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132. If you could invent something new, what product would you develop?
If you could invent something new, what product would you develop? Use specific details to explain why
this invention is needed.
『分析』
比较自由的选择,只要能够列出三个理由,或者要完成的若干个功能。比如,治疗SARS病毒的药物。
『范文』
The world today is moving at a faster and faster pace. An invention that would be exceptionally useful for the
human race would be an intelligent humanoid robot.
On a daily basis, millions of people in China perform tasks which are exceedingly tedious, and are a tragic
waste of the abilities of these people. Tasks such as house cleaning, street cleaning, some types of farming, some
factory work, toll booths and a multitude of other jobs would be performed just as easily by a robot as by a man. In
some cases, robots could potentially outperform man because they would not need to rest. They could perform
these simple tasks at a rapid speed, and therefore would be a significant advantage in some manual labor jobs.
Other tasks that people perform are incredibly dangerous, and often cause life long injuries, or much worse as
to kill people. If these types of jobs were performed by machines, there would be far fewer work-related injuries and
deaths. A prime example is deep sea welding on oil platforms. Every year there are many deaths of workers who
hold this dangerous position. In addition, because it is such a high-stress job, the worker's lives are often shortened
because of inability to cope. As machines obviously do not feel emotional stress, they would perform hundreds of
times better than men do in these types of situations.
Humanoid robots would also more efficiently perform complex jobs such as surgeries and manufacturing
high-tech materials. For example, eye surgeries and brain surgeries require a very steady, careful hand, and an
intensely varied knowledge of the human anatomy. A robot could be programmed to complete such surgeries
flawlessly. Manufacturing high-tech materials is very complex, as it involves many intricate mathematical
problems. A robot could be programmed to perform calculations in seconds that would take a man hours or days to
perform.
Therefore, I think an intelligent humanoid robot would be incredibly beneficial to the human race, although
many of the tasks it performs would need to be supervised by a person, and some tasks would be impossible to
perform for a robot.