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(Even if) automakers modify commercially produced cars to run (on) alternative (fuels), the cars won't catch on in a big way (when) drivers can fill them up at the gas station.
A．Even if
B．on
C．fuels
D．when
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Informed conversations about self-driving cars no longer are about feasibility. New key talking points are “When？” and “Which automakers first？” and “Who will be responsible when an accident happens？” Nissan has said it will sell a driverless car by 2020. IHS forecast several models available by 2025. Both of these are guesses—but they indicate how fast the technology is progressing. What seemed unimaginable a decade ago becomes more practical, comprehensible, and real by the day. Google's (GOOG) self-driving Toyota Prius (TM) has logged hundreds of thousands of miles without incident on California roads. Most automakers are testing self-driving cars on tracks and —lately, as I experienced earlier this week in Las Vegas — in traffic. The Audi A7 equipped with “traffic jam assist” was programmed to drive itself slowly in heavy traffic at no more than 40 miles per hour. (Dr. Bjorn Giesler, head of Audi's project team, was behind the wheel.) The car was loaded with cameras, sensors, and a special device that monitors a driver's eyes to ensure he or she doesn't fall asleep at the wheel. In that event, the car will safely slow down, stop, and call for help. Think of a driverless car as a robot. For Audi and other automakers, a key question is how much of the driving should be done by the robot, how much by the driver. The driver decides. Executives at Audi and other automakers say the driver, in any case, must remain engaged and attentive, ready to take over in the event of the unexpected: a car travelling the wrong way or out of control, for example. Audi executives won't use the word “driverless;” instead they speak about “piloted” driving. Other auto executives talk about “autonomous” or “assisted” driving. Only Google is adamant that it wants a driverless car, one that can help the elderly and the blind, as well as anyone who would rather be reading a book.
(1)When it comes to self-driving car, which of the following is NOT the frequent topic？
A. When it is put into use.
B. Which automakers will first produce self-driving car.
C. Whether it is feasible.
D. Who will be responsible when an accident happens.
(2)Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage？
A. IHS claimed that there would be several models in 2025.
B. Google's (GOOG) self-driving Toyota Prius (TM) has been tested.
C. Audi A7 can monitor a driver's eyes to ensure he or she doesn't fall asleep at the wheel.
D. Self-driving car has been in use.
(3)As for driverless car, decide(s) how much of the driving should be done by the car.
A. drivers
B. automakers
C. executives
D. nobody
(4)According to the passage, drivers must even in driverless driving.
A. sleep
B. be attentive
C. take photos
D. do reading
(5)According to Audi executives, which word is NOT proper for self-driving？
A. driverless
B. piloted
C. assisted
D. autonomous
Unfortunately, Motavalli glosses over issues of consumer demand.(B)He never mentions that todays electric cars and gasoline-electric hybrids cost far more than internal-combustion cars of equal or greater capability.(C)He notes their utter dedication to their electric cars and implies that the rest of the buying public should simply be as enthusiastic, without addressing issues of price or various ways families use their cars.(D)He strongly favors Californias mandate that 10 percent of all vehicles sold in the state be zero-emission-vehicle-battery or fuel-cell electrics, not hybrids—even though he writes, "Ultimately, vehicles halfheartedly designed to meet a mandate would fail in the marketplace. " And he gives a short shift to the point that clean cars do nothing to ease congestion and sprawl. In a telephone interview, Motavalli concedes that technology is progressing faster than the book deadline allowed him to keep up with. If anything, automakers are working harder to develop hybrid-electrics. And mass-market hybrid-drive systems will likely first show up in the big sport utility vehicles that Motavalli rails against. Nevertheless, he now believes that the automakers with the deepest pockets have the best chance of building better cars for tomorrow. "The new, clean cars will emerge not from a tinkers garage, but from the well-funded research labs of the same big auto companies that initially fought their introduction," he says.According to Paragraph 1, which of the following best explains the main idea of the book？
A．U. S. government has made progress in reducing the carbon-dioxide gas.
B．Major automakers will do something to reduce the pollution produced by cars.
C．The gas emitted by cars is the source of American air pollution.
