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广西公共英语考试模拟卷（9） 本卷共分为1大题50小题，作答时间为180分钟，总分100分，60分及格。 严格遵守考试纪律，维护考试秩序！ 一、单项选择题（共50题，每题2分。每题的备选项中，只有一个最符合题意） 1.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 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 (岩屑). 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, the 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, 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 stability. Testing should begin in May. The underlined word event ( Paragraph 1 ) refers to（） A. landslideB. machineC. earthquakeD. flood 参考答案：A 词语释义题。本文主要是淡landslide，一开始就淡论land-slide的危害，并且举例子说在菲律宾一次就死了200多人。所以这里的event指代landslide。 2.(36) a society in which cash no longer exists. Instead, cash is electronic, as in bankcard systems. Paper money and coins are (37) . Cash has been the root of (38) social and (39) evil. However, the (40) of electronic funds-transfer (41) will make it (42) to change the (43) of money and to separate it from evil.The technology will have (44) and lots of benefits. On the one hand, it will be impossible for thieves to (45) money from people. Bank robberies will stop, and attacks on shop keepers