Unit3 Starting out and Understanding ideas
能力提升练
I.阅读理解
A
（2020山东济宁高二期末）
I realized I would not see a real person named Sophie at Sophie’s Eatery，because like most new restaurants these days. Sophie’s Eatery is a robot-restaurant.
When I walked in，a cute little manager robot appearedsort out什么意思中文意思，looking rather like a toaster with blinking blue eyes. It escorted me to a nice table in the back. The menu monitor popped out of my table and showed me pictures of my dining choices. I tapped my choices and clicked OK, and the screen slid back down.
I watched as full plates rode the conveyor belts that moved along each aisle(过道) of tables. I
n just a few minutes, my dish stopped at my table, and I took it from the belt. Later, I placed my empty plate back on the conveyor belt, and it was taken away into the kitchen to be cleaned.
I watched the little toaster showing customers to tables while I ate my main dish. The food was delicious, but I was starting to feel extremely angry because dealing with robots always makes me feel inhuman. Pretty soon. I wanted to talk to someone real, even if it was just a few sentences.
So when my dessert arrived, I took action. I dropped my plate on the floor with a satisfying crash. I was so happy when I saw the manager toaster’s blinking red eyes-at last, a real live person would arrive!
But instead, a crew of two robots quickly appeared. A robot broom rushed over and started to sweep the pieces of the broken plate into a robot garbage can. They finished and moved back into the kitchen.
My plan to get a little reality into Sophie’s Eatery failed. I hope the robot-restaurant trend ends soon. I want to deal with people again!
1. What does the underlined word “escorted” in Paragraph 2 mean?
A. Registered B. Guided C. Conducted D. Rushed
2. What is the purpose of the author crashing his plate?
A. To deal with a real human.
B. To catch attention from the robots.
C To play jokes on the robots.
D. To complain about the bad service.
3. Which of the following best describes the author’s feeling at Sophies Eatery?
A Satisfied B. Shocked C. Annoyed D. Curious
4. What is the text mainly about?
A. The trend of dining with robots.
B. The advantage of robot-restaurants.
C. The food variety of a robot-restaurant.
D. The dining experience at a robot-restaurant.
B
（2020北京师范大学附中高二期末）
Ownership used to be about as straightforward as writing a cheque. If you bought something，you owned it. If it broke，you fixed it. If you no longer wanted it，you sold it or threw it away. In the digital age，however，ownership has become more slippery. Since the coming of smartphones，consumers have been forced to accept that they do not control the software in their devices ; they are only licensed to use it. As a digital chain is wr
apped ever more tightly around more devices such as cars and thermostats, who owns and who controls these objects is becoming a problem. Buyers should be aware that some of their most basic property rights are under threat.
The trend is not always harmful. Manufacturers seeking to restrict what owners do with increasingly complex technology have good reasons to protect their copyright, and ensure that their machines do not break down, support environmental standards and prevent hacking. Sometimes companies use their control over a product’s software for the owners’ benefit. When Hurricane Irma hit Florida this month, Tesla remotely updated the software controlling the batteries of some models to give owners more range to escape the storm.
But the more digital strings are attached goods, the more the balance of control leans towards producers and away from owners. That can be inconvenient. Picking a car is hard enough, but harder still if you have to dig up the instructions that tell you how use is limited and what data you must give. If the products are intentionally designed not to last long, it can also be expensive. Already, items from smartphones to washing machines have becom
e extremely hard to fix, meaning that they are thrown away instead of being repaired.
Privacy is also at risk. Users become terrified when iRobot, a robotic vacuum cleaner, not only leans the floor but also creates a digital map of the inside of a home that can then be sold to advertisers though the manufacturer says it has no intention of doing so). Cases like this should remind people how jealously they ought to protect their property rights and control who uses the data that is collected.
Ownership is not about to go away, but its meaning is changing. This requires careful inspection. Devices, by and large, are sold on the basis that they enable people to do what they want. To the extent they are controlled by somebody else, that freedom is compromised.
5. what benefit does it bring to customers if companies control the ownership of products?
A. It provides them with knowledge to prevent hacking.

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