人教版（2019）选择性必修第四册Unit 1 Science Fiction 单元检测卷（2份打包，含解析）

Unit 1 Science Fiction—2023-2024学年高二英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第四册单元检测卷（A卷） 一、填空题 (共10小题；每小题4分，满分40分) 1.I was about to close the window_____ my attention was caught by a bird. 2.As_____ matter of fact, it was her diligence that motivated me to work together with her. 3.We must live with the_____ (intend) of focusing on what matters most in life. 4.We received several answers, and we picked one_____ random. 5.It was when I got back to my apartment_____ I first came across my new neighbors. 6.Nobody is in the classroom because the students_____ (interview) on the playground about the success. 7.We were relieved to learn that all the miners_____ (be rescued) from the accident. 8._____ (see) the sun rising above the surface of the sea, we let out a shout of joy. 9.If you don't sort out the papers on your desk_____ a regular basis they will continue to accumulate. 10.Last year she _____ (appoint) as the French translator to go to France with the delegation. 二、阅读理解 (共4小题；每小题5分，满分20分) A machine can now not only beat you at chess, it can also outperform you in debate. Last week, in a public debate in San Francisco, a software program called Project Debater beat its human opponents, including Noa Ovadia, Israel's former national debating champion. Brilliant though it is, Project Debater has some weaknesses. It takes sentences from its library of documents and prebuilt arguments and strings them together. This can lead to the kinds of errors no human would make. Such wrinkles will no doubt be ironed out, yet they also point to a fundamental problem. As Kristian Hammond, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Northwestern University, put it: “There's never a stage at which the system knows what it's talking about.” What Hammond is referring to is the question of meaning, and meaning is central to what distinguishes the least intelligent of humans from the most intelligent of machines. A computer works with symbols. Its program specifies a set of rules to transform one string of symbols into another. But it does not specify what those symbols mean. Indeed, to a computer, meaning is irrelevant. Humans, in thinking, talking, reading and writing, also work with symbols. But for humans, meaning is everything. When we communicate, we communicate meaning. What matters is not just the outside of a string of symbols, but the inside too, not just how they are arranged but what they mean. Meaning emerges through a process of social interaction, not of computation, interaction that shapes the content of the symbols in our heads. The rules that assign meaning lie not just inside our heads, but also outside, in society, in social memory, social conventions and social relations. It is this that distinguishes humans from machines. And that's why, however astonishing Project Debater may seem, the tradition that began with Socrates and Confucius will not end with artificial intelligence. 1.Why does th ... ...