Question

【題目】

Attitudes toward new technologies often fall along generational lines. That is, generally, younger people tend to 【1】 older people on the front end of a technological shift.

It is not always the case, though. When you look at attitudes toward driverless cars, there doesn't seem to be a clear 【2】 divide. The public overall is split on whether they'd like to use a driverless car. In a study last year, of all people surveyed, 48 percent said they wanted to ride in one, while 50 percent did not.

The fact that attitudes toward self-driving cars appear to be so 【3】 across generations suggests how transformative the shift to driverless cars could be. Not everyone wants a driverless car now-and no one can get one vet-but among those who are open to them, every age group is 【4】 engaged.

Actually, this isn't surprising. Whereas older generations are sometimes reluctant to adopt new technologies, driverless cars 【5】 real value to these age groups, especially to those with 【6】 mobility or difficulty driving on their own.

This is especially interesting when you consider that younger people are generally more interested in travel-related 【7】 than older ones.

When it comes to driverless cars, differences in attitude are more 【8】 based on factors not related to age. College graduates, for example, are particularly interested in driverless cars compared with those who have less education：59 percent of college graduates said they would like to use a driverless car compared with 38 percent of those with a high-school diploma or less.

Where a person lives 【9】 too. More people who lived in cities and suburbs said they wanted to try driverless cars than those who lived in rural areas.

While there's reason to believe that interest in self-driving cars is going up across the board, a person's age will have little to do with how self-driving cars can become 【10】. Once driverless cars are actually available for sale, the early adopters will be the people who can afford to buy them.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】AD

【2】C

【3】B

【4】ABC

【5】A

【6】BC

【7】AB

【8】BD

【9】AC

【10】C

【解析】

這是一篇說(shuō)明文。人們一般認(rèn)為年輕人比老年人更能接受新科技，但是在無(wú)人駕駛汽車(chē)方面，接受程度和年齡段沒(méi)有直接關(guān)系。

【1】考查動(dòng)詞。句意：也就是說(shuō)，普遍來(lái)說(shuō)，年輕人能接受科技轉(zhuǎn)型的人數(shù)比老年人多。tend to do sth。后面跟動(dòng)詞原形，故在A和AD選項(xiàng)中選。A promise 承諾 B. outnumber 比...多。tend to do sth“傾向于做某事”，根據(jù)句意，故選AD 。

【2】考查形容詞。句意：當(dāng)說(shuō)到對(duì)于無(wú)人駕駛汽車(chē)的態(tài)度時(shí)，似乎沒(méi)有明顯的代際之分。根據(jù)第二段第一句中的though可知第二段和第一段的觀點(diǎn)相悖，對(duì)于無(wú)人駕駛汽車(chē)這項(xiàng)新科技的接受程度，代際差別沒(méi)有那么明顯。故選C。

【3】考查形容詞。句意：幾代人對(duì)于無(wú)人駕駛汽車(chē)的多種態(tài)度顯示了向無(wú)人駕駛汽車(chē)的轉(zhuǎn)變能多具變革性。根據(jù)so可知橫線(xiàn)處應(yīng)該填形容詞，由第二段48 percent said they wanted to ride in one, while 50 percent did not. “48%的人想要駕駛一輛無(wú)人駕駛汽車(chē)，而50%不想”可知，人們對(duì)此態(tài)度不一。故選B

【4】考查副詞。句意：但在那些對(duì)他們開(kāi)放的人群中，每個(gè)年齡組都有類(lèi)似的參與。根據(jù)橫線(xiàn)后engaged可知橫線(xiàn)處應(yīng)該填副詞，根據(jù)句意。故選ABC

【5】考查動(dòng)詞。句意：雖然老年人有時(shí)不愿意接受新科技，但是無(wú)人駕駛汽車(chē)承諾給這些年齡段的人帶來(lái)真正價(jià)值。分析句子結(jié)構(gòu)可知，橫線(xiàn)處缺少動(dòng)詞，且因?yàn)?/span>cars為復(fù)數(shù)，所以應(yīng)該填動(dòng)詞原形。根據(jù)句意。故選A

【6】考查形容詞。句意：雖然老年人有時(shí)不愿意接受新科技，但是無(wú)人駕駛汽車(chē)承諾給這些年齡段的人帶來(lái)真正價(jià)值，特別是那些只有有限行動(dòng)能力和自己駕車(chē)有困難的人。橫線(xiàn)后是名詞mobility，故應(yīng)該填形容詞，or表示并列，所以橫線(xiàn)處意思應(yīng)該和with difficulty driving on their own相近。故選BC

【7】考查名詞。句意：當(dāng)你考慮相較于老年人，年輕人一般對(duì)于行駛相關(guān)的科技更加感興趣時(shí)，這一點(diǎn)尤其有趣。分析句子可知，橫線(xiàn)前為形容詞且沒(méi)有冠詞，所以橫線(xiàn)處應(yīng)該填名詞復(fù)數(shù)。根據(jù)句意，故填AB。

【8】考查形容詞。句意：當(dāng)說(shuō)到無(wú)人駕駛汽車(chē)，態(tài)度的不同更顯著地基于非年齡因素。分析句子可知，more后面跟形容詞，根據(jù)上文年齡因素在人們對(duì)于無(wú)人駕駛汽車(chē)態(tài)度上不是非常明顯，所以其他因素更為明顯，故選BD。

【9】考查動(dòng)詞。句意：人們住的地方也有關(guān)。上一段提到人們的態(tài)度和學(xué)歷等因素有關(guān)，本段繼續(xù)說(shuō)明其他因素，分析句子結(jié)構(gòu)可知，本句缺動(dòng)詞且為三單形式。根據(jù)句意。故選AC matters 。

【10】考查形容詞。句意：一個(gè)人的年齡和無(wú)人駕駛汽車(chē)如何能成為主流之間沒(méi)有太大關(guān)系。become為系動(dòng)詞后接形容詞作表語(yǔ)。根據(jù)句意，故選C。