高考英语一轮复习Unit9Wheels能力提升题组训练（B）（含解
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能力提升题组训练(B)
Ⅰ.阅读理解
A
What if the car waiting patiently behind a parked bus is a driverless or autonomous vehicle (AV)?Will this robot car be able to understand what you mean when you flash your lights or madly wave your hands?Its sensors could decide that it’s only safe to overtake when there’s no oncoming traffic at all.On a busy road at school home time,this may be never leading to increasingly angry passengers and increasingly angry drivers queuing behind.
And how will a robot car driving out from a T-junction into oncoming traffic be able to make the necessary eye contact with a human driver?These safety-first robot cars could become victims of their own politeness and end up being bullied and ignored by aggressive,impatient humans.This,at any rate,is one of the conclusions to be drawn from research carried out by Dr.Chris Tennant of the psychological and behavioral science department at the London School of Economics.His Europe-wide survey finds that nearly two-thirds of drivers think machines won’t have enough common sense to interact with human drivers.And more than two-fifths think a robot car would remain stuck behind our parked lorry for a long time.
“If you view the road as a social space,you will consciously negotiate your journey with other drivers.People who like that negotiation process appear to feel less comfortable engaging with AVs than with human drivers,”says Mr.Tennant in his report.Of course,humans are always skeptical about new technologies of which they have little experience.That skepticism usually decreases with usage,however.And even many skeptics accept that emotionless AVs could cause fewer accidents than we humans,with our tendency to road anger,tiredness and lack of concentration.A statistic often repeated is that human error is responsible for more than 90% of
accidents.But 70% of the 12,000 people Mr.Tennant and his team interviewed agreed that:“As a point of principle,humans should be in control of their vehicles.”An even greater proportion—80%—thought an autonomous vehicle should always have a steering wheel.
1.What do we know about an autonomous vehicle according to the text? A.It is controlled by a robot. B.It waits shorter than other cars. C.It judges traffic by drivers online. D.It recognizes angry human drivers. 2.What did Dr.Chris Tennant find in his study?
A.Autonomous vehicles won’t interact with human drivers. B.Autonomous vehicles avoid passing T-junctions ahead of time. C.Autonomous vehicles drive in the same ways as a human driver. D.Autonomous vehicles may suffer from impatient human drivers. 3.What can we infer from the text? A.Autonomous vehicles will be less social.
B.Autonomous vehicles are safer than generally expected. C.Human drivers have been replaced by autonomous vehicles. D.Human drivers are willing to interact with autonomous vehicles. 4.What is the best title for the text? A.An Autonomous Car Takes a Test Run B.What Is Driverless Technology Like? C.Say No to the Coming Driverless Trend
D.Would You Bully a Driverless Car or Show It Respect?
语篇解读:本文介绍了无人驾驶车辆的应急办法、遭遇到的歧视以及与人为驾驶车辆相比的优势等,从而告诉人们要接受并尊重无人驾驶车辆。 答案及剖析:
1.A 细节理解题。由第一段第一、二句“What if the car waiting patiently behind a parked bus is a driverless or autonomous vehicle (AV)?Will this robot car be able to understand what you mean when you flash your lights or madly wave your hands?”可知,无人驾驶的车辆是由机器人操纵的。
2.D 细节理解题。由第二段中的“These safety-first robot cars could become victims
of their own politeness and end up being bullied and ignored by aggressive,impatient humans.This,at any rate,is one of the conclusions to be drawn from research carried out by Dr.Chris Tennant...”可知,这是克里斯·坦南特博士研究团队得出的无人驾驶车辆遭遇到的情况,因此无人驾驶车辆可能会遭遇到没有耐心的司机的伤害。
3.B 推理判断题。由第三段中的humans are always skeptical about new technologies of which they have little experience 和emotionless AVs could cause fewer accidents than we humans可知,无人驾驶车辆比人们普遍认为的更安全。
4.D 标题归纳题。根据全文内容可知,第一段提到了无人驾驶车辆对紧急情况的处理,第二段提到无人驾驶车辆可能会遭到没有耐心的司机的欺负,最后一段提到无人驾驶车辆与人为驾驶车辆的比较。作者推崇无人驾驶车辆,而且本文重点是对比无人驾驶车辆和人类司机驾驶车辆,因此本文中心思想是不要欺负和不尊重无人驾驶车辆。
B
My name is Matthew.I’m not someone who has many secrets because I’m a terrible liar.But there is one huge secret that I kept for years—I failed my driving test.I had never failed a test before,and had never even come close.Driving made me anxious,but my parents told me I had to.They made me sign up for driving lessons.I had gotten a perfect score for my written permit exam,but getting behind the wheel was a different story.
But when October 30th rolled around,my pride set in.I wanted to be like everyone else at my school,showing off the brand-new license they’d gotten.Looking back on that special day,I can’t remember if I was nervous.What I do remember is starting the test,pausing at a stop sign after a few seconds,and being asked by the instructor to pull over.I had received an auto-fail since my pause was indeed a pause and not a real stop.I wasn’t upset that I was leaving without a license,but I was scared everyone would know that I had failed.So when I got to class,I told everyone I didn’t want to take the test on my birthday.
One Friday a month later,I went to the test spot again and passed.Later that night I drove for the first time by myself,which brought to me an amazing feeling I’ve never experienced—but still,I couldn’t imagine ever telling anyone the truth.So I didn’t.It wasn’t until midway through college that I came clean.It turned
高考英语一轮复习Unit9Wheels能力提升题组训练(B)(含解析)北师大版
