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Industrial robots 工业机器人

The robot whichcan speak to people.

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Larry Belmont

Claire

Tony

Gladys Claffern

Characters in the story:

---- Larry’s wife, a housewife

---- the robot

---- employed in a company that makes robots

---- a woman that Claire envies

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Read through the passage and then answer the following questions:

1.Why did Larry put Tony into his family?

2.What did Tony look like?

3.Why had Tony opened the curtains(窗帘 ) before he hugged Claire?

1. Why did Larry put Tony into his family?

2.What did the robot called Tony look like?

He looked like a tall and handsome man, speaking in a deep voice, with smooth black hair and his facial expression unchanged.

Because he wanted to test out how a robot used for housework in a family.

Reading and comprehending

Read again for detail information.1. Find the sentences which describe

the changes of Claire’s feelings to Tony.

2. Find the sentences which show what Tony does.

1. Why did Tony open the

curtains? He wanted Claire’s

guests to see him and Claire together so that she would be envied by women guests .

Post-reading

2. What did Tony do to prevent Claire from being harmed?

He had prevented Claire from harming herself by making her feel good about herself. He helped her make her and her home elegant so that she would not feel like a failure.

3. Why should Tony be rebuilt?

Because the company

(designers) cannot have women

falling in love with machines.

In groups, list Tony’s characteristics that were similar to those of a human being and different from those of a human being.

Characteristics

Physical

Mental

Emotional

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