题目内容：

What if you arrived home to find it delicious hot meal waiting for you, prepared by your very own kitchen robot It might sound like science fiction. but professors at the university  of Tokyo  have  taken  the first steps toward    making that  scenario a reality. The  team recently  introduced a humanoid kichen  robot that can pour and other drinks into cups and serve the m to guests.When teating  is over, the robot can  also wash the dishes and put  them  away.

In Califormia, another interesting  kitchen robot has been developed, called Readybot. It can pick up objects and either srore them in  cabinets (橱柜）or put them in the trash. It  also    carries a separate floor-cleaning robot that  can operate by itself.Unlike the Japanse robot,Readybot just looks more like a large box with arms and wheels.

Readybot was created by engineers and designers who  who etablished a called the Readybot   Challlenge. They believe that in the future millions of  robots  will be needed in homes to perform ordinary  household tasks. Readybot is just the step  in their plan to create a robot that can do jobs not  only  in  kitchens but  in other rooms of homes and in offces as well.

Clearly there are tcchnogical difficulties to to solve before robots can cook a Complete dinner, and there arc diso many safety concerns (忧虑） .Not everyone (especially parents) would be comfortable with the idea of robots in their house, manipulating   hot  pans and  sharp knives. The European Commission recently furtded(资助） a project to study these concerns. According to lead researcher Professor Chris Melhuish,“ Enabling  robots to work  safely with humans is a key need for the    future developmem of

robots.”

1.Compared  with  Readybot, which of the following is true  about the Japanese robot?

A. It is more popular.

B. It performs more jobs,

C. It moves inore quickly.

D. It looks more like a person.

2.What can Readybot be used to do?

A. drive you around

B. clean your kitchen

C. prepare food for you

D. work for office workers

3.what's the meaning of Ac underlined word “manipulating ” in the last paragrsph?

A. Inventing

B. Avoiding.

C. Controlling.

D. Making.