TEST

DAWN OF THE ROBOTS

Question 14:
Answer: v (not what it seemed to be)
Supporting sentence: Normally, drivers get out of the car, gesticulate, exchange insurance details and
then drive off. But not on this occasion.
Keyword: occasion
Keyword Location: lines 8 in the paragraph
Explanation: considering the road accident that took place, normally people driving the car get
out and exchange details which in this case did not happen. The lines imply that
no humans were driving the cars, and were controlled by computers competing
in November’s DARPA (the U.S Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
Urban Challenge.

Question 15:
Answer: ii (A significant improvement on last time)
Supporting sentence: only three years earlier, at DARPA’s driverless car race, every robot competitor
either crashed or seized up before reaching the finishing line.
Keyword: driverless car race
Keyword Location: lines 12 in the paragraph
Explanation: In these lines, the author is startled by the idea that machines could perform at
such standards.These lines suggest that the robots did not perform well last time
and their performance have only significantly improved as compared to three
years earlier.

Question 16:
Answer: viii (Following the pattern of an earlier development)
Supporting sentence: The robotics industry is developing in much the same way the computer business
did 30 years ago.
Keyword: robotics industry, computer business
Keyword Location: lines 5-6 in the paragraph
Explanation: These lines suggest that in the same way that computers developed and evolved
throughout the past few decades, the robotics industry too, is capable of such
development.

Question 17:
Answer: vii (The reason why robots rarely move)
Supporting sentence: This is the reason why robots have been. This has, until recently, reduced robots
to fairly static and cumbersome roles.
Keyword: static, cumbersome roles
Keyword Location: lines 10-11 in the paragraph
Explanation: These lines indicate that because robots find it hard to identify or differentiate
between two simple objects have reduced them to mediocre roles. Fairly static
and cumbersome roles implies that robots rarely move, robots find the task
 impossible, the reason why robots move rarely.

Question 18:
Answer: i (Tackling the issue using a different approach)
Supporting sentence: For the longest time, researchers have tried to solve the problem by attempting
to recreate the visual processing that goes on in the human cortex. However,
the challenge proved to be complex, so the scientists have turned to simpler
alternatives.
Keyword: visual processing, simpler alternatives
Keyword Location: lines 4-5 in the paragraph
Explanation: These lines signify that after having tried to get around the problem by trying to
recreate the visual processing of the human cortex, scientists have decided to
follow a different approach. Scientists have turned to simpler alternatives implies
that they have been tackling the issue using a different approach.

Question 19:
Answer: iv (Examples of robots at work)
Supporting sentence: the author provides an example of robots at work in restaurants and mentions
that in Hong Kong, a restaurant named Robot Kitchen opened last year with a
couple of sensor-laden, humanoid machines directing customers to their seats.
Each possessed a touch-screen on which the customers could place their order. In
the University of Tokyo, Japan, researchers recently revealed a kitchen ‘android’
that could do the dishes, pour tea and make limited meals.
Keyword: Robot kitchen, robots at work, humanoid machines
Keyword Location: lines 1-7 in the paragraph
Explanation: The author with these examples illustrates that robots can do limited work—that
they can start with learning basic competence first and then can be taught how
to interact with humans.