I went to a nearby car factory today with my uncle, who works there. One thing I noticed was that most of the work was done by robots. Welding (焊接), painting, testing and many other jobs are performed by robots. The whole dashboard (儀表板) is put into a car by a robot. It would have taken two men to do so in the past, and it would have hurt their backs quite a bit.

It got me thinking: Is it a good thing that robots are replacing factory workers? On the one hand, robots generally do a more accurate job than people. They are not likely to make many mistakes. If something goes wrong with one car, an alarm goes off. They do exactly the same thing every time, but a human worker is unable to do so. On the other hand, robots reduce costs for companies. Companies don’t have to pay robots wages or injury compensation (補(bǔ)償) if they’re broken. If something in a robot does go wrong, it won’t have to take time off work for a year, or even forever, as could happen to a real person if he breaks his back or burns himself while welding.

The obvious downside is that robots increase unemployment rate, which in turn increases taxes. We don’t want to pay for those who are out of work just because a company has replaced them with robots.

1.We can learn from the first paragraph that _______.

A. all the workers have been replaced by robots

B. robots do most of the work in the car factory

C. there are no workers with back strain now

D. the author’s uncle designs robots in the factory

2.The second paragraph is mainly about ________.

A. the author’s experience in a car factory

B. the advantages of robots over human workers

C. the advantages of human workers over robots

D. the management of factory workers

3.The underlined word “downside” in the last paragraph means _______.

A. weakness B. favor

C. assistance D. Advantage

4.It can be inferred from the passage that________.

A.companies refuse to pay for workers.

B.robots have completely replaced workers.

C.robots can help solve the problem of unemployment.

D.people have to pay more taxes for unemployment.

 

1.B

2.B

3.A

4.D

【解析】

試題分析: 本文是一篇說明文，主要講述了在現(xiàn)代社會中機(jī)器人的普遍使用給人們帶來的有利方面和不利方面。作者在參觀附近的工廠時(shí)看到了機(jī)器人代替人們做了大部分的工作。由此想到了機(jī)器人的使用對社會造成的影響，分析了使用機(jī)器人的優(yōu)點(diǎn)和缺點(diǎn)。

1.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章首段 One thing I noticed was that most of the work was done by robots. Welding ……. The whole dashboard is put into a car by a robot.可知機(jī)器人在工廠里做了大部分的工作，選B。

2.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。在文章第二段中作者詳細(xì)介紹了使用機(jī)器人的優(yōu)點(diǎn)，比如robots generally do a more accurate job than people. They are not likely to make many mistakes. Companies don’t have to pay robots wages or injury compensation (補(bǔ)償) if they’re broken.等等，由此判斷選B。

3.A詞義猜測題。根據(jù)本句The obvious downside to all of this is that it increases the unemployment rate. The company will have to bring in some very talented individuals who know how to operate the robots可知使用機(jī)器人以后，公司所雇傭的工人會變少，這樣就增加了失業(yè)率。故這也是機(jī)器人對社會影響中的一個(gè)缺點(diǎn)。故A正確。

4.推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章末段The obvious downside is that robots increase unemployment rate, which in turn increases taxes.可知機(jī)器人的使用增加了人們的失業(yè)率，而且稅收也需要提高，由此判斷人們要多交稅來支付失業(yè)人員的失業(yè)保險(xiǎn)金，故答案選D。

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