题目内容
2.Few would argue that there has not been significant technological progress in the field of self-driving cars in recent years.Aside from the technology question,the legislative issue gives the world a worse headache.The content of the trouble centres on the question of who is to blame in a crash.The legal field tends to have the owners take responsibility for the messes their cold lifeless machine makes,for which case an explosion of lawsuits are well expected.Today,many of the car manufacturers and their suppliers are researching self-driving technology,but it is unclear why they would want to roll it out quickly.A consumer in America,for example,uses his or her car for approximately one hour per day.There is,therefore,a large amount of"free capacity"in the personal vehicle use market.Imagine a world where you can be driven to work,and where your car can then turn around and drive home so that your partner or anybody else can use it during the day.This shared use pattern could certainly stop the need to own a second car.Taken to its logical conclusion,it could even be the biggest reason to eliminate the need to own a car at all.The effects on car sales volumes could be destructive.
The possible violation of privacy is also a big issue on the map.We all know that consumer data is big business.A self-driving car would easily log where you visited,the time of the day you went,and much more.Though your purchase preferences might escape secret peeping,the leakage of your whereabouts seems inevitable as it's hard to do what you are always doing to your smartphone toward the sole tool of transportation.Power off the big steel fellow and you are stuck on the road.The now excitedly expecting public are sure to be annoyed soon.
Much discussed,the poor application of the technology outweighs the previous factors.In car industry,new vehicle features take a long time to get to broad market mass.Features are typically launched first on high-end vehicles,and then trickle down once there is sufficient space in the market to generate the scale affordable for the volume vehicles.With a car model's life cycle being between five and seven years,it is hard to see self-driving technology being fitted as standards of the mass-market brands.
We still have a long way off from a world of completely self-driving cars.
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78.The likelihood to take the car owners as the guilty party in traffic accidents will give rise toAn explosion of lawsuits.
79.What feature of the self-driving car would mainly affect car sales?Its shared use pattern.
80.How can we prevent our personal data from being monitored by the self-driving car?By powering off the self-driving car.
81.The most serious problem facing the self-driving car isthe poor application of the technology..
分析 文章讲述了无人驾驶汽车存在的一些问题和争议.
解答 78题答案是An explosion of lawsuits.细节理解题.根据第一段"The legal field tends to have the owners take responsibility for the messes their cold lifeless machine makes,for which case an explosion of lawsuits are well expected."可知在交通事故中,车主可能要为汽车造成的事故负责,将会引起法律诉讼的暴增(an explosion of lawsuits.).
79题答案是Its shared use pattern.细节理解题.根据文章第二段中的"This shared use pattern could certainly stop the need to own a second car.Taken to its logical conclusion,it could even be the biggest reason to eliminate the need to own a car at all.The effects on car sales volumes could be destructive."可知,共享模式使用无人驾驶汽车(Its shared use pattern)将主要影响汽车的销售量.
80题答案是By powering off the self-driving car.细节理解题.根据文章第三段"无人驾驶汽车可以探测到你去过那里,什么时候去的,以及更多关于你的消息."因此最好阻止他人监视你的行程的方式是"By powering off the self-driving car".
81题答案是the poor application of the technology.细节理解题.根据最后一段中的"the poor application of the technology outweighs the previous factors."可知该技术的应用效果不佳(the poor application of the technology) 将是无人驾驶汽车面临最严峻的问题.
点评 本文是政治经济类类阅读理解.做这类题材阅读理解时要求考生对文章通读一遍,做题时结合原文和题目有针对性的找出相关语句进行仔细分析,结合选项选出正确答案.同时注意答案字数要求.
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