河北省秦皇岛市山海关区高考英语 信息匹配类和阅读理解练习9.docx

1、河北省秦皇岛市山海关区高考英语 信息匹配类和阅读理解练习9河北省秦皇岛市山海关区2016高考英语 信息匹配类和阅读理解练习（9）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A,B,C和D)中，选出最佳选项。Millions of sports lovers are sill thinking about one thing-the Winter Olympics in Sochi Russia. close to 2900 men and women competed in the 2014 Winter Games about a month ago.The Olympics brought a l

2、ot of attention to Sochi，a city on the black Sea, which is a popular area for vacation travelers. The area is known for its mild winters，with warm to summer.At least $50 billion was spent on the 2014 Winter Games, making it the costliest Olympics in history. Seven billion dollars was spent on the 20

3、10 Winter Games in Vancouver, Canada. Olympic officials chose Sochi to host the 2014 games almost seven years ago, At that time，Russian President Vladimir Putin said the games would cost about $13 billion. Yet times his estimate. So where did all the money go? Some observers say the high cost is par

4、tly the result of security measures. Brian Jenkins，a terrorism expert from the RAND Corporation，gave the following explanation. There were anywhere between 70 ,000 and 100 , 000 policemen and military troops deployed around the city. The main threat came from separatist and Islamist groups from the

5、North Caucasus, especially from Chechnya and Dagestan. One group claimed responsibility for two suicide bombings in Volgograd last December. The attacks killed more than 30 people. The city is only about 600 kilometers away from Sochi. Bruce Hoffman is a terrorism export from Georgetown University i

6、n Washington DC. He says the increased security made Sochi a difficult target for terrorists. It is thought that the terrorists intention was to make life difficult for the Russians and to create some sort of incident that would take away the enjoyment.The last Olympians from around the world on Rus

7、sian soil was in 1980 .That was a year after Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan. More than sixty countries didnt take part in the Moscow Summer Games to show their anger.1. According to the passage, why did the Sochi Winter Olympics cost so much?A. Because it was held at an area popular for vacation

8、travelers.B. Becauae the Russian government wanted to make it the best ever held.C. Because security measures at Sochi were stricter than before.D. Because the original plan was made 7 years before.2. It can be known from the passage that Bruce Hoffman was A. a terrorism expert from the USAB.the wri

9、ter who wrote this articleC. an athlete who competed in SochiD. a terrorism expert from RAND Corporation3. Which of the following is false? A. Sochi Olympics cost about 4 times as estimated. B. Next winter Olympics will be held in Vancouver. C. Many countries refused. to attend the 1980 Olympics. D.

10、Security is often a problem in international sport games.4. The terrorists might have attacked Sochi Olympics because A. they wanted to make trouble for the Russians B.they thought Russia shouldnt spend so much on sport C. they thought Putin was not a nice president D. they were not interested in wi

11、nter sports【参考答案】1-4、CABA 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。The Cave Crawler mining robotWhy do human beings still risk their lives under ground and doing one of the dirtiest and most dangerous jobs in the world? Its an increasingly urgent question,given the recent high-profile(引人注目的)mining acciden

12、ts 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 Universitys R

13、obotics Institute. It was called Groundhog and it looked like a golf cart. It used lasers to “see” in dark tunnels and map abandoned minessome of the most dangerous work in the business. The latest prototype is called Cave Crawler. Its a bit smaller than Groundhog, and even more advanced. It can tak

14、e 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

15、a real person. The biggest obstacle, though, is cost. The original research project was federally funded, but that money has dried up, and its 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

16、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 dont eliminate the need for human wor