3.Sally doesn't clean or cut up vegetables.The new salad robot making its debut in San F'rancisco this month is more like a salad vending machine(販賣機(jī)):Press a few buttons on a touchscreen and it drops some refrigerated salad into a bowl.But Sally the Salad Robot could be the latest step in automating some of the more repetitive pans of food preparation.Its creators hope food robots can help with one of Silicon Valley's biggest restaurant problems:a shortage of kitchen workers.
Sally is the first product from Chowbotics,a Redwood City startup developing robots for the food-service industry.CEO and Founder Deepak Sekar spent two years creating Sally with help from Apple Fellow Rich Page."I've always thought cooking was 20% creative work and 80% formulaic work,"said Sekar.Sekar imagines Sally's popping up in shared spaces like cafeterias,airports and schools-that is,places where a healthy meal would be a welcome change from the usual pre-packaged food.Eventually different versions of Sally could find their way into busy restaurant kitchens.
When first thought of﹩30,000 is a lot money for a salad robot.But in the Bay Area,a full-time kitchen employee like a line cook can cost﹩40,000 a year."Sally is the best employee.She doesn't sleep.she doesn't take vacation and she's hardly ever sick,"said Kelly Olazar,former Google chef who works at Chowbotics.It's a constant struggle to hire and retain(留。﹔estaurant staff.That's largely due to the increased housing prices caused by the same tech employees they're trying to feed.
Sally still needs humans.There are numerous workers in each salad's farm-to-robot journey.Someone has to clean and restock the device at least twice a day.People grow and prepare the foods.Chefs developed the salad recipes and dressings.And Sally is not replacing any jobs at its early locations.Sally's first customers will be diners at Calafia and tech workers at the Calvanize co-working space in San Francisco.
32.Why was Sally created?D
A.To make cooking process faster.
B.To provide cleaner and cooler salads.
C.To improve the kitchen employees'working conditions.
D.To deal with the lack of labor in Silicon Valley's kitchens.
33.What does the underlined word"formulaic"in Paragraph 2 probably mean?C
A.formal.
B.rough.
C.routine.
D.difficult.
34.What may cause restaurant workers to leave Silicon Valley?B
A.Long distances from home
B.High housing prices.
C.Too many tech employees to feed.
D.Large amounts of physical work.
35.What can we know about Sally according to the text?B
A.It is a portable machine.
B.It can comparatively save money.
C.It is intended to be a home robot.
D.It has taken the place of human chefs.
分析 本文主要講述了在人手緊缺的餐廳,科學(xué)家們研發(fā)除了機(jī)器人,以幫助餐廳解決該問題.
解答 32.D細(xì)節(jié)題.根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容,Its creators hope food robots can help with one of Silicon Valley's biggest restaurant problems:a shortage of kitchen workers.它的創(chuàng)造者希望食物機(jī)器人的出現(xiàn)能夠幫忙解決餐廳后廚人手緊缺的問題,結(jié)合選項(xiàng),故選D
33.C 詞義猜測(cè)題.根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容,."I've always thought cooking was 20% creative work and 80% formulaic work,"said Sekar我總是在想,烹飪其實(shí)是百分之20的創(chuàng)作加上百分之80的遵循一 定規(guī)律,即按一定的程序做菜.結(jié)合選項(xiàng),故選C
34.B 細(xì)節(jié)題.根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容,It's a constant struggle to hire and retain(留。﹔estaurant staff.That's largely due to the increased housing prices caused by the same tech employees they're trying to feed.想要招聘以及留住餐廳員工也是非常困難的事,主要是因?yàn)樯蠞q的房價(jià)使得他們不得不另尋更高工資的工作,結(jié)合選項(xiàng),故選B
35.B 推理題.根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容,When first thought of﹩30,000 is a lot money for a salad robot.But in the Bay Area,a full-time kitchen employee like a line cook can cost﹩40,000 a year."Sally is the best employee.She 由此可知,在后廚使用Sally 這樣的機(jī)器人一看的花費(fèi)是3000美元,而一個(gè)全職工人的工資是4000美元,由此可知,它相對(duì)而言更節(jié)約錢,結(jié)合選項(xiàng),故選B
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