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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions from 41 to 45. 

     In a recent interview with Quartz, an online publication, Bill Gates expressed skepticism about society's ability to manage rapid automation. To prevent a social crisis, he mused, governments should consider a tax on robots; if automation slows as a result, so much the better. It is an intriguing if impracticable idea, which reveals a lot about the challenge of automation. Mr. Gates argues that today's robots should be taxed either their installation, or the profits firms enjoy by saving on the costs of the human labour displaced. The money generated could be used to retrain workers, and perhaps to finance an expansion of health care and education, which provide lots of hard-to-automate jobs in teaching or caring for the old and sick. 

     Mr. Gates seems to suggest that investment in robots is a little like investing in a coal-fired generator: it boosts economic output but also imposes a social cost, what economists call a negative externality. Perhaps rapid automation threatens to remove workers from old jobs faster than new sectors can absorb them. That could lead to socially costly long-term unemployment, and potentially to support for destructive government policy. A tax on robots that reduced those costs might well be worth implementing, just as a tax on harmful blast-furnace emissions can discourage pollution and leave society better off. Reality, however, is more complex. Investments in robots can make human workers more productive rather than expendable; taxing them could leave the employees affected worse off. Particular workers may suffer by being displaced by robots, but workers as a whole might be better off because prices fall. Slowing the use of robots in health care and herding humans into such jobs might look like a useful way to maintain social stability. But if it means that health-care costs grow rapidly, gobbling up the gains in workers' income. 

What could be the best title for the passage? 


A. Bill Gates' proposal for taxing robots


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B. Bill Gates' opposition to taxing robots


C. Bill Gates' opinion on automation


D. Bill Gates' support for automation


Trả lời:

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Giải thích: 

Cái nào có thể là tiêu đề tốt nhất cho bài đọc? 

A. Đề xuất đánh thuế robot của Bill Gates 

B. Sự phản đối của Bill Gates đối với việc đánh thuế robot 

C. Ý kiến của Bill Gates về tự động hóa 

D. Sự ủng hộ của Bill Gates đối với tự động hóa 

Thông tin: Bill Gates có đưa ra quan điểm của mình về việc đánh thuế robot, và những lí do vì sao chúng ta nên đánh thuế robot. 

“To prevent a social crisis, he mused, governments should consider a tax on robots; if automation slows as a result, so much the better.” 

Tạm dịch: Ông ngẫm nghĩ, để ngăn chặn một cuộc khủng hoảng xã hội, các chính phủ nên xem xét đánh thuế đối với robot; nếu kết quả là tự động hóa chậm lại, thì càng tốt. 

Chọn A. 

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