2 . The time that cars could go completely driverless is coming “very soon”, according to Jianxiong Xiao, CEO and founder of AutoX, a Shenzhen-based start-up developing autonomous driving technology.

Now, most regulations across various cities in China still require the presence of a safety driver in vehicles, but the company foresees that as more data gets captured over time, that requirement would be reduced, Xiao told CNBC's “Street Signs Asia" on Wednesday.

The autonomous driving tech firm chose to partner with Alibaba's AMAP — a Chinese mapping service provider --- to roll out its RoboTaxi ride hailing service in Shanghai on Monday. AMAP is a "super mobility app" with almost 500 million active monthly users, according to Xiao.

AutoX had received support from Shanghai authorities to roll out a fleet of 100 autonomous ride-hailing cars in Shanghai's Jiading district in September last year.

Earlier this month, AutoX announced that it had set up an 80,000 square feet RoboTaxi operations center in Shanghai to help facilitate (使容易)operations of its driverless fleet, as well as act as a center to collect data from daily operations.

Backed by investors such as Alibaba, Shanghai Motor and Dongfeng Motor, AutoX is one of the players in the trillion U.S. dollar Chinese autonomous driving vehicles market alongside others like DiDi Chuxing.

Xiao said they were working with the technology to ensure the vehicles were "very, very safe" and are carrying out a lot of testing.

Over a hundred vehicles have been arranged on roads daily to obtain enough data needed to validate the software and system, according to Xiao.

He added that the company was also running a hundred times more simulations (模拟)in the car every day, and the “huge amount of data" would help to prove that the vehicles could be used in "full safety".

“Our goal is not to just make (it) as safe as human beings, but going one step forward to really make...a superhuman safety standard; (cars) that (can) drive much safer than any human being ever,“ Xiao said.

1. What will be most required to go driverless according to CEO of AutoX?

A．Traffic regulations.	B．Driving technology.
C．Enough data.	D．Mapping service.

2. What is the attitude of Shanghai authorities towards driverless technology?

A．Doubtful.

B．Optimistic.

C．Disappointed.

D．Uncertain.

3. Which of the following can replace the underlined word "validate" in paragraph 8?

A．test

B．invent

C．develop.

D．design

4. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．Driving Technology

B．Science Achievement

C．No Driver in the Future

D．The Development of Driverless

3 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

My dog Dino is really an superhero, who helps keep us safe, especially on the roads. Take a look at what he does last week. Last Wednesday, Dino saved our neighbor’s boy which ran in front of a car to get his ball. People can get very much angry when driving, usually for silly reasons. Last Tuesday, a driver behind us started shouting my mum when she stopped her car to let several child cross the road. Dino soon made him shut up. Last Friday, Dino saw two girls running a red light but he soon made them changing their minds. Last Sunday Dino caught my dad talking on their mobile phone while my dad was driving. Dino immediate stopped him. What a smarter dog!

4 . Only a few people in Toronto have the luck to live within walking distance from their workplace.For the rest of us， commuting (乘车上下班) is a rather unpleasant daily necessity.

So how do you avoid a traffic jam in Toronto？ You can do it in the old way and listen to one of the radio stations that give regular updates about the traffic situation in Toronto’s streets.Seeing the big picture of Toronto’s traffic and knowing when and where heavy traffic occurs is a must.From my own experience， there are situations where a quick decision can help you make it in time for an event or a meeting.That’s why we prepared three short videos showing the overall traffic situation in Toronto from dawn to night.You can click them and watch.

With the help of “Google Maps”， where you can watch the live traffic density all over the world and average traffic data based on past conditions， we were able to provide you with traffic maps for a typical (平常的) Friday.

Friday traffic in Toronto is quite fast in the early morning，with only a few hot spots showing up at the major junctions (交叉点) at 7：00 am.The morning traffic jam starts light at 7：30 and the traffic gradually slows down to reach a breaking point at 8：30.The roads are quite free afterwards， only Allen Road is likely to be jammed around lunchtime from 11 ： 30 am to 12：00 noon.It comes as no surprise that Friday afternoon brings heavy traffic as early as 1：00 pm， mainly on the Don Valley Parkway.You won’t have a good time getting away from the city from 4：00 pm to 6：30 pm， as there is a good chance to get caught in a traffic jam.The traffic in Toronto is quite heavy on a Friday night.I hope you will have a nice Friday night in the city and a safe journey home this Friday！

1. By saying   “commuting is a rather unpleasant daily necessity”，the writer refers to the fact that   ________.

A．buses are usually very crowded

B．they are often stuck in traffic jams

C．they have to travel a long way to work

D．they usually cannot do anything on the way to work

2. What is the last paragraph mainly about？

A．What the traffic in Toronto is like for a typical Friday.

B．How to avoid heavy traffic on Fridays.

C．Why the traffic is terrible on Fridays.

D．What “Google Maps” can do for us.

3. In Toronto， on Fridays you are most likely to suffer heavy traffic ________.

A．from 6：30 am to 7：00 am

B．from 8：30 am to 9：30 am

C．from 10：30 am to 11：00 am

D．from 4：00 pm to 6：30 pm

4. Where is this passage taken from？

A．A TV program.	B．A radio program.
C．A website.	D．A travel booklet.

