《2025年名校课堂八年级英语上册外研版》

五、阅读理解
Robots are playing an important part in our life. They can help people do lots of boring and dangerous work. They're useful because they never get tired and bored and can't feel any pain(疼痛). But these days, some scientists believe it's a good idea to make robots feel pain.
Scientists from Germany are working on teaching robots how to feel pain. “Pain is a system that protects us humans,” said Johannes Kuehn, one of the scientists. “When we stay away from the things that could make us feel pain, we'll not get hurt.”
How dangerous it would be if we couldn't feel pain! Although pain hurts, it helps us keep away from dangerous things. The same will be true for robots. As a greater number of people work closely with robots, robots need to be smarter to protect themselves. Johannes believes that if humans protect robots, robots will protect humans as well.
Some Japanese scientists have made a robot which can see pain on human faces. Robots will be very useful in everyday life if they can see pain on human faces. For example, if robots can see pain on human faces, they'll be able to care for old people.
It's clear that robots are more and more like humans. Maybe in the future, robots will think and talk like humans. Do you agree?
根据语篇内容，按要求回答问题。
26. What can people use robots to do?
Lots of boring and dangerous work.
27. What are scientists from Germany doing?
They are working on teaching robots how to feel pain.
28. Why do robots need to be smarter?
Because they need to protect themselves when working with humans.
29. What can robots do if they can see pain on human faces?
They can care for old people.
30. What might robots be like in the future?
They might think and talk like humans.

答案： 26. Lots of boring and dangerous work. 27. They are working on teaching robots how to feel pain. 28. Because they need to protect themselves when working with humans. 29. They can care for old people. 30. They might think and talk like humans.

六、选词填空
根据语篇内容，从方框中选择恰当的单词，并用其正确形式填空。每个单词只能用一次。

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Our science club invited a guest speaker last week. He was an expert in the field of technology.
He started by showing us some examples of 31. smart cities. In these cities, traffic lights were smart, changing their times based on the number of cars on the road. This was all made possible by 32. artificial intelligence algorithms(智能算法). He also talked about the importance of 33. electricity in powering all these advanced systems.
After his presentation, there was a Q&A session(问答环节). I 34. asked him about the challenges in developing new technologies. He said that 35. trouble(s) often came in the form of technical glitches and the need to always 36. fix them. He mentioned that once, a new 37. printer they were developing had serious problems with ink distribution(墨水分布), and it took months to solve.
He himself was a 38. pioneer in developing new energy-efficient technologies. He said that his work required a natural 39. talent for thinking outside the box and a love for making a difference. His words really inspired all of us in the science club to 40. explore technology further.

答案： 31. smart 32. artificial 33. electricity 34. asked 35. trouble(s) 36. fix 37. printer 38. pioneer 39. talent 40. explore