I visited the nearby car factory today with my uncle, who works there. One thing

I visited the nearby car factory today with my uncle,who works there. One thing I noticed was that most of the work is now done byrobots. Welding (焊接), painting, testing, and many other jobs are performed by robotsnow.

The whole dashboard (仪表板) of the car is now put into thecar from above, through the windshield, by a robot. It would have taken two mento do this in the past, and it would have hurt their backs quite a bit. It gotme thinking: is it a good thing that robots are replacing factory workers? Onone hand, robots generally do a more accurate job than people. They aren’tlikely to make many mistakes, and if something goes wrong with one car, analarm goes off. They do exactly the same thing, every time, without fail. Ahuman worker is never able to do exactly the same thing every time. On theother hand, robots also reduce costs for companies. Companies don’t have to payrobots wages or injury compensation (补偿) if they’rebroken. If something in a robot does go wrong, it won’t have to take time offwork for a year, or even forever, as could happen to a real person if he breakshis back or burn himself while welding.

The obvious downside to all of this is that itincreases the unemployment rate. The company will have to bring in some very talentedindividuals who know how to operate the robots. Unlike regular factory workers,these intelligence workers usually demand a higher pay.

1.Wecan learn from the first paragraph that _______.

A．all theworkers are replaced by robots now   B．robots do much of the work instead ofworkers now C．there were noworkers in the car factory        D．the author’s uncle made robots in the factory

2.According to the text robots _______.

A．can do workas accurately as workers        B．never breakdown   C．can doexactly the same thing repeatedly  D．ask for less money from companies

3.The underlined word "downside" in the lastparagraph probably means "_______".

A．weakness         B．favor             C．assistance         D．strength

4.It can be inferred from the last paragraph that_______.

A．companiesrefuse to pay for intelligence workers                 B．robots havehelped all of the workers C．robots can help solve the problem of unemployment           D．using robotsin factories widely will have a long way to go

5.What is the author’s attitude towards using robotsin factories?

A．He isdoubtful about it.                   B．He thinks itnecessary. C．He isstrongly against it.   D． The text doesn’t mention it.

试题答案

【答案】

1.B

2.C

3.A

4.D

5.D

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