's start working now.。
您好,Isaac Asimov was an American scientist and writer who wrote around 480 books that included mystery stories, science and history books, and even books about the Holy Bible and Shakespeare. But he is best known for his science fiction stories. Asimov had both an extraordinary imagination that gave him the ability to explore future worlds and an amazing mind with which he searched for explanations of everything, in the present and the past. Asimov's life began in Russia, where he was born on 2 January, 1920. It ended in New York on 6 April, 1992, when he died as a result of an HIV infection that he had got from a blood transfusion nine years earlier. When Asimov was three, he moved with his parents and his one-year-old sister to New York City. There his parents bought a candy store which they ran for the next 40 or so years. At the age of nine, when his mother was pregnant with her third child, Asimov started working part-time in the store. He helped out through his school and university years until 1942, a year after he had gained a master's degree in chemistry. In 1942 he joined the staff of the Philadelphia Navy Yard as a junior chemist and worked there for three years. In 1948 he got his PhD in chemistry. The next year he became a biochemistry teacher at Boston University School of Medicine. In 1958 he gave up teaching to become a full-time writer. It was when Asimov was eleven years old that his talent for writing became obvious. He had told a friend two chapters of a story he had written. The friend thought he was retelling a story from a book. This really surprised Asimov and from that moment, he started to take himself seriously as a writer. Asimov began having stories published in science fiction magazines in 1939. In 1950 he published his first novel and in 1953 his first science book. Throughout his life, Asimov received many awards, both for his science fiction books and his science books. Among his most famous works of science fiction, one for which he won an award was the Foundation trilogy (1951-1953), three novels about the death and rebirth of a great empire in a galaxy of the future. It was loosely based on the fall of the Roman Empire but was about the future. These books are famous because Asimov invented a theoretical framework which was designed to show how ideas and thinking may develop in the future. He is also well known for his collection of short stories, I, Robot (1950), in which he developed a set of three "laws" for robots. For example, the first law states that a robot must not injure human beings or allow them to be injured. Some of his ideas about robots later influenced other writers and even scientists researching into artificial intelligence. Asimov was married twice. He married his first wife in 1942 and had a son and a daughter. Their marriage lasted 31 years. Soon after his divorce in 1973, Asimov married again but he had no children with his second wife.Unit 2 RobotsUsing LanguageA BIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC ASIMOV艾薩克·阿西莫夫傳 艾薩克·阿西莫夫是美國的科學家兼作家。
他寫過大約480本書,包括怪誕小說、科學和歷史方面的書,甚至還寫過有關《圣經(jīng)》和莎士比亞的書。但是,他最有名的作品還是他的科幻小說。
