Part 1. Questions 56 – 65 Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question. ROBOTS 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 (56) ________ the house. If boring and repetitive factory work could be (57) ________ by robots, why not boring and repetitive household chores too? For a long time the only people who really (58) ________ the problem their attention were ...

Part 1. Questions 56 – 65

Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question.

ROBOTS

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 (56) ________ the house. If boring and repetitive factory work could be (57) ________ by robots, why not boring and repetitive household chores too?

For a long time the only people who really (58) ________ the problem their attention were amateur inventors. And they came up against a major difficulty. That is, housework is actually very complex. It has never been one job, it has always been many. A factory robot (59) ________ one task endlessly (60) ________ 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 (61) ________ of cleaning and carrying jobs and also has to cope (62) ________ all the diffenrent shapes and positions of rooms, furniture, ornaments, cats and dogs. (63) ________, there have been some developments recently. Sensors are available to (64) ________ the robot locate objects and avoid obstacles. We have the technology to produce the hardware. All that is missing the software- the programs that will (65) ________ the machine.

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 (56) ________ the house.