文档介绍：考研英语二阅读理解试题及答案
考研英语二阅读理解试题及答案
英语二阅读原文及出处：
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In an essay, entitled “Making It in America,” inared。”
And you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Last April, Annie Lowrey of Slate wrote about a start-up called “E la Carte” that is out to shrink the need for waiters and waitresses: The company “has produced a kind of souped-up iPad that lets you order and pay right at your table. The brainchild of a bunch of . engineers, the nifty invention, known as the Presto, might be found at a restaurant near you soon. ... You select what you want to eat and add items to a cart. Depending on the restaurant’s preferences, the console c ould show you nutritional information, ingredients lists and photographs. You can make special requests, like
‘dressing on the side’ or ‘quintuple bacon.’ When you’re done, the order zings over to the
考研英语二阅读理解试题及答案
英语二阅读原文及出处：
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In an essay, entitled “Making It in America,” in the latest issue of The Atlantic, the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated: The average mill has only two employees today, “a man and a dog. The man is there to feed the dog, and the dog is there to keep the man away from the machines。”