Scientists are building the world’s first thinking robot. It’s true. Some say machines that walk, speak and feel will have been made by 2020.Kismet is the name of a robot which scientists have built this year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Kismet is different from traditional robots because it can show human emotions. Its eyes, ears and lips move to show when it feels happy, sad or bored. Kismet is one of the first robots of a new generation that look like human beings and can imitate human feelings.
Some people say that by 2020 we will have created robots with brains similar to those of adult human beings. These robots will be designed to look like people to make them more attractive and easier to sell. What kind of jobs will they do? In the future, robots like Robonaut, a robot invented by NASA, will be doing dangerous jobs, like repairing space stations. They will also be doing more and more of the household work for us. In Japan, scientists are designing robots that will entertain people by danc
ing and playing the piano.
Meanwhile, people who worry about the future are wondering whether robots will become monsters? Will people themselves become increasingly like robots? Experts predict that more and more people will be wearing micro-computers connected to the Internet in the future. People will have microchips in various parts of their body, which will connect them to a wide variety of small machines. Perhaps we should not exaggerate(夸大) the importance of technology, but one may wonder whether, in years to come, we will still be falling in love, and whether we will feel pain.
Who knows?
小题1:Kismet is different from traditional robots because______.
A．it is made in the MIT, USA
B．it is able to express its own feelings
C．it is the first modern robot
D．it is able to show human feelings小题2:Possibly, robots will be able to ______in about ten years from now.
A．think like human beings
B．do all kinds of jobs for us
C．imitate human feelings
D．become dangerous monsters小题3:The underlined word “one” can be best replaced by_____.
A．some experts
B．the writer himself
C．some scientists
D．people in general小题4:It can be inferred from this passage that_______.
A．robots will take the place of human beings in the future
B．the importance of technology has been exaggerated
C．scientist have designed different kinds of robots
D．robots might be a helper or a danger.
