【正文】 protection,but I’d like to help as the WWF suggests. ”The carpet Rose agai nst and alm ost at once they were i n a thick rai nforest. A m onkey Watched them as it rubbed itself. “What are you doing?”asked Daisy. “I’m protecting myself from mosquitoes,”it replied.“When I fi nd a mi li pede i nsect, I rub it over m y contai ns a powerful drug whi ch afect m osquitoes. You shoul d pay m ore atention to the rai nforest where I l i ve and appreci ate how the animals live rainforest,no animals,no drugs.” Daisy was amazed. “Flying carpet, please take m e hom e so I can tel l WWF and we can begin producing this new drug. Monkey,please e and help,”The monkey agreed. The carpet fl ew hom e. As they landed,thi ngs begi n to di sapear. Two m i nutes l ater everythi ng had gonethe m onkey, too. So Dai sy was not abl e to m ake her new drug. But what an experi ence!She had l earned so much!And there was al ways WWF …… (2)Ani m al exti ncti on Many anim als have di sappeared duri ng the l ong hi story of the earth. The m ost fam ous of these anim al s are dinosaurs. They li ved on the earth tens mi l ion of years ago,l ong before hum ans cam e i nto being and thei r future seem ed secure at that ti m e. There were m any di fferent ki nds of di nosaur and a num ber of them used to li ve i n chi na. The eggs of twentyfive speci es have been found in Xi xi a County,N anyang,H enan provi nce. N ot l ong ago a rare new speci es of bi rdli ke di nosaur was di scovered i n Country, li aoni ng Provi nce. When sci enti sts i nspected the bones, they were surpri sed to find that these di nosaurs coul d not onl y run l ike the others but al so clim b trees. They l earned thi s from the way the bones were joi ned together. Di nosaurs di ed out suddenl y about 65mi l i on years ago. Som e sci entists thi nk it cam e after an unexpected i nci dent when a huge rock from space hit the earth and put too much dust i nto the ai thers thi nk the earth got to hot for the di nosaurs to l ive on any more. Nobody knows for sure why and how di nosaur di sapeared from the earth in such a short ti me. We know many other wi ld plants, animal s, insects and bi rdsany longer. However, thi s real ity al so worri ed m y desi gners. As ti m e went by, I was made sm al l er . Fi rst as a PC(personal puter)and then as a l aptop,I have been used i n offi ces and homes si nce the 1970s. These changes onl y becam e possi bl e as m y m emory im proved. First i t was stored i n tubes, then on transi stors and l ater on very sm al l chips. As a resul tI total l y changed m y shape . As I have grown ol der I have al so grown sm al er .O ver tim e m y m emoryhas devel oped so m uch that , li ke an el ephant, I never frt anything I have been told !And my memory became so large that even I couldn’t believe it!But I was always so lonely standing there by m ysel f, until i n the 1960s they gave m e a fami l y connected by a work . Iwas abl e to share m y knowl edge wi th others through the Worl d Wi de Web. Si nce the 1970s many new appl ications have ben found for m e . I have be e very im portant i n muni cati on, finance and trade I have al so been put i nto robots and used to m ake m obi l e phones as wel l as hel p with m edi cal have even been put i nto space rockets and sent to explore the Moon and Mars . A nyhow, m y goal i s to provi de humans wi th a li fe of hi gh quali ty. I am now trul y fil l ed with hapi ness that I am a devoted fri end and hel per of the human race ! AN DY—TH E AN DRO ID I’m part of an an android football team . About once a year we are alowed to get together to play a game of football. I’m as big as a hum an . In fact ,I look like one too. On the footbalteam I’m a striker so I have to be able to run very fast . My puter chips help m e to m ova and thi nk li ke a hum an . For exam pl e ,I have l earned to si gnal to m y team m ates i n puter l anguages to gi ve m e the bal l when I am open and have a god shot for a goal. My fi rat footbal petiti on was i n N agoya , Japan several years ago . Last year our team went to Seattl e , Washi ngton i n the USA. We won tsecong pl ace . Personal y , I thi nk the team that won fi rsy place cheated . They had devel oped a new type of program just before the peti ti on. So we need to encourage our program er to im prove our i ntel li gence too. We are determ ined to create an even better system. In a way our program m et i s li ke our coach. She program s us wi th m oves to use if a new sitation arises. In this way I can make up new moves using my “artifical intelligence “. I would really li ke to pl ay agai nst a human team, for I have been programm ed to act just li ke them . After al l, with the hel p of m y el ectroni c brai n which never fets anything ,using my inteligence is what I’m al about! TH E SPO RTIN G RO BO T My nam e i s H ua Fei and I am a sporti ng robot of the 23rd century. I am an expert at hi gh fl ying exerci ses. I jum p from spaceshi p and as I fal l I turn, di ve, ci rcl e and dance until I softl y l and as cl ose as I can to the fi ni shi ng li ne. Robot peti ti ons i n the 23rd century are trul y a popul ar sport. Fans from al over Chi na watch thei r handhel d TVs when a peti ti on es on. Last ti m e I l ook part i n the 78th Ol ym pic on a fl yi ng i sl and above Brussel s i n the sky. I won the siver m edal for m y performance . Thi s year I had the honour to be chosen agai n . I wanted to mm et robots from other countyi es and explore i des about our ower ,m y programm er fel il l the wek before we were goi ng to l eave . It was very painful for her and I fel t very fri ghtened. I no l onger fel t so confi dent that I woul d wi n. The day of the peti ti on was rather coul d for m y l egs and m y speci al oil began to fteeze. I paused before I jum ped from the starti ng pl ace on a li ttl e spaceshi p but then I began m y perform ance. At the correct m oment I tri ed to open m y parachute but