UNIT 5 Learning About Language-语法·提升语言能力 课时跟踪检测(Word练习)-【新课程学案】新教材2022-2023学年高中英语选择性必修第四册（人教版2019）

[课时跟踪检测]　　　　　语言运用综合练 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Ⅰ.阅读理解 An Australian professor is developing a robot to monitor the health of razing cattle, a development that could bring big changes to a profession hat's relied largely on a low-tech approach for decades but is facing labour shortage. Salah Sukkarieh, a professor at the University of Sydney, sees robots as necessary given how cattlemen are aging.He is building a four-wheeled robot that will run on solar and electric power. It will use cameras and sensors to monitor the animals. A computer system will analyze the video to determine whether a cow is sick.Radio tags (标签) on the animals will measure temperature changes. The quality of grassland will be tracked by monitoring the shape, color and texture (质地) of grass. That way, cattlemen will know whether they need to move their cattle to another field or nutrition purposes. Machines have largely taken over planting，watering and harvesting crops such as corn and wheat, but the monitoring of cattle has gone through fewer changes. For Texas cattleman Pete Bonds, it's increasingly difficult to find workers interested in watching cattle. But Bonds doesn't believe a robot is fight for the job. Years of experience in the industry — and failed attempts to use technology — have convinced him that the best way to check cattle is with a man on a horse. Bonds, who bought his first cattle almost 50 years ago, still has each of his cowboys inspect 300 or 400 cattle daily and look for signs that an animal is getting sick. Other cattlemen see more promise in robots. Michael Kelsey, vice president of the Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association，said a robot could be extremely useful given rising concerns about cattle theft.Cattle tend to be kept in remote places and their value has risen, making them appealing targets. 语篇解读：本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了一种帮助人类养牛的机器人。 1．What is a problem with the cattle-raising industry? A．Soil pollution. B．Lack of workers. C．Aging machines. D．Low profitability. 解析：选B　细节理解题。根据第一