Cars are responsible for most of the smog in cities,______(这已经对环境造成了严重的污染).
Cars are responsible for most of the smog in cities,______(这已经对环境造成了严重的污染).
Cars are responsible for most of the smog in cities,______(这已经对环境造成了严重的污染).
听力原文: There is increasing scientific evidence that large cars cause more highway accidents than small cars. In the news recently was the story of a woman who died of a heart attack while driving her station wagon. The car was moving so fast that it went through the highway-dividing fence, resulting in a collision in which five people died. Those unnecessary deaths are attributable in part to the woman's choice of a large automobile. A lighter and smaller car probably wouldn't have gone through the fence, because the heavier the ear, the greater the force it will have in a collision. Furthermore, even if the lighter car had broken through the fence, its remaining energy would have been much less, and this would have reduced the chances of serious injury or death. Because of its small size, it might have missed the other car completely. The present design of the oversized automobile is largely responsible ant only for the increasing death toll on the highway but also for the rapid depletion of our resources of petroleum, for the pollution of our environment, for urban sprawl, and for the congestion and inconvenience of our cities.
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A.The story of a woman who died of a heart attack.
B.The story of a car going through the highway-dividing fence.
C.The story of a collision in which five people died.
D.Large cars cause more highway accidents than small cars.
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Virtual Driver
Driving involves sharp eyes and keen ears, analyzing with a brain, and coordination between hands, feet and brain. A man has sharp eyes and keen ears, analyzes through his brain, and maintains coordination between his hands and brains. He can control a fast-moving car with different parts of his body. __________ (46) Apparently there isn&39;t anyone in the driver&39;s cab, but there is in fact a virtual driver. This virtual driver has eyes, brains, hands and feet too. The minicameras on each side of the car are its eyes and are responsible for observing the road conditions ahead of it as well as the traffic to its left and right. If you open the boot, you can see the most important part of the automatic driving system: a built-in computer. __________ (47) The brain of the car is responsible for calculating the speeds objects surrounding the car are moving at,analyzing their position on the road, choosing the right path, and giving orders to the wheel and the control system.<br>
In comparison with the human brain, the virtual driver&39;s best advantage is that it reacts quickly.<br>
__________ (48) However, it takes the world&39;s best racecar driver at least one second to react, and this doesn&39;t include the time he needs to take action.<br>
With its rapid reaction and accurate control, the virtual driver can reduce the accident rate on expressways considerably. In this case, is it possible for us to let it have the wheel at any time and in any place? __________ (49). With its limited ability to recognize things, the car can now only travel on expressways.<br>
The intelligent car determines its direction by the clear lines that mark the lanes clearly and recognizes vehicles according to their regular shapes. __________ (50). This being the case4,people still have high hopes about driverless cars, and think highly intelligent cars are what the cars ture should be like.<
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A.Experts say that we cannot do that just yet
B.In the near future, intelligent cars will be put into commercial operation
C.This is the brain of the car
D.But how does an intelligent car control itself?
E.It completes the processing of the images sent by the cameras within 100 milliseconds
F.However, it cannot recognize moving people and bicycles on ordinary roads that have no clear markings on them
Virtual Driver
Driving involves sharp eyes and keen ears,analyzing with a brain,and coordination between hands.feet and brain.A man has sharp eyes and keen ears,analyzes through his brain,and maintains coordination between his hands and brains.He can control a fast-moving car with different parts of his body.________(1).Apparently there isn’t anyone in the driver’s cab,but there is in fact a virtual driver.This virtual driver has eyes,brains,hands and feet too.The minicameras on each side of the car are its eyes and are responsible for observing the road conditions ahead of it as well as the traffic to its left and right.If you open the boot,you can see the most important part of the automatic driving system:a built-in computer.________(2).The brain is responsible for calculating the speeds objects surrounding the car are moving at,analyzing their position on the road,choosing the right path.and giving orders to the wheel and the control system.
In comparison with the human brain.the virtual driver’ s best advantage is that it reacts quickly.________(3).However。it takes the world ’s best racecar driver at least one second to react,and this doesn’t include the time he needs to take action.
With its rapid reaction and accurate control。the virtual driver Can reduce the accident rate on expressways considerably.In this case.is it possible for us to let it have the wheel at any time and in any place?________(4).With its limited ability to recognize things,the car can now only travel on expressways.
The intelligent car determines its direction by the clear lines that mark the lanes clearly and recognizes vehicles according to their regular shapes.________(5).This being the case,people still have high hopes about driverless cars,and think highly intelligent cars are what the cars of the future should be like.
A.Experts say that we cannot do that just yet.
B.In the near future.intelligent cars will be put into commercial operation.
C.This is the brain ofthe car.
D.But how does an intelligent car control itself?
E.It completes the processing of the images sent by the cameras within 1oo milliseconds.
F.However.it cannot recognize moving people and bicycles on ordinary roads that have no clear markings on them.
