2. 外语
  3. •Read the article below about robots at work. •Choose the best word or phrase to fill each gap from A, B, C, or D on the opposit

•Read the article below about robots at work. •Choose the best word or phrase to fill each gap from A, B, C, or D on the opposit

admin2013-01-13  39
问题 •Read the article below about robots at work.
•Choose the best word or phrase to fill each gap from A, B, C, or D on the opposite page.
•For each question 19--33, mark one letter (A, B, C, or D) on your Answer Sheet.
                                         Robots at Work
       The newspaper production process has come a long way from the old days when the paper was written, edited, typeset and ultimately printed in one building with the journalists working on the upper floors and the printing  (19)   going on the ground floor. These days the editors, sub-editors and journalists who put the paper together are  (20)   to find themselves in a totally different building or maybe even in a different city. This is the  (21)   which now prevails in Sydney. The daily paper is complied at the editorial headquarters, known as the pre-press centre, in the heart of the city but printed far away in the suburbs at the printing centre. Her human beings are in the  (22)   as much of the work is done by automated machines controlled by computers.  (23)   the finished newspaper has been created for the next morning’s edition, all the pages are  (24)   electronically from pre-press centre to the printing centre. The system of transmission is an update on the sophisticated page facsimile system already in use on many  (25)   newspapers. An image-setter at the printing centre delivers the pages as films. Each page  (26)   less than one minute to produce, although for color pages four versions are used, one each for black, cyan, magenta and yellow. The pages are then processed into photographic negatives and the film is used to produce aluminum printing plates  (27)   for the presses.
       A procession of automated vehicles is busy at the new printing centre where the Sydney Morning Herald is printed each day. With  (28)   flashing and warning horns honking, the robots look for all the world like enthusiastic machines from a science-fiction movie, as they follow their random paths around the  (29)   busily getting on with their jobs. Automation of this kind is now  (30)   in all modern newspaper plants. The robots can  (31)   unauthorized personnel and alert  (32)   staff immediately if they find an intruder and not surprisingly, tall tales are already being told about the machines starting to take on  (33)   of their own.  
选项 A、mood
B、sample
C、situation
D、environment
答案C
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://www.kaotiyun.com/show/MXoO777K
本试题收录于： BEC中级阅读题库BEC商务英语分类
0

BEC中级阅读

BEC商务英语

相关试题推荐
随机试题
最新回复(0)