1、Unit 3 Times change!班级： 小组： 姓名： 小组评价： 教师评价：【预习指导】1.Look up the new words in the dictionary2.Log on to the Internet to know about the background of this unit.【学习目标】1.Words , phrases and structures of this unit.2.Have a good command of the main idea of the text.3.Grammar: Past continuous passive.【使用说明
2、】1.First refer to the exercise book and master the important points of this unit.2.Do more exercises to strengthen the understanding of the grammar.【重点难点】1.How to tell the difference between past continuous passive and present tense. 2.Finish a passage using past continuous passive.【预习自测】Section ASt
3、arting out & Understanding ideas课后篇素养升华基础夯实.单句填空1.Women are not only allowed but play very important role in the games.2.It took a long time for the (connect) between body temperature and illness to be made.3.It is likely that gates open at 10:30 a.m.and (admit) is free.4.They use computers to keep
4、the traffic (run) smoothly.5.As a mother,she was really happy that her child learned to be (sympathy) to others.6.It is still under discussion whether the old bus station should (replace) by a modern hotel or not.7.The waiter (hurry) to clean up the pieces of the broken plates.8.The little girl pick
5、ed a branch flowers and ran to her grandmother happily.短语填空turn into;for good;grow up;come back to;pop up;take over;comment on;in recent decades;drop in;look up at1.My daughter wants to be a teacher when she .2.After the retirement of his father,Tom the company and became CEO.3.Scientists in China l
6、ed a hard life ,but they have made great contributions to the development of China.4.The consequence of people cutting down lots of trees is that land is easy to wash away when it rains and more land will desert.5.But if you lose strength,your life will be gone .6.I dont feel I can their decision.7.
7、She to see a great friend of hers.8.I love to the stars in the sky at night.9.I was anxious for the children when they didnt their home from school on time.10.As soon as we solved the problem,another immediately .完成句子1.他惊讶地看见家乡已经发生了巨大的变化。 He the great changes have taken place in his hometown.2.由于他受到
8、了很差的治疗,医生很难使他复活。Because of the bad treatment he had received,it was difficult for the doctor to him .3.这是个非正式的聚会,我们不必为此盛装打扮。其实我们就聚在一起吃吃喝喝,开心地玩乐。 Its quite an informal party so we neednt dress up for it.In fact,we can to eat,drink and have fun with each other.4.他英语讲得非常完美,好像在英国居住了很多年似的。He speaks Engli
9、sh perfectly he had lived in England for many years.素养提升.阅读理解A主题语境:信息时代In many aspects,nowadays business environment has changed greatly since the late 1980s.The end of the cold war completely altered the very nature of the worlds politics and economics.In just a few short years,globalization has st
10、arted a variety of trends with profound consequences:the opening of markets,true global competition,widespread deregulation (解除政府对的控制) of industry,and an abundance of accessible capital.We have experienced both the benefits and risks of a truly global economy,with both wall street and main street (平
11、民百姓) feeling the pains of economic disorder half a world away.At the same time,we have fully entered the information age,starting breakthroughs in information technology,which have irreversibly altered the ability to conduct business unconstrained by the traditional limitations of time or space.Toda
12、y,its almost impossible to imagine a world without intranets(内联网),e-mail,and portable computers.With amazing speed,the Internet is profoundly changing the way we work,shop,do business,and communicate.As a consequence,we have truly entered the post-industrial economy.We are rapidly shifting from an e
13、conomy based on manufacturing and commodities to one that places the greatest value on information,services,support,and distribution.That shift,in turn,attaches great importance to “knowledge workers”,a new class of wealthy,educated,and mobile people who view themselves as free agents in a sellers m
14、arket.Beyond the field of information technology,the increasing pace of technological change in virtually every industry has created entirely new business,wiped out others,and produced a great demand for continuous innovation (创新).New product,process,and distribution technologies provide powerful le
15、vers for creating competitive value.More companies are learning the importance of destructive technologiesinnovations that hold the potential to make a product line,or even an entire business segment,virtually outdated.Another major trend has been the consumer and business markets.Theres a growing a
16、ppreciation that superficially similar groups of customers may have very different preferences in terms of what they want to buy and how they want to buy it.Now,new technology makes it easier,faster,and cheaper to identify and serve targeted micro-markets in ways that were physically impossible or p
