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Many drivers dream of the day     1     they can sit back while their car drives itself.     2     several companies are working hard to make it a reality, self-driving cars still face many problems.

Google was one of the first     3     (get) into this industry. It     4     (develop) self-driving cars since 2009, and its new driverless car is called Firely.

But the driverless car is only a “fair weather friend”, the Daily Mail     5     (comment).

According to the MIT Technology Review, the current driverless cars can’t react like a human driver. They can’t drive in heavy rain or snow.

Chris Urmson, director of the Google car team, said that this is because the detection technology is not yet good enough to separate certain objects from weather conditions. In the cars’eyes, raindrops and snowflakes are the same     6     rocks, and cars stop for them. But if the manhole (下水道入口) ahead is uncovered, they drive over it without hesitation.

    7     all these problems, Urmson said driverless cars will happen more quickly than people think.

But even at that time, driverless cars won’t be truly “driverless”.

In the US, only     8     someone sits in the driver’s seat are driverless cars allowed on roads in certain states.

European countries, Mexico, Chile, Brazil and Russian follow the United Nations Convention on Road Traffic. The convention used to say: “Every driver     9     at all times be able to control his vehicle.” A change was agreed in May,     10     (allow) a car to drive itself as long as a driver is in the car and able to take the wheel at any time.

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“China is expected put a hyperloop (超级高铁) into     1     (operate) by 2035,” South China

Moring Post     2     (report) on a Sunday morning several months ago. The 150-kilometre-long tunnel is aimed to allow maglev (磁悬浮) trains to travel     3     a speed of up to,000 km/h. Several major cities have been considered for the huge project, and the first hyperloop train line is likely     4     (build) between Shanghai and Hangzhou.

As we know, China has already been a leader in high-speed rail technology. An assessment team,    5     (lead) by a senior engineer in Beijing, thinksinvesting in the hyperloop technology can help maintain China’s position as a     6     (globe) leader in transport innovation. So    7     investment will have a unique historical significance.

China’s high-speed rail service,     8     had reached 42,000 kilometers, ranked first in the world by the end of 2022. With     9     (it) characteristics including the high security level, low energy consumption, noise and pollution levels, the hyperloop will travel ten times     10     (fast) than traditional high-speed trains and as five times as commercial passenger planes. The hyperloop’s prospects surely deserve the expectation of all Chinese people.

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Amsterdam is a city with an estimated 800,000 bikes within the capital. In contrast, the city has     1     population of only 750,000 —     2     (little) than the number of bikes. About 490,000 bicyclists take to streets and ride more than 2 million kilometers each day.

Amsterdam is one of the most important centres of bicycle culture with special     3     (facility) for cyclists such as bike paths and bike racks.     4     (compare) to other transportation in the city, bikes are cheap, fast and clean while also offering health benefits. Bikes also take up     5     (relative) little space.

Over 60% trips in the inner city     6     (make) by bikes and 38% of trips by bike overall in the greater city area.

Amsterdammers ride a wide     7     (various) of bicycles, including the traditional Omafiets to anything from modern city bikes, road bikes, mountain bikes, etc. Many tourists also discover Amsterdam by bike,     8     is the typical Dutch way. One of the benefits of bicycle riding is that in the city centre, driving a car is discouraged,     9     (park) fees are expensive,     10     many streets are closed to cars or are one-way. Bicycle traffic, in fact traffic in general, is quite safe.