If it looks like a fish and swims like a fish, it usually is a fish. But not the new, lifelike robot fish developed by UK scientists, which have been swimming around the London Aquarium(水族馆) as they wait for their release off northern Spain in 2011.

Equipped with tiny chemical sensors(传感器),the fish will collect data on pollution in the port of Gijón and wirelessly send the information back to the control center.

“It’s a little lab onboard the fish,” said Rory Doyle, a scientist at BMT Group. The robots were designed, and are being built, by professor Huosheng Hu and his team at the University of Essex, UK.

The sensors will search for dangers such as chemical waste and will allow officials to map in real time the sources and effects of pollution, Doyle said. w_w w. k#s5_u.c o*m

He and his colleagues chose a fish design because hundreds of millions of years of evolution(进化) has created an energy-efficient creature, he said. “Nature has done it very, very well.” But copying such a successful design comes at a cost: nearly 29,000 u.s. dollars per robot. m

The fish, therefore, will be built “robust” enough to handle any possibilities, Doyle said. They can’t get caught in nets easily, for instance, and the tracking systems inside can help the robot fish avoid crashes with boats and other things in the way.

So far, it also seems unlikely the robot fish will be mistaken: At the London Aquarium, sharks swim away from the fake fish, possibly because they find the robots electromagnetic fields(电磁场) unpleasant, Doyle said. w_w w. k#s5_u.c o*m

At the same time, scientists are working to ensure that the sounds of the robots and other factors don’t disturb the natural environment, he added.

The robot fish was developed in order to_______. w. k#s5_u.c o*m

A．be displayed on a robot exhibition in Spain

B．be sent to London Aquarium as a gift

C．get information of ocean pollution

D．collect data on the fishes in deep sea

According to Doyle, the robot was designed into fish shape in order to_______.

A．cut the cost of the robot

B．make the robot beautiful

C．reduce the sounds of the robot

D．make the robot work better with less energy

We can infer from the passage that the robot fish______. k#s5_u.c o*m

A．would send pictures of sea life back

B．would not be looked on as a real fish by fishes

C．could swim much faster than fishes like sharks

D．could help find new forms of energy in the sea

The underlined word “robust” in Paragraph 6 probably means_____.

A．small and light    B．big and heavy

C．smooth and soft    D．strong and smart

第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节   对话填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

阅读下面的对话，掌握其大意，并根据首字母的提示，写出一个英语单词的完整，正确形式，使对话通畅。

R—Rose                L—Lisa

L: Hi, Rose, you look pale today, What’s (76) h    to you?

R: Nothing serious, I was told that I had been (77)a        to Zhejiang University.

L: Well, you should have been happy about that, That’s exciting news, (78) a          all. And your parents will take pride in you.

R: That’s true, but that means a problem, too. You know, school (79) e       have been increasing

rapidly these years. What worries me is that my family is too poor to afford them.

L: Well, what do your parents do? Do they have (80) j          with fixed income (收入)?

R: My father (81) u        to, but he was laid off years ago. With my mother earning the bread for the  

family of five, it is often hard to make ends meet.

L: That’s really a problem then. But you can consider (82) b       money from your relatives and

even from the bank.

R: Yes, I think so. And my head teacher told me that a few days ago.

L: By the (83) w       , what will you learn there?

R: Computer science is my (84) m      .

L: That sounds great! I wish I could go to the same university and learn the (85) s        subject too.

R: you surely can. I know you are a top student in your class. Work hard and good luck!

第二节 根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

   （注意：如果所用的答题卡没有提供E、F、G选项，请按以下方法填涂：选E请涂A、B，选F请涂B、C，选G请涂C、D。）

M: Welcome back! I didn’t see you in the history class on Friday．

W:  61   ．My geography class went on a field trip to look at some of the different rocks．

M: Really?  62   ! Where did you go?

W: A desert．It gets hot during the day, but it cools off very quickly at night．  63   ．

M: Well, did you enjoy the trip?

W: Of course I did．Since there are so few plants growing there, it’s very easy to see different rocks．

M:   64   ．You must call me if you have the chance to go there again．

W: No problem．  65   ．

         A．I really want to go there

         B．That sounds excellent

         C．I will be your guide next time

         D．It is very dry there after the sun goes down

         E．I’m tired of this trip

         F．I wasn’t here on Friday[来源:学§科§网]

         G．We learnt a lot from this trip

第二卷（共35分） 非选择题 .

第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节：对话填空（共20小题：每小题1分，满分10分）

请认真阅读下面对话，并根据各题所给首字母的提示，在答题卡上标有题号的横线上，写出一个英语单词的完整、正确形式，使对话通顺。

J =" Jackie  " L = Lisa

J: Warm day，isn’t it?

L: Yes, it's the (76) w      winter we have ever had.

J: In my childhood, we often had snow in winter, but these years, I (77) s                   ­see it

L: What do you think caused the (78) c      to change so much?

J: I think it is what we call green-house effect. Countries build factories to develop their economy, but they (79) p      a lot of waste gas into the air without being (80) t      .

L: And the cars also have (81) c      to the changes in the temperature all around the world

J: I couldn't agree more. If the temperature (82) c       to go up , the sea level would rise and some (83) c      cities would disappear.

L: Sounds terrible. We must do something about it.

J: (84)  L_____ , governments of many countries have realized that and are taking

(85) a      to prevent the pollution.

L: I am happy to hear that

对话填空 （共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

W: Sir, you’ve been using the online catalogue（目录）for

quite a (76) w______. Is there anything I can do to help you?

M: Well, I’ve got to write a paper about Hollywood in the 30s and 40s, and I’m really struggling. There are hundreds of books, and I just don’t know (77) w_____ to begin.

W: Your topic sounds pretty big. Why don’t you narrow it down to something like…uh… the history of the studios during that time?

M: You know, I was thinking about doing that, but more than 30 books came up when I (78) t_____ in “movie studios.”

W: You could cut that down even further by listing the specific (79) y_____ you want. Try adding “1930s” or “1940s” or maybe “Golden Age.”

M: “Golden Age” is a good idea. Let me type that in. Hey, look, just 6 books this time. That’s a lot better.

W: Oh… another thing you might consider. Have you tried looking for any (80) m_______ or newspaper articles?

M: No, I’ve only been (81) s________ for books.

W: Well, you can look up magazine articles in the Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature. And we do have the Los Angeles Times available over there. You might go (82) t________ their indexes (索引) to see if there’s (83) a_______ you want.

M: Okay, I think I’ll get (84) s_______ with these books and then I’ll go over the magazines.

W: If you need any (85) h_____, I’ll be over at the Reference Desk.

M: Great, thanks a lot.