5 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式，并填在答题卡的相应位置。

Have you ever wished your vacation could meet all your    1    (expect)? Well, this is possible when you choose    2    (go) on a cruise (游轮). Recently, cruises have become    3    (popular) places than traditional forms of traveling.    4    is not necessary to make reservations at different hotels, find places to dine, or arrange different transports in advance. Everything you can imagine is available whenever you want it on such    5    cruise ship.

Cruise ships are like miniature (小型的) cities on water. They are    6    (full) loaded with restaurants serving all kinds of dishes. The staterooms (特等客舱) can be compared to rooms    7    (find) in five-star hotels. The big difference is    8    you get to have a moving ocean view. What’s more, there are activities designed for people of all ages and interests, and    9    (vary) sports facilities like gyms and rock climbing walls as well as clubs and shops are also accessible. Quality entertainments like Broadway shows and live music    10    (provide), too.

6 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What did Mr. Ewing ask the speakers to do?

A．Arrive at the conference centre on time.	B．Talk with the branch office workers.
C．Help out at the conference centre.

2. How will the speakers go to the conference centre?

A．By asking Mr. Ewing for a lift.	B．By driving the man’s car.
C．By taking the underground.

3. What do we know about the woman?

A．She can’t drive a car.	B．She isn’t sure about the way.
C．She doesn’t like to travel alone.

7 . What will the woman probably do?

A．Catch a train.

B．See the man off.

C．Go shopping.

8 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

In 1863 the first underground passenger railway in the world opened in London. It ran for just under seven kilometers and allowed people to avoid terrible     1     (crowd) on the roads above as they travelled to and     2     work. It took three years to complete and was built using an interesting method. This included digging up the road,    3     (lay) the track and then building a strong roof over    4     top. When all those had been done, the road surface was replaced.

Steam engines     5     (use) to pull the carriages and it must have been    6     (fair) unpleasant for the passengers, with all the smoke and noise. However, the railway quickly proved to be a great success and within six months, more than 25,000 people were using     7    every day.

Later, engineers     8     (manage) to construct railways in a system of deep tunnels (隧道）, which became known to the tube. This development was only possible with the     9     (introduce) of electric-powered engines and lifts. The central London Railway was one of the most     10     (success) of these new lines, and was opened in 1900. It had white-painted tunnels and bright red carriages, and proved extremely popular with the public.

9 . 短文改错
请改正下面短文中的错误。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词；
删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉；
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
1. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Last Saturday, my parents and I paid visit to my grandparents by train. There was a
large number of people in the crowded train, but everyone help those who had lots of
baggage and behaved politely. Along the way, we enjoyed beautifully views. At first, we saw
one hill after another. Then what came into our eye were fields with green crops. In a six-hour
trip, we arrived at my grandparents’ house. Exhausted though I felt, but I was happy to see my
grandparents, which I hadn’t seen for a long time. It’s really an excited trip because it was the
first time I had taken so a long-distance train.

10 . People aren’t walking any more — if they can figure out a way to avoid it.
I felt superior about this matter until the other day I took my car to mail a small parcel. The journey is a matter of 281 steps. But I used the car. And I wasn’t in ay hurry, either, I had merely become one more victim of a national sickness: motorosis.
It is an illness to which I had thought myself immune(), for I was bred in the tradition of going to places on my own two legs. At that time, we regarded 25 miles as good day’s walk and the ability to cover such a distance in ten hours as sign of strength and skill. It did not occur to us that walking was a hardship. And the effect was lasting. When I was 45 years old I raced — and beat — a teenage football player the 168 steps up the Stature of Liberty.
Such enterprises today are regarded by many middle-aged persons as bad for the heart. But a well-known British physician, Sir Adolphe Abrhams, pointed out recently that hearts and bodies need proper...is more likely to have illnesses than one who exercises regularly. And wlaking is an ideal form of exercise — the most familiar and natural of all.
It was Henry Thoreau who showed mankind the richness of going on foot. The man walking can learn the trees, flower, insects, birds and animals, the significance of seasons, the very feel of himself as a living creature in a living world, He cannot learn in a car.
The car is a convenient means of transport, but we have made it our way of life. Many people don’t dare to approach Nature any more; to them the world they were born to enjoy is all threat. To them security is a steel river thundering on a concrete road. And much of their thinking takes place while waiting for the traffic light to turn green.
I say that the green of forests is the mind’s best light. And none but the man on foot can evaluate what is basic and everlasting.
1. What is the national sickness?

A．Walking too much

B．Traveling too much

C．Driving cars too much

D．Climbing stairs too much.

2. What was life like when the author was young?

A．People usually went around on foot.

B．people often walked 25 miles a day

C．People used to climb the Statue of Liberty.

D．people considered a ten-hour walk as a hardship.

3. The author mentions Henry Thoreau to prove that__________.

A．middle-aged people like getting back to nature

B．walking in nature helps enrich one’s mind

C．people need regular exercise to keep fit

D．going on foot prevents heart disease

4. What is compared to “a steel river” in Paragraph 6?

A．A queue of cars.

B．A ray of traffic light.

C．A flash of lightning.

D．A stream of people.

5. What is the author’s intention of writing this passage?

A．To tell people to reflect more non life.

B．To recommend people to give up driving.

C．To advise people to do outdoor activities.

D．To encourage people to return to walking.