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公共课英语一模拟题2020 年(53) (总分：100.00，做题时间：180 分钟) 阅读理解(总题数：4，分数：100.00) Killing a soldier removes one enemy from the battle. Wounding him removes three: the victim and the two who have to carry him from the battlefield. That cynical calculation lies behind the design of many weapons that are intended to incapacitate rather than eliminate. But robotics may change the equation. The Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot, or BEAR for short, is a highly agile and powerful mobile robot capable of lifting and carrying a combat casualty from a hazardous area across uneven terrain. When it is not saving lives, it can perform difficult and repetitive tasks, such as loading and unloading bullets. The current prototype BEAR is a small, tracked vehicle with two hydraulic arms and a set of video cameras that provide a view of its surroundings to its operator via a wireless link. It has been developed by TATRC (a research center) in collaboration with Vecna Technologies. Daniel Theobald, BEARs inventor and Vecnas boss, says versatility is at the heart of the robots design and the whole idea from the start was to design a general-purpose robot. The BEARs operator can control the robot in two ways. One, a joystick, can be embedded into the grip of a rifle and manoeuvred by the soldiers fingertip when he is holding his weapon to his shoulder. The advantage of this is that he does not need to put his gun down to rescue his comrades. The other means of control, a special glove designed by AnthroTronix, can sense the wearers hand movements and direct the BEAR accordingly. For example, if the gloved hand moves to the left, the robot will follow. If the hand moves backwards, the robot will slow down or stop. Over the past year BEAR has been tested at the armys battle laboratory. It has shown that it can travel at around 12 mph across a flat surface. It can also move over soil, sand and gravel, through trees and inside b