Grade 12 Reading Exercise
The webpage hosts Grade 12 reading materials and exercises covering the main question types, providing answers for all questions. Students can access reading materials and exercises by topic, type, and practice online.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
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Penguins' Anti-ice Trick
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Britain TV Industry
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Australian Aborigines
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Truth About ART
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Life Without Death
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Mysterious Dark Matter
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Crime-Fighting Technology
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Risks Of Artificial Intelligence
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Reveal How To Think
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Gender Price Gap
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In Praise of Amateurs
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Toddlers Bond With Robot
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Cognitive Dissonance
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What A Waste
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Romantic Kiss
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Start-Ups Stay Private
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Gene Editing
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Today's Question
Questions 1-7: The Reading Passage has eight paragraphs, A-H. Which paragraph contains the following information? Write the correct letter A-H in boxes. You may use any letter more than once.
1. Changes in toddler-robot interactions quality. 2. Comparison of two different robots.
3. The fact that previous robots could maintain people’s interest only for a short time.
4. The importance of touch.
5. The new direction of the study.
6. Technical parameters of the introduced robot.
7. The significance and novelty of the conducted study.
Questions 8-12: Connect each of the statements below with the name of the scientist who expressed it. Answer A, B, or C in boxes.
8. Robots will perform the duties of babysitters in the nearest future. | A | Fumihide Tanaka |
| B | Ronald Arkin |
| C | Hiroshi Ishiguro |
9. By the end of the study children treated the robot as a living creature rather than a toy.
10. The long-term impact of having a robot as a childhood friend can be negative.
11. The conducted study is the first major study of this sort.
12. Robots can be used in classrooms and assist teachers.
Questions 13-15: Choose the correct letter, A, B, C, or D.
13. For the study, researchers introduced a toddler-size humanoid robot that was| A) | 58-inch-tall |
| B) | 22-inch-tall |
| C) | 23-inch-tall |
| D) | 45-inch-tall |
14. The researchers sent instructions to the robot to perform different actions EXCEPT
| A) | laugh |
| B) | dance |
| C) | sit down |
| D) | crawl |
15. The toddlers began to increasingly interact with the robot during
| A) | the first 11 sessions |
| B) | the next 15 sessions |
| C) | the first 27 sessions |
| D) | the last 15 sessions |