1. 初中基础 (2280 期 20151009) 6 版 Robot journalists

2. Pre-reading 1.Guess how long it takes SSP editors to publish one newspaper.

3. Pre-reading 2.Do you believe human writers will be replaced by robot journalists in the future? Why or why not?

4. While reading Answer the following questions. 1.How many articles can a robot journalist write in an hour? 2.What is a Wordsmith platform? 7.2 million. It is a natural language-generation software.

5. While reading Answer the following questions. 3.What’s the difference between robot journalists and human writers? 4.Robot journalists have won Pulitzer Prizes because of the good quality they wrote, haven’t they? Robot journalists need sets of data to work while human writers turn their thoughts into articles. No, they haven’t.

6. Language study 1.produce v. 生产，制造 product n. 产品 production n. 生产 productive adj. 多产的 2.nature n. 自然 natural adj. 自然的，天然的 naturally adv. 自然地

7. Language study Complete the sentence with “ produce ” or “ nature ” in its correct form. 1.The company has spent a large sum of money on ___________ development. 2.Thanks to these ___________ workers, they were able to complete the task on time. product productive

8. Language study Complete the sentence with “ produce ” or “ nature ” in its correct form. 3.The new factory ___________ medicine more quickly than before. 4.Every one of us has the duty to keep the balance of ___________. 5.This plant can grow ___________ even in poor soils. produces nature naturally

9. After reading Would you like to read articles written by human writers or robot journalists? Why?