READ THE TEXT BELOW, THEN ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION.
Skilled Work, Without the Worker
By JOHN MARKOFF
NYTimes: August, 2012
DRACHTEN, the Netherlands — At an electronics factory on the coast of China, hundreds of workers use their hands and specialized tools to assemble electric shavers. That is the old way.
At a sister factory here, ∈ the Dutch countryside, 128 robot arms do the same work with yoga-like flexibility. Video cameras guide them through feats well beyond the capability of the most dexterous human. The arms work so fast that they must be enclosed ∈ glass cages to prevent the people supervising them from being injured. And they do it all without a coffee break — three shifts a day, 365 days a year. All told, the factory here has several dozen workers per shift, about a tenth as many as the one ∈China.
This is the future. A new wave of robots, far more adept than those now commonly used by automakers and other heavy manufacturers, are replacing workers around the world ∈ both manufacturing and distribution. Factories like the one here ∈ the Netherlands are a striking counterpoint to those used by other electronics giants, which employ hundreds of thousands of low-skilled workers.
Adapted from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/business/new-wave-of-adept-robots-is-changing-globalindustry.html?ref=technology&moc.semityn.www
Glossary:
skill - habilidade
tool - ferramenta
to assemble - montar
feat - feito, façanha
to injure - ferir
shift - turno
adept - competente
According to the text, choose the correct alternative ∈ the following question:
At a sister factory here, ∈ the Dutch countryside, 128 robot arms do the same work with yoga-like flexibility. Video cameras guide them through feats well beyond the capability of the most dexterous human. The arms work so fast that they must be enclosed ∈ glass cages to prevent the people supervising them from being injured. And they do it all without a coffee break — three shifts a day, 365 days a year. All told, the factory here has several dozen workers per shift, about a tenth as many as the one ∈China.
This is the future. A new wave of robots, far more adept than those now commonly used by automakers and other heavy manufacturers, are replacing workers around the world ∈ both manufacturing and distribution. Factories like the one here ∈ the Netherlands are a striking counterpoint to those used by other electronics giants, which employ hundreds of thousands of low-skilled workers.
Adapted from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/business/new-wave-of-adept-robots-is-changing-globalindustry.html?ref=technology&moc.semityn.www
Glossary:
skill - habilidade
tool - ferramenta
to assemble - montar
feat - feito, façanha
to injure - ferir
shift - turno
adept - competente
According to the text, choose the correct alternative ∈ the following question:
This is the future. A new wave of robots, far more adept than those now commonly used by automakers and other heavy manufacturers, are replacing workers around the world ∈ both manufacturing and distribution. Factories like the one here ∈ the Netherlands are a striking counterpoint to those used by other electronics giants, which employ hundreds of thousands of low-skilled workers.
Adapted from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/business/new-wave-of-adept-robots-is-changing-globalindustry.html?ref=technology&moc.semityn.www
Glossary:
skill - habilidade
tool - ferramenta
to assemble - montar
feat - feito, façanha
to injure - ferir
shift - turno
adept - competente
According to the text, choose the correct alternative ∈ the following question:
Glossary:
skill - habilidade
tool - ferramenta
to assemble - montar
feat - feito, façanha
to injure - ferir
shift - turno
adept - competente
According to the text, choose the correct alternative ∈ the following question:
In “...supervising them...” (2nd paragraph), them refers to ____.
