2024届高考英语复习 阅读理解练习 人与社会—科学(科学精神) 学案.docxVIP

高考英语复习 阅读理解练习 人与社会—科学(科学精神) 拓展练习 I. Translate the following sentences as a preparation for the guided writing task. 1. 这个过程涉及共同推理和利用群体的多样化专长。(reason, capitalize on) ______________________________________________________________ 2. 通过鼓励积极参与和考虑多个观点，我们可以抵消个人错误，做出更明智的决策。(cancel out) ______________________________________________________________ 3. 群体智慧的影响重大。(implication) ______________________________________________________________ II. Guided writing. 假定你班下周的英语口语课主题是“群体智慧”，请你写一篇英文发言稿。 注意：1. 词数100左右； 2. 开头和结尾已为你写好。 Dear classmates, Today, I want to share with you something about the “wisdom of crowds”. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ Thank you for your attention and I’m eager to hear your insights. 拓展阅读 The Wisdom of Crowds At a livestock (牲畜) fair in 1906, scientist Francis Galton observed visitors taking part in a contest to guess an ox’s weight in pounds. The results were surprising: although no individual, including cattle experts, could guess the ox’s exact weight, the mean value of all the visitors’ estimations was a mere pound more than the animal’s actual weight. In other words, the?collective?estimation was far more accurate than any individual one. Galton had discovered how a group of people was, indeed, wiser than each of its individual members (including experts). The television show?Who Wants to Be a Millionaire??is another example of this phenomenon. Candidates on the show have to answer round after round of multiple-choice questions to win t