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2. What farm job is not too costly to use agriculture robots?

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3. What do farm workers carry when they apply some chemicals to vegetables?

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4. What can the automated system distinguish?
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5. To reduce cost, what do some American farmers buy?
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1 Fill in the blank with a suitable word/ phrase from the passage.
1. Weeding lettuce can do harm to farmers’ health because of ................................ .

2. The automated system designed by Danish doesn’t require ................................ .
3. The majority of robots are specifically designed for ................................ .
4. The ................................ between most agriculture robots with human labor hasn’t
been achieved yet.

5. The proportion of Americans using automated machine in their farming occupies
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X Read the passage. Fill in the blank with a suitable word.
Space tourism (1) ........................ ordinarymembers of the
public buying tickets to travel to space and back. Many people
find this idea futuristic. But over the (2) ........................ few
years a growing volume of professional work has been (3)
........................ on the subject, and it’s now clear that setting up
commercial space tourism services is a realistic target for business today.

The first steps will just be short sub-orbital flights, since these are easier than getting to
orbit. But the technical know-how to make passenger launch vehicles and orbiting hotel
accommodation is available, and there is enormous unsatisfied demand - market research has
revealed that most people, at (4) ........................ in the industrialized countries, would like to
(5) ........................ a trip to space if it was possible. This gives huge scope for reducing the
(6) ........................ of space travel by large-scale operation like airlines.
The main obstacle is simply the conservatism of the space industry as it is today. Since
Sputnik was (7) ........................ in 1957 most space activities have been funded by
governments. And this “cold war” pattern of space activities has created an image of space
that colours everyone’s thinking (8) ........................ it - writers, journalists, politicians,
scientists and engineers, and the general public.

D. SPEAKING

XI Work in pairs. Tell your partner about one of the most interesting jobs that you
have ever known/ heard about.

You should base on some suggestions below.
- What is the job?
- What do people do in that job?

- Why is it interesting to you?/ What is/ are the special feature(s) of the job?

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