四 完形填空
Do you want to have a robot in the future? ____1____ must be very interesting to have a robot. ____2____ will you ask it to do? Cook meals or clean the house? With a robot doing housework, you may have ____3____ free time. However, will the robot never get ____4____ with the housework?
An Austrian man bought a ____5____ to do housework. Every day, it ____6____ the kitchen after the man had breakfast. And he stopped it before he ____7____. But one day, when he came home, he found the robot ____8____ its life in the kitchen. He remembered that it was quite ____9____ and nothing special happened when he left. He didn't know how it turned ____10____ on, climbed on to a hotplate(加热板) and burnt itself into a pile of ashes.
There was serious smoke damage(烟雾损坏) in the ____11____. The room where the robot worked was the worst. The man said, "I will ____12____ buy one again. I bought the robot to keep the place clean, ____13____ it almost damaged my home."
Nobody knew why the robot ____14____ this way to end its life. Possibly because it couldn't ____15____ the boring housework.
( )1. A. He B. She C. It D. I
( )2. A. Where B. What C. How D. When
( )3. A. faster B. slower C. less D. more
( )4. A. bored B. excited C. interested D. relaxed
( )5. A. room B. robot C. tool D. phone
( )6. A. moved B. changed C. closed D. cleaned
( )7. A. went out B. went back C. went fishing D. went shopping
( )8. A. polluted B. improved C. ended D. sold
( )9. A. different B. normal C. unlucky D. dangerous
( )10. A. itself B. himself C. herself D. myself
( )11. A. classroom B. office C. house D. restaurant
( )12. A. soon B. always C. usually D. never
( )13. A. but B. and C. so D. or
( )14. A. fell B. chose C. lost D. appeared
( )15. A. stand B. forget C. remember D. finish

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