dateline: 01 March 2011
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Dramatic Finish at World’s First Robot Marathon
Pre-Listening Vocabulary
- dramatic: highly emotional; thrilling for the audience
- humanoid: a robot or creature that looks a bit like a human
- rival: one’s main competitor or enemy
- collision: a crash; usually caused by two or more objects trying to be in the same place at the same time
- eliminate: remove completely
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Dramatic Finish at World’s First Robot MarathonComprehension Questions
- What size is the robot that won the race?
- Where was the competition held?
- What did some of the robots do at the end of the two-day race?
Discussion Question: While these robots were painfully slow, organizers hope the robot marathon will one day become an international competition like the RoboCup, an annual competition of robot soccer. Do you think there will come a day in the future when spectators will prefer to watch machines compete than humans?
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One comment
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Bijan says:
Hi Tara,
First, thank you for the audio news report.
Second, it was so difficult for me and could understand some words of it hardly.
In addition, I could only fill in the blanks the word “size” not even “toy” and other words.Of course, after seeing the text, I could understand the subject well.
Thirs, it’s so interesting to hear about a robot that can run at world’s first robot marathon.
I wish we could find a robot that saves the people from corona.
Thank you and best wishes,
Bijan
from the Persian Gulf❤️