ACT备考官方例题分析

官方例题分析

Intelligent Machines

Many of the goos an services we epen on aily are now supplie by intelligent, automate machines rather than human beings. Robots buil cars an other goos on assembly lines, where once there were human workers. Many of our phone conversations are now conucte not with people but with sophisticate technologies. We can now buy goos at a variety of stores without the help of a human cashier. Automation is generally seen as a sign of progress, but what is lost when we replace humans with machines? Given the accelerating variety an prevalence of intelligent machines, it is worth examining the implications an meaning of their presence in our lives.

首先，我们仔细分析这份导语：

Sentence 1: General statement about &lquo;intelligent, automate machines&rquo; proviing &lquo;goos an services&rquo;

Sentences 2-4: Three specific examples of robots replacing human workers

Sentence 5: Core question, &lquo;what is lost when we replace humans with machines?&rquo;

Sentence 6: Instruction, Examine the implications an meaning of intelligent machines presence in our lives.

随后，我们会看到题目的三个观点：

Perspective One 

What we lose with the replacement of people by machines is some part of our own humanity. Even our munane aily encounters no longer require from us basic courtesy, respect, an tolerance for other people.

Perspective Two 

Machines are goo at low-skill, repetitive jobs, an at high-spee, extremely precise jobs. In both cases they work better than humans. This efficiency leas to a more prosperous an progressive worl for everyone.

Perspective Three 

Intelligent machines challenge our long-staning ieas about what humans are or can be. This is goo because it pushes both humans an machines towar new, unimagine possibilities.

我们来简化一下这三个观点：

1) Mechanization is relate to an a symbol of perceive moern cultural isintegration (It’s ba).

2) The efficiency of mechanization can only benefit humanity (It’s goo because it’s efficient).

3) Mechanization is goo because it tests our ieas about humanity (It’s goo because it challenges us).

在这道题中，我们看到了两个正面的观点与一个负面的观点。其他题目也有可能会出现两个负面的观点与一个正面的观点，或一个正面观点一个负面观点一个中立观点。

之后是写作指导。随后的每次考试，这段内容都是不变的：

Essay Task

Write a unifie, coherent essay in which you evaluate multiple perspectives on the increasing presence of intelligent machines. In your essay, be sure to:

• analyze an evaluate the perspectives given

• state an evelop your own perspective on the issue

• explain the relationship between your perspective an those given

Your perspective may be in full agreement with any of the others, in partial agreement, or wholly ifferent. Whatever the case, support your ieas with logical reasoning an etaile, persuasive examples.

Planning Your Essay

Your work on these prewriting pages will not be score.

Use the space below an on the back cover to generate ieas an plan your essay. You may wish to consier the following as you think critically about the task:

Strengths an weaknesses of the three given perspectives

• What insights o they offer, an what o they fail to consier?

• Why might they be persuasive to others, or why might they fail to persuae?

Your own knowlege experience an values

• What is your perspective on this issue, an what are its strengths an weaknesses?

• How will you support your perspective in your essay?

让我们来解释一下上面四个问句：

• What insights o they offer, an what o they fail to consier?

每个观点的对与错

• Why might they be persuasive to others, or why might they fail to persuae?

人们为何同意或不同意每一个观点

• What is your perspective on this issue, an what are its strengths an weaknesses?

从三个观点中挑出一个自己认可的

• How will you support your perspective in your essay?

为你的观点提供论证与详细论据