六、短文填空
Boys and girls, 1. ______________ (imagine) these situations. You come back home from school and your robot housekeeper is already waiting for you at the door. He turns 2. ______________ the lights, air conditioner and television. If you are hungry, your food is already on your table. 3. ______________ you go to sleep, he tells you the weather report, and then reads a bedtime story to you. He can do all the work 4. ______________ (proper). He satisfies all your needs and he can do whatever he is asked to.
Such thoughts are no longer an imagination. Now they can happen in 5. ______________ real world if you have the robot Alpha 2. Alpha 2 has been a bright star since the 2017 World Robot Conference, which was 6. ______________ (hold) in Beijing.
The yearly event attracts robot - lovers from all over the world. Universities and companies across the world bring 7. ______________ (they) robots to the event. Some of them can work in factories. Some can go to outer space for exploration. But the highlights（亮点）of the event are service robots, which are the 8. ______________ (close) to our daily lives. They can talk with children and they are story - tellers, singers and dancers.
A popular service robot is called Bestic. It acts as a human arm to feed people with a spoon. It can be a good helper for little 9. ______________ (kid), the elderly and those having difficulty 10. ______________ (use) their hands.

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七、阅读表达
Today WeChat is part of our lives. According to a survey, a third of the Chinese children send more than 100 text messages on WeChat a day. Sending text messages on WeChat is becoming more and more popular among young people in China. Children prefer to send text messages to communicate with friends no matter where they are, even under the noses of parents and teachers. It seems that some children are “addicted（沉迷）”to texting. Actually sending too many is bad for their lives, health and study.
However, sending text messages isn’t all bad. It helps to improve our lives in some ways. Today many children greet each other on holidays by sending text messages instead of writing paper cards. During the last Spring Festival, more than 14 billion text messages were sent on WeChat in China. “Sending text messages on WeChat helps save my pocket money,” said Wu Qing, a friend of mine, “and it saves paper too.” Many parents send their kids texts instead of giving orders by mouth. It sounds more friendly. And children can accept them easily.
1. What do the children prefer to do on WeChat?
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2. How many text messages were sent on WeChat in China during the last Spring Festival?
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3. Do you think WeChat is good for us? Why or why not?
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1. They prefer to send text messages to communicate with friends on WeChat.
2. More than 14 billion.
3. Yes, I think so. Because we can communicate with others quickly on WeChat. /No. I don't think so. Because many of us spend too much time on it and it has a bad influence on our life.