Choset didn‘t begin developing his own snake robots until he started working at Carnegie
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
第1题
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned
第2题
When did it begin to rain yesterday afternoon?
A.It didn't rain at all.
B.Before Tom got home.
C.After Tom got home.
第3题
The teacher didn't begin the class ______ all the students ______.
A.until, stopped talk
B.before, stopped talking
C.while, stopped to talk
D.because, stopped talking
第4题
Why did the author begin to doubt himself after the first year of his writing career?
A.lie wasn't able to produce a single book.
B.He hadn't seen a change for the better.
C.He wasn't able to have a rest for a whole year.
D.He didn't make any money.
第5题
听力原文:W: Did you go to see the school play last night?
M: Yes,I did.
W: Did you think it was a good play?
M: What I didn't understand was the very beginning.
What does the woman mean?
A.He didn't know how to begin to write a play.
B.He hasn't liked the play very much in the past.
C.He didn't want to talk about it fight away.
D.He wasn't sure what the first part was about.
第6题
Wide World of Robots
Engineers who build and program robots have fascinating jobs. These researchers tinker(修补) with machines in the lab and write computer software to control these devices. “They’re the best toys out there,” says Howle Choset at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Choset is a roboticist, a person who designs, builds or programs robots.
When Choset was a kid, he was interested in anything that moved — cars, trains, animals. He put motors on Tinkertoy cars to make them move. Later, in high school, he built mobile robots similar to small cars.
Hoping to continue working on robots, he studied computer science in college. But when he got to graduate school at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Choset’s labmates were working on something even cooler than remotely controlled cars: robotic snakes. Some robots can move only forward, backward, left and right. But snakes can twist(扭曲) in many directions and travel over a lot of different types of terrain(地形). “Snakes are far more interesting than the cars,” Choset concluded.
After he started working at Carnegie Mellon, Choset and his colleagues there began developing their own snake robots. Choset’s team programmed robots to perform. the same movements as real snakes, such as sliding and inching forward. The robots also moved in ways that snakes usually don’t, such as rolling. Choset’s snake robots could crawl(爬行) through the grass, swim in a pond and even climb a flagpole.
But Choset wondered if his snakes might be useful for medicine as well. For some heart surgeries, the doctor has to open a patient’s chest, cutting through the breastbone. Recovering from these surgeries can be very painful. What if the doctor could perform. the operation by instead making a small hole in the body and sending in a thin robotic snake?
Choset teamed up with Marco Zenati, a heart surgeon now at Harvard Medical School, to investigate the idea. Zenati practiced using the robot on a plastic model of the chest and they tested the robot in pigs.
A company called Medrobotics in Boston is now adapting the technology to surgeries on people. Even after 15 years of working with his team’s creations, “I still don’t get bored of watching the motion of my robots,” Choset says.
16. Choset began to build robots in high school.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned
第7题
请根据短文内容,回答题。
Wide World of Robots
Engineers who build and program robots have fascinating jobs. These researchers tinker (修补) with machines in the lab and write computer software to control these devices. "They&39;re the best toys out there," says Howle Choset at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Choset is a roboticist, a person who designs, builds or programs robots.<br>
When Choset was a kid, he was interested in anything that moved--cars, trains, animals. He put motors on Tinkertoy cars to make them move. Later, in high school, he built mobile robots similar to small cars.<br>
Hoping to continue working on robots, he studied computer science in college. But when he got to graduate school at the Califomia Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Choset&39;s labmates were working on something even cooler than remotely controlled cars: robotic snakes. Some robots can move only forward, backward, left and right. But snakes can twist (扭曲 ) in many directions and travel over a lot of different types of terrain (地形) . "Snakes are far more interesting than the cars," Choset concluded.<br>
After he started working at Carnegie Mellon, Choset and his colleagues there bagan developing their own snake robots. Choset&39;s team programmed robots to perform. the same movements as real snakes, such as sliding and inching forward. The robots also moved in ways that snakes usually don&39;t, such as rolling.<br>
Choset&39;s snake robots could crawl (爬行) through the grass, swim in a pond and even climb a flagpole.<br>
But Choset wondered if his snakes might be useful for medicine as well. For some heart surgeries, the doctor has to open a patient&39;s chest, cutting through the breastbone. Recovering from these surgeries can be very painful. What if the doctor could perform. the operation by instead making a small hole in the body and sending in a thin robotic snake?<br>
Choset teamed up with Marco Zenati, a heart surgeon now at Harvard Medical School, to investigate the idea. Zenati practiced using the robot on a plastic model of the chest and they tested the robot in pigs.<br>
A company called Medrobotics in Boston is now adapting the technology to surgeries on people.<br>
Even after 15 years of working with his team&39;s creations, "I still don&39;t get bored of watching the motion of my robots," Choset says.
