专题18 不要再对科技持悲观态度了-备战2020高考英语外刊话题阅读语篇精选（第一辑）

Pessimism v progress 经济学人 读前导读： 电子商务、网约车和零工经济可能很方便，同时也受到批评：工人工资过低、不平等加剧、车辆堵塞街道。 家长们担心智能手机已经把他们的孩子变成了沉迷于屏幕的低头族。 预计将主导下一个十年的科技似乎也蒙上了一层阴影。 一：高级实词荟萃 1. 10 ( 10 )原创精品资源学科网独家享有版权，侵权必究！ 1. Pessimism n 2. contemporary adj 3. impact n 4. historical adj 5. pattern n 6. vision n 7. bright adj 8. optimism n 9. dominate vt 10. decade n 11. invade vt 12. privacy n 13. propaganda n 14. undermine vt 15. democracy. n 16. E-commerce n 17. ride-hailing adj 18. gig n 19. convenient adj 20. entrench vt 21. bias n 22. prejudice n 23. threaten vt 24. Poll n 25. Magnets n 26. revolt. n 27. Mood n 28. inevitable adj 29. fret v 30. anxiety n 31. 32. 二：高级词汇拓展 33. Pessimism悲观 adj ________________________ n _________________ 34. historical历史的 n ______________ 35. vision视野 adj _____________________ 36. bright明亮的 vt ______________ 37. optimism乐观 主义 adj ____________________ n_______________ 38. dominate支配 n ________________ adj _______________ 39. invade入侵 n _________ n _________ 40. privacy隐私 adj _________ 41. democracy.民主 adj _________ 42. convenient方便的 n_________ adv _________ 43. threaten威胁 n _________ adj _________ 44. inevitable不可避免的 adj _________ 45. anxiety焦虑 adj _________ adv_________ 三：高级短语荟萃 1. make things worse. 2. Be supposed to 3. bring people together. 4. Be hailed as a liberating force. 5. better known for 6. charged with underpaying workers 7. clog the streets with vehicles. 8. turn their children into screen-addicted zombies 9. cast a dark shadow. 10. shore up authoritarian rulers. 11. autonomous cars 12. manage to kill people all the same. 13. sums up the encroaching gloom. 14. industrial revolutions 15. rein in 16. the seemingly runaway forces of technology 17. bring people together.把人们聚集在一起。 18. Be hailed as a liberating force.被誉为解放力量。 19. better known for更著名 20. charged with underpaying workers被控拖欠工人工资 21. clog the streets with vehicles.用车辆堵塞街道。 22. turn their children into screen-a