Question

【题目】 What will the car be like in the future? Do we still have to learn to drive cars ourselves in the future? The answer is No.【1】.

About 40 years ago, scientists from the United States started to develop self-driving cars.【2】. The most famous recent one was made by Google in 2009. There are cameras and radars on the top of the car. They allow the computer in the car to draw a 3D map of the environment.【3】. The car made a trip from Changsha to Wuhan.

Is a self-driving car safe? 【4】.If only 10% of the cars onthestreet are self-driving, they will save 1,000 lives every year. If 90% percent of vehicles are self-driving, 21,700 lives will be saved a year. 【5】. So it is impossible to be very popular in the near future.

A. Chinese scientists have also successfully developed a self-driving car.

B. A recent study shows that robots make safer drivers than humans.

C. However, a self-driving car is expensive and each costs about $ 100, 000.

D. They have made great progress these years.

E. Maybe we can sit in a car that can drive itself.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】E

【2】D

【3】A

【4】B

【5】C

【解析】

未来的汽车会是什么样子？本文主要介绍了自动驾驶汽车。

【1】句意：也许我们可以坐在一辆自动驾驶的汽车里。

根据前文“Do we still have to learn to drive cars ourselves in the future? The answer is No.”可知，将来我们不必自己学开车，根据前后文语意，故选E。

【2】句意：这些年来他们取得了很大的进步。

根据后文“The most famous recent one was made by Google in 2009.”可知，最近最著名的是谷歌在2009年制造的，根据前后文语意，故选D。

【3】句意：中国科学家还成功研发了一款自动驾驶汽车。

根据后文“The car made a trip from Changsha to Wuhan.”可知，这辆车从长沙开往武汉，所以此处在说中国的自动驾驶汽车，故选A。

【4】句意：最近的一项研究表明，机器人比人类更安全。

根据后文“If only 10% of the cars on the street are self-driving, they will save 1,000 lives every year.”可知，如果街上只有10%的汽车是自动驾驶的，它们每年将拯救1000条生命，所以自动驾驶比人类开车更安全，故选B。

【5】句意：然而，一辆自动驾驶汽车非常昂贵，每辆大约10万美元。

根据后文“So it is impossible to be very popular in the near future.”可知，所以自动驾驶汽车在不久的将来不可能很受欢迎，是因为自动驾驶汽车有自己的缺点，故选C。