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What types of robots could be used in future?

I think with time going, robots can be used more widely…… ……Maybe someday it will walk into ordinary people’s house. ……I guess that robots are the way of the future and …… ……I am wondering what it will be like. …… I suppose that there will be different uses of different robots. ……I believe everything we guess will come into reality someday.

Supposition and Belief I think/don’t think…… 我认为/不认为 I guess/ suppose…… 我猜/推测 I believe/don’t believe…… 我相信/不相信 I wonder…… 我想知道 Maybe…… 也许

Listen to the conversation and then fill the correct words into the blanks think maybe suppose wonder guess believe 1. I don’t believe robots can possibly feel emotion of any kind. 2. I think Tony loved Claire. 3. I suppose I just want to think he was more than he was. 4. I wonder how they could actually make a robot seem as if he had emotion. 5. maybe Tony was just a very complicated computer. 6. I think that tony was really a man pretending to be a robot. 7. I guess that was the company’s biggest mistake.

Other structures: It must have… 一定有······ Is it possible that…? ······可能吗？ Could it be that…? ······可能会······？ Are you sure that…? 你对······有把握吗？ It is possible/ impossible that… 做······是（不）可能的 It could be that… ······可能会 I am sure that… 我确信······ It is most likely/unlikely that… ······很有可能/没有可能···· There is a belief that… 人们都相信······

Have a try! A、choose the right answer. 1. ---May I help you? You seem to be having some problems. ---_____, thanks. I think I can manage. a. All right b. no problem c. it’s all right d. there is no way 2. ---Mary's been offered a job in a university, but she doesn’t want to take it. ---_____? It’s a very good chance. a. Guess what b. so what c. who cares d. but why 3. --- The trip shouldn’t take more than an hour. ---______. It’ at least two hours. a. I guess to b. that’s it c. You must be joking d. it depends B、 translate the sentences. 1. 我相信他说的不是真的。 I don’t believe what he said is true. 2. 我猜他已经回到家了。 I guess he has come back home. 3. 人们都相信地球是围着太阳转的。 There is a belief that the earth moves around the sun.