46. What do we learn about the deeper implications of AI?
- A. It is causing catastrophic levels of unemployment.
- B. It is doing physical harm to human operators.
- C. It is altering moral judgments.
- D. It is reshaping humanity.
答案：D
答案句：While the term AI conjures up anxieties about killer robots or catastrophic levels of unemployment, there are other, deeper implications. As AI increasingly shapes the human experience, how does this change what it means to be human? Central to the problem is a person's capacity to make choices, particularly judgments that have moral implications.
参考译文：虽然人工智能一词让人联想到杀人机器人或灾难性失业水平的焦虑，但还有其他更深层次的影响。随着人工智能日益塑造人类的体验，这会如何改变作为人的意义？问题的核心在于一个人做出选择的能力，特别是具有道德含义的判断。
定位线索：题干“deeper implications of AI”→答案句“other, deeper implications”；文中“As AI increasingly shapes the human experience”对应选项D“It is reshaping humanity”（“shapes”与“reshaping”同义改写）。
解析：题干问AI的深层影响，答案句明确指出除了表面焦虑外还有“other, deeper implications”，随后解释AI塑造人类体验、改变人的意义，核心是道德判断能力。选项D“It is reshaping humanity”正是对“As AI increasingly shapes the human experience”的同义转述。选项A是表面焦虑，不是深层影响；选项B无中生有；选项C偷换概念，文中说“capacity to make choices”受影响，而非“altering moral judgments”本身。
47. What is the consequence of algorithmic prescription replacing human judgment?
- A. People lose the chance to cultivate the ability to make practical judgments.
- B. People are prevented from participating in making major decisions in the workplace.
- C. Managers no longer have the chance to decide which loan to approve.
- D. Managers do not need to take the trouble to determine who to hire or fire.
答案：A
答案句：In the workplace, managers routinely make decisions about who to hire or fire and which loan to approve, to name a few. These are areas where algorithmic (算法的) prescription is replacing human judgment, and so people who might have had the chance to develop practical judgment in these areas no longer will.
参考译文：在工作场所，管理者通常决定雇佣或解雇谁、批准哪笔贷款等。这些领域算法处方正在取代人类判断，因此那些可能有机会在这些领域培养实际判断力的人将不再有机会。
定位线索：题干“algorithmic prescription replacing human judgment”→答案句“algorithmic prescription is replacing human judgment”；文中“people who might have had the chance to develop practical judgment in these areas no longer will”对应选项A“People lose the chance to cultivate the ability to make practical judgments”（“develop”与“cultivate”同义改写）。
解析：题干问算法处方取代人类判断的后果，答案句直接说明“people who might have had the chance to develop practical judgment in these areas no longer will”，即人们失去培养实际判断力的机会，对应选项A。选项B范围扩大，文中未说“prevented from participating”；选项C、D偷换概念，文中说管理者仍做决定，只是算法取代判断，并非管理者失去决定机会或不需要费力。
48. What may result from increasing application of recommendation engines in our consumption of culture?
- A. Consumers will have much limited choice.
- B. Consumers will actually enjoy better luck.
- C. It will be easier to decide on what to enjoy.
- D. Humans will develop tastes similar to machines'.
答案：A
答案句：Recommendation engines, which are increasingly prevalent intermediaries in people's consumption of culture, may serve to constrain choice and minimize luck. By presenting consumers with algorithmically selected choices of what to watch, read, stream and visit next, companies are replacing human taste with machine taste.
参考译文：推荐引擎在人们文化消费中日益成为普遍的中介，可能起到限制选择和最小化运气的作用。通过向消费者呈现算法选择的接下来看什么、读什么、流媒体播放什么和访问什么的选项，公司正在用机器品味取代人类品味。
定位线索：题干“recommendation engines in our consumption of culture”→答案句“Recommendation engines...in people's consumption of culture”；文中“constrain choice”对应选项A“Consumers will have much limited choice”（“constrain”与“limited”同义改写）。
解析：题干问推荐引擎在文化消费中的应用结果，答案句明确说“may serve to constrain choice”，即限制选择，对应选项A“Consumers will have much limited choice”。选项B“enjoy better luck”与文中“minimize luck”相反；选项C无中生有，文中未说更容易决定；选项D偷换概念，文中说“replacing human taste with machine taste”，而非人类发展出类似机器的品味。
50. Why does the author say the creatures living in the more and more AI-mediated world will become increasingly unlike us?
- A. They will have lost the most significant human element of being intelligent.
- B. They will no longer possess the human characteristic of being unpredictable.
- C. They will not be able to understand themselves as we can do today.
- D. They will be deprived of what their predecessors were proud of about themselves.
答案：B
答案句：But to the extent that unpredictability is part of how people understand themselves and part of what people like about themselves, humanity is in the process of losing something significant. As they become more and more predictable, the creatures inhabiting the increasingly AI-mediated world will become less and less like us.
参考译文：但就不可预测性是人们理解自己的一部分、也是人们喜欢自己的一部分而言，人类正在失去一些重要的东西。随着它们变得越来越可预测，居住在日益由AI中介的世界中的生物将变得越来越不像我们。
定位线索：题干“creatures living in the more and more AI-mediated world will become increasingly unlike us”→答案句“As they become more and more predictable, the creatures inhabiting the increasingly AI-mediated world will become less and less like us”；文中“unpredictability is part of how people understand themselves”对应选项B“They will no longer possess the human characteristic of being unpredictable”（“unpredictability”与“being unpredictable”直接对应）。
解析：题干问为什么AI中介世界中的生物越来越不像我们，答案句指出因为“unpredictability”是人类自我理解的重要部分，而它们“become more and more predictable”，即失去不可预测性，对应选项B。选项A偷换概念，文中说失去“unpredictability”而非“intelligence”；选项C无中生有，文中未说无法理解自己；选项D偷换概念，文中说“what people like about themselves”是“unpredictability”，而非“predecessors were proud of”。