UNIT 5 课时跟踪检测(二) 语言运用综合练（Word练习）-【新课程学案】新教材2022-2023学年高中英语选择性必修第二册（北师大版2019）

UNIT 5 课时跟踪检测(二) 语言运用综合练 Ⅰ.阅读理解 In “Social Robots for Education”， a study published last August in Science Robotics, the summary is：“Social robots can be used in education as private teachers or peer learners. They have been shown to be effective in increasing cognitive (认知的) and emotional results and have achieved results similar to those of human teaching on some tasks. This is largely because of their physical presence, which traditional learning technologies lack.” The study showed a few reasons why educational robots are becoming a teaching fashion. Firstly, they can help cut school budgets. Secondly, teachers seem at a loss as there are growing numbers of students per classroom. Besides, educational robots can meet the demand for greater personalization of students. Instead of just seating students in front of a computer screen with software to teach them, many teachers can choose a more interactive (互动的) educational experience through robots. Robots are an ideal choice when the material to be taught requires direct physical presentation. For example, teaching physical skills, such as handwriting or basketball free throws, the study expressed. But, don't expect Siri or Alexa to replace real teachers right away. “Although robots can operate independently in certain contexts, fully autonomous social teaching behaviour in all environments remains difficult to achieve，” the study said.“Although automatic speech recognition and social signal processing have improved in recent years, speech recognition for younger users, for example, is still not strong enough for most interactions.” Robots are already used for science, technology, engineering and maths, which is called STEM education.“More and more educational robots are being developed because they've been largely effective in teaching users topics like computer programming, AI and engineering, in a hands-on, engaging way，”said Maria Jung, product public relations manager at DJI, developer of the RoboMaster S1.