Câu hỏi: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each the numbered blanks.
Ever since it was first possible to make a real robot, people have been hoping for the invention of a machine that would do all the necessary jobs around the house. If boring and repetitive factory work could be (26) _______ by robots, why not boring and repetitive household chores too? For a long time the only people who really gave the problem their attention were amateur inventors. And they came up against a major difficulty. The housework is (27) _______ very complex. It has never been one job, it has always been many. A factory robot carries (28) _______ one task endlessly until it is reprogrammed to do something else. It doesn't run the whole factory. A housework robot, on the other hand, has to do several different types of cleaning and carrying jobs and also has to cope with all the different shapes and positions of rooms, furniture, ornaments, cats and dogs.
(29) _______, there have been some developments recently. Sensors are available to help the robot locate objects and avoid obstacles. We have the technology to produce the hardware and the software - the programs (30) _______ will operate the machine.
The word or phrase which best fits the gap (29) is...
A. Moreover
B. However
C. Although
D. Beside
Lời giải
Kiến thức : Đọc điền từ - liên từ
Giải thích: Ở câu trước, “several diferent types ò jobs and all the diferent shapes and positions” (rô bốt phải làm nhiều việc khác nhau và với nhiều hình dạng, vị trí.) Ở câu sau, “some developments” (một vài sự phát triển) nên dùng HOWEVER – có tính tương phản.
Moreover: hơn nữa
However: tuy nhiên
Although: mặc dù
Beside: bên cạnh
A housework robot, on the other hand, has to do several different types of cleaning and carrying jobs and also has to cope with all the different shapes and positions of rooms, furniture, ornaments, cats and dogs. (28) _however__, there have been some developments recently.
Tạm dịch: Mặt khác, một robot làm việc nhà phải làm một số việc khác nhau của lau dọn vệ sinh, mang vác và cũng phải đối mặt với các hình dạng phòng và vị trí phòng ở khác nhau, nội thất khác nhau, vật trang trí khác nhau, mèo và chó, tuy nhiên, gần đây có một vài sự phát triển.
Đáp án B.