2018届高三英语高考考前阅读精选10篇（40页）
2018 届高考考前外刊阅读精选10 篇
1 Artificial Intelligence: Friend And Foe[M] (2)
人工智能：亦敌亦友 (2)
2 The digital proletariat[H] (5)
数字无产阶级 (5)
3 Why we ca n’t stop checking Facebook[M] (8)
我们为何忍不住刷“脸书”？ (8)
4 Jam tomorrow[H] (11)
未来的拥堵 (11)
5 Competition and tech: Taming the titans[H] (15)
竞争与科技：驯服巨人 (15)
6 Having Your Smartphone Nearby Takes a Toll on Your Thinking[M] (19)
你的智能手机不利于你的思考 (19)
7 The Third Education Revolution[M] (23)
第三次教育革命 (23)
8 Rules of the road[M] (27)
道路规则 (27)
9 Epic fail[M] (30)
脸书劫数 (30)
10 Can Reading Help My Brain Grow and Prevent Dementia? [M] (33)
阅读有助于大脑发育，预防痴呆吗？ (33)
1 Artificial Intelligence: Friend And Foe[M]
人工智能：亦敌亦友
来源: FORBES DEC. 26 2017
1 Artificial intelligence has a huge role to play on both sides of the cybercurity equation. The industry faces a protracted and vere skill shortage. AI can perform both rote management tasks more quickly and efficiently, without getting bored or distracted. It can also learn new and better curity practices from the evolving digital framework it inhabits. (1) In ou r world whe re conne cti vit y
has far ou tpac ed curit y, int ell igent a gents that ca n h eal and defend them lves are invaluabl e all ies. Machine learning has already proven effective in sandbox environments at exploring potential
vulnerabilities and devising defens.、
2 But cybercriminals are developing their own AI, and are unlikely to do so ethically. In legitimate lab ttings, AI can be carefully monitored and trained for years to be predictable and reliable.
(2)Cybercriminals are less likely to avoid the potentially dangerous side effects, favoring speed over safet y. Malware rings rembling intelligent swarms of (一大群) angry bees are already starting to
appear, weaponizing devices against their owners.
3 It is the ri of the hive (数据仓库工具) . Today the term botnet refers to automated, zombie-like devices that are remotely programmed to target other vulnerable systems with malware (恶意软件) , or to infect them via blunt-force attacks, such as denial of rvice. Botnets are dangerous and account for billions of unauthorized network communications every quarter. The hivenet, however, is much more frightening becau each unit of the hivenet, a swarmbot, will itlf be powered by AI.
(3)Swarmbots will be able to make autonomous decisions without relying on a botnet herder and join togethe r int o larger autonom ous thi nking networks. The potential for hivenet damage is substantially
greater than anything we have faced from already-potent botnets.
4 (4)That’s why one of the most rious threats we face in 2018 and beyond is malware with the capa cit y to learn and gro w throu gh it s own su cces s . Polymorphic (多态的) malware with pre-coded algorithms (算法) designed to subvert (破坏) countermeasures and screens is already a reality. But
that approach simply generates millions of slight variations on the same theme. Nextgen Al- generated malware will be aware and capable of adapting itlf.
5 (5)Instead of sim pl y f oll owing a t of pre -p rogramm ed inst ructi ons, it will lect targets of
opportuni t y, asss th eir weakness es, dev elo p a plan of att ack and cover it s tracks.
And it will make intelligent decisions about what information to exfiltrate, and when. (6) In sh ort , tom orrow’s A I
att acker will behave with the autonom y an d inven ti veness of a hi ghl y skil l ed and mot ivated human
att acker, but at fri ghtenin gl y hi gh er speeds. Hostile AI will be extremely dedicated to exploration, finding weakness at every possible crea (折痕) in the network perimeter (周边) .
(7)Without any
need for op erator in terv en tion , it will be able to full y map ta rgets, desi gn and d ep loy ex ploi ts, an d
even coll ect ( and spend ) ran soms . The are not fever dreams. The are the clear and demonstrable goals of the cybercriminal branch of artificial intelligence rearch. Unsupervid, unfettered AI pos a massive threat to data curity and infrastructure int
egrity.
6 We are at a very delicate moment in our transformation to a digital society and economy. Humans and machines must work together to prepare for the next level of sophistication.
第一部分、课文小助手
一、生词和词块释义
foe /f??/ n. 敌人；反对者
equation /?'kwe??(?)n/ n. 方程式，等式
protracted /pr?'tr?kt?d/ adj. 拖延的
rote /r??t/ n.生搬硬套
inhabit /?n'h?b?t/ vt.&vi. 栖息；占据
outpace /a?t'pe?s/ vt. 赶过；超过…速度
heal /h i?l/ vt.&vi 治愈；和解
allies /??,la?z/ n. 盟友
vulnerability /v?ln?r?'b?l?t?/ n. 弱点
devi /d?'va?z/ vt. 设计；想出
ethically /'eθikli/ adv. 伦理上
legitimate /l?'d??t?m?t/ adj. 合法的
infect /?n'fekt/ vt. 感染，传染
substantially /s?b'st?n?(?)l?/ adv. 实质上；大体上
potent /'p??t(?)nt/ adj. 有效的；强有力的
generate /'d?en?re?t/ vt. 使形成；发生
exfiltrate /'eksf?ltre?t/ vi. 漏出
hostile /'h?sta?l/ adj. 敌对的，怀敌意的
intervention /?nt?'ven?(?)n/ n. 介入；调停
deploy /d?'pl??/ vt.&vi. 配置；展开
ransom /'r?ns(?)m/ n. 赎金
