2025年12月六级 第2套 Section A 选词填空

We humans love to believe we are special, but science and technology have repeatedly proved this conviction wrong. People __26__ thought that humans were the only animals to use tools, to form teams or to propagate culture, but science has shown that other animals do each of these things.

Meanwhile, technology has quashed, one by one, claims that __27__ tasks require a human brain. The first adding machine was invented in 1623. This past year, a computer-generated work won an art contest. I believe the moment when computers meet and __28__ human intelligence is on the horizon.

How will human intelligence and creativity be valued when machines become smarter and more creative than the brightest people? There will likely be a spectrum. In some __29__, people still value humans doing things, even if a computer can do it better. It's been a quarter of a century since a computer beat world champion Garry Kasparov, but human chess hasn't gone away.

In other fields, human skill will seem costly and __30__. Take illustration for example: most readers don't care whether the graphic __31__ a magazine article was drawn by a person or a computer — they just want it to be relevant, new and perhaps __32__.

And, of course, this question isn't black or white. Many fields will be a __33__, where some humans find a lucky place, but most of the work is done by computers, like in manufacturing today, where, much of the work is accomplished by robots, but some humans must be there to __34__ the machines.

If history is any guide, it's almost certain that advances in AI will cause more jobs to __35__, that creative workers with human-only skills will become richer but fewer in number, and that those who own creative technology will become the new ultra-rich.