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预测试题六 Part IWriting (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic Students Rejecting to Attend Some Teachers Class. You should write at least 120 words, and base your composition on the outline (given in Chinese) below:1) 学生集体拒绝某任课老师上课的情况时有发生2) 导致这一现象出现的原因3) 你对此现象的看法Students Rejecting to Attend Some Teachers Class Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes) Trust Me, Im A Robot　　In 1981 Kenji Urada, a 37yearold Japanese factory worker, climbed over a safety fence at a Kawasaki plant to carry out some maintenance work on a robot. In his haste, he failed to switch the robot off properly. Unable to sense him, the robots powerful hydraulic (水力的，水压的) arm kept on working and accidentally pushed the engineer into a grinding machine. His death made Urada the first recorded victim to die at the hands of a robot.　　This horrible industrial accident would not have happened in a world in which robot behavior was governed by the Three Laws of Robotics drawn up by Isaac Asimov, a sciencefiction writer. The laws appeared in I, Robot, a book of short stories published in 1950 that inspired a recent Hollywood film. But decades later the laws, designed to prevent robots from harming people either through action or inaction, remain in the realm of fiction.　　Indeed, despite the introduction of improved safety mechanisms, robots have claimed many more victims since 1981. Over the years people have been crushed, hit on the head, welded and even had molten aluminum poured over them by robots. Last year there were 77 robotrelated accidents in Britain alone, according to the Health and Safety Executive.　　With robots now poised to emerge from their industrial cages and to move into homes and workplaces, roboticists are concerned about the safety implications beyond the factory floor. To address these concerns, leading robot experts have come together to try to find ways to prevent robots from harming peo