17、rohibitively expensive in the past.Moreover,the trend feeds on itselfa businesss ability to serve sub-markets fuels customers appetites for more and more specialized offerings.【语篇解读】这是一篇说明文。主要说明了如今商业环境发生了很大的变化,我们已经完全进入了信息时代。同时我们正在经历迅速地经济转变,除了信息技术领域外,几乎每个行业的技术变革步伐都在不断加快,这创造了全新的业务,并产生了对持续创新的巨大需求。1.Acc
18、ording to the first paragraph,the changes in the business environment in the past decades can be due to .A.technological advancesB.worldwide economic disorderC.the fierce competition in industryD.the globalization of economy2.What idea does the author want to convey in the second paragraph?A.The rap
19、id development of information technology has taken businessmen by surprise.B.The internet,intranets,e-mail,and portable computers have entered every corner of the world.C.Information technology has removed the restrictions of time and space in business transactions.D.The way we do business today has
20、 brought about startling breakthroughs in information technology.3.If a business wants to boom in the post-industrial economy,.A.it has to invest more capital in the training of free agents to operate in a sellers marketB.it should try its best to satisfy the increasing demands of mobile knowledgeab
21、le peopleC.it should not overlook the importance of information,services,support,and distributionD.it has to provide each of its employees with the latest information about the changing market4.In the authors view,destructive technologies are innovations which .A.demand a radical change in providing
22、 servicesB.can eliminate an entire businessC.may destroy the potential of a company to make any profitD.call for continuous improvement in ways of doing businessB主题语境:人工智能Computers have become so smart during the past 20 years that people dont think twice about chatting with digital assistants like
23、Alexa and Siri.But that required hard work from computer scientists like Yoshua Bengio,Geoffrey Hinton,and Yann LeCun.They tapped into their own brainpower to make it possible for machines to learn like humans,a breakthrough now commonly known as “artificial intelligence”,or AI.Their insights and pe
24、rsistence were rewarded with the Turing Award,an honour that has become known as technology industrys version of the Nobel Prize.The award marks the latest recognition of the instrumental role that artificial intelligence will likely play in redefining the relationship between humanity and technolog
25、y in the decades ahead.Over the past 30 years,Mr.Bengio,Mr.Hinton,and Mr.LeCun have mostly worked separately on technology known as neural (神经的) networks.These are the electronic engines that power tasks such as facial and speech recognition,areas where computers have made huge improvements over the
26、 past decade.Such neural networks also are a key part of robotic systems that are automating a wide range of other human activities,including driving.Their belief in the power of neural networks was once looked down upon.“For a long time,people thought what we were doing was nonsense,” Mr.Hinton sai
27、d in an interview with The Associated Press.“They thought we were very misguided and what we were doing was a very surprising thing for apparently intelligent people to waste their time on.My message to young researchers is,dont be put off if everyone tells you what you are doing is silly.”While the
28、 AI revolution is raising hopes that computers will make most peoples lives more convenient and enjoyable,its also arousing fears that humanity eventually will be living at the mercy of machines.Mr.Bengio,Mr.Hinton,and Mr.LeCun are also concerned that AI technology might be developed into weapon sys
29、tems that wipe out humanity.But they are far more optimistic about the other prospects of AIempowering computers to deliver more accurate warnings about floods and earthquakes,or detecting health risks,such as cancer and heart attacks,far earlier than human doctors.【语篇解读】这是一篇新闻报道。短文报道了计算机科学家对于人工智能所做
30、出的贡献,尽管有些时候他们的工作被人质疑,并且他们也担心过人工智能可能会给人类带来灾难,但是他们对人工智能仍然很乐观。5.Why does the author mention Alexa and Siri in the first paragraph?A.To introduce the topic of AI.B.To stress the significance of computers.C.To distinguish between types of AI.D.To encourage the use of digital assistants.6.What role do neu
31、ral networks play in AI?A.They make electronic engines work.B.They match up peoples faces with voices.C.They contribute to robotic automation.D.They enable humans to learn like machines.7.Why are people concerned about AI?A.It is a total waste of money.B.It is likely to bring disasters to human beings.C.It is a real risk to public health.D.It is ineffective in forecasting natural disasters.8.What is the best title for the passage?A.What Is AI?B.AI Scientists Rescuing Human BeingsC.Why Is AI Popular?D.AI Pioneers Awarded Techs “Nobel Prize”
