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课件网) 选择性必修 第四册 Unit 1 Science Fiction Workbook Using Words and Expressions 1 Change the forms of the words below. Then list more pairs of words that have the same word formation. n. → adj. n. → adj. innocence _____ confidence _____ wisdom _____ freedom _____ flour _____ health _____ mud _____ fog _____ superiority _____ inferiority _____ creation _____ decoration _____ 2 Complete the passage with the words below to learn about bias-free language. Like humans, language tends to carry biases, which can lead to discrimination. Academic writing needs to be objective and scientific: neither gender should be preferred. Historically, writing has reflected a bias towards males such as the words _____ and postman. Now, writers are more careful. Many words that included man have been replaced. For example, police officer is used instead of _____, _____ instead of chairman, salesperson _____, humankind instead of _____ and postal worker instead of _____. The title Ms is used for women instead of Miss or Mrs, since it does not show whether a woman is married or not. chairman mankind policeman chairperson postman salesman 3 Translate these sentences into English using the words and phrases in brackets. 1 最高时速350公里的高铁使北京和上海之间的旅行时间从15 小时缩短到了四个半小时左右。(maximum, high-speed railway) 2 她从皮夹克的口袋里掏出一块手绢擦了擦眼睛。(leather, handkerchief) 3 三个班级被随机挑选出来参加了翻转课堂的实验。(at random, flipped classroom) 4 这种7.9 英寸迷你版的平板电脑一上市就受到了年轻人的喜爱。(inch, version) 4 Complete the passage using the correct forms of the words in the box. Do you believe Hawking’s predictions Time travel, alien invasions, and artificial intelligence have always been popular themes in science fiction. However, these were never the exclusive domains of sci-fi writers. Some scientists also _____ explore these themes _____. Take time travel as an example. Many fascinating stories based on time travel go either _____ or forwards in time. However, the former is not really an option. World-famous scientist Stephen Hawking once explained that travelling into the past would _____ the basic rule that cause comes before effect. But it would be possible to travel into the future in a vastly _____ spaceship approaching the speed of light. In addition to the question of time travel, Hawking also expressed his opinions on alien invasions and AI development. When many scientists and scholars were still arguing about the _____ of alien existence and AI development, Hawking said he believed aliens would invade Earth, and that humans would eventually _____ by AI and robots. pros and cons, take over, on a scientific basis, have an urge to, superior, conflict with, backwards Using Structures 1 Make sentences with the words in brackets. Pay attention to the voices of the verbs. EXAMPLE I can’t find my wallet anywhere. (steal) → It must have been stolen. 1 I didn’t go ... ...
