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1、职称英语考试理工类教材新增内容资料仅供参考新版职称英语教材新增文章系列之理工类阅读理解第二十二篇RealWorldRobotsWhenyouthinkofarobot,doyouenvisionashiny,metallicdevicehavingthesamegeneralshapeasahumanbeing,performinghumanlikefunctions,andrespondingtoyourquestionsinamonotonevoiceaccentuatedbyhigh-pitchedtonesand
2、beeps?Thisisthewaymanyofusimaginearobot,butintherealworld,arobotisnothumanoidatall.Insteadarobotoftenisavoiceless,box-shapedmachinethatefficientlycarriesoutrepetitiveordangerousfunctionsusuallyperformedbyhumans.Today’srobotismorethananautomaticmachinethatperforms
3、onetaskagainandagain.Amodernrobotisprogrammedwithvaryingdegreesofartificial资料仅供参考intelligence—thatis,arobotcontainsacomputerprogramthattellsithowtoperformtasksassociatedwithhumanintelligence,suchasreasoning,drawingconclusions,andlearningfrompastexperience.Arobotd
4、oesnotpossessahumanshapeforthesimplereasonthatatwo-leggedrobothasgreatdifficultyremainingbalanced.Arobotdoes,however,movefromplacetoplaceonwheelsandaxlesthatrollandrotate.Arobotevenhaslimbsthatswivelandmoveincombinationwithjointsandmotors.Tofinditswayinitssurroun
5、dings1,arobotutilizesvariousbuilt-insensors.Antennaeattachedtotherobot’basedetectanythingtheybumpinto.Iftherobotstartstoteeterasitmovesonanincline,agyroscopeorapenduluminsideitsensestheverticaldifferential.Todetermineitsdistancefromanobjectandhowquicklyitwillreac
6、htheobject，therobotbouncesbeamsoflaserlightandultrasonicsoundwavesoffobstructionsinitspath2.Theseandother资料仅供参考sensorsconstantlyfeedinformationtothecomputer,whichthenanalyzestheinformationandcorrectsoradjuststherobot’actions.Asscienceandtechnologyadvance,therobot
7、toowillprogressinitsfunctionsanduseofartificial-intelligenceprograms.【词汇】envisionv.想象，预想devicen.装置accentuatev.强调，重读artificialintelligencen.人工智能limbn.臂antennaen.天线inclinev.倾斜pendulumn.钟摆ultrasonicadj.超声的metallicadj.金属的monotonen.单调的humanoidadj.像人的axlen.轮轴rotatev.旋转
8、swiveln.旋转资料仅供参考teeterv.晃gyroscopen.陀螺，回verticaln.直立的【注】1．Tofinditswayinitssurroundings...：了在周找到路⋯⋯2．therobotbouncesbeamsoflaserlightandultrasonicsoundwavesoff
