2024届上海市部分区高三下学期二模英语试题汇编：完形填空（含答案解析）

上海市部分区2023-2024学年高三下学期二模英语试题汇编 完形填空 2024届上海市宝山区高三下学期第二次教学质量监测试英语试题 Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. For decades, people have guessed that artificial intelligence (AI) will eventually replace human workers. But developments in the past few years have ___41___ these concerns as companies have released AI that can answer questions, write articles and create images. Now, even people in creative fields must consider the ___42___ of AI replacing them. But many experts still insist that these AI programs are no substitute for human ability. AI programs have the ___43___ to perform some tasks currently performed by human workers. These include media jobs, such as writing advertisements and articles, along with many jobs in the financial fields and even tech-related jobs such as computer programming. AI is good at ___44___ data, so financial analysts and market research analysts may find their jobs ___45___. Using AI for certain tasks may be a good thing. Perhaps AI will ___46___ less interesting work, allowing people to do more satisfying jobs, just as earlier technologies have. Using a machine to do laundry saves time ___47___ to washing clothes by hand, and many people use that extra time productively. ___48___, AI may be able to take over dull tasks, liberating people to be truly creative, since thinking up new ideas is something AI cannot do. Another big challenge for AI is human ___49___. Most people prefer to communicate with humans rather than machines. Hence, AI is _____50_____ to replace humans for jobs that require personal connection, such as counseling or teaching. A robot can perform tasks, but it cannot _____51_____ care about others, and sometimes care is what people need. AI can process data quickly, but it can only use data that it is given. So it cannot adapt to situations that _____52_____ significantly from those in its data. Thus, although some AI programs can create content, none of them can be truly creative as the content AI creates will _____53_____ consist of some combination of its sources. Finally, if the AI receives false information, it has no way of recognizing that as false. Humans can also be fooled, but life experience can tell them whether a claim is reasonable, an ability that AI does not have. _____54_____, AI must continually be fact-checked to make sure its data, and therefore its conclusions, are accurate. Thus, although AI may replace some jobs, others require a human _____55_____. At best AI may eliminate certain boring parts of tasks so that humans can focus on things that only they can do. 41. A. denied B. prevented C. transferredD. intensified 42. A. function B. possibility C. capability D. character 43. A. potential B. schedule C. objective D. ambition 44. A. searching B. providing C. analyzing D. storing 45. A. at ri ... ...