2025届高三英语二轮复习外刊阅读Deepseek 人工智能专题专项练习

2025届高考英语外刊阅读天天练 DeepSeek 人工智能专题 I. 阅读理解 ①The Race for AI Dominance 【Newsweek（February 14th 2025）】 Chinese startup Deepseek has sent shock waves through the artificial intelligence world and created a headache for the United States. Its AI assistant overtook Western rival ChatGPT on January 27 to become the top-rated free app on Apple’s App Store in the U.S., delivering a trilliondollar blow to U.S. tech firms on the stock market. DeepSeek claims that it trained its models in two months for $5.6 million and using fewer chips than typical AI models. U.S.-based OpenAI was reported to have spent around $100 million to develop GPT-4. Kristian Hammond, a professor of computer science at Northwestern University, told Newsweek:“If they are telling the truth, DeepSeek will have a significant impact. Nvidia currently is so valuable because everyone thinks that we cannot build AI without them. But DeepSeek demonstrates that we can. Similarly, OpenAI has‘argued’that we cannot support their software locally, but DeepSeek, again, demonstrates that we can. And the fact that DeepSeek could be built for less money, less computation and less time and can be run locally on less expensive machines, argues that as everyone was racing towards bigger and bigger, we missed the opportunity to build smarter and smaller.” DeepSeek’s success in the U.S. has been attributed to its accessibility, cost-effectiveness and performance. However, Stuart Russell, a distinguished professor of computer science told Newsweek it’s probably too early to say if DeepSeek is as good as the latest systems from U.S. firms. “Chatbot performance is a complex topic,” he said. “If the claims hold up, this would be another example of Chinese developers managing to roughly replicate U.S. systems a few months after their release. The general outlines of how OpenAI’s 01 works have been known for quite a while—even before it was released—so it’s not all that surprising that it can be roughly replicated.” On January 21, Donald Trump announced Stargate—a $500 billion investment in U.S. infrastructure tied to artificial intelligence by a new partnership formed by OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank. However, DeepSeek’s success could undermine a key pillar of foreign policy---restricting the sale of U.S.-designed AI semiconductors to China. Whoever wins the AI race, Russell has a warning for the industry. He said the race for larger data centers“had already started to look like the race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the 1960s to build and test larger and larger bombs. In other words, Russell, said, it is a race towards the edge of a cliff. 1. What is the main reason for DeepSeek's success in the U.S. according to the passage? A. Its advanced technology B. Its accessibility, cost-effectiveness, and performance C. Its partnership with U.S. tech firms D. Its large investment in AI research 2. How does DeepSeek's achievement challenge the current perception of AI development? A. It shows that AI can be developed without expensive hardware. B. It proves that AI development is only possible with large investments. C. It indicates that AI technology is not accessible to smaller companies. D. It suggests that AI development is not influenced by market competition. 3. What does Stuart Russell imply about the replication of U.S. AI systems by Chinese developers? A. It is impossible due to the complexity of AI technology. B. It is surprising given the secrecy of U.S. AI systems. C. It is expected since the general outlines of U.S. AI systems are known. D. It is a sign of the decline of U.S. technological leadership. 4. What warning does Russell give regarding the race for larger data centers? A. It is a necessary step for technological advancement. B. It resembles the arms race and could lead to dangerous outcomes. C. It will benefit the global economy by creating more jobs. D. It is a competition that will ultimately lead to world peace. ② Al is turning the arts into a Waste Land 【The Washington Post（February 5, 2025）】 In 2022, I was named the national student poet of the West, one of the nation's highest honors for youth poets. Yet I couldn't tell the difference between 'T.S. Eliot and ChatGPT. Apparently, I'm not alone in this lapse of discernment. According to a study published in Nature in November, Americans are more likely to appreciate Al-generated poems than poetry from humanity's most celebrated authors:Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath and,of course, Eliot. In fact, not only did the participants prefer ChatGPT's poetry, but they also found it“more human than human, AI-written poetry was 17 percentage points more likely to be judged as having been written by a human than the actual