选择性必修第四册 Unit 1 Science Fiction 题组训练2-【导与练】2024高考英语一轮复习高中总复习第1轮能力提升题组训练（新教材，人教版）

题组训练2 Ⅰ.阅读 A When we long live together, we quickly learn to foresee the near-term behaviours of our co-workers or family members. Our ability to predict the actions of others makes it easier to successfully live and work together. In contrast, even the most intelligent and advanced robots have remained inept at this sort of communication. This may be about to change. The study, conducted by Mechanical Engineering Professor Hod Lipson, is part of a broader effort to provide robots with the ability to understand and predict what others want. The researchers first built a subject robot and placed it in a playpen. They programmed the robot to seek and move towards any green circle it could see. But there was a hidden difficulty. Sometimes the robot could see a green circle in its camera and move directly towards it. But other times, the green circle would be blocked by a tall red cardboard box, in which case the robot would move towards a different green circle, or not at all. After “researching” its partner on screen long, the new robot was eventually able to get its partner’s goal and path 98 out of 100 times, across varying situations. When starting the experiment, the researchers expected the robot might learn to make predictions about the subject robot’s near-term actions. What the researchers didn’t expect, however, was how accurately it could foresee the moves with only a few seconds of video. “Our initial results are very exciting, showing how robots can see the world from another robot’s view,” says Lipson.“The understanding ability of the new robot is perhaps a primitive form of sensing others’ feelings, which we all can do.” Meanwhile, he acknowledges there’re many moral questions. The technology will make robots more adaptable and useful and no longer passive instruction-following machines, but when robots can predict how humans think, they may also learn to control or influence those thoughts. 1.What does “inept” underlined in the first paragraph mean? A