初中新闻报道类阅读理解提升训练.docx

初中新闻报道类阅读理解提升训练 初中新闻报道类阅读理解提升训练 (一) TOKYO, JAPAN –What do you do when you see a cockroach ( 蟑螂 )? Do you hit it with a newspaper? Do you step on it? When researchers at Tokyo University see a cockroach, they take the remote control and make the cockroach turn around, run left or right, or go forward. These scientists are changing the cockroaches into robots（机器人） . Each cockroach has a very small packet that has in it a microprocessor ( 微处理器 ). Then researchers can send signals ( 信号 ) from the remote control to the packet. The signals control the movements of the cockroaches. Why does anyone want to control a cockroach? “ Insectscan do many things that people can ’ t, ” says Isao Shimoyama, head of robot research at Tokyo University. In a few years, he says, these robot insects will carry very small cameras. They will be able to move through earthquake rubble ( 瓦砾 ) to look for people or move under doors to find information about someone. This may seem strange, but the Japanese government thinks the research is very important. The government is giving the scientists $ 5 million for this research. First, the research keeps hundreds of cockroaches. They use only the American cockroach because it is bigger and stronger than other cockroaches. Then they choose the best cockroaches and remove their wings and antennae ( 触须 ). They put small packets where the antennae were. The packets weigh about three grams, or about two times the weight of the cockroaches themselves. “ Cockroachesare very strong, says” Ralph Holzer, who is a researcher at Tok yo University. “ They can lift 20 times theirown weight. ” With a remote control, the scientists send signals to the packets. When a cockroach gets the signal, it moves. The problem is that the cockroaches don s move in the’ trightalwaydirection. 1. The scientists are changing the cockroaches into robots because _________. A. they want cockroaches to do things people can ’tinthe future B. they want to control the movements of t