Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word of phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
ROBOTS
Ever since it was first possible to make a real robot, people have been hoping for the invention of a machine (15) ________would do all the necessary jobs around the house. If boring and repetitive factory work could be (16) ________by robots, why not boring and repetitive household chores too?
For a long time the only people who really gave the problem their attention were amateur inventors. And they came up against a major difficulty. That si, houwork is actually very complex. It hat never been one job, it has always been many. A factory robot (17) ________one task endlessly until it is reprogrammed to do something else. It doesn’t run the whole factory. A housework robot, on the other hand, has to do severa different types of cleaning and carrying jobs and also has to cope (18) ________all the different shapes and positions of rooms, furniture, ornaments, cats and dogs. (19) ________, there have been some developments recently. Sensosrs are available to help the robot locate objects and avoid obstacles. We have the technology to produce the hardware. All that is missing the software-the programs that will operate the machine.
Điền vào ô 17
A. carries over
B. carryes out
C. carries off
D. carries away
Đáp án B.
- carry out one tast: tiến hành, thực hiện một nhiệm vụ\
Tạm dịch: A factory robot (17) ________one task endlessly until it is reprogrammed to do something else: Một con robot trong nhà máy thực hiện mãi một nhiệm vụ cho đến khi nó được cài đặt để làm một việc gì đó khác.