雅思阅读科技类文章看起来好像比较难、有好多术语，但往往它的结构比较清晰。今天Super和大家共享一篇Science and technology类话题的精选文章，一些地道用词、搭配已作出符号，便于考生堆集！

      本期文章选自The Economist《经济学人》，“AI may not be bad news for workers人工智能关于工人来说或许并不是坏消息”。文中一些地道的用法能够用在雅思作文中哟！

      科技性文章非常强调很清晰思路，很有或许一开始提出一个问题，剖析这个问题，最终解决问题。此外，科技类文章生词较多，许多雅思考生阅览速度跟不上，平时要注意单词的堆集，还要培养猜词才能！

      有一种恐惧正环绕职工的心头——人工智能（AI）的兴起。他们忧虑电脑小程序将会筛选百万种作业，迫使一代人干着低酬劳的苦差或是被逼成为无业游民。不要管机器人，要忧虑一下软件。没有必要如此悲观，伯克利加利福尼亚大学的肯·戈德堡以及印度商业公司塔塔通讯（其兴起得益于AI的传播）的总裁温诺德·库马说如是。

A specter is haunting workers—the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). The fear is that smart computer programs will eliminate millions of jobs, condemning a generation to minimum-wage drudgery or enforced idleness. Never mind the robots, fear the software. There is no need to be so gloomy, say Ken Goldberg of the University of California, Berkeley, and Vinod Kumar, the chief executive of Tata Communications, a unit of India's biggest business house (which stands to profit from the spread of AI).

      Specter幽灵、恐惧之物；haunt(令人不愉快的事)环绕在心头；eliminate消除、筛选；condemn斥责、迫使(陷于不幸的境地)；drudgery苦差事；enforced强制的、被逼的；gloomy懊丧的

      他们出具了一份报告，报告对普通职工的远景更加乐观。报告中写到，在许多情况下，因为免除了简略的作业，职工有许多的时刻去创新，因此作业满意度将得到进步。他们的观点得到了一份调查的支撑，120名管理人员接受调查，调查发现其间大部分人（77%）以为AI能够创造出许多新的角色，少部分人（57%）以为AI将会代替现有职位（被调查者能够两个选项都选）。

They have produced a report that is much more optimistic about the outlook for ordinary employees. In many cases, it says, job satisfaction will be enhanced by the elimination of mundane tasks, giving people time to be more creative. Their views are backed up by a survey of 120 senior executives, conducted for the report, which found that more of them (77%) thought that AI would create new roles than believed it would replace existing positions (57%; respondents could choose both options).

outlook for something远景；enhance进步、加强；mundane普通的、单调的 

      处理新技术需要额定的技能，超越半数老板已经采纳办法对他们的职工进行训练。早前的技术转型对作业的负面影响并没有他们所忧虑的那么大。本专栏作者注意到了一些众所周知的案例。在美国，条线代码扫描器并没有取代收银员的职位。1980年到2013年间，零售业的作业岗位以每年超越2%的增加率增加。自动柜员机（ATMS）的到来顶替了柜员发放现金的作业，让他们有时刻为客户提供理财建议。

Extra skills may be needed to cope with the new technology and more than half of the bosses are already taking steps to train their workforces. Previous technology shifts have not had as negative effects on employment as was first feared. The authors note some well-known examples. Bar-code scanners did not eliminate the role of cashiers in America; jobs in the retail industry grew at an annual rate of more than 2% between 1980 and 2013.

cope with处理、应付；take steps to采纳办法做xxx；grow at an annual rate of xx% 以每年百分之xx速度增加

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