¡¡A. How can a robot manage to help with the farm work

¡¡¡¡B. The potentiality of a robot in future

¡¡¡¡C. The advancement of the technology employed on the farm

¡¡¡¡D. The falling of the price of a robot that can help with farm work

¡¡¡¡2. According to the passage, a single robot will be able to do the following jobs except

¡¡¡¡A. TransplantingB. cultivating C. quality sortingD. harvesting

¡¡¡¡3. Put the following steps into the right order according to the procedure the robot will follow when harvesting.

¡¡¡¡a. A computer analyzes the camera images

¡¡¡¡b. The robot picks the ripe ones

¡¡¡¡c. A fan blows to move their leaves and expose hidden fruit

¡¡¡¡d. The computer determines its ripeness through another sensing device

¡¡¡¡e. A sensor projects a beam onto the ground

¡¡¡¡A. dabceB. caedb C. acbdeD. decba

¡¡¡¡4. All the following statements are true except

¡¡¡¡A. Intelligent machines are capable of taking over from the manual labor.

¡¡¡¡B. In the next decade, an agricultural robot will be as cheap as a new pickup truck to a farmer.

¡¡¡¡C. More and more advanced components will be used, which will bring the price of the robot up greatly.

¡¡¡¡D. We can judge fruit¬ðs ripeness by its gas.

¡¡¡¡5. This passage is most likely to be from

¡¡¡¡A. The thesis of a college student

¡¡¡¡B. The homework of a middle school student

¡¡¡¡C. A newspaper about the current condition of science and technology

¡¡¡¡D. A handbook teaching how to get rich

¡¡¡¡Passage 3

¡¡¡¡As a financial writer for Newsday, a suburban New York daily, Susan Harrigan had what once was considered one of the safest jobs around: she sat at a desk and typed. The pain in her arms and hands began without warning, and soon she found herself unable to hit a typewriter key. For more than a year, Harrigan, now 47, couldn¬ðt work, cook a meal or even turn a doorknob; she tried strings to her dresser drawers so she could open them with her teeth. ¡°I didn¬ðt know I was capable of being in that much pain for so long, ¡±she says. She was given a variety of diagnoses, but they came down to that three years of typing against deadline on a word processor had caused permanent damage to the muscles, nerves and tendons of her arms. She was, as she contends in a lawsuit filed against the manufacturer of Newsday¬ðs wordª²processing equipment, a victim of her keyboard.

¡¡¡¡Standard keyboards are as perversely ill designed as a convex teaspoon. They position the hands close together in front of the body, forcing the user to angle his or her forearms in; in turn, the wrists must bend out slightly to line up the fingers on the home keys. This strains the tendons£¨ë죩 that run through the wrist and connect the fingers to the muscles of the forearm. The rows of keys are staggered, causing unnecessary reaching to the left and right. The very notion that the hands should be in a palm down attitude for typing may turn out to be wrong; physiologi

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