【正文】 Yet set against these benefits are a couple of worries. Electronic payment systems may risk technical failures, power failure and cyberattacks. In a cashless economy the poor, the elderly and country folk may be left behind. And a digital system could let governments watch over people39。 Cash is dying out because of two forces. One is demand— younger consumers want payment systems that plug easily into their digital lives. But equally important is that suppliers such as banks and tech firms (in developed markets) and teles panies (in emerging ones) are developing fast, easytouse payment technologies from which they can pull data and pocket fees. There is a high cost to running the infrastructure behind the cash economy—ATMs, vans carrying notes, tellers who accept coins. Most financial firms are keen to abandon it, or discourage oldfashioned customers with heavy fees. For the past 3,000 years, when people thought of money they thought of cash. Over the past decade, however, digital payments have taken off— tapping your plastic on a terminal or swiping a smartphone has bee normal. Now this revolution is about to turn cash into an endangered species in some rich economies. That will make the economy more efficient—but it also causes new problems that could hold back the transition(轉(zhuǎn)型).7．閱讀理解 performance ”可知，機器人目前還在華盛頓州立大學(xué)的智能屋里進行測試，故選B?？v觀全文可知，本文介紹了一款由美國華盛頓州立大學(xué)的科學(xué)家們研發(fā)的機器人。根據(jù)最后一段中的“ While we are still in an early stage of development, our initial results with RAS have been promising”可知，Minor對這款機器人的未來發(fā)展充滿信心、非常樂觀，故選C。 performance…”可知，這臺機器人的表現(xiàn)還要經(jīng)過進一步的測，說明正在測試階段，故選B。 （2）考查推理判斷。 （1）考查細節(jié)理解。D.RAS, the first robot to make home smart.B.Uncertain.（4）What can be a suitable title for the text? A.C.Negative.s attitude toward the future of RAS? A.It can cook for owners on its own.（3）What39。Its function remains to be tested.C.It is the first robot used in daily life.D.Through objects.C. performance with a group of older adults to get a better idea of what prompts, video reminders and other preferences they have regarding the robot.（1）How does RAS serve elderly people? A. RAS is the first robot researchers have tried to incorporate into their smart home environment. They recently published a study in the journal Cognitive Systems Research that demonstrates how RAS could make life easier for older adults struggling to live independently. The Robot Activity Support System or RAS, uses sensors installed in a WSU smart home to determine where its residents are, what they are doing and when they need assistance with daily activities. It navigates (定位) through rooms and around obstacles to find people on its own, provides video instructions on how to do simple tasks and can even lead its owner to objects like their medication or a snack in the kitchen.RAS bines the convenience of a mobile robot with the activity detection technology of a WSU smart home to provide assistance in the moment, as the need for help is detected, said Bryan Minor, a postdoctoral researcher in the WSU School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.6．閱讀理解 故選A。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。故選C。 （3）考查細節(jié)理解。 （2）考查詞義猜測。也就是說，Starship Technologies公司創(chuàng)造的是一款配送物品的機器人。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。本文以對相關(guān)信息進行了介紹說明。We still need someone to look after robots in the future.D.Robot carers will have a petitive advantage in the future.B.A lot of job opportunities will be created.D.Autonomous vehicles will bee much cheaper.B.D.are in relation ofB.are in the category ofD.A restaurant robot.B.A factory robot. 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。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。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。 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.s job was to monitor how it handled various grounds, field ments from the public, and press the off switch if necessary. He said, People would also ask if it could deliver beer. It couldn39。 During the winter of 2017, an 18year old college student named Canon Reeves spent much of his time trailing a kneehigh robot around Fayetteville, Arkansas, as it delivered Amazon packages to students. The robot, created by a startup called Starship Technologies in 2014, is basically a cooler on wheels。 【點評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解，推理判斷和主旨大意三個題型的考查，是一篇科研類閱讀，要求考生在捕捉細節(jié)信息的基礎(chǔ)上，進一步根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。 （4）考查主旨大意。實驗?zāi)康氖强纯带B類的視角是否能提供幫助。 （3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)最后一段中的“It seemed that the st