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用心 爱心 专心1 20122012 高考英语二轮复习专题限时训练 江苏专用 高考英语二轮复习专题限时训练 江苏专用 专题专题 2 2 阅读理解阅读理解 3737 25 分钟 A A The Cave Crawler mining robot Why do human beings still risk their lives under ground and doing one of the dirtiest and most dangerous jobs in the world It s an increasingly urgent question given the recent high profile 引人注目的 mining accidents in Sago W Va and Huntington Utah A small group of engineers and robotics experts envision 展望 a day in the not too distant future when robots and other technology do most of the dangerous mining work One of the first mining robots was developed five years ago at Carnegie Mellon University s Robotics Institute It was called Groundhog and it looked like a golf cart It used lasers to see in dark tunnels and map abandoned mines some of the most dangerous work in the business The latest prototype is called Cave Crawler It s a bit smaller than Groundhog and even more advanced It can take photos and video and has sensors mounted that can detect the presence of dangerous gases Incredibly the robot has a real sense of logic If it comes across an obstacle it gets momentarily confused it has to think through the process and where to go next and sometimes it throws a fit just like a real person The biggest obstacle though is cost The original research project was federally funded but that money has dried up and it s not clear where future funding will come from Partly for that reason and partly because of advances in safety mining is not nearly as dangerous as it was in the past Since 1990 fatalities have declined by 67 percent and injuries by 51 percent according to the National Mining Association Some experts predict that robots in mines will serve much of the same function that they do in the automotive industry The robots do the most repetitive and dangerous jobs but don t eliminate the need for human workers 1 The latest robot is more advanced than Groundhog mainly because A it can map abandoned mines B the robot has a real sense of logic C it can see in the dark tunnel D it s a bit smaller than Groundhog 2 We can infer from the last paragraph that A the mine robots will have a very bright future 用心 爱心 专心2 B robots in mines will serve much in the automotive industry C there will be no need for human workers in mines D robots in mines have a long way to go 3 Which of the following can be the best title of this passage A High profile mining accidents in America B The development of robot C Could robots replace humans in mines D Cave Crawler the latest robot BAC B B Wal Mart is not just the world s largest retailer 零售商 It s the world s largest company which sells in three months what number two retailer Home Depot sells in a year Wal Mart exercises its power for just one purpose to bring the lowest possible prices to its customers At Wal Mart that goal is never reached The retailer has a clear policy for suppliers On basic products that don t change the price Wal Mart will pay and will charge shoppers must drop year after year But what almost no one outside the world of Wal Mart and none of its 21 000 suppliers know is the high cost of those low prices To survive in the face of its pricing demands makers of everything from bikes to jeans have had to close US plants in favor of obtaining products from abroad Indeed the real story of Wal Mart the story that never gets told is the story of the pressure the biggest retailer constantly applies to its suppliers in the name of bringing us every day low prices The giant retailer s low prices often come with a high cost Wal Mart s pressure can crush the companies it does business with and force them to send jobs overseas Are we shopping our way straight to the unemployment line Of course US companies have been moving jobs offshore for decades long before Wal Mart was a retailing power But there is no question that the chain is helping accelerate the loss of American jobs to low wage countries such as Thailand People ask How can it be bad for things to come into the US cheaply Sure it s great to have bargains But you can t buy anything if you re not employed There is no question that Wal Mart s drive to squeeze out cost has 用心 爱心 专心3 benefited consumers By now it is accepted wisdom that Wal Mart makes the companies it does business with more efficient and focused Wal Mart itself is known for continuous improvement in its ability to handle move and track goods It is legendary 传奇 for forcing its suppliers to redesign everything from their packaging to their computer systems It is also legendary for quite straightforwardly telling them what it will pay for their goods 1 How do suppliers meet the requirements of Wal Mart A To sell even more goods in three months B To cut down the employment rate sharply C To charge shoppers at a much higher price D To run the business in a well organized way 2 Wal Mart s low price policy results in A more high paying jobs B better designed packages C bigger profit of its partners D more jobless American workers 3 What can we infer from the passage A Still more quality goods will be provided B The food you get at Wal Mart costs least C The value of Mal Mart is over assessed D Wal Mart is a very demanding company 4 What s the best title for the passage A The Fortune Wal Mart Makes B The Wal Mart you don t Know C The Biggest Retailer Wal Mart D The Money Saving Tip in Wal Mart DDDB C Throughout the 1990s and 2000s until today Domingo continued performing singing many of the same roles but adding new roles as well among them the title roles in Wagner s Parsifal and Mozart s Idomeneo Rossini s Il barbiere di Siviglia as Figaro Wagner s Die Walk re as Siegmund Leh r s The Merry Widow as Danilo and Alfano s Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano From the middle 1990s to early in 2008 alone he added 38 new roles covering opera in six different languages English Italian French German Russian and Spanish The latest was the Italian opera by George Frideric Handel Tamerlano Giving him even greater international recognition outside of the world of 用心 爱心 专心4 opera he participated in The Three Tenors 男高音 concert at the eve of the 1990 FIFA World Cup Final in Rome with Jos Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti The event was originally planned to raise money for the Jos Carreras International Leukemia 白血病 Foundation and was later repeated a number of times including at the three later World Cup finals 1994 in Los Angeles 1998 in Paris and 2002 in Yokohama Alone Domingo again made an appearance at the final of the 2006 World Cup in Berlin along with rising stars Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villaz n On 24 August 2008 Domingo performed a duet with Song Zuying singing i de Hu y n The Flame of Love at the 2008 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in Beijing The Beijing Olympics were the second Olympics he performed at he sang the Olympic Hymn at the closing ceremonies of the Barcelona Olympics At the Olympic games that followed he would meet Sissel Kyrkjeb who performed the Olympic Hymn at both the opening and closing ceremonies at those games In what has been called his final career move Pl cido Domingo announced on 25 January 2007 that in 2009 he would take on one of Verdi s most demanding baritone 男中音 roles singing the title role in Simon Boccanegra The first performance was at Berlin State Opera on October 24 followed by 29 other performances during 2009 2010 at major opera houses around the world He would however continue to sing tenor roles beforehand and afterwards On 16 17 April 2008 he sang during the visit of Pope Benedict XVI at Nationals Park and at the Italian embassy in Washington D C Since 1990 Pl cido Domingo has received many awards and honors for his achievement in the field of music and in recognition of his many benefit concerts and contributions to various charities On 15 March 2009 The Metropolitan Opera celebrated Domingo s 40th anniversary with the company with an on stage gala dinner at the Met s 125th anniversary in honour of his first performance in Adriana Lecouvreur as Maurizio opposite Renata Tebaldi on 28 September 1968 On 29 August 2009 he sang Panis Angelicus at the funeral mass of Senator Ted Kennedy in the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Boston Massachusetts On September 20 2010 Domingo announced that he would renew his contract as General Director of the Los Angeles Opera through 2013 On September 27 2010 Domingo announced that he will not renew his contract as General Director of the Washington National Opera beyond its June 2011 expiration date Ever a sympathetic colleag