Read the following text quickly and choose the correct answers to the questions below. Don’t pay attention to the gaps.
Are the paragraphs about
a
lots of topics?
b
one topic?
Which is the best title?
a
Imaginary robots in film and fiction.
b
Robots: the fantasy and the facts.
A We can thank the world of literature for the words robot and robotics. The word robot was first used by the Czech playwright Karel Capek in his 1921 play, RUR (Rossum’s Universal Robots). (1) _______________ . Asimov used it in a short story in 1941.
B Robots often star in films too, for example dangerous machines like Terminator or cute ones like R2D2 in Star Wars. (2) _______________ . Industrial robots don’t have personalities and they don’t think like people. Most real robots are designed to save people from dangerous jobs (3) _________________ or boring, routine work (4) _______________ .
C A simple robot is made of:
- A mechanical device (5) _______________ that can react to its environment.
- Sensors that (6) ________________ give information to the device.
- Systems or computer programs that (7) ________________ give the device instructions.
* (the text is from: “Engineering” Workshop by Lindsey White, OUP; Unit 17, pg.19, ex.4)