human-authored poetry. AI has placed poetry at risk of extinction. Only 12 percent of American adults read or listened to a poem in 2022.When we do encounter poetry, it's often trendy“Insta-poetry”--short and straight-forward verses popularized on social media. This more digestible form of poetry has its merits, but it doesn't challenge readers to interpret the subtleties of form, meter and allusion the way traditional poetry does. People prefer what they can comprehend, and collectively, we've lost our ability to comprehend poetry. The researchers behind the Nature study found that Al-generated poems used more obvious and direct language, making them more accessible to nonexperts. Participants didn't have to struggle to analyze the nuanced shades of emotion and complex metaphors that adorn human poetry. But poetry is not meant to be straightforward. Reading poetry is supposed to take effort. The problem is that we've become lazy readers and writers, and Al is profiting from that. The headaches of formality, connotation, meter, grammar, allusion and intention have caused us to discard our literary minds and trade them for convenience. But difficulty is the crux of poetry. ChatGPT will never be able to slyly admonish a critic mid-stanza,deliberate over the perfect phrasing with an editor or become struck with inspiration in the middle of personal tragedy. Poetry is meaningful because it is art created through adversity, from the unpredictable and unanticipated.We cannot expect to appreciate poetry without accepting that sometimes it leads us to places we don't understand. Embracing the difficulty of the abstract--whether that's through including 'T.S. Eliot in our curriculums or writing our own emails ---is how we retain our humanity. Even after my year-long poetry fellowship, it would take me a thousand lifetimes before I could come close to amassing the knowledge of ChatGPT. But this also means that when I mistook a 'T.S. Eliot poem for Al, I found out there was another beautiful poem I had yet to ponder, and a lot more room for me to grow. 1. According to the study published in Nature, what percentage of American adults read or listened to a poem in 2022? A. 10% B. 12% C. 15% D. 17% 2. Why does the author believe that AI-generated poetry is more popular than human-authored poetry? A. Because AI poetry is more creative. B. Because AI poetry uses simpler and more direct language. C. Because AI poetry is written by famous authors. D. Because AI poetry is more emotional. 3. What’s the probable meaning of the underlined word "discard" in paragraph four? A. Improve B. Abandon C. Appreciate D. Create 4. Which of the following would be the best title for this passage? A. The Rise of AI-Generated Poetry B. Why Humans Prefer AI Poetry Over Traditional Poetry C. The Struggle to Preserve the Art of Human Poetry D. How Social Media is Changing Poetry II. 语法填空 Send in the clones: A new Hollywood fight over AI 【The Week UK（February 8, 2025）】 A battle over The Brutalist, a leading contender for Best Picture at the Oscars, shows ___1___ brutally Hollywood has turned against any whiff of AI in filmmaking. When director Peter Jackson used artificial intelligence ____2____(fix) audio tracks in the 2021 Beatles documentary Get Back, the experiment ______3____(greet) with _____4_____(enthusiastic) from tech geeks and not much notice from anyone else. Fast-forward to 2025, and suddenly The Brutalist is facing calls for disqualification after word got out ____5_____ director Brady Corbet “had used AI behind the scenes.” Much ___6____ Jackson used AI “to clean up previously unusable audio” from a Beatles recording session, The Brutalist’s film editor used a voice-cloning tool, Respeecher, to tweak Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones’ Hungarian dialogue. The use might seem minor, ____7___ they’ve touched a raw nerve over the possibility of AI displacing human artists and actors. It’s understandable that people in the film industry are on edge, ___8_____(give) that“studio executives have openly fantasized about replacing living actors with computergenerated doubles.” But this broad backlash against any AI is nonsensical. “The Brutalist’s dialogue correction isn’t taking anyone’s job.”And if we do have a problem with“using machine learning to alter an actor’s voice,”how is that different from the AI-powered tech ____9___(use) to de-age Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in 2019’s The Irishman? The history of Hollywood can be told as a series of technological leaps. The people who knew the ___10___(little) about AI’s potential in the filmmaking process feared it the most. Whereas those who actually worked with it harbored the most faith in the resilience of human creativity. 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