Unit2 Robots-Reading

高二选修 7

Questions

1. If you have a robot, what do you want him to do for you?

2. Do you think it is possible for a robot to:

think for itself?

have feelings?

have its own needs and desires?

look and feel like a human being?

Pre-reading

Bicentennial Man

机器管家

Reading

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Skimming

True or False

1. Larry was going to be away from home so he haired a robot to accompany his wife Claire.

2. Claire didn’t like the idea at the beginning, but she agreed to it at last.

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True or False

3.Tony could understand Claire when she said she was

not clever.

4.It was Claire that first decided to invite Gladys and

her friends to her house.

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True or False

5.When Tony, the robot, offered to help dressing, Claire was pleased to accept it. But she thought it was surprising for a robot to be so human.

F

True or False

6. Tony was eager to help Claire. He scanned quite a lot of

books in the library, but he could find no ways out.

F

True or False

7. While Tony worked on the improvements of the house, Claire also did her part.

8.The company was satisfied with Tony’s report because he had successfully made a woman fall in love with him.

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Questions in No.29 English Weekly

1--facial expressions

• 2--smooth

• 3--voice

• 4--skin

• 5--haircut

Answers to Part 1

6--list

7--accompany

8--attitude

9--improvements

10-- impressed

Scanning

Read and underline the sentences describing Tony

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Characteristics--- tall,

handsome, smooth and black

hair, deep voice and soft and

warm skin

Tony looks like a human being→►

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• He gave Claire a new haircut and changed the makeup she wore.

• Tony is able to make suggestions and predictons.

She fell off a ladder and even though Tony was in the next room, he managed to catch her in time.

Tony has quicker reactions

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He wrote out a list of items for

Claire to buy and advised

Claire to invite her friends,

making the guest envy her.

Tony is able to make a plan and follow it through►→

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Knowing the salesman was rude to

Claire, he made the salesman

change his attitude.

Tony has good communication skills.

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• When Claire wept with anger, he gave her encouragement; when Claire envied others and was disappointed with herself, he show sympathy and wanted to please her and helped her.

• Tony has emotions.→►

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• his facial expressions never changed

• It is different from human being

He brought her breakfast and then asked her whether she needed help dressing.

Behaviour not appropriate

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Summary

Larry Belmont, for a robot company which was

experimenting a robot, left a robot called Tony to his

wife, Claire. It was going to be by her. When

seeing Tony at first, Claire felt because of his

appearance.

working

with

tested out

alarmed

On the second morning, she felt w-hen asked w

hether she needed his help dressing. Later, Tony wanted to

her by helping her make herself and her home

. .When knowing what bothered her, he showed

and advised her to invite her friends to her home. T

ony worked steadily on the .

embarrassed

please

elegant

sympathy

improvements

That night before Tony was to leave and Larry was to return, Claire got her friends . What a sweet to be envied by those women! And at that moment, Claire thought she would with Tony, but Tony was just a machine!

envy victory

fall in love

Discussion

How would you feel if you had a robot

like Tony in your house?

How do you treat it?

Words and sentences

• Paragraph 1:

• test out sth.=put sth. to the test 对新试做的物品或新产生的理论进行“试用”或“检验考验”，检验其试用的程度或有效性，以便加以改进。

• E.g.Their thory is going to be tested out.

2.alarm n. 警报，惊慌 e.g. The fire caused much alarm.

火灾引起很大的恐慌．相关短语：give the alarm to~~ 　　发警报给～～take alarm at~~ 　　对～～感到吃惊a fire alarm 　　火警a false alarm 　　虚惊一场

Vt. 使警觉，使惊慌 e.g. I don’t want to alarm you, but there is a strange man in your garden. 我不想吓唬你，不过你花园里有个陌生人．相关短语：be alarmed at ~~ 被～～吓了一跳e.g.I was alarmed at his entering the home.

be alarmed for~~ 对～～放心不下 e.g.I was alarmed for her safty.

Para 3;

embarrassed 尴尬的，难堪的，害羞的e.g.be embarressed in the presence of stranges

在生人面前局促不安Para 4:

1.sympathy 　同情心，同感express sympathy for~~ 对～～表示慰问a letter of sympathy 慰问信feel/have sympathy for~~ 同情～～e.g.I felt much sympathy for the blind.

be in sympathy with ～～赞同～～

Para 5:

1.or rather 　或者说，准确地说e.g.What I want is the truth,or rather a series of truth.

我需要的是事实，准确地说是一系列事实．

Para 6:1.affair 　暖昧关系，事情，私通e.g.Don’t mind one’s own affaires/ business. 别管闲事！have an affair with sb. 跟某人有不正当的男女关系 .e.g.she was having an affair with someone who has a wife（有妇之夫） .It’s not my affair. 这不关我的事．

Para 7

suggest doing sth. 建议做～～suggest sth. to sb.=suggest to sb that 从句给某人提建议e.g.I suggested to him that he should work hard.

Para 9

declare 　宣布，声明，表明declare war on/upon~~ 　对～～宣战declare +n./sb. to be ~~ 　宣布～～为～～e.g.I declare this meeting to be open.

我宣布会议开始．declare oneself 　　发表意见，表明态度declare against ~~ 　声明反对declare for sth.=declare in

favor of sth. 声明赞成

more than 　极其，不止

e.g.When I heard the news I was more than surprised,

I was astonished. 当我听了这个消息，我不止是吃了一惊，而是大吃一惊．

　　　　　　多于

e.g.It was more than five years since I had come here.

Para 10envy 　嫉妒，羡慕 e.g.How I envy you!you have a happy family!envy sb.sth. 　　嫉妒羡慕某人某事be green with envy 　非常妒忌be in envy of one’s success 　 羡慕某人的成功out of envy 　　出于妒忌／羡慕

Para 12

You can’t have women falling in love with machines. 你不能让女人跟机器人相爱．have sb./sth. doing sth. 不允许～～做某事fall in love with sb. 指的是和某位异性陷入热恋，通常你们之间相识一段时间． have a crush on sb. 对一位异性十分着迷，通常指不太熟悉的异性，比方说你在路上遇见个让你着迷的异性． be in love with sb 强调爱恋这一状态

Homework

1.Review the passage .

2. Underline the important words .

3. Finish Ex.1 and 2 on P13.

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