tailieunhanh - Ielts practice test plus part 9

There are two versions of the test; the Academic Module and the General Training (GT) Module. Students wishing to study at postgraduate or undergraduate level should take the Academic Module. | READING PASSAGE 2 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-27 which are based on Reading Passage 2 below. Questions 14-19 Reading Passage 2 has seven paragraphs A-G. From the list of headings below choose the most suitable heading for each paragraph. Write the appropriate numbers i x in boxes 14-19 on your answer sheet. List of headings i ii iii Some success has resulted from observing how the brain functions. Are we expecting too much from one robot Scientists are examining the humanistic possibilities. iv There are judgements that robots cannot make. V Has the power of robots become too great vi Human skills have been heightened with the help of robotics. vii There are some things we prefer the brain to control. viii Robots have quietly infiltrated our lives. ix Original predictions have been revised. X Another approach meets the same result. 14 Paragraph A 15 Paragraph B 16 Paragraph C 17 Paragraph D 18 Paragraphs 19 Paragraph F Example Paragraph G Answer ii For m ore material and information please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc at DEBETS Since the dawn of human ingenuity people have devised ever more cunning tools to cope with work that is dangerous boring onerous or just plain nasty. That compulsion has culminated in robotics - the science of conferring various human capabilities on machines A The modern world is increasingly populated by quasi-intelligent gizmos whose presence we barely notice but whose creeping ubiquity has removed much human drudgery. Our factories hum to the rhythm of robot assembly arms. Our banking is done at automated teller terminals that thank us with rote politeness for the transaction. Our subway trains are controlled by tireless robo-drivers. Our mine shafts are dug by automated moles and our nuclear accidents - such as those at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl - are cleaned up by robotic muckers fit to withstand radiation. Such is the scope of uses envisioned by Karel Capek the Czech playwright who coined the