2024年4月21日发(作者：台积电股票)

Unit 4 A glimpse of the future

Ⅰ.匹配词义

( )cial

( )

( )ty

( )l

[答案] 1－4 BCDA

Ⅱ.默写单词

1．assistant

n

.

2．potentially

adv

.

3．analyse

v

.

4．illegal

adj

.

助手，助理

潜在地

分析

非法的，违法的

Ⅰ.语境填空

artificial，assistants，victims，potentially，immoral，analyse，illegal，capacity

1．The shop assistants sell goods from door to door for the convenience of the

masses.

2．The new dam will form a large artificial lake behind it.

3．It's believed the affair was potentially harmful to the film industry.

4．Most of the victims were shot in the back while trying to run away.

5．Bread factories are working at full capacity．

6．The coach tried to analyse the cause of our defeat.

7．The doctor was struck off because of his immoral behaviour.

8．It was an illegal act and will lead to your arrest.

Ⅱ.语法填空之派生词

1．I'll ask my personal assistant(assist)to deal with this problem.

2．Potentially(potential)high financial rewards are attached to senior hospital

posts.

3．Motivation to learn must come from the child; it cannot be

artificially(artificial)imposed.

4．A victimless(victim)crime is one in which nobody seems to suffer or be harmed.

A．

adj

.不道德的，道德败坏的

B．

adj

.人造的，人工的

C．

n

.受害者

D．

n

.能力，才能

5．He never does anything that is illegal(legal).

6．It is my belief that nuclear weapons are immoral(moral).

1．In the words of Professor Stephen Hawking，artificial intelligence will be

“either the best，or the worst thing，ever to happen to humanity”．

用斯蒂芬·霍金教授的话来说，人工智能“要么是人类历史上最好的事物，要么就是最

糟糕的事物”。

2．It used to feel like 50 per cent of my time was spent researching new

restaurants.

我过去常常感觉好像自己有50%的时间都花在了寻找新餐馆上。

3．The only thing is that there might be a few machine­learning problems when

the first cars hit the market，so perhaps I'd better learn to drive first.

唯一的问题是，当第一批车上市时，学习自动驾驶技术可能会出现一些短期的问题，所

以我最好先学会开车。

4．We could be seen as a“small”inconvenience that's in the way of a solution

to a bigger problem.

我们可能被看作是一个“小小的”不便，它妨碍了更大问题的解决。

5．As it is，almost 50 per cent of US jobs are at risk from automation in the

next 20 years.

照现状看，未来20年美国近50%的就业岗位将面临来自自动化的风险。

名师圈点

①Artificial Intelligence人工智能

②humanity

n

．人类

③thoughts on有关……的想法

④so far迄今为止

⑤thanks to多亏，由于

⑥super­smart personal assistant超级智能个人助理

⑦learn more about my preferences更多地了解我的偏好

⑧used 过去常常做某事

⑨in contrast相比之下

⑩speak of hanging out说到闲逛

⑪take driving lessons

学习驾驶