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1. Which of the following best explains why the author highlights “Aha! moments”?

A. To show that creativity depends on the brain's spontaneous connections.

B. To prove that electrical activity is the indicator of intelligence.

C. To argue that note-taking by hand is unnecessary.

D. To suggest that AI tools can simulate sudden insights.

无注释原文：

AI's Biggest Threat: Young People Who Can't Think

From: The Wall Street Journal

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy caused a stir last week with a memo to his employees warning that artificial intelligence could displace them. “We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs,” he wrote.

Nothing in his memo was shocking. Technological advances as far back as the printing press have eliminated some jobs while creating many others. The real danger is that excessive reliance on AI could spawn a generation of brainless young people unequipped for the jobs of the future because they have never learned to think creatively or critically.

The brain continues to develop and mature into one's mid-20s, but like a muscle it needs to be exercised, stimulated and challenged to grow stronger. Technology and especially AI can stunt this development by doing the mental work that builds the brain's version of a computer cloud—a phenomenon called cognitive offloading.

Growing research shows that handwriting engages parts of your brain that play a crucial role in learning and helps children with word and letter recognition. Taking notes by hand also promotes memory development by forcing you to synthesize and prioritize information. When you plunk away on a keyboard, on the other hand, information can go, as it were, in one ear and out the other.

A study last year analyzed brain electrical activity of university students during the activities of handwriting and typing. Those who were handwriting showed higher levels of neural activation across more brain regions: “Whenever handwriting movements are included as a learning strategy, more of the brain gets stimulated, resulting in the formation of more complex neural network connectivity,” the researchers noted.

Most students in college and many in high school take notes on laptops or tablets, when they take them at all. AI tools that summarize lectures and meetings may soon render note-taking obsolete. Students will likely retain less information as a result.

Why commit information to memory when ChatGPT can provide answers at your fingertips? For one thing, the brain can't draw connections between ideas that aren't there. Nothing comes from nothing. Creativity also doesn't happen unless the brain is engaged. Scientists have found that “Aha!” moments occur spontaneously with a sudden burst of high-frequency electrical activity when the brain connects seemingly unrelated concepts.

College and high-school students increasingly also use large language models like ChatGPT to write papers, perform mathematical proofs, and create computer code. That means they don't learn how to think through, express or defend ideas. Nor how to construct arguments and anticipate the rebuttals. They offload these cognitive challenges to AI.

Why hire a brainless bachelor's degree holder for a rote job that a bot can do at lower cost and with no complaints?

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注：完整题目见本文开头；中文文本为华尔街日报官方译文，仅供参考

含注释全文：

AI's Biggest Threat: Young People Who Can't Think

From: The Wall Street Journal

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy caused a stir last week with a memo to his employees warning that artificial intelligence could displace them. “We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs,” he wrote.

亚马逊（Amazon）首席执行官安迪·贾西（Andy Jassy）在6月中旬发布的备忘录中警告员工小心被AI取代，这份备忘录搅动了人们的神经。“我们将不需要那么多人来从事今天的一些工作，同时会需要更多的人来从事其他类型的工作，”他写道。

stir /stɜːr/ 作动词，表示“激发，激起（强烈的感情）；引起（强烈的反应）”，英文解释为“to make someone have a strong feeling or reaction”举个🌰：The poem succeeds in stirring the imagination. 这首诗能够激发起想象力。

作名词表示“极大的兴趣；兴奋；骚动”，英文解释为“a lot of interest or excitement”举个🌰：The scandal caused/created quite a stir at the time. 那场丑闻在当时引起了极大的轰动。

stir sth up 表示“激起（不快的情感）；挑起，煽动（事端）”，英文解释为“to cause an unpleasant emotion or problem to begin or grow”举个🌰：The teacher told him to stop stirring up trouble. 老师让他不要再生事。

memo /ˈmem.əʊ/ 表示“备忘录；备忘便条”，英文解释为“a message or other information in writing sent by one person or department to another in the same business organization”举个🌰：Did you get my memo about the meeting? 你收到我的会议备忘录了吗？

Nothing in his memo was shocking. Technological advances as far back as the printing press have eliminated some jobs while creating many others. The real danger is that excessive reliance on AI could spawn a generation of brainless young people unequipped for the jobs of the future because they have never learned to think creatively or critically.

