墨尔本PTE Summarize written text 总结归纳段落 26
2015/05/31墨尔本PTE Summarize written text 总结归纳段落 28
2015/05/31
Read the passage below and summarize it using one sentence. You have 10 minutes to finish this task. Your response will be judged on the quality of your writing and on how well your response presents the key points in the passage.
Offering a helping hand, robots have become a permanent and inescapable reality of 21st century living, and they’re about to be even more present.
“We’re probably a few years away from having very serious robotics in our lives. The first thing is going to be self-driving cars and then hopefully in the next 20 or 30 years we’ll start to see serious humanoid robots in our homes, doing all the sort of things that we imagine from science fiction.”
We’ve long been intrigued by robots. Standing 9-foot-tall, Cygan was a celebrity robot of the fifties, able to crush cans in his hand, but now he’s the centrepiece of plans for a new Science Museum exhibition in London, charting our fascination and fear of robots back to this model from the 16th century.
“There’s always that slight, you know, cloud on the horizon – they’re wonderful, they’re wonderful but we’re quite scared of them. That’s natural, that’s human. On the basis of 500 years of history, it’s generally robots have tended to be used for people want them to do. The chances of them turning into this terrifying thing that enslaves us all, I think the chance of that is actually quite slim.”
Our interest in robots may be rooted in the past, but the mystery behind what they’re capable of continues to intrigue and may very well change the shape of our future.
Although some people are a little afraid of the existence of robots, they have become an inescapable reality of the 21st century and is probably going to be even more serious within a few years as we have always been long intrigued by robots.
