《2025年走进重高培优讲义八年级英语上册人教版浙江专版》

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Robots are becoming a bigger part of our daily lives, like in teaching, taking care of us and even being our friends. Today, designers are considering how to get humans to trust robots. They pay special attention to voices, accents (口音) and dialects (方言) that robots use.
Imagine a "robot voice" in your head. Maybe it sounds like a robot from science fiction movies or TV shows. It could be robotic, unnatural and sound like a boss. Nowadays, however, machines are starting to talk more and more like real people.
Here comes a question. Do people like robots that speak with a standard accent or with accents and dialects from their own region? Some people think robots with standard accents sound smarter. And some researchers say robots with accents and dialects might feel more friendly and comforting. They might even seem more trustworthy (值得信任的).
To find out more, a group of researchers in Germany did a study. They wanted to know how people feel about robots based on the dialect they use. Katharina Kuhne and her team asked 120 Germans to watch a video of a small robot called Nao. Nao spoke in either standard German or the Berlin dialect.
After watching the video, the researchers asked the participants (参与者) which robot they thought was more trustworthy. Most people liked the robot that spoke in standard German, but not everyone did. If the participants spoke the Berlin dialect well and often, they thought the robot that spoke it was more trustworthy.
Kuhne's team knows there are many other factors that could influence how people feel about robots, like how they look, if the voice sounds like a man or a woman, and the meanings behind different dialects. But their study still gives us a good idea of how language can change the ways we interact with and think about robots. The results of this study can help make robots that meet the needs of people from all kinds of backgrounds.
( )1. What can we know from Paragraph 2 and Paragraph 3?
A. Robots with accents are smart.
B. All people trust robots with accents.
C. Some people think robots with accents are friendlier.
D. Robots nowadays speak standard languages without emotions.
( )2. What does the underlined word "interact" mean?
A. Play. B. Work. C. Connect. D. Communicate.
( )3. Where can you read this passage?
A. In a novel. B. In a newspaper. C. On a science website. D. In a fashion magazine.

答案： 1.C 2.D 3.C