CLOSE TEST READING (TEST 1,2,3,4,5) P.4

CLOSE TEST READING (TEST 1,2,3,4,5) P.4

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 32 to 36.

Multiple Choice

It is true that digital manufacturing does cut out the middle-man. More and more routine, (32) _______ assembly tasks will be taken over by machines.

• repeat

• repetition

• repetitive

• repetively

Multiple Choice

Today, German manufacturers (33) _____ three times more robots than U.S. companies, but they also still employ more humans. Relative to the size of our economies, German's manufacturing workforce is twice the size of America's.

• deploy

• decrease

• deform

• detect

Multiple Choice

From its very beginning, the fourth Industrial revolution has never presented manufacturers with an either-or choice - robots or humans. It has always been about combining the talents of (34)_____.

• ones

• they

• both

• them

Multiple Choice

(35)_____, it is the convergence of artificial and human intelligence that will enable manufacturers to achieve a new era of speed, flexibility, efficiency and connectivity in the 21st century.

• Ultimately

• Alternatively

• Correspondingly

• Consequently

Multiple Choice

Machines have the ability to assemble things faster than any human ever could, but humans possess the analytics, domain expertise and valuable knowledge (36) _____ to solve problems and optimize factory floor production.

• required

• gained

• acquired

• obtained

Multiple Choice

Machines have the ability to assemble things faster than any human ever could, but humans possess the analytics, domain expertise and valuable knowledge (36) _____ to solve problems and optimize factory floor production.

• required

• gained

• acquired

• obtained