《2025年实验班提优大考卷九年级英语上册译林版》

七、(2024·南通中考)短文填空(10分)
The world is changing very fast. Scientific technologies are now influencing 1. aalmost every field of life. A scientist once said that success in developing scientific technologies would be one of the biggest events in human history, but he thought some of them might also be the last unless we learn to avoid the risks. For 2. mmodern society, scientific technologies are amazing but humans may face a lot of challenges.
Will humans be controlled by scientific technologies in the future? Some people say "Yes". They think humans will be under control completely. 3. IIf computers are implanted(植入)inside brains, things will be much worse. With the 4. ddevelopment of technologies, robots have taken the place of humans in some fields and it may make some people 5. llose their jobs. What's more, data centres need a large amount of energy to run. At the same time, it produces so much 6. hheat all the time that a great deal of water is used for cooling. All these may be the risks the scientist referred to.
However, other people don't 7. aagree. They are hopeful about the relationship between scientific technologies and humans. They say that scientific technologies have done much for us and made our daily lives much easier. They can free people from doing housework, writing articles or 8. eeven making films. For example, some technologies can change words into short videos easily and make it 9. ppossible for some common people to be directors.
Every coin has two sides. Rather than worrying about the risks of scientific technologies, we should learn to use them in a 10. wwise way and manage them well.

答案： 七、【文章大意】本文主要介绍了科学技术现在几乎影响着生活的各个领域，但人类可能面临很多挑战。凡事都有两面性，与其担心科学技术的风险，我们不如学会明智地使用它们并做好管理。
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