會炸薯條的機器人

河北 胡金瑩

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1Fried foods like French fries and onion rings are going high-tech because Miso Robotics Inc has released its Flippy 2 robot.The robot automates the process of deepfrying food like potatoes and onions.

2The robot uses a large robotic arm like those used in auto plants and it is directed by cameras and artificial intelligence.Flippy 2 takes frozen French fries and other foods out of a freezer,puts them into hot oil,and then places them ready-to-serve into a container.

3Flippy 2 can cook several meals with different cooking processes at the same time.Miso says this reduces the need for employees and speeds up the time for people to get their food at drive-through windows.When an order comes in through the restaurant system,it automatically tells Flippy 2 what to do.It does it faster,more accurately,more reliably and more happily than most humans do it.

4At first when a robot was put in a location,buyers would come up and order.They preferred to take pictures,videos,or ask a bunch of questions.But the second time they came in,they seemed not to even notice it.

5Miso's engineers can watch Flippy 2 robots working in real time on a screen,which permits them to deal with any problems that come up.Up to now,several restaurant chains have started using the robotic fry cook.Bell said the jobs that humans are happiest to offload are jobs like the fry station.He added that workers are happy to have help so they can do other things.

6Miso Robotics has around 90 engineers.They mainly work on new technology or work on computer language.One of the company's next projects is Sippy,which is adrink-making robot that will take an order from a buyer and prepare drinks,including preparing things like the lid and the straw.

7Bell said that in the future,people will walk into a restaurant and look at a robot and say,“Hey,remember the old days when humans used to do that kind of thing?”

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Gist 1.What does paragraph 2 mainly talk about?

A.The robot's function.

B.The robot's appearance.

C.The robot's intelligence.

D.The robot's working process.

Inference 2.What does the underlined word“it”refer to in paragraph 3?

A.The robot. B.The order.

C.The fried food. D.The restaurant system.

Detail 3.How could engineers monitor the robot?

A.Through a screen. B.Through a camera.

C.Through artificial intelligence. D.Through restaurant chains.

Inference 4.What does Bell expect of the future restaurant?

A.Humans will not visit it. B.It will record the past days.

C.Humans can't equal robots. D.It will be operated by robots.

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One of the company's next projects is Sippy,which is a drink-making robot that will take an order from a buyer and prepare drinks,including preparing things like the lid and the straw.該公司接下來的項目之一是Sippy，一個飲料制造機器人，它將接受買家的訂單并準備飲料，包括準備蓋子和吸管等東西。

【點石成金】本句中，which引導的為非限制性定語從句；that will take an order from a buyer and prepare drinks為that引導的定語從句；including preparing things like the lid and the straw為介詞短語作狀語。