A. abolished B. determining C. entry D. eventually E. exported F. facilitating G. ideally H. inherited I. relocation J. shifting K. substantial |
European Transport Systems
It is difficult to conceive of vigorous economic growth without an efficient transport system. Although modern information technologies can reduce the demand for physical transport by
As far as goods transport is concerned, growth is due to a large extent to changes in the European economy and its system of production. In the last 20 years, as internal frontiers have been
The strong economic growth expected in countries which are candidates for
However, a new imperative—sustainable development—offers an opportunity for adapting the EU’s common transport policy. This objective, agreed by the Gothenburg European Council, has to be achieved by integrating environmental considerations into Community policies, and
Riding a bike or a motorbike in cities can be dangerous. You must pay attention to your own
According to a report, 65% of car accidents m 2017
A large number of bicycles, motorbikes, and cars pour into the streets every day.
It’s also important for a rider to protect the head. Regardless of your age and your riding speed, you should always prepare
Keep the above
Monorails (单轨列车) have been around for more than a century and examples can be found all over the world,
Chongqing, a megacity which
Back in the 1990s, the city’s unique geography, with extreme differences in altitude between its densely populated mountain plateaus and the Yangtze and Jialing river valleys,
马路上,Max和George正要过马路。
Max: Let’s cross here.
George: You’re kidding. We’ll never make it across in one piece! Let’s
Max: Now we have to
George: If you
A. want to cross here
B. walk all the way down
C. cross at the light
Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian went to Canada to visit their cousins in Halifax on the Atlantic coast. They decided
During their first day, as is typical of Vancouver, it rained. Later, they took a pleasant hike in a forest just a short
The next morning, the two girls arose early to take the train to Lake Louise,
From Jasper, they caught the train towards Toronto. One of the train’s
6 . 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(矿物燃料) 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(强制的) in all newly-manufactured cars after 2010, and will be the most important part in the driverless car.
1. We can infer from the second paragraph that driverless cars ______.A.will need fewer fossil fuels | B.will be environmentally friendly |
C.will run on solar power only | D.will not need a human’s instructions |
A.People with basic literacy and computer skills. |
B.People who are drunk. |
C.People without computer skills. |
D.People without a driver’s license. |
A.difficult to get | B.quite important | C.dangerous | D.out of business |
A.Car safety. | B.Driverless cars. | C.The future cars. | D.New technology in cars. |
A Polite Request
If you park your car in the wrong place,
The Bay Airline offers a
Traffic jams are a common problem in large cities. In some cities, traffic jams get so bad during rush hour that it is sometimes
The system
You can’t walk down the street without passing so-called “smart-phone zombies (僵尸).” They are too
Recently the city of Honolulu, Hawaii,
Honolulu is the first major U. S. city to ban (禁止) what is called “distracted walking”. It comes after a study found there had been more than 11,000
However, the law does permit