2023届上海市高考英语十一选十练习第六期

高考英语选词填空练习第六期(含答案) （1） Don’t fear an AI-induced jobs apocalypse just yet Direction: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A.shortages B.unassisted C.reopen D.analysing E.embracing F.robotics G.passable H.excitable I.historically J.exceed K.practice “I think we might __1__ a one-to-one ratio of humanoid robots to humans,” Elon Musk declared on March 1st. Coming from the self-styled technoking of Tesla, it was not so much a prediction as a promise. Mr Musk’s car company is developing one such artificially intelligent automaton, codenamed Optimus, for use at home and in the factory. His remarks, made during Tesla’s investor day, were accompanied by a video of Optimus walking around apparently __2__. Given that Mr Musk did not elaborate how—or when—you get from a promotional clip (宣传视频)to an army of more than 8bn robots, this might all smack（一击） of science-fiction. But he has waded（干预，介入） into a very real debate about the future of work. For certain forms of AI-enabled automation are fast becoming science fact. Since November ChatGPT, an AI conversationalist, has dazzled users with its __3__impression of a human interlocutor（谈话者）. Other “generative” AIs have been conjuring up（想起） similarly human-like texts, images and sounds by __4__ reams（大量） of data on the internet. Last month the boss of IBM, a computing giant, forecast that AI will do away with much white-collar clerical work. On March 6th Microsoft announced the launch of a suite of AI “co-pilots” for workers in jobs ranging from sales and marketing to supply-chain management. __5__ observers murmur about a looming（逼近的） job apocalypse(大灾难). Although Messrs Frey and Osborne still have a few years to be proved right, and Mr Musk can be safely ignored for the time being, the earlier fears about job-killing technology never materialised. On the contrary, labour markets across the rich world are __6_