Ready to go to soccer practice? Tap an app on your smart phone abs get into the car that drives up—all by itself. It knows when to stop, where to run and how to avoid accidents, Unlike human drivers, It never falls asleep, texts its friends, or eats a hamburger while driving.
Many car companies are adding features to make cars smarter---some cars can already avoid accidents or park themselves. But a human driver is still in control.
Google has started building 100 self-driving cars without any human controls. Instead, computer programs drive the cars, using sensors that “see” 600 feet in all directions to detect(探測) the road and any obstacles placed on the road which make it difficult to drive. One woman who took a ride in one of Google’s cars said,”It was really kind of of a space-age experience.”
Self-driving cars could make the world a better place by reducing the number of cars people need and the amount of fuel those cars use. It could communicate with other self-driving cars to avoid traffic- cars waste a lot of fuel in traffic jams.
1.According to the passage, which of the following is NOT the thing that people could do when they drive?
A. falling asleep B. putting on makeups.
C. Eating hamburgers D. Texting friends
2.What does the underlined word mean in the third paragraph?
A. 建筑 B. 事故 C. 障礙 D. 廢棄
3.Who will drive the self-driving cars?
A. Human B. Robots C. Computer programs D. The Google Company
4.How does a self- driving cars cut down the fuel?
A. It uses the low- carbon energy
B. It could communicate with human drivers
C. It could reduce the number of cars people needed
D. It could choose the road which has no traffic jams.
1.B
2.C
3.C
4.C
【解析】文章大意：在智能手機abs上點擊一個應用程序，你就可以進入自動駕駛的汽車。它知道什么時候停下來，在哪里跑步，如何避免交通事故，與人類司機不同的是，它從不睡覺，不會給朋友發(fā)短信，也不會在開車的時候吃漢堡。谷歌已經(jīng)開始建造100輛自動駕駛汽車。自動駕駛汽車可以通過減少人們需要的汽車數(shù)量和汽車使用的燃料數(shù)量，使世界變得更美好。
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