专题02 短文首字母填空20篇（名校最新期中真题）-2023-2024学年九年级英语上学期期中复习查缺补漏冲刺满分（牛津上海版）

牛津上海版九年级上学期期中复习 查缺补漏冲刺满分 (名校最新期中真题) 专题02 短文首字母填空20篇 （2022秋·上海徐汇·九年级上海市西南位育中学校考期中）Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words. (首字母填空，每空格限填一词，首字母已给) New York City’s police department (NYPD) has decided to return a robot dog. Though the robot worked well, it upset many people. Some thought it was “creepy (吓人的)”. Others w 1 that it would invade (侵犯) their privacy. Spot is a dog-shaped robot built by a tech company. The robot has four legs, so even on rough ground it can move e 2 . Instead of a head, the robot has a camera. It also has a microphone and a speaker, and people can control it from a distance. In December, 2020, the NYPD announced (宣布) that it would begin using a special version of Spot. Their robot was painted blue. It has a special camera to allow it to “see” everything on all sides of it. They called their version “Digidog”. The robot cost the NYPD about $94,000. That may seem like a lot of money, but it’s cheap for a robot. When it announced Digidog, the NYPD said, “This dog is going to save lives, protect people, and protect officers, and that’s our g 3 . ” They soon found out that not everyone was excited about the robot as they were. After the robot was brought to an emergency call in February, a video of it was shared w 4 , and upset a lot of people. Many people were concerned that the police were using an electronic dog for spying (暗中监视). Others felt like it was wrong for the police to spend money on machines. They should focus on p 5 . For many people, the concern wasn’t just about this robot dog, but about what future police robots might look like. For example, they feared that the police might use a robot that could control its o 6 movements, or one that carried weapons. When the dog was used a 7 in late April, 2021, another video was shared on the Internet. Many people were still upset. As a result of the strong public reaction, the NYPD decided to get rid of Digidog, and to return hi