1. Unit 1 Will people have robots? Selfcheck Selfcheck Unit 1 Will people have robots? Selfcheck Selfcheck

2. Fill in the blanks with the words given. 1. I want to _____ for myself when I’m older. 2. My friends ____ a pet pig in their house. 3. I need to _____ smart for my job interview. wear work look fly keep work keep look

3. 4. We have to _____ a uniform to school. 5. One day people will _____ to the moon for vacations. wear work look fly keep wear fly

4. Find the words in this unit. a large spacecraft that stays above the Earth and is a base for people travelling in space ___________space station

5. an electronic machine that stores information and uses programs to help you find, organize, or change the information ___________computer

6. a machine that can move and do some of the work of a person, and is usually controlled by a computer ___________robot

7. someone who travels and works in a spacecraft ___________astronaut

8. Just for fun! A: What do you think your life will be like next month? B: My life will be a lot better than it is now!

9. Do you think you will have your own robot? Prediction about our life

10. Section 1 Before You Read What do the robots look like? What can the robots do? Do you know about robots?

11. What do they look like? They look like humans.

12. This robot looks like a huge arm. This one looks like a dog.

13. There are some other robots, what can they do? play football dance

14. help people do the most unpleasant jobs help with the housework

15. play the piano What can they do? talk

16. Which words and phrases do you think you will read in the passage? backpackpianodoctor Americapossibleswimmingless work buildingskoalaswaswill boredyears agocarshousework √ √ √ √ √ √ √

17. Title It tells us _______________________. Before you read, please read the title carefully and _____ what you may read and get ready for the reading. guess what the writing is about Reading strategies: Summary Summary

18. Topic sentence It is usually the ____ sentence of a paragraph and tells us ____________ of the paragraph. Key words first the main idea number, name of a person, a place, time and so on.

19. Section 2 While you Read

20. 1. What can robots do in some science fictions? 2. What can robots do now? 3. What do some scientists think robots will do in the future? 4. What do some robots look like now? 5. What will robots look like in the future? What can a snake robot do? 6. What can a snake robot do?

21. 请根据短文内容, 判断下列句子正 (T) 误 (F) 。 ( )1. All the scientists believe that people will have their own robots in hundreds of years. ( )2. James White doesn’t think that a robot will be able to do the same things as a person in the future. F T

22. ( )3. If robots do the same things all the time, they will get bored. ( )4. In the future, new robots will have lots of different shapes. ( )5. There will be robots everywhere in the future and people won’t need to work at all. F F T

23. 6. Robots will never get bored to do simple jobs over and over. ( ) 7. Humans will have more work to do in the future. ( ) 8. Space rockets seemed possible a hundred years ago. ( ) F F T

24. Section 3 After You Read Section 3 After You Read 3b Make sentences with the following phrases. … the same as… … make … do… … to take … (period of time) … to help do … … to help with …