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  In the dark night of the desert a group of US Air Force scientists is testing a new device (設(shè)備) for guiding a missile(導(dǎo)彈) to its target. Designed to seek out the heat of an enemy aircraft engine, it is now going through its paces by tracing(跟蹤)the movement of a flashlight waving thirty feet away in the darkness. A hundred yards away, unseen by the man, a rattlesnake sliding between the stones senses a patch of warmth. Although the snake's mechanism(機(jī)制) is small enough to be packed into a head the size of a nut, it can detect a change in temperature of one thousandth of a degree. Without a sound the snake closes in and strikes for the kill.

  Whenever we look in the animal world we find the same story. Almost anything that man can do, nature has already done better. So, for the purpose of learning from nature, a new science called bionics has grown up. Its aim is to find out how animal's instruments work so that man can copy them for his own use.

  Imagine being able to know a friend several miles off by his smell. Male silk moths(蛾)can do this. Their antennae(觸角)are so sensitive to the chemical odor of female that they can detect their presence by picking up only one molecule (分子) of the chemical. Even with their most sensitive instruments, human cannot approach this perfection.

  Studying beetle's(甲蟲的)eyes has already paid off. A group of scientists in Germany found that a beetle can accurately(精確地) measure with its eyes the speed of a moving background.After finding out how a beetle accomplishes this scientists built a machine that operated on the same principle(原理). This instrument is able to determine the ground speed of moving aircraft with a high degree of accuracy.

(1)The writer compares the rattlesnake with a missile in order to ________.

[  ]

A.show the deadliness of the missile

B.demonstrate(論證)what bionics is

C.show that man is wiser than nature

D.demonstrate that a rattlesnake is very dangerous

(2)Study of the male silk moth might lead to a new method of ________.

[  ]

A.locating underground streams

B.making smooth cloth

C.detecting poisonous gas

D.communicating

(3)Which of the following can be used to replace the underlined word“accomplishes”?

[  ]

A.Succeeds in.
B.Completes.
C.Does
D.Reaches.

(4)Which of the following is NOT right

[  ]

A.Studying the eye of the beetle has helped scientists to measure speed of objects.

B.Male moths can know female moths several miles off by their smell.

C.Devices of animals discussed here serve a purpose similar to the skin of the human.

D.The military uses of bionics are one reason for developing this science.

(5)According to the passage, the goal for bionics is to ________.

[  ]

A.explain how animal devices work

B.copy animal processes with man-made machines

C.prove the usefulness of this science

D.a(chǎn)pply(應(yīng)用) science to the study of electronics

答案:B;C;A;C;B
解析:

(1) B 第二段中講“幾乎人類能做的某件事,自然界早已都做得很好了”.所以可以用響尾蛇與導(dǎo)彈做類比,這一新科學(xué)領(lǐng)域被稱為bionics,所以選B項(xiàng).A項(xiàng)“顯示導(dǎo)彈的致命力”、C項(xiàng)“顯示人類比自然界聰明”、D項(xiàng)“論證響尾蛇很危險(xiǎn)”都不正確.

(2) C 文章第三段中引用了蛾子的例子說(shuō)明人類可以根據(jù)其原理測(cè)定有毒氣體,所以選C項(xiàng).A項(xiàng)“確定地下暗流”、B項(xiàng)“生產(chǎn)平滑的布匹”、C項(xiàng)“交流”都不合題意.

(3) A 第四段講研究出甲蟲如何完成這一任務(wù),科學(xué)家便可依此制造一個(gè)機(jī)器.只有A項(xiàng)“成功完成這一任務(wù)”與題意相符.

(4) C 根據(jù)第四段可判定A項(xiàng)“研究甲蟲的眼睛有助于科學(xué)家測(cè)量物體的速度”是正確的.根據(jù)第三段可推知B項(xiàng)“雄性蛾子可以通過(guò)氣味確定數(shù)里之外有雌性蛾子的位置”正確.文中說(shuō)研究這一領(lǐng)域可以用于軍事目的,所以D項(xiàng)也正確,只有C項(xiàng)“這里討論的動(dòng)物的器官與人類的皮膚作用相同”不正確.

(5) B 根據(jù)第二段最后一句“其目的在于通過(guò)研究動(dòng)物如何使用這些工具,而從使人類可以為自身利益復(fù)制這種工具”可知B正確.C項(xiàng)“證明這一種學(xué)分類的有用性”、D項(xiàng)“應(yīng)用科學(xué)研究電子儀器”都不符合原文意思.


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