Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage . Read the passage through carefully before making your choices . Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter . Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once . The things people make, and the way they make them, determine how cities grow and decline, and influence how empires rise and fall. So, any disruption to the world's factories 1 . And that disruption is surely coming. Factories are being digitised, filled with new sensors and new computers to make them quicker, more 2 , and more efficient. Robots are breaking free from the cages that surround them, learning new skills and new ways of working. And 3D printers have long 3 a world where you can make anything, anywhere, from a computerised design. That vision is 4 closer to reality. These forces will lead to cleaner factories, producing better goods at lower prices, personalised to our individual needs and desires. Humans will be 5 many of the dirty, repetitive, and dangerous jobs that have long been a 6 of factory life. Greater efficiency 7 means fewer people can do the same work. Yet factory bosses in many developed countries are worried about a lack of skilled human workers- and see 8 and robots as a solution. But economist Helena Leurent says this period of rapid change in manufacturing is a 9 opportunity to make the world a better place.“Manufacturing is the one system where you have got the biggest source of innovation, the biggest source of economic growth, and the biggest source of great jobs in the past. You can see it changing. That's an opportunity to 10 that system differently, and if we can, it will have tremendous significance.”A) automation F) feature K) mattersB) concerns G) flexible L) movingC) enormously H) inevitably M) promisedD) fantastic I) interaction N) shapeE) fascinated J) leaning O) spared
Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage . Read the passage through carefully before making your choices . Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter . Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once .
The things people make, and the way they make them, determine how cities grow and decline, and influence how empires rise and fall. So, any disruption to the world's factories 1 . And that disruption is surely coming. Factories are being digitised, filled with new sensors and new computers to make them quicker, more 2 , and more efficient.
Robots are breaking free from the cages that surround them, learning new skills and new ways of working. And 3D printers have long 3 a world where you can make anything, anywhere, from a computerised design. That vision is 4 closer to reality. These forces will lead to cleaner factories, producing better goods at lower prices, personalised to our individual needs and desires. Humans will be 5 many of the dirty, repetitive, and dangerous jobs that have long been a 6 of factory life.
Greater efficiency 7 means fewer people can do the same work. Yet factory bosses in many developed countries are worried about a lack of skilled human workers- and see 8 and robots as a solution. But economist Helena Leurent says this period of rapid change in manufacturing is a 9 opportunity to make the world a better place.“Manufacturing is the one system where you have got the biggest source of innovation, the biggest source of economic growth, and the biggest source of great jobs in the past. You can see it changing. That's an opportunity to 10 that system differently, and if we can, it will have tremendous significance.”
A) automation F) feature K) matters
B) concerns G) flexible L) moving
C) enormously H) inevitably M) promised
D) fantastic I) interaction N) shape
E) fascinated J) leaning O) spared
题目解答
答案
1.K
2.G
3.M
4.L
5.O
6.F
7.H
8.A
9.D
10.N
解析
文章主要讨论了工厂的数字化、机器人技术以及3D打印技术对制造业的影响。这些技术的发展将使工厂更清洁、更高效，同时也会减少对人力的需求，但同时也为制造业带来了创新和增长的机会。
步骤 2：分析选项
根据文章内容和上下文，选择合适的单词填入空白处。每个单词只能使用一次。
步骤 3：填空
根据文章内容和选项，选择合适的单词填入空白处。