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Several Jobs That Will Be Automated By Artificial Intelligence(AI) And Robots
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Image recognition software and voice recognition software are bringing some major advances to language translation．Applications like Google’s Word Lens can translate words from signs and documents in real time and there ale a lot of translation apps that allow you to type in a word or phrase and will translate it for you．
Some will even speak the phrase for you and raw word-to-word translation will be fully automated soon．
Fast food workers
Automated ordering booths have already made their way into a few McDonald’s restaurants around the world，and cooking positions could be removed next．The booths probably can’t handle customer service problems well，so televideo systems could bring in an office employee to deal with complaints．
Field technician
New advances in the Internet of Things could make this work obsolete．
Low-cost sensors combined with high availability cellular／satellite communications and cloud technology are being started to automate and alarm these sites，and can be checked and maintained from a desktop or mobile device．
Sales representative
But，e-commerce is changing how we make purchasing decisions，especially those where there isn’t much differentiation among the major competitors．
If you’re selling a high-differentiation product and／or a high-price，low-volume product you have some job security，but if you’re selling a high-volume，low-differentiation product，you better start polishing your resume，said Doug Camplejohn，CEO of Fliptop．“These kind of product sales are all moving online．”
1. What can Google’s Word Lens do?
A. Translate by image and voice recognition software．
B. Speak the phrase or word for you．
C. Make real-time translation．
D. Allow you to type in a word or phrase．
2. What can we infer from the second part?
A. All the restaurants own automated ordering booths．
B. Service problems can’t be handled automatically．
C. Cooks will not be automated by AI and robots．
D. Customers will have no complaints because of AI．
3. What does the underlined word“obsolete”mean in Part 3?
A. Abandoned． B. Welcome．
C. Forbidden． D. Efficient．
【答案】1. C 2. B 3. A
【解析】
这是一篇说明文。本文主要介绍了几个可以被人工智能和机器人自动操作的工作。
【1题详解】
细节理解题。第一段最后一句“Applications like Google’s Word Lens can translate words from signs and documents in real time and there are a lot of translation apps that allow you to type in a word or phrase and will translate it for you．”可知Google’s Word Lens可以进行实时翻译，故选C。
【2题详解】
细节理解题。根据第三段最后一句“The booths probably can’t handle customer service problems well，so televideo systems could bring in an office employee to deal with complaints．”可知我们从第二部分可以了解到，服务问题不能被自动处理，故选B。
【3题详解】
词义猜测题。根据下文“Low-cost sensors combined with high availability cellular／satellite communications and cloud technology are being started to automate and alarm these sites，and can be checked and maintained from a desktop or mobile device．”可知低成本的传感器结合可用性高的蜂窝/卫星通信和云技术正在实现站点自动化、安装警报系统，并且可以通过桌面或移动设备进行检查和维护。因此推断机器可以取代人力，故可以推断出New advances in the Internet of Things could make this work obsolete．这句话的意思是物联网的新的改进，可以使得这项工作被废弃。故划线部分单词意思为“废弃”，A. Abandoned废弃的；遗弃的；B. Welcome欢迎的；C. Forbidden被禁止的；D. Efficient高效率的。故选A。
