[D] the elite’s cunning tackling of dangerous and boring work.
[答案] C
[解题思路]
本文的对应信息为文章的第一句话“Since the dawn of human ingenuity, people have devised ever more cunning tools to cope with work that is dangerous, boring, burdensome, or just plain nasty”(从人类萌发了创造力，他们就一直在设计各种日益精巧的工具来处理那些危险、枯燥、繁重或者只是令人讨厌的工作)，四个选项中只有C选项符合这句话的意思，答案非常容易定位。
[题目译文]
人类的创造力最早表现在 。
[A] 用机器生产科幻小说
[B] 在制造业中广泛使用机器
[C] 为应付困难且危险的工作而设计出各种工具
[D] 精英们对于危险且乏味工作的巧妙处理
48. According to the text, what is beyond man’s ability now is to design a robot that can .
[A] fulfill delicate tasks like performing brain surgery.
[B] interact with human beings verbally.
[C] have a little common sense.
[D] respond independently to a changing world.
[答案] D
[解题思路]
本题可以与原文进行一一对应。首先，文章第二段最后一句话指出“there are already robot systems that can perform some kinds of brain and bone surgery with submillimeter accuracy—far greater precision than highly skilled physicians can achieve with their hands alone”(已有一些机器人系统能够进行精确到亚毫米的脑部和骨髓手术)，A选项的表述与这句话的意思相反，因此是错误答案。B选项在文中没有提及，根据常识判断也是一个错误选项。同时，第三段的最后一句话指出“we can’t yet give a robot enough ‘common sense’ to reliably interact with a dynamic world”(我们仍然不能赋予机器人以足够的‘常识’，使它们能够与不断变化的动态世界进行可靠的交流)，因此，C选项不正确。D选项之所以正确来可以从这句话中判断，机器人无法对外界变化做出可靠的反应，但是却是可以独立作出反应的。
