EPSCO，a Dubai­based company which specializes in improving indoor air quality，read about Mr Azad’s invention in a national newspaper after he had won an international robotics competition.EPSCO had cleaning equipment，but it needed someone to get into those ducts to do the dirty，dangerous work.Across India，for example，the task still falls to children.They are small enough to go through those ducts.

　　In 2005，Mr Azad who was still at university decided to do something about it.Six years later his own company，Robosoft Systems，has Bluestar，EPSCO and the Indian Navy，some leading air condition makers，as partners.

　　Mr Azad and his ten employees are currently exploring robot designs to examine oil tanks or sewage (污水) pipes.Their biggest challenge is to make the robots user­friendly enough.Mr Azad hopes that the robot could eventually be operated not by engineers but by workers.There will be lots of difficulties they need to overcome in the future.

　　1．What can we learn about Ductbot?

　　A．It is a toy car and popular with children.

　　B．It is designed to move like a snake in the ducts.

　　C．many LEDs are fitted on it to tell its location.

　　D．It is actually a camera to capture dirty scenery.

　　2．The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refers to “________”．

　　A．the cameraB．the conditioning duct

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