Unit 1 Science fiction Reading and Thinking 课件-2025-2026学年高中英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第四册

该高中英语课件聚焦科幻文学主题，涵盖定义、常见元素、子类型及作家Isaac Asimov介绍，通过Asimov名言导入和“科幻vs非科幻”Quiz激发兴趣，以“预读-分步骤阅读（设置、角色、情感变化）-问题讨论”为学习支架，引导学生逐步理解科幻文本。 其亮点在于融合语言能力与思维品质培养，通过分析故事中Claire对机器人Tony的情感变化（从dislike到sad）提升语言理解与表达，设置“机器人是否会思考/有感情”等问题引导推断与批判。结合音频材料补全结局，采用情感流程补全活动，帮助学生掌握文学分析方法，既提升学习能力，也为教师提供结构化教学资源。

Unit 1 Science Fiction Reading and Thinking 1 Quiz: fiction or non-fiction What Is Science Fiction? Science fiction, often called “sci-fi,” is a genre of fiction literature whose content is , but relies heavily on facts, which is what makes it different from fantasy. imaginative scientific What Is Science Fiction? Science Fiction Common Elements Time Travel Space travel and exploration Fictional Worlds Aliens Advanced Technology Super-intelligent computers and robots Enhanced or changed humans i.e. mind control, telepathy (心灵感应) Interplanetary (星际的) warfare (战争) and Imperialism(帝国) ...... Science Fiction (SC/sci-fi) Science Fiction Sub-Genres Fantasy fiction Sci-fi inspired by mythology and folklore Supernatural fiction Sci-fi stories that use supernatural elements such as spiritualism, witchcraft or psychic abilities Utopian (乌托邦) and Dystopian (反乌托邦) fiction Sci-fi stories that explore either ideal or problematic societies Space opera A science fiction “soap opera”. Drama, romance, adventure, mystery...but in space! Cyberpunk (网络黑客） Sci-fi stories that blend advanced technology with collapsing societies in order to highlight problems within society. Isaac Asimov---father of sci-fi QUICK FACTS Name: Isaac Asimov Birth Year: 1920 Birth date: January 2, 1920 Birth Country: Russia Best Known For: one of the 20th century’s most prolific (作品丰富的) writers （over 500 works) groundbreaking sci-fi works: ‘Foundation’ (1951) and ‘I, Robot.’ (1950) won several Hugo and Nebula Awards (最高荣誉的雨果奖和星云终身成就「大师奖」). admin (a) - Sci-Fi or Science facts published in 2000; adapted to movies in 2019 Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact. ----Isaac Asimov If a robot like Sophia lives with you, what will happen? Do you think it is possible for a robot to look exactly like a human being? think by itself ? have feelings? Step 1 Pre-reading Satisfaction Guaranteed My First Template Step 2 Read for the setting Setting: The story was set in a time when a household _________ was _________ ________ by a ______ _________ in a family. robot tested out 1 young lady Step 3 Read for the characters Take notes on main characters and their relationships to each other. Larry Belmont Gladys Claffern Claire Tony a couple work on test out a rich and powerful woman envy/ admire a household robot My First Template How did the story develop? Read the story carefully and pay attention to the changes of Claire’s feelings towards Tony as the story developed. Tony Claire 1.Before Tony arrived dislike 2.when she first saw him alarmed 3.when Tony asked if he should help her get dressed embarrassed 4.when Tony offered sympathy admiring & trusting 5.when Tony helped her talk to the saleswoman thankful 6.when Claire fell and Tony caught and held her shy & nervous Step 4 Read for the emotion flow explicit implicit 1. What will robots be like in the future? 2. Good or bad for human beings? How do you think this story will end? happy ending? surprising ending? sad ending? 16 添加题 添加标题 Then the front door bell rang. ________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Q1： Who was at the door? Q2: What would happen next in the party? Was it a success? Q3: What would happen to Claire? Was she eventually satisfied? Q4: What would happen to Tony? Did he pass the test and stay with Claire or failed to pass the test and was recalled by the company? 18 1.Tony let her go and _____________ from sight. It was then that Claire realised that Tony had _________________ of the front window. 2.What __________________to be envied by those women! She might not be as beautiful as them, but none of them had such a _______________________. 3. But even though Tony had been so clever and caring, he would____________________－you cannot have women ________________________________. disappeared opened the curtains falling in love with machines a sweet victory handsome lover have to be rebuilt Let’s listen to the rest of the story and fill in the blanks 19 Complete the emotion flow Continue to write the changes of Claire’s feelings towards Tony as the story developed. 