阿西莫夫不僅有著超凡的想象力,使他能對未來世界進行探索,而且還有著驚人的智力,使他能對現(xiàn)在和過去的各種事物作出解釋。 阿西莫夫的一生從俄羅斯開始,他生于1920年1月2日;阿西莫夫的一生在紐約結束,他死于1992年4月6日。
他是因為九年前的一次輸血中感染了艾滋病毒而去世的。 阿西莫夫三歲的時候,就隨同父母和年僅一歲的妹妹遷到紐約。
在那兒,他的父母買下了一家糖果店,后來一直經(jīng)營了大約40年。阿西莫夫九歲的時候,母親懷了第三個孩子,他就開始在糖果店里工作了。
他讀中學和大學的那段時期都在糖果店里工作,一直到1942年,也就是他獲得化學碩士學位一年以后他才停止糖果店的工作。1942年,他在費城海軍造船廠里擔任初級化學師,干了三年。
1948年他獲得了化學博士學位。第二年起他在波士頓大學的醫(yī)學院任生化教員。
1958年他放棄了教學工作成為專職作家。 早在阿西莫夫十一歲的時候,他的寫作才華就已經(jīng)顯露出來了。
他把他寫的小說中的兩個章節(jié)念給一個朋友聽,那個朋友還以為他是在復述某本書上的故事呢。這使阿西莫夫很驚訝。
從此以后,他就開始認真地從事寫作了。1939年,阿西莫夫開始在科幻雜志上發(fā)表故事,1950年出版了自己他的第一部小說,1953年出版了他的第一部科學書籍。
阿西莫夫一生中多次獲過獎,既有科幻小說獎,也有科學書籍獎。在他那些最負盛名的科幻小說中,有本獲獎的書叫做《基地》三部曲(1951-1953),有三個小故事,講的是未來銀河系中一個偉大帝國的滅亡與復興。
基本素。
選修7 Unit 2 Robots - Reading SATISFACTION GURANTEED Larry Belmont worked for a company that made robots. Recently it had begun experimenting with a household robot. It was going to be tested out by Larry's wife, Claire. Claire didn't want the robot in her house, especially as her husband would be absent for three weeks, but Larry persuaded her that the robot wouldn't harm her or allow her to be harmed. It would be a bonus. However, when she first saw the robot, she felt alarmed. His name was Tony and he seemed more like a human than a machine. He was tall and handsome with smooth hair and a deep voice although his facial expression never changed. On the second morning Tony, wearing an apron, brought her breakfast and then asked her whether she needed help dressing. She felt embarrassed and quickly told him to go. It was disturbing and frightening that he looked so human. One day, Claire mentioned that she didn't think she was clever. Tony said that she must feel very unhappy to say that. Claire thought it was ridiculous to be offered sympathy by a robot. But she began to trust him. She told him how she was overweight and this made her feel unhappy. Also she felt her home wasn't elegant enough for someone like Larry who wanted to improve his social position. She wasn't like Gladys Claffern, one of the richest and most powerful women around. As a favour Tony promised to help Claire make herself smarter and her home more elegant. So Claire borrowed a pile of books from the library for him to read, or rather, scan. She looked at his fingers with wonder as they turned each page and suddenly reached for his hand. She was amazed by his fingernails and the softness and warmth of his skin. How absurd, she thought. He was just a machine. Tony gave Claire a new haircut and changed the makeup she wore. As he was not allowed to accompany her to the shops, he wrote out a list of items for her. Claire went into the city and bought curtains, cushions, a carpet and bedding. Then she went into a jewellery shop to buy a necklace. When the clerk at the counter was rude to her, she rang Tony up and told the clerk to speak to him. The clerk immediately changed his attitude. Claire thanked Tony, telling him that he was a "dear". As she turned around, there stood Gladys Claffern. How awful to be discovered by her, Claire thought. By the amused and surprised look on her face, Claire knew that Gladys thought she was having an affair. After all, she knew Claire's husband's name was Larry, not Tony. When Claire