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2011 年雅思考试题目及参 考范文 Felix 2011 年雅思考试题目及参考范文 2011.1.8 Some people think that robots are very important for humans future development. Others, however, think that robots are a dangerous invention that could have negative effects on society. Discuss both views and give your opinion. For centuries, people have fantasized that someday robots could have intelligence like mankind and work as faithful servants. Today this dream has come true in many fields thanks to the rapid development of artificial intelligence researches. However, the issue of the wide application of robots can be deemed as beneficial as detrimental. On the one hand, there is no denying that robots bring about an array of positive aspects, such as high work efficiency and low work risk. First, the workload that could take months to finish by manual labor could be done flawlessly by robots in minutes, which allows individuals to be involved in other activities. Second, it is widely acknowledged that robots could do dangerous jobs instead of people in high risk businesses like mining and construction; therefore, a host of people ’s safety can be ensured to a considerable degree. On the other hand, a great number of people hold an opposite opinion, asserting there are numerous demerits which should not be neglected. To begin with, people lose jobs when machines take their places, especially in the mass production industry such as automobile business. In factories of the famous car company Ford, almost every step of car making is done by giant robots that work faster with higher reliability and precision. As a consequence, employees will have great pressure. Admittedly, there are indeed some occupations that robots might perform much better than human beings, but they cannot work in flexible way as people do, and they are less likely to make corresponding changes once something unexpected happens. Then human beings ’ supervision tends to become imperative. Taking all factors into account, robots have many me