D．People should take measures to reduce air pollution.
A．The efficiency levels of the Japanese automakers will decline if they become less flexible in their approach to production.
B．Japanese automakers productivity levels double during the late 1990"s.
C．United States automakers will originate net production processes before Japanese automakers do.
D．Japanese automakers will hire fewer workers than will United States automakers because each worker is required to perform. several jobs.
E．Japanese automakers will spend less on equipment repairs than will United States automakers because Japanese equipment can be easily altered.
A.phrase
B.physical
C.phenix
D.phased
The Committee adopted a resolution (requiring) the seven automakers (selling) the most cars in the state (making) 2 percent of those vehicles (emissions-free) by 1998.
A．requiring
B．selling
C．making
D．emissions-free
Which of the following statements is supported by information stated in the passage？
A．Japanese and United States automakers differ in their approach to production processes.
B．Japanese automakers have perfected the use of single-function equipment.
C．Japanese automakers invest more capital per employee than do United States automakers.
D．United States-owned factories abroad have higher production levels than do Japanese owned plants in the United States.
E．Japanese automakers have benefited from the cultural heritage of their workers.
The energy legislation pushed through the Senate this week provides a roadmap to the future, demanding higher automobile fuel economy, mandating huge increases in ethanol as a motor fuel and supporting more research into building "plug-in" hybrid-electric vehicles. While Senate Republicans complained that the bill does nothing to increase domestic oil production, Democrats said that's because the nation must move energy policy away from its heavy reliance on oil. The House is preparing its own version. The Senate bill requires automakers to increase fuel economy to 35 miles per gallon, about a 40 percent increase over what cars, SUVs and small trucks are required to achieve now. It would lump all the vehicles under a single regulation, but also give manufacturers flexibility so large SUVs wouldn't have to meet the same requirements as smaller cars. It requires a yearly increase of ethanol production to 36 billion gallons a year by 2022, a sevenfold increase from today. By 2015 half of the new vehicles offered to buyers—as many as 10 million—will have to be capable of running on 85 percent ethanol, biodiesel or some other alternative energy source.
And for the first time, the president must find ways to cut oil demand by 20 percent of what it is expected to be in 2017—a target President Bush has embraced—and attain further reductions after that. Gasoline demand is expected to grow 13 percent to 261 billion gallons a year by 2017 without some fuel saving measures.
But will auto showrooms provide the same selection of vehicles？ Will they be as big, as powerful, as safe？ "I would expect them to look a lot like they do today, the same size, the same acceleration and the same or even better safety," says David Friedman, director of the clean vehicles program at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
He maintains they will have better technology, better engines, more efficient transmissions and stronger aluminum bodies. They'll cost a little more but use much less gasoline. "The goal is to replace fossil fuels with alternative fuels and use conservation," said Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash. , who was involved in the discussions on many of the auto fuel economy and motor fuel issues that ended up in the bill.
What has changed from a few years ago, she said, is there no longer is "a fear factor that you're going to be in itty bitty cars" if the government requires automakers to make more fuel efficient vehicles. In addition to making conventional cars more fuel efficient, the bill seeks to boost research into use of lithium-ion batteries—like those used in laptop computers and cameras—in vehicles.
Should ways be found to make them more durable in a vehicle environment, cars could be plugged into an electric socket at home, relying only rarely on gasoline, says Friedman. Some studies have estimated the fuel cost—mostly the cost of electricity and a small amount of gasoline— would be equivalent to about $1 a gallon, said Cantwell.
Automakers, lobbying hard against the fuel economy provision in the Senate bill, expressed continued concern Friday about their ability to meet the new requirements without changing the mix of cars they will be able to provide in the showrooms of 2020. "There's no way you can get those numbers without a dramatic shift in consumer choice," insisted Mark LaNeve, General Motors' vice president of North America sales, service and marketing. "We don't know how it's attainable. "
Eric Ridenour, chief operating officer at Chrysler Group, where three of every four vehicles are built on truck frames, said the company will have to decide whether to keep selling some of its larger vehicles. "Clearly the larger family-size
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