雅思阅读真题（Part 1）
Part 1 · 考频：中频 · 最近考试：2026.1.28广东轻工职业技术大学
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Will the robot revolution begin in nursery school? Researchers introduced a state-of-the-art social robot into a classroom of 18- to 24-month-olds for five months as a way of studying human-robot interactions. The children not only came to accept the robot, but treated it as they would a human buddy - hugging it and helping it - a new study says. "The results imply that current robot technology is surprisingly close to achieving autonomous bonding and socialization with human toddlers," said Fumihide Tanaka, a researcher at the University of California, San Diego.
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答案：D
原文定位：The results showed that the quality of those interactions improved steadily over 27 sessions. The tots began to increasingly interact with the robot and treat it more like a peer than an object during the first 11 sessions. The level of social activity increased dramatically;The interactions deteriorated quickly over the next 15 sessions;Finally, the human-robot relations improved in the last three sessions
同义替换：「interactions quality」↔「the quality of those interactions」
答案：Ronald Arkin
原文定位：But he also cautioned that researchers don't yet understand the consequences of increased human-robot interaction. "Just studying how robots and humans work together can give us insight into whether this is a good thing or a bad thing for society," Akrin said. "What are the consequences of introducing a robot artifact into a cadre of children? How will that enhance, or potentially interfere with, their social development? It might make life easier for the teacher, but we really don't understand the long-term impact of having a robot as a childhood friend, do we
答案：Ronald Arkin
原文定位：To my knowledge, this is the first long-term study of this sort;said Ronald Arkin, a roboticist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, who was not involved with the study
答案：Fumihide Tanaka
原文定位：He adds that social robots like QRIO could greatly enrich classrooms and assist teachers in early learning programs
答案：23-inch-tall
原文定位：Initially the researchers wanted to use a 22-inch-tall model, but later they decided to use another robot of the QRIO series, the 23-inch-tall (58-centimeter-tall) machine was originally developed by Sony
答案：crawl
原文定位：The researchers sent instructions about every two minutes to the robot to do things like giggle, dance, sit down, or walk in a certain direction
同义替换：「perform different actions」↔「do things like giggle, dance, sit down, or walk」
答案：the first 11 sessions
原文定位：The tots began to increasingly interact with the robot and treat it more like a peer than an object during the first 11 sessions
答案：E
原文定位：Another robotlike toy named Robby, which resembled QRIO but did not move, was used as a control toy in the study. While hugging of QRIO increased, hugging of Robby decreased throughout the study
答案：C
原文定位：The most successful robots so far have been storytellers, but they have only been able to hold human interest for a limited time
同义替换：「previous robots」↔「robots so far」，「people」↔「human」，「maintain」↔「hold」，「only for a short time」↔「for a limited time」
答案：E
原文定位：The most important aspect of interaction was touch", Tanaka said. "At first the toddlers would touch the robot on its face, but later on they would touch only on its hands and arms, like they would with other humans
答案：G
原文定位：Now this study has taken a new direction - the researchers are now developing autonomous robots for the toddler classroom
答案：C
原文定位：Initially the researchers wanted to use a 22-inch-tall model, but later they decided to use another robot of the QRIO series, the 23-inch-tall (58-centimeter-tall) machine was originally developed by Sony
同义替换：「the introduced robot」↔「QRIO series」
答案：B
原文定位：To my knowledge, this is the first long-term study of this sort," said Ronald Arkin, a roboticist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, who was not involved with the study. "It is groundbreaking and helps to forward human-robot interaction studies significantly," he said
答案：Hiroshi Ishiguro
原文定位：I think this study has clearly reported the possibilities of small, almost autonomous humanoid robots for toddlers. Nowadays robots can perform a variety of functions that were thought to be incident to people only - in short time we'll have electronic baby-sitters and peer-robots in every kindergarten," said Ishiguro
同义替换：「in the nearest future」↔「in short time」
答案：Fumihide Tanaka
原文定位：Initially the children treated the robot very differently than the way they treated each other," Tanaka said. "But by the end they treated the robot as a peer rather than a toy
同义替换：「living creature」↔「peer」