【正文】 ers39。re not even middleaged. As you go into the kitchen and prepare to pour cereal(谷類 ) breakfast into a bowl, you hear: “To lose weight, you shouldn39。s Sojourner Rover was the very first robot to travel across part of another pla. In 1997, the sixwheeled rover explored part of the surface of Mars. The test robot Afghan Explorer may one day visit war zones. Working as a war reporter, it could send pictures and interviews back to a TV station in a safer place. The Dante 2 is similar to the Afghan Explorer. This eightlegged robot can climb into the crater of a redhot volcano to collect gas samples(樣本 ) and take photos with its eight cameras. Nomad Rover, another robot explorer, is the size of a small car. It has trekked through hot deserts and icy lands on it own, collecting information for scientists at home. Many robots work underwater. They map the ocean floor, monitor sea life or find sunken wrecks(殘骸 ). These robots can travel deep underwater far more easily than people. Robots can stay underwater for many days at a time and travel hundreds of kilometres exploring the oceans. Underwater robots, such as Deep Drone, can travel to the ocean floor and help recover crashed aircraft or sunken ships. Deep Drone can travel around 40 times deeper than unprotected human divers. Some robots are rescue robots: they can save lives. They do this by fighting fires, searching for survivors after disaster, or handling dangerous objects such as unexploded bombs. Bomb disposal robots can look at suspect packages with their cameras. They relay the information to someone at a safe distance. As robot technology advances, our robots are being smarter and are able to help us with more and more aspects of our lives. Robots have enhanced our work efficiency greatly. Robots won39。 This summer I visited Yandangshan. When arriving by bus, I caught a sight of many mountains by looking through the mist, one of what was just like a sleeping baby from an angle. Later it looked like a strong man seeing from another. What impressed me was the sunrise. Stood on the top of the mountain, I saw the sunshine giving out all directions. The green mountain in our eyes, the clouds in the sky, and the shocking expressions on people39。s movements. C. One proposed solution to this problem is the automated freeway system. D. Experts have different views on what role autos will play in the near future. E. The motorcar will undoubtedly change significantly over the next 30 years. F. Drivers in the freeway system can sit back and do nothing but control the direction. G. The driver will then be free to relax and wait for the sound speaker that will warn him of his ing exit. 九、補(bǔ)全短文（共 10 小題；共 10 分） Money is important in our lives. Without money we could not live 116. (fortable). We require money to travel, to buy medicine when we are ill and also to pay for the service 117. (give) by others. In truth, money is almost necessary for our 118. (survive). Most of our activities are therefore directed towards earning as much money as possible. We use money not only 119. (meet) the basic needs of life but also to pay for our own advancement. We use it for education 120. helps us to live 121. better life. Thousands of students are unable to attend school or continue their studies 122. lack of money. Lack of money also causes great hardship and sorrow in hundreds of families. Thousands of people are dying every day because 123. cannot buy nutritious food or pay their doctor fee. Today, millions of dollars 124. (spend) for the betterment of the people. Many schools and hospitals are being built, and hundreds of acres of land are being planted to produce 125. (much) food for the growing population of the world. As a result, the world is gradually being a better place to live in. 十、短文改錯(cuò) (不分行 )（共 10 小題；共 10 分） 文中共有 10 處語(yǔ)言錯(cuò)誤，請(qǐng)?jiān)谟绣e(cuò)誤的地方增加、刪除或修改某個(gè)單詞。s time for you to go to work. Your car checks your fingerprints and unlocks the doors. “My office. Autopilot(自動(dòng)駕駛 ).” You mand. Your car drives itself down the road and moves smoothly into traffic on the highway. You sit back and unroll your enewspaper. The latest news downloads and fills the viewer. Looking through the pages, you watch the news as video films rather than read it. 105. What changes the color of your shirt? A. The mirror. B. The shirt itself. C. The counter. D. The medicine. 106. The strawberries the children eat serve as A. breakfast B. lunch C. vaccines D. nutrition 107. How is the text anized? A. In order of time. B. In order of character. C. In order of preference. D. In order of importance. D A robot is machine designed to work like a living person. The word robot was actually invented in 1920 by Karel Capek, a Czechoslovakian writer. But although the word is quite new, the idea of machines acting like people is very old. In the second century BC, Philon of Byzantium designed statues that performed clever tricks. Today throughout the world thousands of real robots do many important tasks that help people. Robots can do many of the things that people do, as well as some things people can39。s 2035. You have a job, a family, and you39。s like. Whether your novel is about a world without disease or an undiscovered pla, help your readers feel like they39。t drown in a swimming pool in Chapter 3. The issue here is maintaining your readers39。t mean that human beings will have nothing to do in the future. Instead, we need to update our skills. Digital(數(shù)字化的 ) knowhow, management and creativit