cutting-edge 最新的，尖端的

think for itself 独立思考

chit-chat 聊天，闲谈

small talk 闲聊

vernacular 方言，白话

brusque 无礼的，唐突的

commonplace 司空见惯的事情

artificial intelligence (AI) 人工智能

real-world task 现实生活中的真实任务

chatbot 聊天机器人

测验与练习 1. 阅读课文并回答问题。 

1. How do you communicate with a virtual assistant?

2. Give an example of something, mentioned in this article, that this new technology can do for you.

3. True or false: We can talk to virtual assistants the same way we talk to our friends.

4. Why does the author fear that we may eventually stop using our brains?

5. Which verb used in the text means 'make something completely free from faults'?

2. 请在不参考课文的情况下完成下列练习。选择一个意思合适的单词填入句子的空格处。

 1. It's hard to ______ with the teacher because I have to sit at the back of the class.

inactive       interact       interacted      interacting

2. Making contactless payments used to be quite unusual but now it's ______.

real-world      agent      commonplace      cutting-edge

3. The train information screens are not working today because there is a problem with the ______.

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