Helper

Helper ... by Ted O'Neill … adapted from the original short story 'Benefactor' by George H. Smith "Many people will hate and fear robots at first. They will see robots as a new and terrible problem. What will happen to workers when robots take their jobs? The engineers and professors who make new robot models and try to change the world will be called "robot lovers". Many people will be afraid and fight the robot lovers. But what happens next?" ************************************************************************… (more)

Helper ... by Ted O'Neill … adapted from the original short story 'Benefactor' by George H. Smith "Many people will hate and fear robots at first. They will see robots as a new and terrible problem. What will happen to workers when robots take their jobs? The engineers and professors who make new robot models and try to change the world will be called "robot lovers". Many people will be afraid and fight the robot lovers. But what happens next?" ************************************************************************ Published by Eight Bit Readers Visit http://eightbitreaders.com for more information First Edition June 2010 8BR:0002 ************************************************************************ License Copyright 2010 Ted O'Neill Available under a Creative Commons License Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported ************************************************************************ About this graded reader: Length: 967 words Different words: 292 Word Families: 239 ************************************************************************ Percentage of text in the first 1000 most common English words: 91.4% Percentage of text in the second 1000 most common English words: 6.43% Percentage of text beyond the first 2000 most common English words: 2.17% Percentage of text in the Academic Word List of English words: 1.13% ************************************************************************ Flesch reading ease score: 94 Flesch-Kincaid grade level: 2.4 SMOG index: 6.3 ************************************************************************