第 21 题 请选择(1)处的最佳答案.
听力原文: Some people argue that the pressure on international sportsmen and sportswomen kills the essence of sport -- the pursuit of personal excellence. Children kick a football around for fun. When they get older and play for local school teams, they become competitive but they still enjoy playing. The individual representing his country cannot afford to think about enjoying himself. He has to think only about winning. He is responsible for an entire nation's hopes, dreams and reputation.
A good example is the football World Cup. Football is the world's most important sport. Winning the World Cup is perhaps the summit of international sporting success. Mention "Brazil" to someone and the chances are that he'll think of football. In a sense, winning the World Cup "put Brazil on the map".
Sports fans and supporters get quite irrational about the World Cup. People in England felt that their country was somehow important after they won in 1966. Last year thousands of Scots sold their cars, and even their houses, and spent all their money traveling to Brazil, who won the cup.
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A.Children can have fun from it.
B.People can achieve personal excellence from it.
C.The winner will be greatly honored.
D.It can realize the dreams of an entire nation.
Mercedes experienced one of its worst years ever in 1992. The auto maker's worldwide car sales fell by 5 percent from the previous year, to a low of 527,500. Before the decline, in 1988, the company could sell close to 600,000 cars per year. In Germany alone, there were 30,000 fewer new Mercedes registrations last year than in 1991. As a result, production has plunged by almost 50,000 cars to 529, 400 last year, a level well beneath the company's potential capacity of 650,000. Mercedes's competitors have been catching up in the U.S., the world's largest car market. In 1986, Mercedes sold 100,000 vehicles in America; by 1991, the number had declined to 39,000. Over the last two years, the struggling company has lost a slice of its U.S. market share to BMW, Toyota and Nissan. And BMW outsold Mercedes in America last year for the first time in its history. Meanwhile, just as Mercedes began making some headway in Japan, a notoriously difficult market, the Japanese economy fell on hard times and the company saw its sales decline by 13 percent in that country.
Revenues(收益) will hardly improve this year, and the time has come for getting down to business. At Mercedes, that means cutting payrolls, streamlining production and opening up to consumer needs. Revolutionary steps for a company that once considered itself beyond improvement.
The author's intention in citing various nationalities' interests in Mercedes is to illustrate Mercedes' ______.
A.sale strategies
B.market monopoly
C.superior quality
D.past record
How Global Warming Works
Gases in the Earth's atmosphere act like glass in a greenhouse-trapping heat and making life on Earth possible. But there is a delicate balance. Burning coal, oil and natural gas increases atmospheric concentrations of these gases. Over the past century, increases in industry, transportation, and electricity production have increased gas concentrations in the atmosphere faster than natural processes can remove them leading to human-caused warming of the globe.
The Sources Of Global Warming
The major source of global warming is carbon dioxide pollution from power plants, auto mobiles, and industry. Another source is global deforestation.
Power plants are responsible for more than a third of U. S. CO2emissions, yet there are no caps on CO2emissions from power plants or any other industry.
Gas guzzling cars and light trucks are also responsible for a third of U.S. CO2emissions. Current regulations allow for very inefficient vehicles which spew tons of CO2
Trees remove carbon dioxide from the air as they grow. When they are cut and burned that CO2is released back into the atmosphere. Massive deforestation around the globe is releasing large amounts of CO2and decreasing the forests' ability to take CO2from the atmosphere.
Solutions
The U. S. , with only four percent of the world's population, is responsible for 22 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. Fortunately, solutions exist to cut our global warming emissions. Decision makers in the United States should take the following steps.
Increasing fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks would cut millions of tons of CO2pollution as well as decreasing dependence on foreign oil.
Putting a cap on CO2from power plants would cut millions of tons of CO2pollution as well as decreasing pollution that causes acid rain, smog, and respiratory illness.
Shifting investment from fossil fuels like coal and oil to renewable energy and energy efficiency would allow cleaner, more sustainable sources of energy to take their rightful place as market leaders.
Ratification of the Kyoto Protocol would be a modest but important first step to ward international emissions reductions.
The Evidence
Recently, alarming events that are consistent with scientific predictions about the effects of climate change have become more and more commonplace. The global average temperature has increased by about 0.5°C and sea level has risen by about 10 inches (25cm) in the past century. Official confirmation came in 1995, when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an officially appointed international panel of over 2,500 of the world's leading scientific experts, found that evidence suggests a human influence on the global climate.
The following are events which consistent with scientists predictions of the effects of global warming:
The past two decades have witnessed a stream of new heat and precipitation re cords. The 10 hottest years on record have all occurred since 1980, the hottest year ever on record is 1997, and the hottest January through July on record occurred in 1998. Glaciers are melting around the world. Alaska's Columbia Glacier has retreated more than eight miles in the last 16 years while temperatures there have increased. A section of an Antarctic ice shelf as big as the District of Columbia broke off.
