(共14张PPT)
Using Words and Expressions
In addition
the instant
in this case
potentially
keeps track of
Nevertheless
1 People in poor rural areas are being educated to
________________________________________________(停止抵制变化).
2 I met her when I was studying in Wuhan, and I_____________________________________ (保持联系)with her ever since.
3 We were sorry to find out that ___________________________________ (我们所有的建议都被回绝了).
4 It is very difficult to _______________________________ (将你自己融入一个社会)whose culture is so different from your own
5 Some people _______________________________(反对记录体重)without specific aims.
cease resisting / to resist changes (stopped…
keep in touch ( stay / keep in contact )
all our suggestions had been rejected
integrate yourself into a society
oppose recording weight
记录 keep track of
回绝turned down
There are many_____________about what the future will be like, but no one really knows for sure(=for certain无疑;肯定). We do know that there will be many new__________in technology, though. These new advances will make thousands of new products__________that no one has yet even thought about. With(In spite of ) this, however, there is a________new problem which we do not have now: the gap between the technologically rich and the technologically poor. Not everyone may have the money to _______new technology into their lives, and some people living in___________areas may not have access to__________new technology. In (the) light of (鉴于,考虑到)such____________,many people are already working hard to make new technology cheaper and easier to buy so that everyone might benefit from it.
predictions
innovations
available
potentially
integrate
remote
critical
prospects
keeping
hope
have given up
wanted
doing
be
be driving
will be operating/will operate
try
not having
needing
finding
Listening and Speaking
Activity 1
1. Garry Kasparov feels disappointed afterhe lost his chess match to a computer.
2. An android is playing the winning movein a game of chess.
3. Ke Jie is thinking hard as his computeropponent is winning.
Activity 2
A1 B3 C2
Activity 3
1. in1956 2. in1997 3. in 2017 4. in the mid-21st century
5. in the mid-22nd century 6. in the mid-23rd century
Activity 4
1. They are playing chess. 2. To make the game easier.
3. To offer some tea for her. 4. Huimin wins the game.
5. Let her win the next game.
Activity 5
AI is able to understand and manipulatedata so much faster that it can help us tospot patterns more quickly.Thus,in thefuture,AI will help us to solve problemsthat we consider too complex to solvenow.It is already helping us in a widevariety of fields such as medicine andhuman-to-machine communication.Theeffect of this is that we can more easilycommunicate with our devices such assmartphones,and better organise our time.I think in the future many devices willwork automatically,like cars will be self-driving and safe,which gives us more timeto focus on other important things in life.
Reading and Writing
Activity 1
It appears to be a feature article from anewspaper,meant for general audiences tointroduce cloning and raise their concerns.
Activity 2
1. It happens in plants when gardeners takecuttings from growing plants to makenew ones.It also happens in animalswhen identical twins are produced fromthe same egg.
2. First,gardeners use it to produce large quantities of plants for sale.Second,itis valuable for research on new plantspecies and for medical research onanimals.
3. It could be used to breed animal specieswhich are endangered,bring back specieswhich are now extinct,or grow humanorgans or tissues in animals,which couldbe used for human organ transplants ormedical treatments.
4. If scientists brought an extinct animalback into existence,it would probably end up living in a zoo.
5. Many people worry that eating animalproducts that result from cloning mightbe harmful to our health over time.
Activity 3
Paragraph 1:D Paragraph 2:C
Paragraph 3:E Paragraph 4:A
Paragraph 5:F Paragraph 6:B
Activity 4
1. I think one moral issue is that the cloninganimals would be treated as tools forscience instead of living creaturesand discarded after tests are done.Itbecomes even more complicated whenwe concer about human cloning.Theremay be moral issues of whether humanclones should have the same humanrights and whether they have the sameconsciousness as original humans.
2. It may be used for bad purposes.It hasalready been suggested that clonedorgans and tissue could be produced sothat they could later be harvested for commercial purposes.
3. One big moral issue is that many people regard possible human clones as exactreplicas of the original humans inevery way (e.g.,same personalities andidentities).while such clones wouldbe like twins of the original humans,but with their own personalities andidentities.By regarding human clones asmere replicas,their humanity would bedenied and this could result in all kindsof mistreatment.