In December, Waymo LLC, the leading driverless car company, brought
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“It's a pretty glaring indication that we're not there yet，” says Matthew Johnson- Roberson, co-director of the University of Michigan's Ford Center for Autonomous Vehicles, who's working with automakers to develop robot rides.Waymo, owned by Google parent Alphabet Inc.and recently valued at $250 billion by Jefferies Research LLC, declined to comment.In a blog post, Chief Executive Officer John Krafcik said the human safety drivers were at work in Arizona to make riders feel more comfortable.
Waymo's timid rollout is the latest speed bump for a technology touted as certain to save the world from road deaths.As auto and tech giants converge on Las Vegas for the consumer electronics show known as CES，which formally kicks off on Jan.8 and includes a keynote from Krafcik, the seemingly boundless optimism that surrounded driverless cars only a few years ago has been tempered by a slew of persistent technological challenges and big questions about near-term business models, especially as a recession looms.4tMost of the automakers are chasing a business model that has yet to be proven that elusive robo-taxi.” says Craig Giffi, head of consulting firm Deloitte's U.S.automotive and industrial products practice.
At CES, driverless and auto technology will cover 300,000 square feet of floor space, more than the total size of many stand-alone car shows，and the auto industry is continuing to pour billions into self-driving cars.Ford Motor Co.CEO Jim Hackett said in November that the market for autonomous vehicles and other mobility services could reach $10 trillion half the size of U.S.gross domestic product.Annual sales of self-drivers will hit 33 million by 2040 and account for more than a quarter of global vehicle deliveries, according to researcher IHS Markit.
That's why automakers and tech companies are rushing to get robots on the road.General Motors Co.'s Cruise Automation plans to debut its automated ride-hailing business in a U.S.city in 2019, and Ford promises to deploy tens of thousands of self-drivers on the streets of multiple U.S.cities in 2021 as part of a profitable business moving people and packages.Even Uber resumed testing its autonomous Volvos in December, only nine months after one struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Ariz.
But a study from Deloitte suggests things will move more slowly than expected.Half of the 25,000 consumers Deloitte surveyed globally said they didn't believe autonomous vehicles would be safe, up slightly from 47 percent a year ago.Just 39 percent of them trust automakers to bring the technology to market.Most surprising: Only 12 percent of U.S.consumers reported using services such as Uber and Lyft once a week, half the rate of a year ago.Taken together, the findings undermine the near-term business case for the robo-taxi,which relies on an ever-growing pool of consumers ditching their cars.
As long as human safety drivers are required, profits are out the window.“The economics of that don't work out at all，” says Johnson-Roberson，the University of Michigan technologist.He says the only way to remove safety drivers is to isolate autonomous cars in their own lanes, walled off from unpredictable humans.Among other things, driverless cars still struggle to merge into traffic.
單選題第1題The word “awry” underlined in Paragraph 1 is synonymous with______.
A.wrong
B.askew
C.crooked
D.awfully
參考答案：A
答案解析：語(yǔ)義題。awry意為“偏差的，錯(cuò)誤的”，與A意思相近，故選A。
單選題第2題According to the passage, which of the following statements about Waymo is NOT true?
A.Waymo is a company which manufactures driverless cars.
B.Waymo is the first company which provides robo-taxi service for commercial purpose.
C.Waymo belongs to Google which is affiliated to Alphabet Inc.
D.Waymo admitted the assessment by Jefferies Research LL
參考答案：D
答案解析：細(xì)節(jié)題。第2段第2句提到的declined to comment是“拒絕發(fā)表評(píng)論”，因此 D的表述有錯(cuò)，故選D。
單選題第3題What does Matthew Johnson-Roberson possibly mean by saying “we're not there yet”？
A.Ford Center for Autonomous Vehicles hasn't arrived at its destination.
B.The robot-taxi service can be available to every consumer in the country.
C.The robo-taxi service is not ready for widespread commercial use.
D.Ifs very clear that we need human safety drivers all the time.
參考答案：C
答案解析：推斷題。第2段第1句we're not there yet結(jié)合上下文，可以推斷出商業(yè)出租 無(wú)人駕駛汽車的業(yè)務(wù)還存在問(wèn)題，不足以推廣。故選C。
單選題第4題It can be inferred from Paragraph 3 that CES is______.
A.a car exhibition space
B.a consumer electronics show
C.a rollout of new driverless cars
D.an auto and tech giant
參考答案：B
答案解析：細(xì)節(jié)題。第3段第2句提到 the consumer electronics show known as CES，故選 B。
單選題第5題Craig Giffi regards “robo-taxi” as something______.
A.Promising
B.disappointing
C.competitive
D.subtle
參考答案：D
答案解析：細(xì)節(jié)題。第3段第3句Craig Giffi在描述robo-taxi的時(shí)候使用了 elusive，意 為“難以定義、難以描述的”，故選D。
單選題第6題The figure “$ 10 trillion” in Paragraph 4 is used to show______.
A.how profitable the market would be
B.how much they would invest in driverless cars
C.how much they would invest in robo-taxi service
D.how big the total size of U.S.GDP is
參考答案：A
答案解析：推斷題。第4段第2句提到 the market for autonomous vehicles and other mobility services could reach $10 trillion，可知市場(chǎng)收益可高達(dá)10萬(wàn)億，大有賺頭，
單選題第7題General Motors, Ford and Uber are mentioned in Paragraph 5 to______.
A.make a summary of the results
B.analyze the present situation
C.give evidence supporting the statement
D.look into the future
參考答案：C
答案解析：推斷題。第5段第 1句…automakers and tech companies are rushing to get robots on the road，隨后用General Motors，F(xiàn)ord和Uber三家的行動(dòng)例證大家都積極推動(dòng)無(wú)人駕駛車上路，故選C。
單選題第8題The study made by Deloitte showed that______.
A.the autonomous cars have to drive more slowly than expected
B.it will take longer time for bringing driverless cars to market
C.American consumers use Uber and Lyft more than before
D.Less consumers doubted the safety of self-driving cars
參考答案：B
答案解析：細(xì)節(jié)題。結(jié)合上文各大公司和廠家都搶著讓無(wú)人駕駛車上路（進(jìn)入市 場(chǎng)），第6段第1句提出研宄表明事情的進(jìn)展會(huì)比預(yù)期的慢，故選B。
單選題第9題According to the last paragraph，Johnson-Roberson's attitude toward human safety drivers is______.
A.interested
B.puzzled
C.positive
D.negative
參考答案：D
答案解析：態(tài)度題。第7段第2句的 The economics of that don't work out at all 表明 Johnson-Roberson不贊成為自動(dòng)駕駛汽車配駕駛員的做法，故選D。
單選題第10題What is the best title for the passage?
A.A New Service Robo-taxi
B.Delays Ahead for Self-driving Cars
C.Cooperation Between Auto and Tech
D.Driverless Cars on the Road
參考答案：B
答案解析：主旨題。全文通篇在講無(wú)人駕駛汽車在推向市場(chǎng)時(shí)遇到的種種問(wèn)題，雖然前景光明，但有阻力，故選B。
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