How much do you know about A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)?Artificial means‘man-made', and intelligence means‘the ability to learn. understand and think about things'. A.I. is about making machines think, talk, do and see. A.I. is used in many fields from、playing games to helping doctors. Many machines around us work very well because they work with the help of A.I. Man has always dreamed of building‘thinking machines'. In 1770, Wolfgand Kempelen(1 734—1804)built a wooden robot called Turk that was able to play chess(SUR). It played very well and even beat some of the top chess players of the time! Later it was found that Turk was not real. Inside the box machine was a chess player.
John McCarthy(1927—)is thought as the‘Father'of A.I. He invented the word‘A.I.'and the LISP computer programming language that many A.I. developers use today. How does A.I. work?
A.I. uses ideas from many fields:

    Hi, everyone. I'm Tina. I think our life in 2060 will be different from our life at the moment. There will be many robots in my house. Because robots will be cheap. And these robots will help my family do many kinds of work every day. Every morning the clock-robot will ask me to get up. Then the clothing-robot will dress me quickly. Next the kitchen-robot will make breakfast for me. When I get out of the house with my schoolbag, a car-robot will wait for me. After I show it my school ID card, the car will go. And then the car-robot will check my homework. When we get to school, the car-robot will say to me "See you tomorrow, Tina. Good luck."

    In the morning, I will have three lessons with my classmates. We'll study on the Internet. We'll use the e-book. The teachers are all robots. They are in different sizes and they can answer any question about any subject. In the afternoon, we'll go to the science lab to have two classes in a new plane. After class, we'll play football with robots. My classmates and robots can all be my friends. Don't you think the life with robots in the future will be fantastic?

"Robots, drones(无人机) and AI will do around 90% of the housework by 2040, " scientists from King's College said. 

Mischa Dohler and Dr. Ian Pearson wrote a report to predict what homes will look like in 20 years. In it, they said that housework like washing the clothes and doing the dishes would be much easier because of technology progress(进步). If technology kept making progress, they expected that people would spend less than two hours a day in doing housework. 

But most British people still don't believe their predictions. Just 2/5 of the people think that house robots will become a reality(现实) by 2040. 

We have a new classroom. Here is a picture of it. It's a big and nice classroom. You can see a teacher's desk, twenty-five desks and twenty-six chairs in it. Each of the students has a new desk and a new chair. There is one more chair for the teacher. There are some new books on the teacher's desk. The books are for students. There is a tape player on the teacher's desk, too. The flowers near the windows are very beautiful.

Oh. look! This is Li Lei's desk. It's in Row (排) One. A pencil box is on his desk. Two pens and a ruler are in the pencil box. There is a new schoolbag on his chair. There are some books and keys in it. Where is his dictionary? It is in his desk. His mother buys it for him. What's under his chair? Oh. it's a new basketball.

Hello, everyone. My name is Betty Smith. Betty is my 1 name and Smith is my family name. You can call(称呼) 2 Betty. I'm from America, 3 I'm in Beijing with my dad and mum now. 

I'm a 4 in Beijing No. 2 Middle School and I'm in Class 4 Grade 

7. There are 24 boys and 22 girls in my 5 . My classmates are all 6 to me and we are good friends. My Chinese is not very good and they often 7 me with it after class. The teachers are nice to me 8 . 

I like Beijing. Beijing is very 9 and there are many good places to go. But I don't like the 10 here. It's too hot in summer.