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1、安全教育学习是提高员工安全防范意识的重要措施。“百日安全活动”开展以来，保卫部从自身着手对本部门所有员工开展集中安全教育培训Module 1 课时跟踪练（一) Introduction & Reading Pre-reading.阅读理解 AWASHINGTON It starts out laying flat, like a sheet of paper. Then it springs up, almost lifelike, and folds into moveable parts much like Japanese paper origami (折纸) art. And then
2、 it crawls away.This new kind of robot could someday be used in space exploration, to slide into collapsed building sites to aid search and rescue, or to speed up production on assembly lines, experts said Thursday.While this particular machines march to the world market is still years away, the rep
3、ort in the journal Science said the latest advances open the way to a new frontier in personalized robotics.Not only is the material cheap it cost just $100 it could be easily reprogrammed from one task to another, said Sam Felton, a researcher at Harvard Universitys Wyss Institute for Biologically
4、Inspired Engineering and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.“In the same way that if you have a Word document and you want to change few words, you just reprint it at your home computer, you could take a robots digital plan, change a few things and reprint it，” Felton told reporters.The thin
5、 robot is built of layers, including paper, a middle layer of copper into a network of electrical leads，and an outer layer of shapememory polymer (聚合物) that folds when heated. Once the batteries and motor are activated (激活), the robot folds itself much like a childs Transformer toy, and moves away l
6、ike a crab.Other potential uses could include selfassembling furniture，or even shelters that build themselves in disaster zones. “The exciting thing here is that you create this device that has computation (估算) put in the flat, printed version，” explained Daniela Rus, professor of electrical enginee
7、ring and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). “And when these devices lift up from the ground into the third dimension (维度), they do it in a thoughtful way.”语篇解读：本文是新闻报道。一款可以自动折叠的机器人可以广泛应用于太空探索和自然灾害的搜救等。1The author introduces the topic of the text by _.Agiving a descr
8、iptionBmaking a comparisonCgiving an example Dmaking a summary解析：选A推理判断题。分析文章第一段可知，作者首先对这款可以折叠的机器人进行了描述，通过此种方法引出文章的话题。2The robot could be used to _.Amake paper origami artBmake toys for childrenCdo housework for humansDsearch for survivors in an earthquake解析：选D推理判断题。分析文章第二段可知，在废墟中搜救是这款机器人的功能之一。3Felt
9、on mentions a Word document to show that _.Athe robot contains a Word documentBthe robot can be used by common peopleCthe robot is easy to reprintDthe robot is in a digital form解析：选C推理判断题。分析文章第三段，这款机器人的研发者通过word文档很容易改动来类比这款机器人可以很容易复制。4Which of the following is TRUE about the robot?AIt has been put i
10、nto wide use.BIt doesnt cost much to make it.CIt is shaped like a crab.DIt is made of rare materials.解析：选B细节理解题。从文章第四段可知，这款机器人所使用的材料很便宜，因此不需要花很多钱就可以制作这款机器人。BBased on new analysis, we are rapidly approaching major climate change and the effects on society and the environment could be quite severe. Ge
11、ographers predict that within the next eighty years, current world climate zones could shift and some could completely disappear. Polar regions will get colder while tropical regions will get even hotter, forcing animals to migrate (迁徙) north.Climate changes like these could lead to the spread of di
12、seases. Tropical storms and hurricanes will not only increase but may also become more intense. If the changes come too quickly, animal and plant species may not be able to adapt fast enough and could disappear.According to Science Dalily, a new study predicts that by the year 2100, many of todays f
13、amiliar climates will be replaced by climates unknown in todays world. It is urgent that we reduce the risks of these farreaching consequences for the whole world. The planet itself has been showing signs of change. In 2004, a serious tsunami created by a major earthquake killed thousands in Sumatra
14、 and in 2008, thousands died in China because of another severe earthquake. Egypt was hit in 2009 with a major earthquake and Haiti was devastated in 2010 by yet another massive earthquake.Within just the last few months, new reports from around the world have been coming in and most agree that our
15、climate situation is much worse than previously thought. At this point, it doesnt matter what is causing it, but rather, what can be done about it. Whats more, our world is getting more and more unstable every year. There is war and threat of war everywhere. Natural disasters are becoming more frequ
16、ent and serious.However, other planets are experiencing global warming as well as our own and some scientists believe there may be some connection between this. No one knows anything for sure at this point because there is simply not enough data.语篇解读：本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍了未来气候的变化对人和动物的生存环境的影响。5What is the major function of Paragraph 1?ATo arou