got home, she wept with anger in her armchair. Gladys was everything Claire wanted to be. "You can be like her," Tony told her and suggested that she invite Gladys and her friends to the house the night before he was to leave and Larry was to return. By that time, Tony expected the house to be completely transformed. Tony worked steadily on the improvements. Claire tried to help once but was too clumsy.She fell off a ladder and even though Tony was in the next room, he managed to catch her in time. He held her firmly in his arms and she felt the warmth of his body. She screamed, pushed him away and ran to her room for the rest of the day. The night of the party arrived. The clock struck eight. The guests would be arriving soon and Claire told Tony to go into another room.At that moment, Tony folded his arms around her, bending his face close to hers. She cried out "Tony" and then heard him declare that he didn't want to leave her the next day and that he felt more than just the desire to please her. Then the front door bell rang. Tony freed her and disappeared from sight. It was then that Claire realized that Tony had opened the curtains of the front window. Her guests had seen everything ! The women were impressed by Claire, the house and the delicious cuisine. Just before they left, Claire heard Gladys whispering to another woman that she had never seen anyone so handsome as Tony. What a sweet victory to be envied by those women! She might not be as beautiful as them, but none of them had such a handsome lover. Then she remembered -Tony was just a machine. She shouted "Leave me alone" and ran to her bed. She cried all night. The next morning a car drove up and took Tony away. The company was very pleased with Tony's report on his three weeks with Claire. Tony had protected a human being from harm. He had prevented Claire from harming herself through her own sense of failure. He had opened the curtains that night so that the other women would see him and Claire, knowing that there was no risk to Claire's marriage. B。
Last sunday. I and my father, mother, grandparents, brother went to hutiaoxia
by bus. In the morning we came down the mountain. I saw wooded mountains, wild flowers bloom. We climb up the hill along the mountain path. Come halfway up the mountain, I feel a little tired,it began to rain,My West Lake silk umbrella missed,. Dad said to me,“Jill, don't do anything halfway.”at last,So I insisted reached the top, the top of the scenery so beautiful.We were flying kites, I was thirsty, my mother bought me a bottle of water, .finally we went home.finally,Since then, I've kept the umbrella。i was very happy
1、household adj. 家庭的;家用的 n.一家人;家庭 2、fiction n. 小說;虛構或想象出來的事 3、desire n. 渴望;欲望;渴求 vt.希望得到;想要 4、satisfaction n. 滿意;滿足; 令人滿意的事物 5、test out 考驗出;檢驗完 6、bonus n. 額外津貼;獎金;紅利 7、alarm vt. 使警覺;使驚恐;驚動 n.警報;驚恐 8、apron n. 圍裙 9、sympathy n. 同情(心) 10、overweight adj. 超重的;體重超常的 11、elegant adj. 優(yōu)雅的;高雅的;講究的 12、favour n. 喜愛;恩惠 vt.喜愛;偏袒 13、pile n. 堆;摞;疊 vi.堆起;堆積 vt.把……堆起;積聚 14、scan vt. 細看;仔細檢查;粗略地看; 瀏覽;掃描 15、fingernail n. 手指甲 16、absurd adj. 荒謬的;可笑的 17、haircut n. 發(fā)型;理發(fā) 18、makeup n. 化妝品 19、accompany vt. 