他的备忘录中并没有什么令人震惊的内容。早在印刷机时代，技术进步就淘汰了一些工作，同时创造了许多其他工作。真正的危险在于，如果过度依赖AI，可能会催生一代没有头脑的年轻人，他们无法胜任未来的工作，因为他们从未学会创造性思考和批判性思考。

eliminate /iˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/ 1）表示“排除；消除；清除”，英文解释为“to remove or take away someone or something”举个🌰：A move towards healthy eating could help eliminate heart disease. 养成健康的饮食习惯有助于消除心脏病诱因。

2）表示“（比赛中）淘汰”，英文解释为“to defeat someone so that they cannot continue in a competition”举个🌰：He was eliminated in the third round of the competition. 他在第3轮比赛中被淘汰。

spawn作动词，1）表示“使大量出现，使大量产生；酿成”，英文解释为“to make a series of things happen or start to exist”，举个🌰：New technology has spawned new business opportunities. 新技术创造了大量新的商机。

2）表示“（鱼或蛙）大量产卵”，英文解释为“if a fish or frog spawns, it produces eggs in large quantities at the same time”

The brain continues to develop and mature into one's mid-20s, but like a muscle it needs to be exercised, stimulated and challenged to grow stronger. Technology and especially AI can stunt this development by doing the mental work that builds the brain's version of a computer cloud—a phenomenon called cognitive offloading.

人类大脑的发育和成熟会一直持续到25岁左右，但大脑就像肌肉一样，需要锻炼、刺激和挑战才能变得更加强壮。技术，尤其是AI可能阻碍这种发展，因为它们代替大脑去做了建立人脑版计算机云存储的工作——这种现象被称为“认知卸载”。

stimulate /ˈstɪm.jə.leɪt/ 1）表示“刺激，使兴奋；使感兴趣”，英文解释为“to make someone excited and interested about something”举个🌰：The show was intended to stimulate and amuse. 这部电影的主要目的是助兴和娱乐。

2）表示“激发，激励；促进”，英文解释为“to encourage something to grow, develop, or become active”

3）表示“促进（身体某部位）的功能”，英文解释为“to cause part of the body to operate”举个🌰：The drugs stimulate the damaged tissue into repairing itself. 药物促使受损的组织自行修复。

1）作名词，表示“引人注目的噱头”，英文解释为“A stunt is something interesting that is done in order to attract attention and get publicity for the person or company responsible for it.”如：a publicity stunt 宣传噱头，an advertising stunt 广告噱头，a marketing stunt 营销噱头。举个🌰：In a bold promotional stunt for the movie, he smashed his car into a passing truck. 在那部影片大胆的宣传噱头中，他把自己的汽车撞向一辆过路的卡车。

2）作名词，表示“（电影中的）特技动作”，英文解释为“A stunt is a dangerous and exciting piece of action in a movie.”举个🌰：He insisted on living dangerously for his new film by performing his own stunts. 他坚持通过为他的新影片表演他自己的特技动作而冒险。

3）作动词，表示“阻碍”，英文解释为“If something stunts the growth or development of a person or thing, it prevents it from growing or developing as much as it should.”举个🌰：The heart condition had stunted his growth a bit. 心脏病已经有点儿阻碍他的发育。

cognitive /ˈkɒɡ.nə.tɪv/ 表示“认知的；感知的；认识的”，英文解释为“Cognitive means relating to the mental process involved in knowing, learning, and understanding things.”举个🌰：As children grow older, their cognitive processes become sharper. 随着孩子们长大，他们的认知过程也变得越来越敏锐了。

offload /ˌɒfˈləʊd/ 表示“减轻（负担）；卸去（累赘）；把（不想要的东西转移（给别人）”，英文解释为“to get rid of something that you do not want by giving it to someone else”举个🌰：I managed to offload some of our old furniture onto a friend who just bought a house. 我已把我们的一些旧家具给了我一位刚买了房的朋友。

Growing research shows that handwriting engages parts of your brain that play a crucial role in learning and helps children with word and letter recognition. Taking notes by hand also promotes memory development by forcing you to synthesize and prioritize information. When you plunk away on a keyboard, on the other hand, information can go, as it were, in one ear and out the other.

