江苏省南京市各地2018-2019年八年级上学期期末英语试卷精选汇编：任务型阅读.doc

任务型阅读 秦淮区四校联考 六、阅读填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分） A) 阅读下面短文，根据所读内容，在文章后71-80小题的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填1个单词。 Artificial intelligence (AI) (人工智能) is growing fast. We are living in a world that depends more and more on AI. AI is a group of technologies that help machines get, understand and use information to do tasks. AI’s recent developments have got a lot of social attention. Some people have welcomed AI because it makes things possible. Can you imagine that you can play basketball with robots one day when you feel lonely on the playground? For another example, AI will have a big influence on areas like medicine and engineering. Robots can do most jobs faster and better than humans. They seldom make mistakes. But this attention has also caused a lot of fear. Especially, many workers are worrying that AI could make them lose their jobs. According to a recent study, nearly five percent of jobs will disappear because of AI. In some areas, AI is already doing the work that people used to do, such as assembling (装配) cars, digging the coal and lifting goods. Self-driving cars and trucks controlled by AI will also take away the driver’s jobs in the future. On the other hand, AI will also create many new jobs for people. More people will be needed to write programmers for AI systems (系统) and they will set up and work on them, too. At the same time, jobs that require feelings, excellent communication skills with people will not be replaced (取代) by AI. These includes jobs in fields like teaching, nursing and personal training. Science and technology are developing quickly these days and it's hard to imagine what will happen in the future. But AI is here.?It is changing how people live and work in many ways.?That makes AI important to watch, not to fear. We do believe AI can make people’s lives easier and more interesting. AI is changing the world 71 AI means AI is the short form of Artificial intelligence. It is a group of technologies that help machines get, understand and use