陪伴;伴奏 20、cushion n. (坐、跪時用的)軟墊;靠墊; 墊子 21、bedding n. 寢具;鋪蓋 22、necklace n. 項鏈 23、clerk n. 售貨員;職員;旅館接待員 24、counter n. 柜臺;計數(shù)器 25、ring up 給……打電話 26、turn around 轉身;翻轉 27、awful adj. 極壞的;極討厭的;可怕的; (口語)糟透的 28、affair n. 事務;事情;暖昧關系 29、armchair n. 扶手椅;單座沙發(fā) 30、declare vt. 宣布;聲明;表明;宣稱 31、cuisine n. 烹飪(風味);菜肴 32、envy vt. 忌妒;羨慕 33、leave alone 不管;別惹;讓……一個人 待著;和……單獨在一起 34、digital adj. 數(shù)字的;數(shù)碼的;手指的; 腳趾的 35、mailbox n. (美)郵筒;信箱 36、state vt. 陳述;宣布 37、aside adv. 在一邊;向一邊 38、set aside 將……放在一邊;為……節(jié)省 或保留(錢或時間) 39、grand adj. 大的;豪華的;雄偉的 40、Marion n. 瑪麗昂(女名) 41、alphabetical adj. 字母(表)的;按字 母順序的 42、receiver n. 收件人;接收機;電話聽筒 43、in all 一共;總計 44、affection n. 喜愛;愛;感情 45、bound adj. 一定的;密切相關的 46、be bound to 一定做…… 47、biography n. (由他人撰寫的)傳記;傳記文學 48、holy adj. 神的;上帝的;圣潔的 49、imagination n. 想象(力);創(chuàng)造力;幻想物 50、transfusion n. 輸血 51、part-time adj. 兼職的 52、staff n. 全體員工;手杖 53、Philadelphia n. 費城(美國賓夕法尼亞州重要港口) 54、navy n. 海軍;海軍部隊 55、junior adj. 較年幼的;資歷較淺的;地位 較低的 n.年少者;晚輩;等級較低者 56、biochemistry n. 生物化學 57、Boston n. 波士頓(美國東北部城市) 58、talent n. 天才;特殊能力;才干 59、chapter n. (書中的)章;篇;回 60、empire n. 帝國 61、theoretical adj. 理論(上)的;假設的 62、framework n. 框架;結構 63、thinking n. 思想;思考 64、divorce n. 離婚;斷絕關系 vt.與……離婚;與……脫離 65、obey vt. & vi. 服從;順從 66、disobey vt. & vi. 不服從;違抗 67、assessment n. 評價;評定 68、alarmed adj. 擔心的;害怕的 69、Doctor of Philosophy (縮寫為PhD)哲學博士學位;博士學位 擴展資料 記單詞四步法:1、分析構詞:通過詞根詞綴來拆詞,通過同根詞的規(guī)模效應來提高背單詞的效率和效果。
2、了解詞源:了解單詞的歷史演變和來龍去脈,輔助記憶和理解。3、理解詞義:關注英英解釋,詞義最少一種,多則好幾種相近的意思,不會局限于中英文詞匯一一對應的情況。
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拉里.貝爾蒙特在一家生產機器人的公司里工作。最近,該公司要對一個家用機器人進行試驗。這項試驗將由拉里的夫人克萊爾來嘗試。 克萊爾并不想把機器人留在家里,特別是在她丈夫離家三周的這個期間。但是克萊爾被拉里說服了。他說,機器人不會傷害她。這樣會是個意外的收獲。然而她初次見到機器人的時候就感到有點兒吃驚。機器人名叫托尼,看上去更像一個人,而不像臺機器。他雖然面部表情毫無變化,但是個子高大、相貌英俊,頭發(fā)平整,聲音低沉渾厚。 第二天早晨,托尼戴著圍裙,給她端來了早餐,然后問她是否需要幫忙穿衣打扮。她感到有點兒不好意思,很快就打發(fā)他走了。機器人如此通人性,這使她覺得心煩和害怕。 有一天,克萊爾說起,她覺得她自己并不聰明。托尼則說,克萊爾一定是很不高興,才會說出這樣的話來??巳R爾覺得,機器人會向她表示同情,這有點荒唐可笑。但是她開始信任托尼了。她告訴托尼她太胖了,這讓她很不高興。還有對于像拉里這樣很想提高社會地位的人來說,她的家也不夠高雅。她跟格拉迪絲.克拉芬不一樣,格拉迪絲是遠近聞名的有錢有勢的女人。 托尼為讓克萊爾高興,答應幫助她,使她變得漂亮,使她的家變得高雅大方。于是克萊爾從圖書館借來一堆書給托尼閱讀,或者說給他瀏覽一下。她驚奇地看著他的手指翻動著書頁,忍不住突然伸出手來摸他的手指。他的手指甲和他那柔軟溫暖的皮膚使她感到大為驚異。她在想,這是多么可笑啊,他只不過是臺機器呀! 托尼給克萊爾換了個發(fā)型,又改變了化妝風格。因為不允許托尼陪克萊爾去商店,所以托尼就給她寫了一份購物清單??巳R爾進城去買了窗簾、坐墊、地毯和床上用品。然后她去了一家珠寶店買項鏈。柜臺售貨員對她很粗魯,她就打電話給托尼,讓售貨員同托尼講話。售貨員馬上就改變了態(tài)度。克萊爾對托尼表示感謝,并說他是個“可愛的人”。她剛一轉過身去,就看到格拉迪絲.克拉芬站在那兒??巳R爾想,格拉迪絲認為她有風流韻事了。畢竟格拉迪絲知道她的丈夫是拉里,而不是托尼。 克萊爾回到家里,坐在扶手椅上氣得直哭。格拉迪絲的一舉一動都是克萊爾想模仿的。托尼告訴克萊爾說,你可以同格拉迪絲一樣,還建議克萊爾邀請克拉迪斯和她的朋友到家里來玩,時間就定在托尼離去和拉里回家之前的那個晚上。托尼想在此之前將房子改裝得煥然一新。 托尼有條不紊地搞著裝修??巳R爾有一次想來幫忙,但是太笨手笨腳了,竟從椅子上掉了下來。盡管托尼當時在隔壁房間里,他還是及時趕過來把她接住了。他把她緊緊地摟在懷里,她感覺到了他身上有股暖氣。她尖叫了起來,把他推開,跑回她的房里,那天她就再也沒有出來過。 聚會的那天晚上來到了。時鐘敲響八點,客人馬上就要到來了??巳R爾叫托尼到另一間房里去。就在那一瞬間,托尼彎曲胳膊摟著她,彎下腰去把臉貼近她的臉。她大叫一聲“托尼”,然后聽到托尼一本正經(jīng)地說,明天他不想離開她,而且他并不滿足于僅僅使她開心。就在這時,前門的門鈴響了。托尼放開了她,消失得無影無蹤了。也就在這時候,克萊爾才意識到托尼早就把前邊窗戶的窗簾拉開了。她的客人把這一切看得一清二楚。 克萊爾和她的房子、美食給女士們留下了深刻的印象。就在他們離開之前,克萊爾聽到格拉迪絲跟另外一個女人小聲地說,她從來沒有見過像托尼這樣英俊的男人。受到那些女士的妒忌,這該是多么甜美的勝利!克萊爾也許并沒有她們那樣漂亮,但是他們中沒有任何一個人擁有這樣英俊的情人。 這時候,她記起來了——托尼只不過是一臺機器。她高聲嚷道:“讓我獨自呆一會兒!”就跑上床,哭了一個通宵。第二天早晨開來一輛汽車,把托尼接走了。 公司對托尼和克萊爾相處三個星期的實驗報告非常滿意。托尼保護了一個人免受傷害,他使克萊爾沒有因為她的失敗感而傷害自己。那天晚上,他拉開了窗簾,讓其他女人看到了他和克萊爾在一起,他明白這么做對克萊爾的婚姻并不造成危害。但是,盡管托尼很聰明,他還得作一番改建——總不能讓女人和機器相愛吧。
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