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Приведем выдержку из задания из учебника Юлия Ваулина, Джунни Дули 10 класс, Просвещение: Текст задания в новом учебнике: Match the texts (A-G) to a heading (1-7). Put your answers into the table. Each number can only be used once. There is one extra heading. 1 The origin of the phrase 2 Coming from the other direction 3 What does ‘uncanny’ mean? 4 Avoiding the uncanny valley 5 Why do we feel it? 6 High cost of the uncanny 7 What is the uncanny valley? 8 Other places it occurs A The word comes from the Anglo-Saxon ‘ken’ which is the word for knowledge or understanding. Something uncanny is something that is a mixture of the familiar and the unfamiliar, the known and the unknown, which together can make people feel very uncomfortable. B The idea of the «uncanny valley» was first proposed by Masahiro Mori, a Japanese robotics professor, in 1970. Over the years, more and more examples that seem to support it have appeared. Today it continues to be an important concept for engineers, because it affects whether or not people will accept and trust a robot. C The idea is based on the observation that as robots look less like machines and more human, people like them better, up to a point. However, when a robot looks very human, but not quite right in some small way, people strongly dislike it. Perhaps it does not make eye contact, or its movements are jerky. If you drew this likeability on a graph, the line would suddenly dip and rise again, making a valley shape. In theory, as the robots become more convincingly human, they should ‘escape’ the uncanny valley and become likeable again. D No one knows for sure why this combination of the familiar and the strange makes people uncomfortable or afraid. There are a number of theories that try to explain it. One is that this is a reaction that our ancestors developed to make them avoid the dead or the sick who could spread disease. Another is that our brains are confused by the conflicting information and so can not process it easily. E Although the uncanny valley idea was first applied to robots, it seems to happen in other situations also. It can be an issue in movie and videogame animation; for example, in one case a studio was surprised to find people were horrified by an animated human baby, instead of finding it cute and likable. An uncanny-valley-like response has even been reported in reaction to the photoshopped photos of models that appear in magazines. F This brings us to another idea, though now in the realm of science fiction, that is worth considering. If robots make us feel uncomfortable when they look too much like people, what will happen in the future if people begin to look more like robots? Will the search for perfection make people look like they are dead or sick? We can see the beginning of this trend already in some celebrities who have had too much plastic surgery. G The general opinion is that designers should aim for more cartoon-like appearances, and avoid super-realistic human likenesses. Yet, as technology improves, the challenge of creating a convincing human look-alike is hard to resist. Some people believe the uncanny valley will disappear by itself, with future generations getting more comfortable with robots. Others say the idea of a valley is incorrect and what really exists is an «uncanny wall». They believe we will never be able to create a realistic human who looks believable enough not to be scary. We will have to wait and see who is right. Текст задания в старом учебнике: Match the texts (1-6) to a heading (A-G). There is one extra heading that you do not need to use. 1) To go to sleep and wake up listening to your favourite music just follow these simple steps. First, set the timer on your MP3 player to the number of minutes you want the music to play for and it will automatically turn off after that. 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Fancy making your own web page, surfing the Net or perhaps just playing games? The school Computer Club meets every Monday from 4 to 6pm. Anyone welcome. Join us this Monday! For more information, please contact: Mr Welsh. Head of IT Department. 5) Martin Cooper was born in Liverpool in 1958. He wanted people to be able to carry their phones with them anywhere. In 1973, he developed the first working mobile phone, the Motorola Dyna-Tac. On 3rd April, he made the first mobile phone call to a rival of his whilst walking in the streets of New York. In 1992, he set up a company to make mobile phones which would be as reliable and cheap as traditional phones. 6) Scientists are testing out a robot that they hope will land on Mars. They are using the rocky slopes of the El Teide volcano on the holiday island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands to test the six-wheeled robot because the conditions are a bit like those on the Red Planet. The scientists hope to use the vehicle in the future to find out if there is, or ever was, life on Mars. *Цитирирование части задания со ссылкой на учебник производится исключительно в учебных целях для лучшего понимания разбора решения задания.

Ответ: 1A 2F 3G 4E 5D 6B 7C