上海市虹口区2021届高三上学期期终考试英语试题带答案解析+详解点睛.docVIP

第 PAGE 14 页 共 NUMPAGES 14 页 上海市虹口区2021届高三上学期期终考试英语试题带答案解析+详解点睛 姓名:_____________ 年级:____________ 学号:______________ 题型 选择题 填空题 简答题 xx题 xx题 xx题 总分 得分 评卷人 得分 第 1 题：Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. The Rise of Robot-Chefs CREATOR is a new hamburger joint in San Francisco. It now claims to deliver a burger worth $18 for $6—in other words, ___21___ (provide) the quality associated with expensive restaurants at a fast-food price. What matters behind this claim is that its chef is a robot. Creator’s burger robot is a trolley-sized unit that has a footprint of two square metres. Customers send it their orders via a tablet. They are able to cook everything from ___22___ well-done the burger will be to the type of cheese and toppings they want. The process sounds rather simple now. But, in fact, the machine took eight years to perfect after it ___23___ (create). As far back as 2012, a mere two years into the project, it was described as “95% reliable”, but that is not enough for a busy kitchen. Chopping tomatoes was a particularly tough challenge, but even details like the very tool ___24___ packs the burger into a bag without squeezing it were tricky for the machine to master. Only now, with a machine to make reliably 120 burgers an hour, ___25___ Alex Vardakostas, the engineer behind the project, and his co-founders, a mixture of technologists and caterers, feel confident enough to open their first restaurant. Creator is not alone. Other robot chefs have already been working, ___26___ (prepare) entire meals, or soon will be, in kitchens in other parts of the world. ___27___ that, this new wave of automation could signal a dramatic shift in the way the fast food industry employs people. That does not necessarily m