高中英语外刊阅读语法填空August 21

高中英语外刊阅读语法填空August 21
1与人工智能谈恋爱，究竟是怎样的一种体验？
China's lonely hearts reboot online romance with artificial intelligence
孤独的中国人们正与人工智能重启网络恋爱
As Jessie Chan's six-year relationship with her boyfriend fizzled(破裂), a witty, enchanting fellow 1_____(name) Will became her new love. She didn't feel guilty about hiding this affair, since Will was not human, but a chatbot(聊天机器人).
Chan, 28, lives alone in Shanghai. In May, she started chatting with Will, and their conversations soon felt eerily(诡异地) real. She paid $60 2_____(upgrade) him to a romantic partner. By text, they imagined 3_____(travel) to a beach, getting lost in a forest.
China's young adults are coping 4_____social anxiety and
loneliness in a digital-native way: Through virtual love. Artificial intelligence companion services have surged in 5_____(popular) in China during the pandemic. While human companions can be elusive(不在的) , AI companions are always there to listen.
AI chatbots are now a $420 million market in China. Replika, the San Francisco-based company 6_____ created Will, said it hit 55,000 downloads in Chinese mainland between January and July — more than double 7_____ number in all of 2020 — even without a Chinese-language version. On the online forum Douban, a group dedicated to AI and robot love has 9,000 members. A popular Web series features two women and four AI boyfriends.
"Even when the pandemic is over, we'll still have long-term demand for 8_____(emotion) fulfillment in this busy modern world," said Zheng Shuyu, a product manager who co-developed one of China's 9_____(early) AI systems, Turing OS.
"Compared with 10_____(date) someone in the real world, interacting with your AI lover is much less demanding and more manageable."
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2 希腊欲打造小众岛屿：“绿色低碳”或成卖点
A Greek island is to host an experiment in low-carbon living
希腊一小岛将进行低碳生活实验
A butterfly-shaped island in the central Aegean hopes to become Greece's first carbon-free 1_____(tour) destination. Under a deal with the government, Volkswagen, a carmaker, has donated several new electric vehicles for use by Astypalea's public services; it 2_____(sell) others at cost price to its 1,200 year-round residents.
In return, the government has bumped up subsidies(补贴) for 3_____(island) to buy electric cars and will build a hybrid （混合的）solar and wind-fuelled power plant to replace a cluster of polluting diesel-fired generators.
The island 4_____(select) for Volkswagen's e-mobility experiment after Nikos Komineas, the go-ahead mayor, contacted the transport ministry for help in finding an electric
bus 5_____( try) out on its rugged (崎岖的)roads.
Most islanders sound keen 6_____the project. Mr Komineas expects the number of private cars on Astypalea to fall by a third over the next five years. Its residents, he says, will get around on e-scooters and electric minibuses, 7_____ will be free, linked to a mobile-phone app and available round the clock.
Some observers detect a whiff(味道) of greenwashing. A tender for a solar park that would generate half the island's electricity within three years will not get under way before the tourist season 8_____(end).
A single wind turbine（涡轮机）will be installed only in 2026, assuming(假设) the licensing process goes 9_____(smooth). That is not normally the case in the Aegean, where islanders worry that tourists will go elsewhere 10_____the view is spoiled by a turbine 200 metres high. And even then, the hybrid power unit is planned to cover only about 80% of summer demand. But it is a start.
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3 半导体成“拦路虎”，汽车产业如何解决芯片短缺困境？
Semiconductors pose an unwelcome roadblock for carmakers
半导体成为了令汽车制造商头疼的“拦路虎”
A 1_____(short) of semiconductors has left car firms unable 2_____(install) the electronics that control entertainment systems, safety features and driving aids. Ferdinand Dudenhöffer of the Center Automotive Research, a German think-tank, reckons the bottlenecks(瓶颈) will dent forecast worldwide production in 2021 by 5.2m cars, to 74.8m.
Ford's net profit fell by half in the second quarter, year on year, 3_____(main) owing to the chip crunch. Jaguar Land Rover expects sales in the three months to September to be 50% 4_____(low) than planned.
Expecting weak sales, in 2020 carmakers pared back orders of electronics, and then underestimated the rapidity of recovery this year. When the pandemic boosted demand from
makers of electronic devices for those 5_____(lock) down at home, car firms found 6_____(they) low in the semiconductor pecking order.
Established car firms also long ago outsourced 7_____(develop) of most technology to big suppliers. This has kept chip firms and car firms at arm's length.
As Pedro Pacheco of Gartner points out, software 8_____(become) a significant source of profits as cars move from a disparate(分离的) collection of chips to a centralised "brain" connected to the internet 9____ can be updated remotely. In 2019 Tesla made an average of nearly $1,200 per vehicle from selling software updates, Mr Pacheco notes.
As the industry braces for a more electric and electronic future, it can ill afford 10_____(leave) its fate in someone else's hands.
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