THE WRITER INDICATES THAT THE WIDESPREAD REPLACEMENT OF HUMAN LAB...
115. The writer indicates that the widespread replacement of human labor by industrial robots.
A. has already begun worldwide.
B. is starting especially in the developing nations.
C. is being delayed mainly for economic reasons.
D. will not take place before the end of this century.
C. Reading Comprehension 1: Read the passage and then choose the correct answers:
It is said that mathematics is the base of all other sciences, and that arithmetic, the science
of numbers, is the base of mathematics. Numbers consist of whole numbers (integers) that are
formed by the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 and by the combinations of them. For example,
247 — two hundred and forty seven — is a number formed by three digits. Parts of numbers
smaller than 1 are sometimes expressed in terms of fraction, but in scientific usage they are given
as decimals. This is because it is easier to perform the various mathematical operations if
decimals are used instead of fractions. The main operations are: to add, subtract, multiply and
divide; to square, cube, or raise to any other power; to take a square, cube, or any other root, and
to find a ratio or proportion between pairs of numbers or a series of numbers. Thus, the decimal,
or ten-scale, system is used for scientific purposes throughout the world, even in countries whose
national systems of weights and measurements are based upon other scales. The other scale in
general use nowadays is the binary, or two-scale, in which numbers are expressed by
combinations of only two digits, 0 and 1. Thus, in the binary scale, 2 is expressed as 010, 3 is
given as Oh, 4 is represented as 100, etc. This scale is perfectly adapted to the “off-on” pulse of
electricity, so it is widely used in electronic computers. Because of its simplicity it is often called
“the lazy schoolboy’s dream.”!