单选题
Denny

His nickname is Denny". He weighs 400 pounds; he is fearless and he never goes to sleep on the job. An ideal security guard? For many situations he may be. And if he"s so good that you wish you had a dozen like him, just place your order. Denny is a robot guard.
Denny can detect, within a 150-thor radius, the presence of anything or anybody that shouldn"t be there. Its swiveling (旋转) head contains microwave and infrared sensors that can detect people as well as smoke. In future editions the head will also contain sensors that can smell the weak smell of a human body.
A high-resolution TV camera in Denny"s head is on at all time. When something unexpected comes into view, the TV transmitter switches on. Thus the human overseer (看管人) in the control center sees the sudden appearance of a picture on the monitor screen. At the same time the picture is automatically videotaped.
Normal speed of the robot guards is about one mile an hour, and they can even talk: "you have been detected," warns the voice from the clever guard. Denny is designed to patrol corridors and other areas after lock-down hours (of course, he can work round the clock when necessary), not to move among people. If, say, a prisoner does get near the corridor where he should not be, it"ll immediately tell its base station by radio.
Denny has understandable limitations. He can"t open doors or watch stairs, for example, or distinguish a friend from an enemy. Thus he will have to go about unarmed. And he won"t be able to replace human security guards where people move about freely.
单选题 Denny is a robot guard, who ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 根据第二段第二句可知,丹尼旋转的头部里有微波和红外线感受器。
单选题 Which of the following pieces of equipment is NOT mentioned as part of the robot according to the passages?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 根据第二段第二句可知,丹尼头部有红外线感受器,故C被提到;根据第三段第一句可知,丹尼头部有高清电视摄像头,故A被提到;根据第三段最后一句可知,丹尼会自动录像,可推断出其内有自动录像机,故D被提到。文章只在第三段第二句提到了电视转换器(TV transmitter),并未提到广播转换器。故选B。
单选题 Which of the following statements is true?
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 最后一段第二句“He can"t open doors or watch stairs...”表明,丹尼不能开门和看门。
单选题 Why does Denny have to go unarmed?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 最后一段第二、三句表明,丹尼不能开门和看门,也不能辨清敌友,所以不能携带武器。由此可知,丹尼之所以不能携带武器,正是因为它不能辨清敌友。
单选题 After reading this passages you probably have got the impression that ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 根据第四段第一句可知,丹尼的正常速度约为一英里每小时。由此可知,丹尼移动的速度很慢。