越来越多的研究表明，手写会激活大脑中对学习至关重要的部分，并帮助儿童识别单词和字母。手写笔记还能强迫你对信息进行综合，确定信息的优先次序，从而促进记忆发展。而当你敲击键盘时，信息可能左耳进右耳出。

synthesize /ˈsɪn.θə.saɪz/ 表示“合成”，英文解释为“to produce a substance by a chemical reaction in plants or animals”举个🌰：There are many vitamins that the body cannot synthesize itself. 有很多维生素是人体自身无法合成的。

plunk /plʌŋk/ 1）表示“（随意地）重重放下”，英文解释为“to put something down heavily and without taking care”举个🌰：Just plunk the shopping bags (down) on the table, and come and have a cup of tea. 快把你买的东西搁到桌上，过来喝杯茶。

2）表示“（大声但技艺不佳地）演奏乐器”，英文解释为“to play a musical instrument, usually not very well but often loudly”举个🌰：I really enjoy plunking away on the piano. 我很喜欢咚咚咚地弹钢琴玩。

Plunk本身是一个拟声词，模拟一种沉闷、笨重的敲击声（比如，手指敲在键盘上发出的“噼里啪啦”的声音，或者拨动琴弦的声音）。Away在这里作为副词，表示“持续地、不停地”做某个动作，通常带有一种机械、重复甚至有点漫不经心的意味。类似的用法还有“type away”（不停地打字）、“chip away”（不停地凿）、“work away”（不停地工作）。On表示“在...上面”，这里指“在键盘上”。 所以，plunk away on a keyboard生动地描绘了这样一种场景：一个人（尤其是没有经过专业打字训练的人）用手指在键盘上不停地、有点笨拙地敲打着，发出噼里啪啦的声音。

A study last year analyzed brain electrical activity of university students during the activities of handwriting and typing. Those who were handwriting showed higher levels of neural activation across more brain regions: “Whenever handwriting movements are included as a learning strategy, more of the brain gets stimulated, resulting in the formation of more complex neural network connectivity,” the researchers noted.

去年的一项研究分析了大学生在手写和打字时的脑电活动。手写的学生在更多的大脑区域表现出更高的神经激活水平。“只要将手写运动作为一种学习策略，大脑就会有更多区域受到刺激，由此形成更复杂的神经网络连接，”研究人员指出。

neural /ˈnjʊə.rəl/ 表示“神经的；神经系统的”，英文解释为“involving a nerve or the system of nerves that includes the brain”举个🌰：Some people suffered severe neural damage as a result of the disease. 有些人罹患这种疾病后神经受到严重损伤。

Most students in college and many in high school take notes on laptops or tablets, when they take them at all. AI tools that summarize lectures and meetings may soon render note-taking obsolete. Students will likely retain less information as a result.

大多数大学生和许多高中生即使记笔记，也是用笔记本电脑或平板电脑来记。能够总结讲座和会议内容的AI工具或许很快会淘汰记笔记的做法。这样一来，学生记住的信息可能会减少。

render /ˈren.dər/ 1）早在「经济学人」翻译的出路在哪里？这篇文章中出现过，render表示“翻译，把...译成...”，通常用法为render sth into English/Russian/Chinese etc，将sth译成英语/俄语/汉语等，举个🌰：She is rendering the book into English from French. 她正在把这本书从法语译成英语。

2）表示“（以某种方式）表达；表现”，英文解释为“to express or present something in a particular way”，如：a sculpture rendered in bronze 一尊青铜雕像；

