Will there be a time in our lives when cars don’t crash? When we can just sit back and relax and our cars will drive themselves. Auto technology experts say “yes”. And they say that some of those advances may happen quicker than you might think.

They will require the users to input the name of the destination or the complete address of the location that they want to go and the cars’ artificial intelligence takes them there automatically without a driver. They will run on solar power in the daytime and ethanol fuel (乙醇燃料) at night. Toyota, BMW and Honda will completely control the trade of driverless car business together and will have the cheapest driverless cars. Fossil fuels will be completely incompatible (不相配的) with these cars.

Driverless cars will not require a driver’s license of any grade to operate. Anyone with basic literacy and computer skills who are at least 16 years of age will be legally allowed to operate the vehicle with absolutely no restrictions. This would give the young users permission to operate the driverless cars on major highways as well as secondary roads without needing a separate classification. In addition to all this, drunken people will be able to use their own automobiles to return home because they are not “driving” the vehicle.

What’s more, car insurance will become obsolete because there will be no more automobile accidents after the year 2025. This is because the driverless car will have all safety methods in place by the car’s artificial intelligence to prevent automobile accidents. Global positioning systems will become mandatory (強制的) in all newly-manufactured cars after 2010, and will be the most important part in the driverless car.

1.Who will not be able to use driverless cars?

A. Adults with basic literacy and computer skills.

B. Adults who are drunk.

C. Adults without computer skills.

D. Adults without a driver’s license.

2.We can infer from the second paragraph that driverless cars .

A. will need fewer fossil fuels

B. will not need a human’s instructions

C. will run on solar power only

D. will be environmentally friendly

3.What will prevent the driverless car from crashing?

A. Artificial intelligence.

B. Global positioning systems.

C. The people inside.

D. Car insurance.

4.The underlined word “obsolete” in the last paragraph probably means “_____”.

A. difficult to get B. quite important

C. dangerous D. out of business

5.Which of the following may be the best title of the passage?

A. Car safety. B. Driverless cars.

C. The future cars. D. New technology in cars.

1.C

2.D

3.A

4.D

5.B

【解析】

試題分析：本文是科技文章，主要講的是未來不需要人掌控駕駛的汽車，這種類型的汽車可以避免車禍，也無需駕照，會給人們的生活帶來很大的便捷。

1.

2. will run on solar power in the daytime and ethanol fuel (乙醇燃料) at night知，車輛是依靠太陽能和乙醇來充當燃料的，所以是環(huán)保節(jié)能型的，故選D

3. is because the driverless car will have all safety methods in place by the car’s artificial intelligence to prevent automobile accidents知汽車的人工智能功能可以避免車禍的發(fā)生。故選A

4. there will be no more automobile accidents知以后不會有車禍了，所以保險就不管用了。Out of business意為不起作用，故選D

5. A是汽車安全；C未來的汽車；D關于汽車的新科技，綜合比較B更合理全面,故選B

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