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When, in the age of automation, man searches for a worker to do the tedious, unpleasant jobs that are more or less impossible to
When, in the age of automation, man searches for a worker to do the tedious, unpleasant jobs that are more or less impossible to
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2013-12-10
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问题
When, in the age of automation, man searches for a worker to do the tedious, unpleasant jobs that are more or less impossible to mechanize, he may very profitably consider the ape.
If we tackled the problem of breeding for brains with as much enthusiasm as we devote to breeding dogs of surrealistic shapes, we could eventually produce assorted models of useful primates, ranging in size from the gorilla down to the baboon(狒狒), each adapted to a special kind of work. It is not putting too much strain on the imagination to assume that geneticists could produce a super-ape, which is able to understand some scores of words and capable of being trained for such jobs as picking fruit, clearing up the litter in parks, shining shoes, collecting garage, doing household chores and even baby-sitting, although I have known some babies I would not care to trust with a valuable ape.
Apes could do many jobs, such as cleaning streets and the more repetitive types of agricultural work, without supervision, though they might need protection from those
egregious
specimens of human beings who think it amusing to tease or bully anything they consider lower on the evolutionary ladder. For other tasks, such as delivering papers and laboring on the docks, our man-ape would have to work under human overseers; and, incidentally, I would love to see the ending of the twenty-first century version of On the Waterfront in which
the honest but hairy hero
will drum on his chest after — literally — taking the wicked labor leader apart.
Once a supply of nonhuman workers become available, a whole range of low IQ jobs could be thankfully given up by mankind, so its great mental and physical advantage. What is more, one of the problems which has annoyed so many fictional Utopias would be avoided: there would be none of the degradingly subhuman Epsilons of Huxley’s Brave New World to act as a permanent reproach to society, for there is a profound moral difference between breeding sub-men and super-apes, though the end products are much the same. The first would introduce a form of slavery, but the second would be a biological triumph which could benefit both men and animals.
Certain jobs can be considered for apes when______.
选项
A、the jobs are monotonous and impossible to be handled by mechanic equipment
B、we evolve into the stage of automation
C、we devote much enthusiasm to breeding apes
D、the jobs are as simple as picking fruit and shining shoes
答案
A
解析
根据题干信号词Certain jobs can be considered for apes可回文定位到首段(共一句)When,in the age of automation,man searches for a worker to do the(tedious),(unpleasant)jobs(that are more or less impossible to mechanize),he may very profitably consider the ape(在自动化时代,当人类寻找工人去做那些单调乏味而又无法实施机械化操作的工作时,可以考虑让猿猴来做,这对人类是非常有益的),故此处为“题眼”。
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考研英语一
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