Severe floods like the devastating Midwestern floods of 1993 and 1997 are becoming more common.
Infectious diseases are moving into new areas as seen in the recent outbreaks of Dengue fever in Texas and Malaria in New Jersey.
The Opposition
The Global Climate Coalition, a powerful coalition of oil, power, and auto companies has followed the lead of tobacco companies by denying the harm they ca
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How Global Warming Works
Gases in the Earth's atmosphere act like glass in a greenhouse—trapping heat and making life on Earth possible. But there is a delicate balance. Burning coal, oil and natural gas increases atmospheric concentrations of these gases. Over the past century, increases in industry, transportation, and electricity production have increased gas concentrations in the atmosphere faster than natural processes can remove them leading to human-caused warming of the globe.
The Sources Of Global Warming
The major source of global warming is carbon dioxide pollution from power plants, automobiles, and industry. Another source is global deforestation.
Power plants are responsible for more than a third of U.S. CO2 emissions, yet there are no caps on CO2 emissions from power plants or any other industry.
Gas guzzling cars and light trucks are also responsible for a third of U.S. CO2 emissions. Current regulations allow for very inefficient vehicles which spew tons of CO2.
Trees remove carbon dioxide from the air as they grow. When they are cut and burned CO2 is released back into the atmosphere. Massive deforestation around the globe is releasing large amounts of CO2 and decreasing the forests' ability to take CO2 from the atmosphere.
Solutions
The U.S., with only four percent of the world's population, is responsible for 22 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. Fortunately, solutions exist to cut our global warming emissions. Decision makers in the United States should take the following steps.
Increasing fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks would cut millions of tons of CO2 pollution as well as decreasing dependence on foreign oil.
Putting a cap on CO2 from power plants would cut millions of tons of CO2 pollution as well as decreasing pollution that causes acid rain, smog, and respiratory illness.
Shifting investment from fossil fuels like coal and oil to renewable energy and energy efficiency would allow cleaner, more sustainable sources of energy to take their rightful place as market leaders.
Ratification of the Kyoto Protocol would be a modest but important first step toward international emissions reductions.
The Evidence
Recently, alarming events that are consistent with scientific predictions about the effects of climate change have become more and more commonplace. The global average temperature has increased by about 0.5℃ and sea level has risen by about 10 inches(25 cm) in the past century. Official confirmation came in 1995, when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an officially appointed international panel of over 2,500 of the world's leading scientific experts, found that evidence suggests a human influence on the global climate.
The following are events which consistent with scientists' predictions of the effects of global warming:
The past two decades have witnessed a stream of new heat and precipitation records. The 10 hottest years on record have all occurred since 1980, the hottest year ever on record is 1997, and the hottest January through July on record occurred in 1998.
Glaciers are melting around the world. Alaska's Columbia Glacier has retreated more than eight miles in the last 16 years while temperatures there have increased. A section of an Antarctic ice shelf as big as the District of Columbia broke off.
Severe floods like the devastating Midwestern floods of 1993 and 1997 are becoming more common.
Infectious diseases are moving into new areas as seen in the recent outbreaks of Dengue fever in Texas and Malaria in New Jersey.
The Opposition
The Global Climate Coalition, a powerful coalition of oil, power, and auto companies has followed the lead of tobacco companies by denyi
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The idea goes like this. A control box fitted to the car contains a mini-cellphone, a micro- processor and memory, and a GPS (全球定位系统) satellite positioning receiver. If the car is stolen, a coded cellphone signal will tell the control centre to block the vehicle's engine management system and prevent the engine from being restarted.
In the UK, a set of technical fixes is already making life harder for car thieves. "The pattern of vehicle crime has changed," says Martyn Randall, a security expert. He says it would only take him a few minutes to teach a person how to steal a car, using a bare minimum of tools. But only if the car is more than 10 years old.
Modern cars are far tougher to steal, as their engine management computer won't allow them to start unless they receive a unique ID code beamed out by the ignition (点火) key. In the UK, technologies like this have helped achieve a 31% drop in vehicle-related crime since 1997.
But determined criminals are still managing to find other ways to steal cars, often by getting hold of the owner's keys. And key theft is responsible for 40% of the thefts of vehicles fitted with a tracking system.
If the car travels 100 metres without the driver confirming their ID, the system will send a signal to an operations centre that it has been stolen. The hundred metres minimum avoids false alarms due to inaccuracies in the GPS signal.
Staff at the centre will then contact the owner to confirm that the car really is missing, and keep police informed of the vehicle's movements via the car's GPS unit.
What's the function of the remote immobilizer fitted to a car?
A.To help the police make a surprise attack on the car thief.
B.To allow the car to lock automatically when stolen.
C.To prevent the car thief from restarting it once it stops.
D.To prevent car theft by sending a radio signal to the car owner.