【正文】 It couldn39。t. Broadly speaking, jobs of caring for robots fall under the umbrella of careers in automation, which include maintenance, engineering and programming. The demand for people with this skill set is considerable, with 20 million to 50 million new jobs to be expected in this category by 2030, according to the Mckinsey Global Institute. In the year that ended in June 2018, had almost three times the number of positions on the recruitment mittee that ended in June 2016. Over the last year, a 34yearold businessman named David Rodriguez spent hundreds of hours following a machine called the KiwiBot around UC Berkeley39。s campus while it delivered Red bull and other drinks to students. To retrieve (檢索) orders, the app encourages students to give the robot a wave。 the robot39。s digital eyes will roll depending on its mood. Rodriguez, who heads business development for the startup, was tasked, early on, with monitoring the KiwiBot for problems – even carrying it, should the motors fail. Since April 2018, though, the KiwiBot has largely been left unattended, and the majority of human interactions involve technical checks and loading food into the robot. To eliminate the boring work, the team is developing a restaurant robot to collect and load orders – which could happen in 2020. However, Rodriguez assured me that his staff won39。t be out of work. Everyone holds double roles in the pany. Greater robot selfgoverning just means employees will shift their focus to accounting, engineering, and design. Mckinsey estimates that millions of jobs globally could be lost to automation by 2030. A huge number of jobs will be produced as autonomous vehicles are released into the environment, Ramsey said. In 2016, Bosch started training students from Schoolcraft College, a munity college in Michigan, in autonomousvehicle repair。 Toyota has trained students in maintenance as well. We might even see a return to lowlevel jobs where people e and fuel the car for you, Ramsey said. Until we can wirelessly charge, someone needs to refuel them. The hardesttoautomate industries, as it happens, are the ones that require looking after humans, such as childcare, education and health care. Robot babysitters might feel like they have scored the job of the future, but in fact, they might be better positioned.（1）What kind of robot is the one created by a startup called Starship Technologies? A.A factory robot.B.A delivery robot.C.A restaurant robot.D.A construction robot.（2）What does fall under the umbrella of in Para. 2 mean? A.are in the category ofB.are under the protection ofC.are in relation ofD.are in the process of（3）According to Ramsey, what will happen when autonomous vehicles are put on the market? A.Autonomous vehicles will bee much cheaper.B.A large number of people will be out of work.C.A lot of job opportunities will be created.D.Many people will turn to buying autonomous cars.（4）What does the last sentence in Para. 4 mean? A.Robot carers will have a petitive advantage in the future.B.Many new occupations like caring for robots e and go fast.C.We still need someone to look after robots in the future.D.Robots will create more and better jobs for people in the future.【答案】 （1）B（2）A（3）C（4）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，隨著機器人被越來越多的應用，照看機器人的工作也隨之發(fā)生了變化。本文以對相關(guān)信息進行了介紹說明。 （1）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第一段中的The robot, created by a startup called Starship Technologies in 2014, is basically a cooler on wheels。 it uses radars, sensors, and nine cameras to make deliveries.可知，這款機器人是2014年由一家名為Starship Technologies的初創(chuàng)公司制造的，它基本上是一種車輪上的冷卻器；它使用雷達、傳感器和9臺攝像頭進行配送。也就是說，Starship Technologies公司創(chuàng)造的是一款配送物品的機器人。故選B。 （2）考查詞義猜測。根據(jù)第二段中的which include maintenance, engineering and programming列舉了照看機器人的工作范疇，故選A。 （3）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)最后一段中的A huge number of jobs will be produced as autonomous vehicles are released into the environment可知，隨著自動化車輛被投放到市場，將產(chǎn)生大量的就業(yè)機會。故選C。 （4）考查句義理解。該劃線句子的字面意思是：機器人保姆可能會覺得自己已經(jīng)獲得了未來的工作，但事實上，他們的位置可能會更好。根據(jù)字面意思，不難看出其隱藏的意思為：機器人保姆占據(jù)很大的優(yōu)勢，他們可以在未來作更好的工作。故選A。 【點評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解，詞義猜測和句義猜測三個題型的考查，是一篇科普類閱讀，考生需要準確捕捉細節(jié)信息，同時根據(jù)上下文進行邏輯，推理，歸納，從而選出正確答案。8．閱讀理解 When Andrew Kaplan recalls, his stories leave the impression that he has managed to pack multiple lives into a single existence: A war reporter in his 20s. an army member, a successful businessman and later. the author of numerous spy novels and Hollywood scripts. Now the silver haired 78year old has realized he would like his loved ones to have access to those stories, even when he is no longer alive to share them. Kaplan has agreed to bee AndyBot a virtual person who will be: immortalized(T F5)in the cloud for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years If all goes according to plan future generations will be able to interact with him using voice puting platforms of mobile devices, asking him questions, letting him tell stories and drawing upon a lifetime39。s worth of advice long after his physical body is gone. Someday, Kaplan, who playfully refers to himself as a pig, may be remembered as one of the world39。s first digital humans. For decades, Silicon Valley futurists have sought to free humanity from the life cycle. Today, a new generation of panies is selling some approximation(近似) of virtual immortality, which gives people the opportunity to preserve one39。s legacy(遺產(chǎn)) online forever. Kaplan is eager to bee one of the world39。s first virtual residents, partly because he considers the effort a way to extend closed family bonds over multiple generations. If technology succeeds in creating emotionally intelligent digital humans, experts say, it may forever change the way living people cooperate with puters and experience loss. AndyBot may bee one of the world39。s first: