2017年高三英语考试

英语

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简答题（综合题）（本大题共9小题，每小题____分，共____分。）

Delivering Food by Drone

A Singapore restaurant plans to use drones(遥控飞机) to transport food and drinks from the kitchen to a wait station near customers’ tables.

Infinium Robotics, the Singapore company that’s developing the drones for restaurant chain Timbre, has spent the past two weeks testing the technology at the restaurant before it opens each night

____ business and hopes to have it in place by the end of the year.

But how does the drone know where to hover (盘旋)? What if someone bumps into the drone or is standing in its way? “There’s no chance at all ____ it will hit anything,” says Infinium Robotics chief executive Junyang Woon.

The drones automatically charge while ____ (wait) in the kitchen. ____ the chef puts an order on the drone, he hits a button on a keypad and the drone automatically flies to one of two wait stations. Sense-and-avoid technology ____ (build) into the drone won’t allow it to land at the wait station if anything is in its way. The drones are equipped with sonar(声纳系统) and an infrared sensor(红外线传感器), too.

A waiter then removes the food or drink from the drone and hits a button ____ sends it back to the kitchen. The drones, weighing a little over five pounds, ____ carry just over four pounds of food. Infinium Robotics is working on a model that will carry twice as ____ (much) food.

“Its job is to help the waiters to reduce some of their boring tasks, ” Woon said. “If they let the robots ____ (do) the job, they can concentrate on interacting with customers to bring about higher customer satisfaction and dining experience.”

Since it drew recent media attention, Woon ____ (hear) from resorts and restaurants in 10 countries, including the United States.

【语篇导读】:本文是一篇说明文讲述了一家餐厅计划用遥控飞机送餐的事，以及对遥控飞机送餐的具体介绍。

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Section B

Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

FDA OKs Genetically Modified Salmon for Human Consumption

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday approved genetically modified salmon(转基因的三文鱼), the first such altered animal allowed for human consumption in the United States.

The government had tried to ____ approving the fast-growing salmon for more than five years due to consumer concerns about eating genetically modified foods. But the agency said Thursday the fish is safe to eat.

In announcing the approval, the FDA said that there are “no biologically

____ differences in the nutrition of AquAdvantage Salmon compared to that of other farm-raised Atlantic salmon.”

AquAdvantage Salmon was created by the Massachusetts-based company AquaBounty. Ron Stotish, the company’s CEO, said in a statement that the fish is a “game changer that brings healthy and nutritious food to consumers in an environmentally

____ manner without damaging the ocean and other marine habitats.”