课时跟踪检测(四)（Word练习）-【优化指导】2021-2022学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第四册(人教版2019)

课时跟踪检测(四) Ⅰ.单词拼写 1．I taught my daughter how to do division (除法)at the age of six. 2．The bombs and shells were dropped by Israel during its recent offensive but failed to explode (爆炸)． 3．It is labour (劳动)that creates the world. 4．He wore a leather (皮革的)jacket and dark trousers. 5．The information is processed in a random (随机的)order. 6．I had to fetch (去取来)water from the well. 7．The journey was accomplished with a maximum (最大限度)of comfort and ease and a minimum of discomfort. 8．It's a good thing I brought lots of handkerchiefs (手帕)． Ⅱ.用所给短语的适当形式填空 1．This statement conflicted with the one they made last month. 2．She didn't bother to turn out the light when she went out of the room. 3．His supporters began to fall away from him. 4．I intend you to take over my career. 5．The present is superior to the past. 6．He had an urge to open a shop of his own. Ⅰ.阅读理解 Americans are afraid that robots are going to take our jobs. Tireless, immune to disease, robots can build cars, make coffee and even write short, humorous newspaper columns faster and more efficiently than humans. Robots do not need health insurance or salary, and they do not need to take sick days or vacations. They do not waste time on meetings and do not need to know office politics. They don't do PowerPoint. This being the case, it is reasonable to believe that more employees will be dismissed and robots will soon take the place of humans in most fields. But all of these thoughts may not be true. If artificial intelligence achieves its full potential, machines could easily become as smart as humans, maybe smarter. They will certainly become smarter than a lot of human beings. So one day the robots will realize that work is not a happy thing. So before long they will start behaving exactly like humans. They will play computer games for hours when they should be working hard. They will secretly watch new movies just like humans. True，employers will never need to be afraid of the robots' strikes or slowdowns, beca