Unit 3　Getting along with others 各课时同步练习（含答案）

Unit 3　Getting along with others Section 1　Welcome to the unit & Reading Ⅰ. 话题拓展阅读。[2025南师大附中期中] Hollywood may have warned about the risks of building up relationships with artificial intelligence(AI), but one computer scientist says we may be missing a trick if we do not accept the positives that human machine relationships have to offer.① Tony Prescott, professor of robotics at the University of Sheffield, argues that AI has an important role to play in preventing human loneliness. “Just as we develop meaningful relationships with pets, and have no doubt about children playing with dolls, so should we be open to the value of AI to adults，”② he says. “Human loneliness is often described as a cycle in which loneliness leads to lower self worth, which discourages further communication with people，”③ Prescott writes in a new book The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence. “There may be ways in which AI companionship could help break it by strengthening feelings of self worth and helping maintain or improve social skills. If so, relationships with AIs could support people to find companionship with human and artificial others.” With more than a third of Americans reporting “serious loneliness”， the loneliness problem has become clear in recent years. Whether AI can, or should, be part of the solution is not a new debate. Sherry Turkle, professor of social science at MIT, has warned that forming relationships with machines could backfire(事与愿违), and lead people to have fewer secure and satisfying human relationships. Murali Doraiswamy, professor of medicine at Duke University, said, “Right now, all the evidence points to having a close human friend as the best solution to loneliness. But unless society puts social connectedness on top of the list, robots are a solution for the millions of people who have no friends.” Researchers may soon know whether people turn to AI for company. Tech firms are building chatbots to be ever more responsive to emotions. In 2024, OpenAI asked Scarlett Johansson to be the voice of their chatbot, GPT 4o, to “help consumers to feel comfortable”．④ Johansson refused, but the chatbot came onto the market with a voice that friends and family thought was hers. OpenAI has since suspended(中止) the voice option “out of respect for Ms Johansson”． 一、 阅读短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 (　　) 1. Why are the pets and dolls mentioned in Paragraph 2 A. To show the meaningful relationship between AI and children. B. To stress the limitations of human AI relationships in daily life. C. To display the potential for AI to provide similar companionship. D. To suggest the possibility for AI to replace traditional companions. (　　) 2. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refer to A. The continued failure of human relationships with AI. B. The repeated use of AI and others for companionship. C. The process of developing human self worth and social skills. D. Th ... ...