Unit 4 Reading 预习学案-2023-2024学年高中英语牛津译林版（2020）选择性必修第二册

Artificial intelligence: friendly or frightening? 1. Summarize the main idea of each paragraph Para 1: AI can make your dreams come true. Para 2: topic sentence:______________________________________________________________________ Para 3: AI has developed over a ________ time and had some major________. Para 4: topic sentence: _______________________________, transforming the way we live. Para 5: the development of AI also caused___________________. Para 6: topic sentence:______________________________________________________________________ 2. Read para 2 and complete the following chart. To develop computer intelligence capable of learning form experience, adjusting to new inputs and performing tasks like humans. ___________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ One approach to the aim 3. Read para 3 and complete the following table. Time Events Since the 1940s Years before the mid-1950s In the mid-1950s In 1997 In 2017 4. Read paras 4 to 5 and complete the following chart.______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Friendly Artificial intelligence The benefits of AI also bring concerns and fears. Could machines really develop human-like intelligence? And what would happen if they did? _______ 5. According to the article, answer the following two questions. ①What is the function of the first sentence in para 5? ____________________________________________ ② What is the author’s attitude to artificial intelligence? Use details from the article to support your opinion. _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ ___________