Every year landslides {滑坡} cause 25 to 50 deaths and $1.5 billion in damage in the United States．They account for 15 percent of the deaths from natural disasters in Europe．And in Decem­ber, a single event killed more than 200 people in the Philippines．Sending workers to stabilize (加固) mountainsides using steel bars and cement (水泥) can help prevent disaster, but it introduces new difficulties．Shaking drills produce harmful dust and loosen heavy, dangerous debris (米屑)．"It's quite a risky job," says Giorgio Pezzuto of D'Appolonia, an engineering company in Italy.
D'Appolonia, working with eight other companies, may have an answer:  a three-ton robot called Roboclimber．"The idea is to operate a machine far away that can drill without a hu­man being on board,'" says Pezzuto, manager for the project, which is supported by the European Commission．Engineers claim that the machine will be faster and cheaper than manual labor．The robot, a large radio-controlled four-legged me­chanical spider (蜘蛛), has cost at least $2 mil­lion so far．The final product should be able to climb unstable mountainsides, drill holes, insert bars and cement, and collect data on the slope' s stability．Testing should begin in May.
小題1:The underlined word "event" (in Paragraph l) refers to ___.
A．landslideB．machineC．earthquakeD．flood
小題2:The purpose in writing this text is ___..
A．to tell people how serious the damage caused by landslides is
B．to tell people that sending workers to sta­bilize mountainsides is a risky job
C．to introduce a product that can be used to stabilize mountainsides
D．to show people how to use a new product
小題3:What does the robot look like?
A．A human being．B．A spider．C．A truck．D．A drill．
小題4:The biggest advantage of this product is that_________.
A．it will be faster and cheaper than manual labor
B．it can climb mountainsides, drill holes, insert bars and cement
C．it can collect data on the slope’s stability
D．it can drill without a human being on board

小題1:A
小題2:C
小題3:B
小題4:D

小題1:本文主要談landslide，因此根據(jù)行文，event指代landslide。
小題2:本文作者的意圖是介紹一種用于滑坡?lián)岆U的新產(chǎn)品。
小題3:讀第二段The robot, a large radio-controlled four-legged me­chanical spider (蜘蛛)及整個語篇可得出此結(jié)論。
小題4:從第二段的The idea is to operate a machine far away that can drill without a hu­man being on board一句以及第一段講述滑坡人工搶險的危險，可知這種產(chǎn)品無人操作是其最大優(yōu)點。
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