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(时间：65分钟，分值：70分) UNIT 1　SCIENCE FICTION Reading and Thinking, Learning About Language & Using Language (1) 第Ⅰ卷(满分32.5分) Ⅰ. 阅读理解(共8小题；每小题2.5分，满分20分) A Joseph Frederick Engelberger, the father of robotics, was born on July 26, 1925, in Brooklyn. He received his BS in Physics in 1946, and MS in Electric Engineering in 1949 from Columbia University. He worked as an engineer with Manning, Maxwell and Moore, and then he met George Devol at a party in 1956, two years after Devol had designed and patented an industrial robotic arm. However, Manning, Maxwell and Moore was sold and Engelberger's division was closed that year. Finding himself jobless but with a business partner and an idea, Engelberger co­founded Unimation with Devol, creating the world's first robotics company. And the introduction of robotics to the manufacturing process effectively transformed the automotive industry. Over the next two decades, the Japanese took the lead by investing heavily in robots to replace people performing certain tasks. In Japan, Engelberger was widely described as a key player in the postwar ascendancy (支配地位) of Japanese manufacturing quality and efficiency. After observing the help his aging parents needed, Engelberger saw the robotics automation could be used in the medical field. In 1984, Engelberger founded Transitions Research Corporation (TRC). He introduced the HelpMate and hoped to kick­start a new industry for in­home robots, but he started in 1988 by selling his first HelpMate to Danbury Hospital. The medical robot was successful enough that the hospital ended up purchasing another, and within a decade, well over 100 hospitals worldwide operated HelpMate. After Engelberger was awarded the Japan Prize in 1997, Senator Joseph Lieberman delivered a speech in the US Senate in praise and recognition of the inventor, calling the HelpMate “an example of the way that the federal investment in science and technology for patients can lead to new products that employ Americans