There's a good chance that something you've bought online has been in the hands of a " picker". These are the workers in warehouses (仓库) who pick, pack and ship all those things we ordered.

At Amazon and other companies, they're working side by side with robots. Experts say while the robots are replacing some human workers, the machines aren't quite ready to take over completely.

When a robot finds its storage unit,' it slides underneath, lifts it up and then delivers it to a worker they're called pickers. On a recent day, the computer told a picker to grab what looked like a fantasy board （#t 3#)game. The picker found it, packed it and placed it on the conveyer belt.

"In a traditional fulfillment center where the workers would walk to the different items, it can take hours to fulfill a customer order," Robinson says.

Now, with the help of robots, that task takes minutes and fewer humans.

So is this a sign that we're entering a new industrial revolution?

" It's definitely going to take over a lot of jobs ", says Karen Myers, a scientist at SRI, one of Silicon V alley's oldest research centers.

At the same time, she says, " We're running against the limits of technology. " Take the picker at the Amazon fulfillment center for example. Myers says those skills prove to be uniquely human.

"Our fingers are incredibly flexible and the current generation of robotic operators are getting much, much better," she says. "But they're just not quite there yet."

There's also the robot's brain.

Remember that board game the Amazon worker was looking for? She could barely see the box when it was filled into the storage bin——but she could tell it was a board game. Robots can't do that.

Technologists say that, increasingly, humans will work side by side with robots——instead of robots working alone.

Amazon says robots and humans enabled the Tracy warehouse to fulfill customer orders faster. That means more customers and more human workers.

【小题1】What does a picker do according to the text?

A．Selling goods.	B．Storing goods.
C．Delivering goods.	D．Producing goods.

【小题2】With the help. of robots, the tasks involved will become .

A．more difficult	B．less straight
C．more efficient	D．less profitable

【小题3】Compared with robots, which of the following is the advantage of human beings?

A．Flexible.	B．Artificial.
C．Powerful.	D．Energetic.

【小题4】What would be the best title for the text?

A．Robots replacing humans completely

B．Robots and humans working side by side

C．The future of robots .

D．The advantages of shopping online

翻译句子
【小题1】您不介意在外面等一会儿吧？（mind）
Would you ________________ for a moment？
【小题2】这只手表坏了, 我真希望我买的是好一点的手表。（虚拟语气）
This watch has gone wrong. I wish I ________________________________.
【小题3】我宁愿考不及格, 也不愿意作弊。（rather）
I ________________________________ in the examination.
【小题4】收到你的电子邮件, 我非常激动。（不定式）
I am very excited ________________________.
【小题5】一个可怕的念头突然出现在我的脑海中。（come into one's mind）
Suddenly ________________________________________________________.
【小题6】如果外国友人邀请你共进晚餐, 去的时候带上一份小礼物或者鲜花是有礼貌的表现。（manner）
________________ a small gift or some flowers when you are invited to dinner by a foreign friend.
【小题7】我为对你造成的不便向你道歉, 并希望你能理解我的处境。（apology/apologize）
I ________________ any inconvenience caused, and I hope you can understand my situation.
【小题8】他脸上的表情表明了他有更多的工作满足感。（indicate）
The expression on his face ________________________.

语法填空

China had its first important UFO sighting on the night of July 24, 1981. 【小题1】 large number of people in about 14 provinces reported 【小题2】 (they) sightings. Modern research suggests, 【小题3】, that UFOs are not a new phenomenon (现象) in China. According to historical records, strange objects in space 【小题4】 (find) during the Tang, Yuan, and Ming 【小题5】 (dynasty). A few reports were published (发表) in 1982, one of 【小题6】 titles was “UFOs have already been seen in ancient China”.

The Chinese study of UFOs 【小题7】 (restart) in the late 1970s. In November 1978, the People’s Daily gave UFO reporting the official green light. Other reporters began 【小题8】 (report) UFO news, and in 1980, a group of students from Wuhan University formed the China UFO Research Organization and got support 【小题9】 the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The Chinese people became more interested in topics about aliens, UFOs and other 【小题10】 (explain) things.

   Forcing waiters and waitresses to survive on tips from customers rather than normal wages is a pointless, rough, and unique American custom that, in the past several years, a handful of progressive restaurant owners have attempted to do away with. Now one of the most famous names in the dining business says he’s about to join their ranks. Danny Meyer, CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group, has announced that he plans to gradually stop tipping at the company’s 13 restaurants.

What, exactly, is wrong with tipping? To start with, leaving a waiter’s pay in the hands of customers causes a feeling of discrimination (歧视). In theory, handing restaurant customers the power to tip is at least supposed to inspire better, more attentive service. This fails in practice because humans turn out to be pretty arbitrary (随心所欲的) about their tipping behavior. Research has shown that the amount diners leave has very little to do with their level of satisfaction. All of this doesn’t encourage waiters and waitresses to do anything but turn over as many tables as possible.

Tipping is also very unfair to kitchen staff. The law allows restaurants to divide tips among front-of-the- house workers like waiters, hosts, and hostesses, but not cooks. This creates a system in which the people serving the food in a restaurant can earn more than the people preparing it.

One of the most appealing parts of Meyer’s move is that, unlike some restaurant owners who have taken an anti-tipping view, he won’t simply add a standard extra charge to diners’ bills. Rather, Union Square Hospitality Group intends to raise menu prices enough to fully cover the cost of a meal. If Meyer manages to move away from tipping at all without hurting his profits, it will almost certainly set the stage for others to follow suit.

【小题1】What do we know about the restaurants stopping tipping in Paragraph 1?
A．Their number is growing.
B．Their aim is to make more money.
C．They are damaging waiters and waitresses, profits.
D．They are widely supported by customers.【小题2】What’s waiters and waitresses’ attitude toward the present tipping custom?
A．They are encouraged to work hard to get tips.
B．They are against it for they get different tips.
C．They think it’s fair to their work labor.
D．Not all of them are satisfied with it.【小题3】What will customers feel after dinning in Danny Meyer’s restaurants?
A．Eating there is cheaper. B. The service there is better.
B．The price of the food is higher.    D. The restaurants are more crowded.【小题4】What would be the best title of the text?
A．The disadvantages of tipping B. Difficulties faced by restaurants
B．How to run restaurants successfully D. Some restaurants are removing tipping

单句改错
【小题1】Contrary to what we had expected，the bread and butter they served on the plane were quite delicious.
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【小题2】Why don't you turn to John for help？It is he，rather than I，that am using a computer.
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【小题3】Our class was attending the lecture given by the famous professor in the hall at this time yesterday afternoon.
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【小题4】Mother said either you or Lily were going to do the cleaning after supper.
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【小题5】In fact，the house as well as his two cars have cost him all the money he earned during the past 20 years.
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【小题6】When and where the new school will be built haven't been decided yet.
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【小题7】The manager promised to keep me informing of how our business was going on.
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【小题8】When he awoke，he found himself lain in the hospital.
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【小题9】The old couple often take a walk after supper with their pet dog follows them.
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【小题10】More than one person were late for class this morning.
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