专四专八考试

【单选题】The Japanese are fascinated by automata and new inventions. Japanese children are used to friendly robots in their comics, in toys, and in TV animated cartoons. When as adults they join the workforce, robots mean that there is no need to import cheap foreign labor, as happens in many other parts of the worlD、There is no need for humans to put up with dirty, mind-deadening mechanical work the robot does it all without complaint, around the clock. Robots don’ t go on strike over tea breaks they don’ t have tea, or any other kind of breaks: they work, day and night, without having to be paid overtime, without making mistakes. Human tasks are subject to human error: robot error seldom or never occurs except as a result of human error!
In Japan, robots are almost respected for their virtues. When a new robot is introduced to a small suburban factory, a Shinto priest is invited to inaugurate it. He inaugurates the robot with words along the lines of "Welcome to our co-worker, we hope you’ II help him settle in. " No one laughs.
FANUC、demonstrates the Japanese tendency to conform particularly strikingly. The founder of FANUC,Dr. Inaba, has created an army that makes no distinction between blue-collar, white-collar and steel-collar worker: everyone, including the warlord himself, is dressed in yellow clothing issued free by the company. Perhaps to make up for the boring nature of the work, there are a number of other company perks.Company benefits, including pay, are much higher than in similar companies in Japan. Travel to and from work is provided free in the company’ s yellow buses. However, workers are expected to put in demanding unpaid "overtime. " There is a clock in the product development laboratory set to run at ten times the normal speed, the remind everyone that the company is on a war footing.
As we watchedDr. Inaba’ s yellow helicopter soar away to Narita airport, we couldn’ t help thinking that his dream of world domination in robotics and allied applications might be more elegantly achieved if he had also thought to program his robots to whistle while they work.
What can be inferred form the words "He inaugurates the robot with words along the lines of ’Welcome to our co-worker, we hope you’ll help him settle in. ’ No one laughs. "A．The Japanese has no sense of humor while at work.
B．The Japanese does not understand the words of the Shinto priest.
C．The Japanese shows a true respect for robots.
D．The Japanese goes too far in their respect for robots.

网考网参考答案：C
网考网解析：
[试题分析] 细节推理题。理解这句话的含义，然后推理出其中的深层含义，可进行比较选择。 [详细解答] 这句话是对上帝说的。在场的人都很肃穆，没有一个人笑，说明日本人在这种场合表现出虔诚，这是对机器人的…种尊敬。四个选项中，C)最符合原意。日本人不笑并不能说明他们没有幽默感，也不是没有听懂牧师的话，他们的尊敬也没有过头，所以A)、B)、D)均不符题意。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>