专题 06 蟑螂救援队 --2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练

2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练 (6) Roaches to the rescue 蟑螂救援队 主题语境：人与社会 主题语境内容：科学与技术 【外刊原文】（斜体单词为超纲词汇，认识即可；下划线单词为课标词汇，需熟记。） Why go to all the trouble of designing and building a drone（无人机） if nature has already done most of the job for you? That is the attitude taken by the small but determined band of researchers who are trying to robotise（机械化） insects. Some are working on turning  insects like beetles（甲虫） into such cyborgs（半人半机器的生物）—perhaps for use in military inspection or spying. Others prefer to concentrate on the fearful side of entomology（昆虫学）, by taking electronic control of cockroaches（蟑螂）. The first cyber-roach（赛博蟑螂） goes back to 1997, when Shimoyama Isao of Tokyo University sent electrical signals to a cockroach's antennae（触角）, causing it to turn either left or right depending on which antenna was stimulated. Others have built on this approach by recruiting extra sense organs, such as the rear-facing cerci（后向尾须）. They have also begun fitting the insects with instrument pack