2020年中考英语冲刺专题练习试卷及答案

2020年中考英语专题复习试卷

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一、请先阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后用方框中所给词的适当形式填空。每个词限用一次。

Gordon, the “barista”(咖啡师) at San Francisco's Cafe X, will not greet you by your name or wish you a (1) day. Why? Because Gordon is not a human (2) a robot. It can make the perfect cup of coffee. The owner of this special coffee shop is Henry Hu. Hu noticed that human baristas spent a lot of

(3) moving cups around while making drinks. So he decided

(4) a fully mechanized(机械化的) coffee shop. And this is why Cafe X was born.

Now, Cafe X is getting more and more (5) . Customers can order their drinks (6) using the computers in Cafe X. What's more, they can also do that by using an app on the phone. When the order is placed, Gordon gets to work to make coffee. When the drink is ready, the customer receives a message with a code(密码). After entering it (7) ，the robot will hand over the coffee.

Another reason why people prefer Cafe X is that they can get their drinks in a shorter time, about eight (8) . If the drink is not picked up within eight minutes after the message is (9) ，it will be replaced(替换) with a fresh drink. Henry Hu says Cafe X is trying its best to provide customers with the greatest

coffee in the shortest time.

Henry is not the only person who makes robots work for humans. In San Francisco, the robots (10) people create bowls, too. While at another restaurant Zume Pizza, the robots are used to make pies.

二、阅读理解

The first robot was invented in the 1920s. Robots have appeared in many American films. In some films, they are stronger, faster and cleverer than people.

In real life, robots are mainly used in factories. They do some dangerous and difficult jobs for humans. Robots also help disabled people, for example, blind people. Today many blind people have a guide dog to help them. In the future, guide dogs might be robot dogs.

One kind of robot guide dog has wheels. It moves in front of the owner. It is very clever. It knows the speed of its owner's walk. The owner wears a special belt. The belt sends instructions to the owner from the dog, such as “Stop here” “Turn left” or “Turn right”．

In the United States, another kind of robot helps disabled people to take care of themselves in their daily life. The robot hears the sound of its owner's voice. It follows instructions such as “Turn the page” or “Make a cup of coffee”．Robots are also used in American hospitals. They can do simple jobs. At one hospital, for example, a robot takes meals from the kitchen to patients' rooms. It never gets lost because this robot has a map of the hospital in its computer memory.

Though robots can help people in many different ways, they will never take the place of humans.