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tions you like. What would you like to know?P: How often do you hold your Games?L: Every four years. There are two main sets of Games the Winter and the Summer Olympics, and both are held every four years on a regular basis. The Winter Olympics are usually held two years before the Summer Games. Only athletes who have reached the agreed standard for their event will be admitted as petitors. They may e from anywhere in the world.P: Winter Games? How can the runners enjoy peting in winter? And what about the horses?L: Oh no! There are no running races or horse riding events. Instead there are petitions like skiing and ice skating which need snow and ice. That39。re called the Winter Olympics. It39。s a great responsibility but also a great honour to be chosen. There39。t. It39。s the motto of the Olympics, you know “Swifter, Higher and Stronger.”P: Well, that39。s rules, Why are these men so foolish? he thought. Why will they let themselves be killed because they cannot run as fast as this princess? However, when he saw Atlanta e out of her house to run, Hippomenes changed his mind. I will marry Atlanta or die! he said.The race started and although the men ran very fast, Atlanta ran faster. As Hippomenes watched he thought, How can I run as fast as Atlanta? He went to ask the Greek Goddess of Love for help. She promised to help him and gave him three golden apples. She said, Throw an apple in front of Atlanta when she is running past. When she stops to pick it up, you will be able to run past her and win. Hippomenes took the apples and went to the King. He said, I want to marry Atlanta. The King was sad to see another man die, but Hippomenes said, I will marry her or die! So the race began.Unit 3 ComputersReading A WHO AM I ? Over time I have been changed quite a lot. I began as a calculating machine in France in 1642. Although I was young I could simplify difficult sums. I developed very slowly and it took nearly two hundred years before I was built as an analytical machine by Charles Babbage. After I was programmed by an operator who used cards with holes, I could think logically and produce an answer quicker than any person. At that time it was considered a technological revolution and the start of my artificial intelligence. In 1936 my real father, Alan Turing, wrote a book about how I could be made to work as a universal machine to solve any difficult mathematical problem. From then on, I grew rapidly both in size and in brainpower. By the 1940s I had grown as large as a room, and I wondered if I would grow any larger. However, this reality also worried my designers. As time went by, I was made smaller. First as a PC (personal puter) and then as a laptop, I have been used in offices and homes since the 1970s. These changes only became possible as my memory improved. First it was stored in tubes, then on transistors and later on very small chips. As a result I totally changed my shape. As I have grown older I have also grown smaller. Over time my memory has developed so much that, like an elephant, I never forget anything I have been told! And my memory became so large that even I couldn39。m part of an android football team. About once a year we are allowed to get together to play a game of football. I39。m a striker so I have to be able to run very fast. My puter chips help me to move and think like a human. For example, I have learned to signal to my teammates in puter language to give me the ball when I am open and have a good shot for a goal.My first football petition was in Nagoya, Japam several years ago. Last years our team went to Seattle, Washington in the USA. We won second place. Personally, I think the team that won first place had developed a new type of program just before the petition. So we need to encourage our programmer to improve our intelligence too. We are determined to creat