Unit 4 Wildlife Protection Language points课时作业

[语言知识练习固基础]

　　单句语法填空

　　1．The teacher left us a lot of homework to do(do)．

　　2．"Are there any more clothes to be washed (wash)？" asked mum.

　　3．The novel is said to have been translated (translate) into English.

　　4．If they win the final tonight，the team are going to tour around the city to be cheered (cheer) by their enthusiastic supporters.

　　5．Tom asked the candy makers if they could make the chocolate easier to break (break) into small pieces.

　　6．Molly is more of a giver than a receiver(receive)．

　　7．I foresee a bright future for that talented (talent) young woman.

　　8．To everybody's surprise，they got divorced (divorce) last month，though they had been married for only two months.

　　9．It is said these books are designed to develop the imagination(imagine) of the children.

　　10．For those who design things，these are not just theoretical(theory) questions.

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　　Joseph Frederick Engelberger, the father of robotics, was born on July 26, 1925, in Brooklyn. He received his B．S. in physics in 1946, and M. S. in Electric Engineering in 1949 from Columbia University. He worked as an engineer with Manning, Maxwell and Moore, and then he met George Devol at a party in 1956, two years after Devol had designed and patented an industrial robotic arm. However, Manning, Maxwell and Moore was sold and Engelberger's division was closed that year.

Finding himself jobless but with a business partner and an idea, Engelberger co­founded Unimation with Devol, creating the world's first robotics company. And the introduction of robotics to the manufacturing process effectively transformed the automotive industry. Over the next two decades, the Japanese took the lead by investing heavily in robots to replace people performing certain tasks. In Japan, Engelberger was