7.when guests saw Tony holding Claire envied 8. after Claire remembered Tony was just a machine sad All that Tony had done to Claire was not because he fell in love with her but he wanted to do everything he could to satisfy his master’s desire. Did Tony really fall in love with Claire? null 62692.605 EVCapture4.1.9软件录制 Lavf57.25.100 本视频由湖南一唯信息科技开发的EV录屏软件录制，www.ieway.cn Why we need to rethink the role robots have in society What happens when machines become sentient? Aug 14, 2018 Andrew Murray Professor of Law, London School of Economics As we move towards robots becoming sentient （有感觉力的）, it is clear that we must start to rethink what robots mean to society and what their role is to be. Today much debate surrounds what I label the “sci-fi debate”. Among others, Professor Stephen Hawking and entrepreneur Elon Musk have warned of the threat that robots and AI pose to human safety and security, a position held by 36 percent of people in the UK according to a 2015 YouGov survey for the British Science Association. In the alternative, the passive or socially useful robot has become demonised （妖魔化） as a direct threat to human employability. The Bank of England warned in 2015 that up to 15 million jobs in Britain are at risk of being lost to robots, while a 2016 report from Forrester research suggested that, by 2021, robots will have eliminated （淘汰） six percent of all jobs in the US. Despite these dire（极其可怕的） warnings, we continue to press ahead in robotics and AI research. Why? Because there is a dissonance （不一致） between the sci-fi debate and the future role of robots in our society. The first generation of truly smart AI devices is likely to be self-driving vehicles, which offer potentially massive social benefits. From a public safety perspective these benefits are clear. In 2016, 1,810 people were killed on Britain’s roads and 25,160 were seriously injured. With human error being attributed to around 90 per cent of road traffic accidents, self-driving cars could save around 1,600 lives and reduce serious injuries by around 22,500 per annum （年）. Then there are the economic benefits for major corporations. Delivery companies, ride-share apps and even public transport providers can replace employees with smart robots, saving billions per annum and removing the risk of industrial action. Against such a backdrop it is clear to see how AI is attractive. Similar arguments can be made for the objective impartiality of AI judges and the precision of robot surgeons These arguments and debates are not the root of my interest in AI and robotics, however. While most people are looking at the challenge of AI and robotics to society, I’m looking at the challenge of the robots to us. What is the human cost of integrating AI and robotics into society? It is clear that using intelligent devices, even the base algorithmic （算法的） intelligence of a current smart agent like Alexa, changes the way that humans think and make decisions. We retain less information and outsource the storage of data to our devices. This means that these external devices filter the information provided to us when we make a decision: we lose some of our autonomy （自主） by trading it for convenience and for a perceived “fuller picture” which is not the case. As we approach the brave new world of human-level machine intelligence, which some commentators believe could be with us by 2030, we will, however, be asked some very deep questions about our identity and what it means to be human. The first significant challenge is likely to be how we treat our new equals. A common theme of sci-fi is human inability to recognise and treat with respect sentient life forms different from our own. If we do achieve human-level artificial intelligence within the next 20-30 years, what we do next will define both us as humanity and our relationship with our creation. Will we treat it with respect, as an equal, or will we treat it as a tool? When the machine intelligence reaches human level and becomes sentient and self-aware we will have to consider it an intelligent life form. Today when we talk of AI and robotics we normally define them as tools or devices to be used as we please: to drive cars or fly planes, to mine in dangerous environments, or simply to manage our everyday lives. This may be acceptable with the current standard of low-level machine intelligence; however, when the machine intelligence reaches human level and becomes sentient and self-aware we will have to consider it an intelligent life form. If we then continue to treat it as a tool or device it will be no different from treating humans in this way. The UK abolished human slavery in 1833; in less than 30 years we may be revisiting the debate. Such debates, or even the possibility of such debates, mean that for lawyers AI and robotics offer a unique opportunity to hold a mirror up to humanity and society and to examine how we make and uphold our most fundamental legal principles and norms null 102349.93 $