3）表示“使成为；使变得；使处于某种状态”，英文解释为“to cause someone or something to be in a particular state”举个🌰：His rudeness rendered me speechless. 他的粗暴无礼让我无言以对。

4）还可以指“给予，提供”，英文解释为“to give something to someone or do something, because it is your duty or because someone expects you to”如：an obligation to render assistance to those in need 为有困难的人提供援助的义务，举个🌰：We see that freight railroads make good profits while rendering excellent service. 我们看到铁路货运公司在提供优质服务的同时也赢得了丰厚的利润。

5）还还还可以表示“粉刷；给（墙壁）抹灰（或水泥）”，英文解释为“to put a first layer of plaster or cement on a wall.”

obsolete /ˌɒb.səlˈiːt/ 作形容词，表示“废弃的；过时的；淘汰的；老化的”，英文解释为“not in use any more, having been replaced by something newer and better or more fashionable”举个🌰：Gas lamps became obsolete when electric lighting was invented. 电灯发明以后煤气灯就被淘汰了。

美式，作动词，表示“淘汰（产品），废弃（想法）”，英文解释为“cause (a product or idea) to be or become obsolete by replacing it with something new.”

Why commit information to memory when ChatGPT can provide answers at your fingertips? For one thing, the brain can't draw connections between ideas that aren't there. Nothing comes from nothing. Creativity also doesn't happen unless the brain is engaged. Scientists have found that “Aha!” moments occur spontaneously with a sudden burst of high-frequency electrical activity when the brain connects seemingly unrelated concepts.

当ChatGPT可以随时提供答案，为什么还要把信息记在脑子里呢？首先，大脑无法在不存在的想法之间建立联系。大脑不可能无中生有。没有大脑的参与，就不可能产生创意。科学家已经发现，灵光闪现的瞬间是在大脑连接看似不相关的概念时，伴随高频脑电活动的突然爆发而自然发生的。

spontaneously /spɒnˈteɪ.ni.əs.li/ 表示“自然的，自发的”，英文解释为“in a way that is natural, often sudden, and not planned or forced”举个🌰：This story may prompt you to burst spontaneously into uncontrollable sobs. 这个故事可能会让你不由自主地抽泣起来。

College and high-school students increasingly also use large language models like ChatGPT to write papers, perform mathematical proofs, and create computer code. That means they don't learn how to think through, express or defend ideas. Nor how to construct arguments and anticipate the rebuttals. They offload these cognitive challenges to AI.

大学生和高中生还越来越多地使用ChatGPT等大语言模型来写论文，进行数学证明，并编写计算机代码。这意味着，他们没有学习如何深入思考，如何表达和捍卫观点，也没有学习如何构建论点和预测反驳。他们将这些认知挑战卸载给了AI。

rebuttal /rɪˈbʌt.əl/ 表示“反驳；驳回；驳斥”，英文解释为“a statement that says that something is not true”举个🌰：She issued a point-by-point rebuttal of the company's accusations. 她就公司的指控进行了针锋相对的驳斥。

Why hire a brainless bachelor's degree holder for a rote job that a bot can do at lower cost and with no complaints?

如果一份机械性的工作可以由机器人以更低的成本任劳任怨完成，又何必雇用一个没有头脑的大学毕业生呢？

bachelor /ˈbætʃ.əl.ər/ 表示“独身男子，单身汉”，英文解释为“a man who has never married” bachelor's degree /ˌbætʃ.əl.əz dɪˈɡriː/ 表示“学士学位”，英文解释为“a first degree at college or university”

📍词根“bachelor”源自中世纪拉丁语“baccalarius”，最初指小农场的主人。后来指未婚男士，也用于指学士学位。

Rote意思是“机械的、重复的、不需要动脑的”

Rote learning即表示“死记硬背”，英文解释为“learning something in order to be able to repeat it from memory, rather than in order to understand it”，Rote job指的是一种机械性工作。这种工作通常流程固定、步骤重复、几乎不需要创造性思维、问题解决能力或复杂的判断。就像背乘法口诀一样，靠的是重复记忆和机械执行，而不是理解与创新。

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