难易程度:★★★
题目题材:工业,生产
gre argument 210题目:
The following is a letter to the editor of a news magazine.
"Clearly, the successful use of robots on missions to explore outer space in the past 20 years demonstrates that robots could be increasingly used to perform factory work(1,2,3) more effectively, efficiently, and profitably than human factory workers. The use of robots in factories would offer several advantages. First, robots never get sick, so absenteeism would be reduced (4). Second, robots do not make mistakes, so factories would increase their output (4). Finally, the use of robots would also improve the morale of factory workers(5), since factory work can be so boring that many workers would be glad to shift to more interesting kinds of tasks(6)."
提纲:
(1)The fact that robots are successfully used in exploring outer space does not indicate that they could also be effectively used to perform factory work.
(2)The author fails to consider if robots which are capable of factory works are available currently.
(3)The author fails to analyze the cost of using robots in factory works, and if factories could afford.
(4)The author ignores many disadvantages of using robots to perform factory work.
(5)The morale of factory workers would actually be impaired if robots are widely used, because more human workers will be laid off.
(6)The assumption that workers will be assigned more interesting tasks once robots are used is unwarranted.
注:题目中括号里的数字表明这句话体现的是提纲中第几号缺陷。
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