重慶 冉紅麗

有一種新的機(jī)器人，它使用傳感器和機(jī)器視覺軟件來(lái)識(shí)別成熟的草莓，并能夠長(zhǎng)時(shí)間持續(xù)工作。對(duì)于面臨氣候變化的農(nóng)業(yè)來(lái)說(shuō)，這種機(jī)器人尤為重要。

主題語(yǔ)境：農(nóng)業(yè)與科技 篇幅：337詞 建議用時(shí)：6分鐘

1 In a strawberry field surrounded by strawberry fields on the outskirts of Santa Maria, a pair of robots have been picking strawberries all summer.

2 Each robot,made by a Colorado company called Tortuga AgTech, rolls in the field on wheels,and then stops in front of a plant.A mechanical arm operates its sensor among the leaves; machine vision software scans the sensor data in search of ripe strawberries.If an unripe strawberry is in the way, the robot will reposition for a better angle.As the nipper-grabber (機(jī)器人的夾爪) mounted, the sensor stretched to cut the strawberry's stem (莖), and the robot then cautiously placed it in a waiting plastic container at the robot's base.

3 Tortuga's robots are designed to pick strawberries from plants grown on hydroponic (水培的) tabletops, not the ground strawberries.The tabletop system enables Tortuga's strawberry robots to work by adjusting berms' positions so that they can be poked up with robotic arms,which protects the robots from direct exposure to the elements.

4 Since hitting this field in the spring of 2021, the robots have been on their way to picking nearly as many strawberries as human pickers,and with 95%accuracy,according to Tortuga.Unlike humans, robots which don't need breaks or get sick are always ready to work and can pick all day and into the night.With wages making up so much of a grower's expense,the allure of robots'increased reliability and potential to become more cost-efficient over time is hard to resist.

5 I do think the best humans are going to be able to outperform the robot at these judgment-driven tasks,”said Eric Adamson, Tortuga's cofounder and chief executive.“But that's OK.It doesn't have to be better than every human; it just has to be better than enough people.”

6 Meanwhile, the team behind Tortuga sees agricultural robots as more than labor-saving devices.They see them as the only way that an industry facing climate change, land use and chemical regulation can adapt and survive.

Ⅰ.Difficult sentence in the text

The tabletop system enables Tortuga's strawberry robots to work by adjusting berms' positions so that they can be poked up with robotic arms, which protects the robots from direct exposure to the elements.臺(tái)式系統(tǒng)使得Tortuga的草莓機(jī)器人能夠通過調(diào)整護(hù)提的位置，使其可以被機(jī)械手臂伸入，從而保護(hù)機(jī)器人免于直接暴露在環(huán)境中。

【點(diǎn)石成金】本句是一個(gè)復(fù)合句。句中，so that引導(dǎo)的是一個(gè)目的狀語(yǔ)從句；which引導(dǎo)的是一個(gè)非限制性定語(yǔ)從句，用于指代前面整句話。

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be surrounded by 被……環(huán)繞

in search of 尋找

in the way 擋路；礙事

protect...from 保護(hù)……免受……

make up 組成

see...as 把……看作……