2025届高考英语二轮复习：2024年高考英语新课标II卷D篇阅读文本解析 讲义素材

2024年高考英语新课标II卷D篇阅读文本解析 讲义 2024英语新课标II卷D篇阅读文本解析 Given the astonishing potential of AI to transform our lives, we all need to take action to deal with our AI-powered future, and this is where AI by Design: A Plan for Living with Artificial Intelligence comes in. This absorbing new book by Catriona Campbell is a practical road map addressing the challenges posed by the forthcoming AI revolution (变革). In the wrong hands, such a book could prove as complicated to process as the computer code (代码) that powers AI but, thankfully, Campbell has more than two decades’ professional experience translating the heady into the understandable. She writes from the practical angle of a business person rather than as an academic, making for a guide which is highly accessible and informative and which, by the close, will make you feel almost as smart as AI. As we soon come to learn from AI by Design, AI is already super-smart and will become more capable, moving from the current generation of “narrow-AI” to Artificial General Intelligence. From there, Campbell says, will come Artificial Dominant Intelligence. This is why Campbell has set out to raise awareness of AI and its future now — several decades before these developments are expected to take place. She says it is essential that we keep control of artificial intelligence, or risk being sidelined and perhaps even worse. Campbell’s point is to wake up those responsible for AI — the technology companies and world leaders — so they are on the same page as all the experts currently developing it. She explains we are at a “tipping point” in history and must act now to prevent an extinction-level event for humanity. We need to consider how we want our future with AI to pan out. Such structured thinking, followed by global regulation, will enable us to achieve greatness rather than our downfall. AI will affect us all, and if you only read one book on the subject, this is it. 词汇锦囊 1. power / pa (r)/ vt. 驱动，推动 [熟词生义] 2. absorbing / b s b / adj. 十分吸引人的；引人入胜的；精彩的 3. road map n. 指南；公路交通图 4. address / dres/ vt. 设法解决；处理；对付 [熟词生义] 5. pose /p z/ vt. 造成；引起；产生 6. forthcoming / f θ k m / adj. 即将出现（或发生、到来）的 7. complicated / k mpl ke t d/ adj. 复杂的；费解的；棘手的 8. thankfully / θ kf li/ adv. 幸好；万幸地 9. translate...into... 将……变为…… 10. heady / hedi/ adj. 令人头晕的，引申为晦涩的，烧脑的 11. understandable / nd st nd bl/ adj. 易懂的 12. from...angle 从……的角度 13. academic / k dem k/ n. 学者；高校科研人员 14. accessible / k ses bl/ adj. 容易理解的；易懂的 15. informative / n f m t v/ adj. 提供有用信息的；给予知识的 16. by the close 结束时 17. set out to do sth. 着手做某事 18. essential / sen l/ adj. 极其重要的；必不可少的；绝对必要的 19. keep control of 控制 20. risk doing sth. 冒险做某事 21. sideline / sa dla n/ vt. 把…排除在核心之外；使靠边 22. on the same page 意见一致 23. tipping point 转折点 24 ... ...