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Unit 2 SATISFACTION GURANTEED
Larry Belmont worked for a company that made robots. Recently it _____________ (begin) experimenting with a household robot. It was going _____________ (test) out by Larry's wife, Claire.
Claire didn't want the robot in her house, especially as her husband ____________ (be) absent for three weeks, but Larry persuaded her that the robot wouldn't harm her _______ allow her ______________(harm). It would be a bonus. However, when she first saw the robot, she felt alarmed. His name was Tony and he seemed more like a human than a machine. He was tall and handsome with smooth hair and a deep voice although his ________ (face) expression never changed.
On the second morning Tony, wearing an apron, _____________ (bring) her breakfast and then asked her whether she needed help dressing. She felt embarrassed and quickly told him to go. It was disturbing and frightening _________ he looked so human.
One day, Claire mentioned that she didn't think she was clever. Tony said that she must feel very unhappy _____________ (say) that. Claire thought it was ridiculous _______________ (offer) sympathy by a robot. But she began to trust him. She told him how she was overweight and this made her feel unhappy. Also she felt her home wasn't elegant enough for someone like Larry who wanted to improve his __________ (society) position. She wasn't like Gladys Claffern, one of the richest and most powerful women around.
As a favour Tony promised to help Claire make herself smarter and her home more elegant. So Claire borrowed a pile of books from the library for him to read, or rather, scan. She looked at his fingers with wonder as they turned each page and suddenly reached for his hand. She was amazed by his fingernails and the ___________ (soft) and warmth of his skin. How absurd, she thought. He was just a machine.
Tony gave Claire a new haircut and changed the makeup she __________ (wear). As he was not allowed to accompany her to the shops, he wrote out a list of items for her. Claire went into the city and ___________ (buy) curtains, cushions, a carpet and bedding. Then she went into a jewellery shop to buy a necklace. When the clerk at the counter was rude to her, she rang Tony up and told the clerk to speak to him. The clerk immediately changed his attitude. Claire thanked Tony, telling him that he was a "dear". As she turned around, there stood Gladys Claffern. How awful _________________ (discover) by her, Claire thought. By the amused and ____________ (surprise) look on her face, Claire knew that Gladys thought she was having _______ affair. After all, she knew Claire's husband's name was Larry, not Tony.
When Claire got home, she __________(weep) with anger in her armchair. Gladys was everything Claire wanted to be. "You can be like her," Tony told her and suggested that she invite Gladys and her friends to the house the night before he was to leave and Larry was ____________ (return) By that time, Tony expected the house to be ______________ (complete) transformed.
Tony worked steadily on the _______________ (improve). Claire tried to help once but was too clumsy. She ________ (fall) off a ladder and even though Tony was in the next room, he managed to catch her in time. He held her firmly in his arms and she felt the warmth of his body. She screamed, pushed him away and _________ (run) to her room for the rest of the day.
The night of the party arrived. The clock __________ (strike) eight. The guests would be ____________ (arrive) soon and Claire told Tony to go into another room. At that moment, Tony folded his arms around her, ___________ (bend) his face close to hers. She cried out "Tony" and then heard him declare that he didn't want to leave her the next day and that he felt more than just the desire to please her. Then the front door bell rang. Tony _________ (free) her and disappeared from sight. It was then ________ Claire realized that Tony had opened the curtains of the front window. Her guests _______________ (see) everything!
The women were impressed by Claire, the house and the delicious cuisine. Just before they left, Claire heard Gladys _______________ (whisper) to another woman that she had never seen anyone so handsome as Tony. What a sweet victory ________________ (envy) by those women! She might not be as beautiful as them, but none of them had such a handsome lover.
Then she remembered -Tony was just a machine. She shouted "Leave me alone" and ran to her bed. She cried all night. The next morning a car __________ (drive) up and took Tony away.
The company was very pleased ________ Tony's report on his three weeks with Claire. Tony had protected a human being from harm. He had prevented Claire from harming herself through her own sense of failure. He had opened the curtains that night so that the other women would see him and Claire, ______________ (know) that there was no risk to Claire's ____________ (marry). But even though Tony had been so clever, he would have to be rebuilt -you cannot have women ____________ (fall) in love with machines.
Unit2 A BIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC ASIMOV
1. Best known for his science fiction stories, Isaac Asimov was an American scientist and writer
____________ (writing) around 480 books _____________(include) mystery stories, science and history books, and even books about the Holy Bible and Shakespeare.
2. Asimov had both an extraordinary imagination that gave him the ability to explore future worlds and an amazing mind _________ _________ he searched for explanations of everything, in the present and the past.
