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2007年广东省高考英语完成填空的选材是科技类文章.这是否说明命题者的一种喜好?若是,今年还会出现科技类文章吗?德国人发明了阿司匹林,汽船,柴油机等,今年他们又发明了什么?酒楼,饭店大家去得多了,下面介绍的这种餐厅你肯定没光临过,不信请往下看:

Germany has given the world many great inventions: the aspirin, the airship, the diesel engine. But surely it's never produced anything as weird as this. From Nuremberg comes the automated eatery.

The restaurant I'm in has no 1      serving the tables. Instead there are metal tracks crisscrossing the cafe, like a giant helter skelter and using gravity to 2      food direct from the kitchen in the roof to your table. I can 3      bottles of wine whizzing down from above, supersonic sausages speeding along, too. This is 'fast food' - German style.

There, that's the sound of a pork schnitzel arriving at our 4     . The ordering process is fully 5        , too. There are no waiters 6      around with paper and pencil. You use computer touch screens to 7       the menu and select the dishes.

But what's the point? Well, the German inventor who came up with the concept says cutting out the waiters makes the restaurant more 8       . Thinking about it, I suppose it works out cheaper for the 9      , too. After all, in this restaurant, there's no one to 10     !

1. A. chefs B. waiters C. managers D. assistants

2. A. take B. carry C. bring D. fetch

3. A. see B. keep C. stop D. observe

4. A. bench B. counter C. desk D. table

5. A. simple B. complicated C. hand-written D. automated

6. A. hanging B. standing C. waiting D. looking

7. A. order B. browse C. cancel D. change

8. A. difficult B. different C. proficient D. efficient

9. A. managers B. waiters C. customers D. visitors

10. A. buy B. sell C. tip D. pay

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