《2025年活动单导学课程高中英语选择性必修第一册译林版》

Ⅱ. Answer the following questions according to the text.
1. What are the different application capabilities that precision farming has?
2. What tools are available for gathering information?
3. Why is AI technology ideal for cotton farming?

答案： 1. Precision farming boasts a diverse range of application capabilities at different stages of food production—monitoring, diagnosing, identifying and targeting. 2. Sensors, drones and satellites. 3. Because computer vision can distinguish weeds from crops and cotton farmers use drones with AI technology to precisely remove the cotton plants’ leaves by spraying the exact amount of chemicals only on the parts that need them. Activity 2: 1. AI contributes to increased crop yields as well as simplified crop tracking, harvesting and processing. 2. Through the integration of 5G technology and the Internet of Things(IoT), as well as advances in deep - learning technologies. 3. Because it will contribute to a greener, healthier and better - fed planet.
@@The author wants to present the topic, to arouse readers’ interest, and to show the benefits of precision farming.

Activity 2: Read between the lines.
1. What are the benefits of artificial intelligence when used in farming machines?
2. How can we develop the farming industry’s capabilities further?
3. Why will the push for future developments in precision farming benefit all of us?

答案： Activity 2: 1. AI contributes to increased crop yields as well as simplified crop tracking, harvesting and processing. 2. Through the integration of 5G technology and the Internet of Things(IoT), as well as advances in deep-learning technologies. 3. Because it will contribute to a greener, healthier and better-fed planet. 

Activity 3: Read beyond the lines.
Why does the author make a comparison between traditional farming and modern farming in the introduction?

答案： Activity 3: The author wants to present the topic, to arouse readers’ interest, and to show the benefits of precision farming.

Activity 4: Consolidate and feed back.
Ⅰ. Fill in appropriate words in the following sentences.
1. The field had been ploughed (plough) and planted with corn.
2. The two companies are working in close collaboration (collaborate) with each other.
3. He always tried to minimize (mini) his own faults while exaggerating those of others.
4. Sam boasted (boast) that he could beat anyone at poker, but nobody believed him.
5. This disease is easily diagnosed (diagnose) but not so easily treated.
6. When the soil is dry, more moisture (moist) is lost from the plant.
7. The climate has grown more equable and the crop yields (yield) have risen.
8. Millions of people want new, simplified (simplify) ways of interacting with a computer.

答案： 1. been ploughed 2. collaboration 3. minimize 4. boasted 5. diagnosed 6. moisture 7. yields 8. simplified

Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks according to the text.
In modern times, the deep-rooted image of a traditional farmer is being changed. The collaboration (collaborate) between farming and technology has given rise to 2. precision (precise) farming. It aims to improve food production and conserve the environment by reducing a farm’s input and 3. increasing (increase) its output. This evolution is having a positive impact on farming, while also providing better 4. solutions (solve) to the world’s pressing food problems.
It is the advent of modern technology 5. that has turned farming into a highly precise industry. Precision farming 6. boasts (boast) a diverse range of application capabilities at different 7. stages (stage) of food production—monitoring, diagnosing, identifying and targeting.
Thanks to precision farming’s close relationship with technology, the farming industry’s capabilities can develop even 8. further (far). 9. Without doubt, the push for future developments in precision farming will benefit all of us—it will contribute to 10. a greener, healthier and better-fed planet.

答案： 1. collaboration 2. precision 3. increasing 4. solutions 5. that 6. boasts 7. stages 8. further 9. Without 10. a