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Every year landslides(滑坡)cause 25 to 50 deaths and$1.5 billion in damage in the United account for l5 percent of the deaths from natural disasters in there was ever a single event killed more than 200 people in the ing workers to stabilize mountainsides using steel bars and cement(水泥)Can help prevent disasters，but it introduces new ing drills produce harmful dust and loosen heavy，dangerous debris(岩屑).
“It’s quite a risky job，”says Giorgio Pezzuto of D’Appolonia，an engineering company in Italy.
D’Appolonia，working with eight other companies，may have an answer：a three—ton robot called Roboclimber.“The idea is to operate a machine far away that Can drill without a human being on board，”says Pezzuto，the manager for the project，which is supported by the European neers claim that the machine will be faster and cheaper than manual robot，a large radio—controlled four—legged mechanical spider，has cost at least$2 million so far.
final product should be able to climb unstable mountainsides，drill holes，insert bars and cement，and collect data on the ing should begin in May.
The underlined word“event”(Paragraph l)refers to__________.
slide
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hquake
d
參考答案：A
答案及解析
A【解析】詞語釋義題。本文主要是談landsfide，一開始就談論e的危害，並且舉例子說在菲律賓一次就死了200多人。所以這裡的event指代landslide。
is the purpose in writing this text?
ing people how serious the damage caused by landslides is.
ing people that sending workers to stabilize mountainsides is a risky job.
oducing a product that Can be used to stabilize mountainsides.
ing people how to use a new product.
參考答案：C
參考解析：C【解析】主旨大意題。本文作者首先介紹了山體滑坡的危害，又說明了普通的防護方法的不足，最後向大家推薦了一種新型的.機器人，利用這種新型的滑坡搶險產品，可以有效地防止危害的產生。所以主要的目的是介紹一種用於加固山體的產品。
does the robot look like?
A.A human being.
B.A spider.
C.A truck.
D.A drill.
參考答案：B
參考解析：B【解析】細節理解題。讀第二段第四句話，The robot，a large rolled four—legged mechanical spider可知，這種新型的產品像一隻大蜘蛛。所以正確的答案為B。
biggest advantage of this product is that__________.
will be faster and cheaper than manual labor
can climb mountainsides，drill holes，insert bars and cement
can collect data on the slope’s stability
Can drill without a human being on board
參考答案：D
參考解析：D【解析】細節判斷題。從第二段The idea is to operate a machine faraway that Can drill without a human being on board一句以及第一段講滑坡人工搶險的危險，可知這種產品的最大優點就是無人操作的安全性。
參考譯文
在美國，山體滑坡每年會造成25到50人死亡以及15億關元的經濟損失。歐洲山體滑坡所造成的死亡佔自然災難死亡人數的15%。菲律賓的一次滑坡事件造成了200多人死亡。利用鋼筋、水泥加固山體的確可以預防滑坡，但這樣一來又會帶來新的問題。鑽機不但會產生對人體有害的粉塵，而且還會使那些巨大且危險的岩屑鬆動。阿波羅尼亞(義大利一家工程公司)的職員佩茲朱特認為，
“這是一項危險的工作。”
阿波羅尼亞和另外八家公司一起為解決滑坡問題設計了一個重三噸的機器人，還給機器人取名叫做羅伯克利波。該專案得到了歐盟委員會的支援，專案經理是佩茲朱特，他說：“這樣一來，在鑽機開動的時候，人就可以不用站在那兒了。”工程師們說這個機器比人力工作更快速，更節約。該機器人是一個用無線電控制的巨大的機器蜘蛛，它到目前為止已經花費了最少兩百萬美元了。該最終產品有望能在鬆垮的山坡上行走，能打洞，安放鋼條灌注水泥以及收集山坡穩定性的資料。這種實驗將在五月份進行。
