Unit 4 Living with technology Welcome to the unit & Reading 课件-2025-2026学年高中英语译林版（2020）选择性必修第二册

Unit 4 Living with technology Lead-in The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life. —Bill Gates 技术的进步是基于让它融入你的生活，这样你甚至不会真正注意到它，如此一来它就成为了日常生活的一部分。 --比尔·盖茨 The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life. — Bill Gates 技术的进步是基于让它融入你的生活，这样你甚至不会真正注意到它，如此一来它就成为了日常生活的一部分。 —— 比尔·盖茨 比尔·盖茨，美国企业家、软件工程师、慈善家、微软公司创始人，曾任微软董事长、CEO和首席软件设计师。本句旨在说明技术会进入千家万户，成为人们生活中不可或缺的一部分。 Have you read or watched any of the science fiction works? Lead-in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: travelling deep under the ocean 2001: A Space Odyssey: travelling to _________ The Matrix: connecting the human brain with _________ and entering the virtual world Video time Watch the video and fill in the blanks. Video time Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: travelling deep under the ocean 2001: A Space Odyssey: travelling to _________ The Matrix: connecting the human brain with _________ and entering the virtual world Video time Watch the video and fill in the blanks. the Moon computers What other sci-fi ideas have become real? Pre-reading Do you agree with Jules Verne:“Anything people can imagine can be made real”? Artificial Intelligence 7 Do you think life in the video can become a reality? When we talk about AI, what adjectives come to your mind? useful helpful amazing advanced dubious(靠不住的) terrifying dangerous threatening double-edged sword 9 How is the author likely to organize the information on AI? Artificial Intelligence: friendly or frightening? main topic two aspects Before you read the article, think about the following question questions: AI can bring both _______ and __________ for us. benefits threats 10 AI is being in various fields, ____________ the way we live. The development of AI has also brought ________. Introduction Para. 1: AI can make your dreams __________. Para. 3: Supporting details Para. 4: Para. 5: complete the chart below with the main idea of each paragraph. come true branch imitating transforming applied developed Para. 2: AI is a ________of computer science that aims to create intelligent machines, ________ the complex networks of the human brain. AI has _____________ over a long time and had some major _____________. breakthroughs concerns Conclusion Para. 6: We need to make sure that we will not fall ________ to AI. victim By posing a challenging question By describing an imaginary scene By giving a real-life example By providing a helpful tip Q: How does the author start the article? Listen and choose the correct answer.(Para.1) Writing tip: An imaginary scene can arouse readers’ imagination and their interest in the topic. 12 Read Para.2 and complete the flow chart. a branch of computer science that aims to create intelligence machines one essential aim: 1._____________________________ to develop computer intelligence learning adjusting performing one approach to the aim: 2._______________________ Deep-learning analyzing imitating Listen and complete the table.(Para.3) In 2017 3._____________________________________. In 1997 A major breakthrough in AI was made. In the mid-1950s 2.__________________________________. Years before the mid-1950s 1.__________________________________. Since the 1940s The development of computers has finally made the dream of AI a reality. Alan Turing had explored the theory of AI. The term “artificial intelligence” was coined. A computer program defeated arguably the best human Go player. Q: What might happen in the future? 14 Read Para.4 and list the examples. The applications of AI finance health care machine translation art 15 Share your life experience. Q:Have you ever experienced any applications of AI? Can you share your experience and feelings? study? social media? …? entertainment? “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” Q: What does the word “spell” mean in Line 46? Listen and answer the question.( Para.5) To form a word with letters in the correct order To do something that someone else would usually be doing To cause something bad to happen in the future Read Para.6 and answer the questions. Q1: What is the function of the following sentence in Para.6? Q2: What is the author’s attitude towards AI and why do you think so? “We may still think it would be fantastic to relax all day and allow autonomous machines to do all the work for us—...” Bringing the topic back to the imaginary scene in Para.1 critical / objective / cautious (谨慎的) Q3: What is your own attitude towards AI and why? Read the abbreviations of the passage and fill in the blanks with one appropriate word or the correct form of the word in brackets. With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, many sweet dreams 1.________ a robot doing all the work for you may come true. AI is a branch of computer science that aims to develop intelligent machines, 2. ________(design) for better work and higher efficiency, and people have been in pursuit of the dream of AI for many years. Especially in 2017, a computer program named AlphaGo beat Ke Jie, 3. ________(show) a large leap in AI systems. Nowadays, AI 4. ______________(use) in quite a few fields, such as looking after patients, 5. ____________(perform) surgeries, writing novels, driving, translating, to name 6. ______ a few. People feel their life is becoming more and more 7. ____________(convenience). This technology is changing our lifestyle for the better. like designed showing has been used performing but convenient 8. ____________，with machines taking the place of humans, here come concerns and fears. People will become more 9. ________(rely) on AI machines and they may pose a great threat to the existence of humans, spelling the end of the human race. To conclude, we should sincerely welcome the 10. ________(arrive) of AI, but at the same time, we should be careful of the application of it. reliant arrival However v. rely adj. reliable 可靠的，可信赖的 reliant 依赖的，依靠的 常与介词on 搭配, “依赖于” B1 (P47 B1)The passage below is about facial recognition technology. Complete the passage with the correct forms of the words and phrases in the box below. apparently urge warning fall victim to analyse pose network to name but a few Technology is changing the face of the world, and now faces are changing technology too. Facial recognition technology, with its capacity to (1)_______ a huge amount of data, has come into widespread use. analyse It works by comparing the facial features of given images with those in a database. It offers a quick and cool alternative to traditional passwords, and you cannot forget your own face! In theory, (2)_________ which use our own body as passwords should also be safer from hackers and better protect us from identity theft than those that use traditional passwords, mainly because every individual is unique. This technology is especially useful in public places: airports and railway stations, (3)________________. networks apparently urge warning fall victim to analyse pose network to name but a few to name but a few However, facial recognition technology has also started to (4)_____ some difficult questions. Experts have been giving (5)___________ about this technology, saying it may not be as good as we think. Facial expressions often vary, which makes facial recognition less effective. Moreover, there is growing concern that we might (6)____________ this technology, as there are cases in which hackers have broken into facial recognition systems by using people’s social media photos to build models of their faces. warnings pose apparently urge warning fall victim to analyse pose network to name but a few fall victim to Scientists and engineers (7)_________________________ to improve existing technology and make it fail-safe. (8)___________, this will be a tough task. 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