第二部分 组合训练十六（话题读写进阶练）-【厚积薄发】2023河北中考英语中考源动力中考总复习配套课件（冀教版）

话题读写进阶练 第二部分 重难题型组合训练 2 组合训练十六 3 （限时：20分钟 满分：30分） Ⅰ. 完形填空（每小题1分，满分10分） When you think of robots， you might think of something to perform boring tasks. But engineers today are making robots that can do much more . .1. . jobs. Howie Choset at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh is a roboticist， a person who . .2. .， builds or programs robots. When Choset was a kid， he was interested in 4 everything that moved—cars， trains and . .3. .. Later， in high school， he built mobile robots similar to small cars. Hoping to continue . .4. . robots， he studied computer science in college. Some robots can move only forward， backward， left and right， but snakes can move in many directions. “Snakes are far more interesting than the cars，” Choset said. . .5. . he started working at Carnegie Mellon， Choset and his colleagues there began developing their own snake robots. A typical snake robot is made up of a lot of metal containers（箱） linked together， each with a motor and electronic parts . .6. .. Choset’s team programmed robots to perform the same movements as real snakes. The robots also moved in ways that snakes . .7. . don’t. Choset’s snake robots could move through the grass， swim in a pond and even climb a flagpole. “Snakes go where we can’t，” says Choset. Snake robots could one day . .8. . for injured people after an earthquake. Also, Choset’s snakes might be . .9. . for heart surgeries（外科手术） as well. Choset is thinking of sending robots into Egyptian archaeological（考古学的） sites that are too narrow or dangerous for people to enter. A robot with a . .10. . could show scientists what is inside. 1.( )A. creative B. dangerous C. simple D. interesting 根据“but”一词可知，此处与上文的“boring tasks”相反，表示有趣的工作。 2.( )A. draws B. designs C. buys D. sells 由常识可知机器人专家主要负责设计、建造和编程。空处缺少一个动词，且时态与builds和programs时态一致。 3.( )A. rivers B. mountains C. animals D. planes 由破折号前的“everything that moved”可知此处指会移动的事物，结合选项可知选D。 √ √ √ 8 4.( )A. working with B.