Section A (10分)
Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
A team of engineers at Harvard University ____1____ (inspire) by Nature to create the first robotic fly. The mechanical fly has become a platform for a series of new high-tech systems. ____2____ (design) to do what a fly does naturally, the tiny machine is the size of a fat housefly. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform ____3____ (control) flight tasks.
“It’s extremely important for us to think about this as a whole system and not just the sum of a bunch of individual components (元件),” said Robert Wood, the Harvard engineering professor who ____4____ (work) on the robotic fly project for over a decade. A few years ago, his team got the go-ahead to start ____5____ (pierce) together the components. “The ____6____ (add) difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of those components are off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own,” he said.
They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. “The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings has a number of devices, each of which individually has to perform well, but then has to be matched well,” said Wood. The flight device ____7____(build) into a set of power, computation, sensing and control systems. Wood says the success of the project proves that the ____8____ (fly) robot with these tiny components can be built and manufactured.
While this first robotic flyer is linked to a small, off-board power source, the goal is eventually ____9____ (equip) it with a built-in power source, so that it can someday perform data-gathering work at rescue sites, in farmers’ fields _____10_____ on the battlefield. “Basically it should be able to take off, land and fly around,” he said.
【答案】1. has been inspired
2. Designed
3. controlled
4. has worked##has been working
5. to pierce##piercing
6. added 7. was built
8. flying 9. to equip
10. or