3. Asimov's life began in Russia, ________ he was born on 2 January; it ended in New York on 6 April, 1992, __________ he died as a result of an HIV infection that he had got from a blood transfusion nine years ____________(early).
4. It was ________ Asimov was eleven years old _________ his talent for writing became obvious. He had told a friend two chapters of a story he _____________(write). The friend thought he was retelling a story from a book.
5. Throughout his life, Asimov received many awards, _______ for his science fiction books and his science books. Among his most famous works of science fiction, one ________ which he won an award was the Foundation trilogy (1951-1953), three novels about the death and rebirth of a great empire in a galaxy of the future.
6. These books are famous because Asimov invented a ______________ (theory) framework which ____________(design) to show how ideas and thinking may develop in the future. He is also well known for his collection of short stories, I, Robot (1950), in which he developed a set of three "laws" for robots. For example, the first law states that a robot must not injure human beings or allow them _____________ (injure). Some of his ideas about robots later influenced other writers and even scientists researching into artificial ____________ (intelligent).

选修7 第二单元课文改写
1. “Satisfaction Guaranteed” is adapted from a science fiction __________(tell) a story about a household robot’s ______________(test) out by a housewife, ___________husband is working in a company.
2. The test proved that the household robot was helpful, almost able to do everything. As a matter of fact, it looked like ________ handsome a young man that the housewife fell in love _______ it.
3. Before the test, the housewife was unwilling to have a robot ___________(test) in her house. It was not until she knew that the robot wouldn’t harm her or allow her harmed __________she was persuaded to accept the human-like robot as her companion during her husband three-week ______________(be) away.
4. The robot looked like a real handsome young man______ a deep voice and a _______(fix) facial expression. The lady felt______________ (embarrass) when __________(enquire) whether she needed help dressing.
5. The lady felt it ____________(disturb) and frightening ________ he looked so human, and she felt it ridiculous ___________________(offer) sympathy by a human-like robot.
6. Unlike Gladys Claffern, Claire felt unhappy as she was ___________(overweigh) and her house was not elegant enough for her husband to raise his ____________(society) position.
7. While ___________(watch) Tony, the robot, ____________(scan) a book with wonder, Clair suddenly reached ________ his hand, and she______________(amaze) by his fingernails and the __________(soft) and warmth of his skin.
8. ______________ (Not allow) to accompany Clair to the shops, Tony wrote out a list of things _________________(buy) for the improvements of the house.
9._________________(thank) Tony and told him that he was a “dear”, Clair turned around ___________ (find) that there___________ (stand) Gladys. How awful she felt _____________ (discover) by her! The amused and___________(surprise) look on her face ___________ (show) that Gladys thought she ________________(have) an affair with a man ___________(call) Tony.
10. To get Clair ________(envy) and help her regain her confidence, on the night just before he was to leave and her husband was to return, Tony _________(arrange) “a good play” before a group of ladies, one of_________ was Gladys. _________ a sweet victory ______ was to be envied by those women!
11. The company was very ____________(pleasure) with Tony’s__________________ (prevent) a human being from harm and helped the lady to regain her confidence by making her feel good about herself so that she would not feel like a_________(fail). But, being too clever, the household robot would have to____________(rebuild) ________ that women would not fall in love with “him”.
12. The biography_______(tell) us that Isaac Asimov was a scientist and writer best_________ (know) for his science fiction stories.
13.With _______ extraordinary imagination and an amazing mind, Asimov was able to search for ___________(explain) of everything, in the present and past.
14. Asimov’s life ended in 1992, nine years ________ he ______________ (infect) with HIV from a blood transfusion.
1. As early as 12 years old, Asimov ___________(show) his talent_________ writing.
16. In 1951-1953, Asimov wrote The Foundation Trilogy,___________(contain) three novels about the death and rebirth of a great empire in a galaxy of the future,_______ _________ he was given an award.
17. Asimov _____________(marry) twice; his first marriage _________(break) up 31 years after he was married_______ his first life.
课文语法填空
1. telling; being; whose 2. so; with 3; to be tested; that; absence;
4. with; fixed; embarrassed; enquired 5. disturbing; that; to be offered
6. overweight; social 7. watching; scanning; for; was amazed; softness
8. Not allowed; to be bought
9. Having thanked; to find; stood; to be discovered; surprised;
showed; showed; was having; called 10. envied; arranged; whom; what; it
11. pleased having prevented; failure; be rebuilt; so
12. tells; known; 13. an; explanations 14. after; was infected 15. showed; for
16. containing; for which 17. was married; broke; to
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