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I realized I would not see a real person named Sophie at Sophie's Eatery, because like most new restaurants these days, Sophie's Eatery is a robot­restaurant.

      When I walked in, a cute little manager robot appeared, looking rather like a toaster with blinking blue eyes. It escorted me to a nice table in the back. The menu monitor popped out of my table and showed me pictures of my dining choices. I tapped my choices and clicked OK, and the screen slid back down.

     I watched as full plates rode the conveyor belts that moved along each aisle (¹ýµÀ) of tables. In just a few minutes, my dish stopped at my table, and I took it from the belt. Later, I placed my empty plate back on the conveyor belt, and it was taken away into the kitchen to be cleaned.

     I watched the little toaster showing customers to tables while I ate my main dish. The food was delicious, but I was starting to feel extremely angry because dealing with robots always makes me feel inhuman. Pretty soon, I wanted to talk to someone real, even if it was just a few sentences.

   So when my dessert arrived, I took action. I dropped my plate on the floor with a satisfying crash. I was so happy when I saw the manager toaster's blinking red eyes — at last, a real  live person would arrive!

       But instead, a crew of two robots quickly appeared. A robot broom rushed over and started to sweep the pieces of the broken plate into a robot garbage can. They finished and moved back into the kitchen.

   My plan to get a little reality into Sophie's Eatery failed. I hope the robot­restaurant trend ends soon. I want to deal with people again!

1£®What does the underlined word “escorted” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A£®Registered.  B£®Guided.

C£®Conducted.  D£®Rushed.

2£®What is the purpose of the author crashing his plate?

A£®To deal with a real human.

B£®To catch attention from the robots.

C£®To play jokes on the robots.

D£®To complain about the bad service.

3£®Which of the following best describes the author's feeling at Sophie's Eatery?

A£®Satisfied.  B£®Shocked.

C£®Annoyed.  D£®Curious.

4£®What is the text mainly about?

A£®The trend of dining with robots.

B£®The advantage of robot­restaurants.

C£®The food variety of a robot­restaurant.

D£®The dining experience at a robot­restaurant.