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1）.机器人是社会科技进步的表现。
2）.让机器人干家务可以减轻家人的负担。高智能机器人还可以照顾家人。
3）.但使用、维修的成本高；机器人的行动缓慢，不能与人类真正沟通。
4）.机器人的价格昂贵，一般人家负担不起。真正普及还需一段较长的时间。
As science developed rapidly in the direction of technology, it supplies an a better and ore cofortable life. en will be working shorter and shorter hours, while housewives will also be able to have ore free tie. Can you iagine doing housework without a housewife? Scientists believe this will be turned into realities in not very long tie, and perhaps during your lifetie house-robots will take the place of housewives.
When I discussed this kind of achine with housewives, soe 90 percent of the replied iediately, “How soon can I buy one?” The other 10 percent said, “I would be terrified to see it oving about y house.” But when I explained to the that it could be turned off or stopped, they quickly realized that it is a useful object.
In y own hoe we have found that the washing-up achine is regarded as a good hand in the roo. There's no greater pleasure than to go to bed in the evening and know that the washing-up is being done downstairs after we are asleep.
Soe failies would like to have their robot slaves doing all the downstairs housework after they were in bed at night, while others would have it done in the ornings. But this would be entirely a atter of choice.
The very last topic any parent wants to discuss is cancer.In fact，wouldn't it be wonderful if ，few among us haven't been touched，in some way，by the disease.
One teacher at Howell's Land O'Pines School decided last year to make a learning experience out of cancer awareness，and with the help of his fellow teachers, he succeeded in taking a terrible subject and turning it into something that allows the children to make a difference while helping others.
The Hats On Day project began a decade ago in Missouri when a fifth-grade class wanted to raise money to help a fellow classmate battling cancer.The children wanted to raise awareness about the effects of chemotherapy(化疗)and decided to wear hats to show their support for people who lose their hair while undergoing treatment for cancer.
During the 10 years since the first Hats On Day，the project has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for children with cancer.Raymond Gredder，a fifth-grade teacher at Land O'Pines，heads up the program locally.As part of the project，Land O'Pines students are asked to bring in monetary donations this week that will be contributed to the Foundation for Children with Cancer.
This is the second year Land O'Pines is participating in the Hats On Day project.Last year the Student Council organized the weeklong collection and raised more than $2000.This year Gredder is running the program through the fifth grade health curriculum.He believes it is extremely important for children to be involved in events such as Hats On Day that promote an awareness and understanding of people in need.
I love charity(慈善) shops and so do lots of other people in Britain because you find quite a few of them in every high street． The charity shop is a British institution, selling everything from clothes to electric goods, all at very good prices． You can get things you won't find in the shops any more． The thing I like best about them is that your money is going to a good cause, and not into the pockets of profit driven companies, and you are not damaging the planet, but finding a new home for unwanted goods．
The first charity shop was opened in 1947 by Oxfam． The famous charity's appeal to aid postwar Greece bad been so successful it had been flooded with donations(捐赠物)． They decided to set up a shop to sell some of these donations to raise money for that appeal． Now there are over 7,000 charity shops in the UK． My favorite charity shop in my hometown is the Red Cross shop, where I always find children's books, all 10 or 20 pence each．
Most of the people working in the charity shops are volunteers, although there is often a manager who gets paid． Over 90% of the goods in the charity shops are donated by the public． Every morning you see bags of unwanted items outside the front of shops, although they don't encourage this, rather ask people to bring things in when the shop is open．
The shops have very low running costs: all profits go to charity work． Charity shops raise more than ￡110 million a year, funding (资助) medical research, overseas aid, supporting sick and poor children, homeless and disabled people, and much more． What better place to spend your money? You get something special for a very good price and a good moral sense． You provide funds to a good cause and tread lightly on the environment．
Once a circle missed a wedge (楔子). The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly, it admired the flowers along the way. It chatted with worms. It enjoyed the sunshine. Finally it found a piece that fit perfectly. It was so happy. Now that it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to notice flowers or talk to the worms. When it realized how different the world seemed when it rolled so quickly, it stopped, left its found piece by the side of the road and rolled slowly away.
In some strange sense we are more whole when we are missing something. The man who has everything is in some ways a poor man. He will never know what it feels like to yearn, to hope, to nourish(滋润) his soul with the dream of something better. He will never know the experience of having someone who loves him give him something he has always wanted or never had.
There is wholeness about the person who has come to terms with his limitations, who has been brave enough to let go of his unrealistic dreams and does not feel like a failure for doing so. There is wholeness about the man or woman who has learned that he or she is strong enough to go through a tragedy(悲剧) and survive — he or she can lose someone and still feel like a complete person.
Life is more like a baseball season, when even the best team loses one third of its games and even the worst team has its days of brilliance. Our goal is to win more games than we lose. When we accept that imperfection is part of being human, and when we can continue rolling through life and appreciate it, we will have achieved wholeness that others can only long for.
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Before I studied psychology, I used to think that people would laugh when funny things occurred. While I was right about that, I discovered there are lots of other psychological factors that make people laugh other than the funny part of a joke. When someone laughs at a joke, there will usually be more than one reason that makes him laugh—and the more reasons there are, the more powerful the joke will be.
I was attending a stand-up comedy show in Egypt, and when the man started to make fun of pedestrians crossing streets, everyone laughed their hearts out. The main reason those people strongly laughed was that almost all of them felt angry towards pedestrians who crossed streets carelessly. The joke wasn't only funny, it also made the audience feel that they were right about being angry at those pedestrians. That is, people were laughing both because of the funny joke and because of the happiness experienced as a result of the psychological support they got.
The better a joke makes a person feel, and the more it includes other psychological factors, the more the person will like it. For example, if you envy one of your friends, and someone tells a joke that is funny and, at the same time, makes your friend seem stupid, then you will probably laugh at it louder than if you weren't jealous of him.
In short, we don't laugh only when we hear something funny; we also laugh when we experience some kind of happiness that results from the other psychological factors involved in the joke. I strongly discourage making fun of anyone or belittling someone to make someone else laugh. All I want to explain is that if your joke supports a person's emotions, he will certainly like it a lot.
