Unit2 Looking into the future单元过关演练--2020-2021学年人教版(2019)选择性必修第一册

2020-2021学年人教版(2019)选择性必修第一册Uni2单元过关演练

　　本套试卷总分120分。考试时间100分钟。

第一部分　阅读(共两节,满分50分)

第一节(共15小题;每小题2.5分,满分37.5分)

阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

Rapid advances in new technology will soon transform science fiction into reality—meaning people will have driverless cars, small robots at their command and the ability to experience being in another place without leaving home, predicted Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the planet’s largest cellphone trade show.

Introduction of books available online, Internet translation of languages and voice recognition for computers all happened much faster than anyone could foresee and that technological research into even more previously unheard-of advances is progressing at a fast speed.

“People who predict that holograms(全息图) and self-driving cars will become reality soon are absolutely right,” Schmidt told thousands of attendees. Research underway will lead to situations where people can put themselves at events like a rock concert so that they can see, hear and even feel the event. And turn down the volume, if it’s too loud.

One attendee said she was scared that the possibility could be dehumanizing, but Schmidt replied by holding up his cellphone into the air. “It has an off button and it is here on the right,” Schmidt said. “My point is that it is all about your control. If you don’t like my version of a

rock concert, I’m not forcing you to go. In the future, small robots could be used so busy people can send them to events for video and voice transmissions when their presence isn’t required,” Schmidt said.

Technology in the near future will redefine the relationship among people in the world. “Smarter resourceful citizens are going to demand a better deal for their new life,” Schmidt said.

(　　)1.From the passage, the new technology     　　　　.  

A.largely depends on science fiction

B.will eventually replace humans’ presence

C.amazingly improves people’s social skills

D.can unexpectedly bring new various choices

(　　)2.Why did Schmidt give the example in Paragraph 4?

A.To list advantages of the new cellphone.

B.To advise a wider use of the new cellphone.

C.To remove people’s worry of the new technology.

D.To compare the benefits of using the new technology.

(　　)3.What’s the writer’s attitude towards rapid advances in technology?

A.Objective.  B.Negative.  C.Uncaring.  D.Doubtful.

B

For all the technological wonders of modern medicine, from gene-editing to fetal(胎儿的) surgery, health care—with its fax machines and clipboards(写字板)—is often stubbornly old-fashioned. This outdated era is slowly drawing to a close as, slowly, the industry catches up with the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution. And it should have happened earlier, argues Eric Topol, a heart doctor keen on digital medicine.

Dr Topol’s vision of medicine’s future is optimistic. He thinks AI will be particularly useful for repetitive tasks where errors arise easily,

such as selecting images, examining heart traces for abnormal symptoms or recording doctors’ words into patient records. In short, AI is set to save time, lives and money.

Much of this is imaginary—but AI is already defeating people in a variety of narrow jobs for which it has been trained. Eventually it may be able to diagnose and treat a wider range of diseases. Even then, Dr Topol thinks, humans would watch over the rules, rather than being replaced by them.

The author’s fear is that AI will be used to deepen the assembly line(流水线) culture of modern medicine. If it awards a “gift of time” to doctors, he argues that this additional benefit should be used to extend the time of consultations, rather than simply speeding through them more efficiently.

The Hippocratic oath holds that there is an art to medicine as well as a science, and that “warmth, sympathy and understanding may be more important than the surgeon’s knife or the chemist’s drug”. That is not just a cliché: the patients of sympathetic physicians have been shown to do better. As Dr Topol says, it is hard to imagine that a robot could really replace a human doctor. Yet as demand for health care goes beyond the supply of human carers, the future may involve consultations on smartphones and measurements monitored by chat robots. The considerately warmed stethoscope(听诊器), placed gently on a patient’s back, may become history.

(　　)4.According to the author, health care has been generally considered 　　　　. 

A.to bring out many technological wonders

B.to boost the sales of fax machines and clipboards

C.to be out of date and fail to keep up with modern times