Behind closed doors in the Bavarian town of Ansbach a new factory is taking shape. 【C1】______ it will use robots and 【C2】______

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问题     Behind closed doors in the Bavarian town of Ansbach a new factory is taking shape. 【C1】______ it will use robots and 【C2】______ production techniques such as additive manufacturing (known as 3D printing) is not surprising for Germany, which has maintained its manufacturing base 【C3】______ innovative engineering. 【C4】______ is unique about this factory is that it will not be making cars, aircraft or electronics 【C5】______ trainers and other sports shoes—an $80bn-a-year industry that has been 【C6】______ largely to China, Indonesia and Vietnam. 【C7】______ bringing production home, this factory is out to reinvent an industry.
    The Speedfactory, as the Ansbach plant is called, belongs to Adidas, a giant German sports-goods firm, and is being built with Oechsler Motion, a local firm 【C8】______ makes manufacturing equipment. Production is 【C9】______ to begin in mid-2017, slowly at first and then 【C10】______ to 500,000 pairs of trainers a year. Adidas is 【C11】______ a second Speedfactory near Adanta for the American market. 【C12】______ all goes well, they will spring up elsewhere, too.
    The numbers are 【C13】______ for a company that makes some 300m pairs of sports shoes each year. Yet Adidas is 【C14】______ the Speedfactory will help it to transform the way trainers are created. The techniques it 【C15】______ from the project can then be rolled out to other new factories 【C16】______ to existing ones, including in Asia— 【C17】______ demand for sports and casual wear is rising along with consumer wealth.
    Currently, trainers are made mostly by hand in giant factories, often in Asian countries, with people 【C18】______ components or shaping, bonding and sewing materials. Rising prosperity in the region means the cost of manual work outsourced to the region is rising. Labour shortages 【C19】______ . Certain jobs require craft skills which are becoming rarer; many people now have the wherewithal to avoid tasks that can be dirty or 【C20】______.
【C15】

选项 A、sets up
B、picks up
C、builds up
D、gives up

答案B

解析 词组辨析题。根据上文可知,从此项目中获得的技术可以推广至其他新工厂及现有的工厂。四个选项分别为:A项sets up“建立”,B项picks up“获取”,C项builds up“积聚”,D项gives up“放弃”,通过对比四个选项的含义可以判断出B项picks up“获取”为正确选项。
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