2024届高考英语复习阅读理解+写作 课件+学案

高考英语复习阅读理解练习人与社会一科学（科学精神） 拓展练习 I.Translate the following sentences as a preparation for the guided writing task. 1.这个过程涉及共同推理和利用群体的多样化专长。(reason,capitalize on) 2.通过鼓励积极参与和考虑多个观点，我们可以抵消个人错误，做出更明智的决策。 (cancel out) 3.群体智慧的影响重大。(implication) II.Guided writing. 假定你班下周的英语口语课主题是“群体智慧”，请你写一篇英文发言稿。 注意：1.词数100左右；2.开头和结尾己为你写好。 Dear classmates, Today,I want to share with you something about the"wisdom of crowds". Thank you for your attention and I'm eager to hear your insights. 拓展阅读 The Wisdom of Crowds At a livestock (fair in 1906,scientist Francis Galton observed visitors taking part in a contest to guess an ox's weight in pounds.The results were surprising:although no individual,including cattle experts,could guess the ox's exact weight,the mean value of all the visitors'estimations was a mere pound more than the animal's actual weight.In other words,the collective estimation was far more accurate than any individual one. Galton had discovered how a group of people was,indeed,wiser than each of its individual members (including experts). The television show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?is another example of this phenomenon.Candidates on the show have to answer round after round of multiple-choice questions to win the prize and,in the process,can turn to"lifelines"for help.They can use the Ask-the-Expert lifeline to call up an expert for advice,or the Ask-the-Audience lifeline to find out the audience's opinion.One analysis showed that only 65 percent of the experts were right,while 91 percent of the crowd's votes were right. Of course,not all groups are wise and there are also errors in collective intelligence that can lead a group to make faulty decisions.But if the group manages to stay diverse,work as a team and foster(鼓励)open dialogues,the“wisdom of crowds'”is not a meaningless cliche (陈词滥调)，but actually一as the examples above have shown一the surprising truth. In The Wisdom ofCrowds by James Surowiecki,several key ideas are presented,and the first is:The more diverse the