Choset began to build robots in high school. 查看材料
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
第8题
W: The first lecture's tonight. All second and third year students are invited to buffet dinner tonight be fore it starts. Then at 6:30, the speaker will begin her talk on solar energy.
M: Can nonengineering students attend all four weeks of the series?
W: No, they can only go to this week's lecture. During the next three weeks, the admission will be restricted to engineering students.
M: Oh, then I'm going to try to make it tonight. Can I give you a ride over there?
W: No, but thanks anyway. Wait a minute, didn't you say that you are having car trouble lately? Let me give you a ride.
(20)
A.Admission forms.
B.Solar energy.
C.Auto maintenance.
D.Course requirements for engineers.
第9题
In my case, I think I may have had an easier time dealing with this fear because my first taste of leadership came in a situation in which I was a blissfully (幸福地) ignorant outsider. It was in college, when I became president of the Cambridge Union debating society. Since I had grown up in Greece, I had never heard of the Cambridge Union or the Oxford Union and didn't know about their place in English culture, so I wasn't weighed down with the kinds of overwhelming notions that may have stopped British girls from even thinking about trying for such a position.
The same thing happened when my first book, The Female Woman, came out. I was 23 and my U.S. publisher, Random House, flew me from London to New York. They handed me my schedule, and my first interview was with Barbara Waiters on the Today show. This didn't confuse and shock me since I had no idea who Barbara Waiters was, and had never heard of the Today show. So I was less nervous than if I had been on a local show in A-thens that my family and classmates could have watched.
In this way, it was a blessing that I started my career outside my home environment. It had its own problems in that I was laughed at for my accent and was demeaned (贬低) as someone who spoke in a funny way. But it also taught me that it is easier to overcome people's judgments than to overcome our own serf-judgment, the fear we internalize.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said, "If you want to change the world, who do you begin with, yourself or others?" I believe if we begin with ourselves and do the things that we need to do and become the best person we can be, we have a much better chance of changing the world for the better.
According to the first paragraph, women leaders fear that they may be regarded as ______.
A.inconsiderate
B.lacking in womanliness
C.incompetent
D.lacking in leadership
第10题
W: Fine.
M: How do you feel about your work in your first full year in the company?
W: Well, the job is exactly as it was advertised in the paper, so there have been no surprises. I like dealing with customers and 1 don't mind answering the phones and preparing invoices. Sometimes it's a bit boring to type long price lists, but someone has to do it.
M: That's true. Does anything make your job difficult?
W: The computer. To begin with, I was slow because I didn't know the program, but now I get annoyed when the computer just stops working for no reason. I think the computers are too old for our software and we need some new machines.
M: Is there anything else you would like to change?
W: Let me see. I'd like the manager to issue credit notes without having to ask you first. You're often away on business and sometimes customers ring up with a complaint. And if we can't contact you, then we can't deal with the complaint properly.
M: Yes, but some of our customers always find something wrong and try to get a credit note with every order. You can't believe everything they say. What about your objectives for the future?
W: Well, I need to get to know the customers better and try to make fewer mistakes. But I think the most important thing is to broaden my product knowledge, so I can help when customers make enquiries.
M: Don't worry, you'll learn all that in time.
(27)
A.Some time last year.
B.One year ago.
C.Over a year ago.
D.Half a year ago.