《2025年5年中考3年模拟英语湖南专版》

Passage 3(2024 湖南联考)
Scientists in Norway (挪威) have created an underwater robot that can tell different kinds of pollution at the bottom of the sea. The robot will help clean-up teams find the rubbish and give them a chance to remove(去除) the things that can cause the most harm to the environment.
The robot, which weighs nearly 100 pounds and uses special cameras to take 3D pictures, was created by a team at the Norwegian firm Skarv Technologies.
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The researchers put their work to the test at a lake in the city of Bergen, on Norway’s southwest coast. First, the robot swam up and down in rows at about six feet (英尺) above the lake bed, collecting information with the special cameras. Then a computer turned the information into a map, which showed different kinds of rubbish in different colors.
A total of 3,894 objects were found in the lake and divided into different kinds. “There’s too much rubbish,” Trygve Olav Fossum, a member of the Skarv Technologies team told New Scientist. “There is somewhere around 165 to 300 tons of rubbish in the lake.”
It is not always possible for clean-up teams to remove all the rubbish they find underwater because there is something more important to clean. The robot will be used to help the teams find the most harmful things, and they will spend their time, effort and money removing them first. “Glass isn’t really polluting,” said Fossum. “So if you know there’s an area with a lot of glass, you probably can ignore(忽视) that. Instead, you should pay attention to the things that are putting heavy metals into the environment.”
Besides helping to check the pollution, the robot can also tell the position of animals in the sea. It can help avoid hurting the animals while the clean-up teams remove the rubbish.
8.What can the underwater robot do?
A.It can remove all the rubbish.
B.It can tell the position of lakes.
C.It can tell different kinds of pollution.
9.How does the underwater robot collect information?
A.By drawing a map of the lake.
B.By turning the maps into different texts.
C.By using special cameras to take pictures.
10.What is the writer’s purpose of writing Paragraph 4?
A.To work out how much rubbish is in the lake.
B.To show that the underwater robot is helpful.
C.To tell us how to remove the rubbish in the lake.
11.What will the writer probably talk about next?
A.When the robot will be used around the world.
B.How the robot tells the position of animals.
C.What pollution animals cause in the sea.

答案： 语篇解读 本文为说明文。挪威科学家发明了一种水下机器人,它可以发现并分辨海底不同类型的污染物,有助于清理队找到垃圾,从而改善水下环境。
8.C 细节理解题。根据第一段第一句“Scientists in Norway have created an underwater robot that can tell different kinds of pollution at the bottom of the sea.”可知,水下机器人可以分辨海底不同种类的污染物,故选C。
9.C 细节理解题。根据第二段“The robot, which weighs nearly 100 pounds and uses special cameras to take 3D pictures...”和第三段的“collecting information with the special cameras”可知,机器人在水下借助摄像机来拍照收集信息,故选C。
10.B 写作目的题。根据第四段内容可知,本段主要介绍水下机器人搜寻海底垃圾的成效,说明这种机器人有用,故选B。
11.B 推理判断题。根据文章最后一段可知,除了帮助检查污染物,机器人还可以告知海洋中动物的位置。当清洁队清理垃圾时,它可以帮助避免伤害动物,接下来讲述的话题可能与如何知道动物位置有关,故选B。