安徽省皖南八校2023-2024学年高三上学期第二次大联考

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B

I found him in the yard one sunny day decades ago. His shining green body caught my eyes as it slowly crawled against the dark brown trunk of the only tree inside the fence line.

I moved closer to him and was amazed by the peacefulness of his presence. I had never seen a caterpillar（毛毛虫） quite like him. He was a giant, compared to any close or distant relative of his. The touch of his skin made me think of the rubber.

My heart brimmed with affection for this unique being. Its presence brought joy to me, a child without parents around, lonely. I gently held him in my hand and transported him to my room. I fashioned a home for him from scraps of plastic canvas（网布）. It was decorated with grass, twigs, and leaves. I eagerly introduced him to a friend, Nancy. She was equally delighted by him. We created dialogues in which we explored what he must have thought of us. We invented stories about where he had come from and where he was going. We imagined what kind of butterfly he would become.

As days passed, my joy turned. I hadn’t seen him eat, and he moved less and less. I had begun to realize that I had imprisoned him. Causing further harm to him was not an option since he had done nothing wrong.

I felt a deep sadness in my heart as I decided to release him. I placed him back in the exact location where I had found him. I hoped he would continue his life without any scars from the plastic prison I put him in.

C

Many people fear that robots will destroy jobs. A paper in 2013 by economists at Oxford University was widely misinterpreted as meaning that 47% of American jobs were at risk of being automated.

The concern about mass unemployment is overblown. Actually, robots will be ultimately beneficial for labour markets. A Yale University study that looked at Japanese manufacturing between 1978 and 2017 found that an increase of one robot unit pe r 1,000 workers boosted a company’s employment by 2.2%. Research from the Bank of Korea found that robotisation moved jobs away from manufacturing into other sectors, but that there was no decrease in overall vacancies. Another study, by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, looked at Finnish firms and concluded that their use of advanced technologies led to increases in hiring.

For all that, the march of the robots will bring big changes to workplaces. The skills and firms that are rewarded will shift, too. One supposed example of “bad automation” is self-service checkouts in supermarkets, because they replace human workers. Robots could perform work that is unpleasant, such as butchering. Checkout staff who retrain to help customers pick items from aisles may well find that dealing with people in need is more rewarding than spending all day swiping barcodes in front of lasers.

Inevitably, some people will be on the losing end of change even as the robots make society as a whole better off. One lesson from the freewheeling globalisation of the 1990s and 2000s is that the growth in trade that was overwhelmingly beneficial triggered a political backlash（反对）, because the losers felt left behind. That is one more reason why firms and governments would do well to recognize the value of retraining and lifelong learning. As jobs change, workers should be helped to acquire new skills.

安徽省皖南八校2023-2024学年高三上学期第二次大联考

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