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1、Unit2RobotsUsingLanguageReadinganddiscussingABIOGRAPHYOFISAACASIMOVIsaacAsimovwasallAmericanscientistandwriterwhowrotearound480booksthatincludedmysterystories,scienceandhistorybooks,andevenbooksabouttheBibleandaboutShakespeare.Buthisbestknownworkwashissciencefictionstories.Asimo
2、vhadbothanextraordinaryimaginationthatgavehimtheabilitytoexplorefutureworldsandanamazingmindwithwhichhesearchedforexplanationsofeverything,inthepresentandthepast.Asimov’slifebeganinRussiawherehewasbornon2January,1920.ItendedinNewYorkon6April,1992whenhediedasaresultofanHIVinfecti
3、onthathehadgotfromabloodtransfusionnineyearsearlier.WhenAsimovwasthree,hemovedwithhismother,fatherandhisoneyear-oldsistertoNewYorkCity.Therehisparentsboughtacandystorewhichtheyranforthenext40orsoyears.Attheageofnine,whenhismotherwaspregnantwithherthirdchild.Isaacstartedworkingin
4、thecandystore.Heworkedtherethroughhisschoolanduniversityyearsuntil1942,ayearafterhehadgainedaMaster’sdegreeatuniversityinchemistry.From1942to1945heworkedasajuniorchemistatthePhiladelphiaNavyYard.In1948hegothisPhDinchemistry.ThenextyearhebecameabiochemistryteacheratBostonUniversi
5、tySchoolofMedicine.In1958hegaveupteachingtobecomeafulltimewriter.ItwaswhenAsimovwaselevenyearsoldthathistalentforwritingbecameobvious.Hehadtoldafriendtwochaptersofastoryhehadwritten.Thefriendthoughthewasretellingastoryfromabook.ThisreallysurprisedAsimovandfromthatmoment,hestarte
6、dtotakehimselfseriouslyasawriter.Asimovbeganhavingstoriespublishedinsciencefictionmagazinesin1939.In1950hepublishedhisfirstnovelandin1953hisfirstsciencebook.Throughouthislife,Asimovreceivedmanyawards,bothforhissciencefictionbooksandhissciencebooks.Amonghismostfamousworksofscienc
7、efiction,oneforwhichhewonanawardwas“TheFoundationTrilogy”(1951—1953),threestoriesaboutthedeathandrebirthofagreatempireinagalaxyofthefuture.Heisalsowellknownforhiscollectionofshortstories,“I,Robot”(1950),inwhichhedevelopedasetofthree“laws”forrobots.Forexample,thefirstlawstatestha
8、tarobotmustnotinjurehumanbeingsorallowthemtobei
