Q2. Read the following text critically and answer the questions given below. (12 marks) A The newspaper production process has come a long way reels of newsprint either from the reell from the old days when the paper was written, edited, stripping stations, or from the racked typeset and ultimately printed in one building with the supplies in the newsprint storage area. At journalists working on the upper floors and the printing the stripping station the tough wrapping presses going on the ground floor. These days the that helps to protect a reel of paper from editor, subeditors and journalists who put the paper rough handling is removed. Any together are likely to find themselves in a totally damaged paper is peeled off and the reel different building or maybe even in a different city. This is then weighed. is the situation which now prevails in Sydney. The daily paper is compiled at the editorial headquarters, known E as the prepress centre, in the heart of the city, but Then one of the four paster robots moves printed far away in the suburbs at the printing centre. in. Specifically designed for the job, it Here human beings are in the minority as much of the trims the paper neatly and prepares the work is done by automated machines controlled by reel for the press. If required the reel can computers. be loaded directly onto the press; if not needed immediately, an LGV takes it to the storage area. When the press Once the finished newspaper has been created for the computer calls for a reel, an LGV takes it next morning's edition, all the pages are transmitted to the reel loading area of the presses. It electronically from the prepress centre to the printing lifts the reel into the loading position and centre. The system of transmission is an update on the places it in the correct spot with complete sophisticated page facsimile system already in use on accuracy. As cach reel is used up, the many other newspapers. An image setter at the printing press drops the heavy cardboard core into centre delivers the pages as film. Each page takes less a waste bin. When the bin is full, another than a minute to produce, although for colour pages LGV collects it and deposits the cores four versions, once each for black, cyan, magenta and into a shredder for recycling yellow are sent. The pages are then processed into photographic negatives and the film is used to produce F aluminium printing plates ready for the presses The LGV's move at walking speed. Should anyone step in front of one or get too close, sensors stop the vehicle until A procession of automated vehicles is busy at the new the path is clear. The company has printing centre where the Sydney Morning Herald is chosen a laser guide function system for printed each day. With lights flashing and warning the vehicles because, as the project homs honking, the robots (to give them their correct development manager says "The beauty name, the LGVs or laser guided vehicles) look for all of it is that if you want to change the the world like enthusiastic machines from a science routes, you can work out a new route on fiction movie, as they follow their own random paths your computer and lay it down for them around the plant busily getting on with their jobs. to follow". When an LGV's batteries run Automation of this kind is now standard in all modern low, it will take itself off line and go to newspaper plants. The robots can detect unauthorised the nearest battery maintenance point for personnel and alert security staff immediately if they replacement batteries. And all this is find an "intruder", not surprisingly, tall tales are already achieved with absolute minimum human being told about the machines starting to take on input and a much reduced risk of injury personalities of their own to people working in the printing centres D G The robots' principal job, however, is to shift the The question newspaper workers must newsprint (the printing paper) that arrives at the plant in now ask, however is, "how long will it be huge reels and emerges at the other end sometime later before the robots are writing the as newspapers. Once the size of the day's paper and the newspapers as well as running the publishing order are determined at head office, the printing centre, churning out the latest information is punched into the computer and the LGVs edition every morning?" are programmed to go about their work. The LGVS collect the appropriate size paper reels and take them where they have to go. When the press needs another reel its computer alerts the LGV system. The Sydney LGVs move busily around the press room fulfilling their two key functions to collect 1. What is the author's purpose of writing this article? [1] 2. Mention any two facts given in the text. [1] 3. Mention any two opinions given in the text. [1] 4. Mention any two strategies the author has used to bring unity & cohesion in his article. [1] 5. Give your response to the concluding question (written in the paragraph G) in one to two sentences only. [2] 6. Write a summary of about 150 to 160 words. [6]