阅读：六级四十天突破—讲义与笔记（24）

　　What might driving on an automated highway be like? The answer depends on what kind of system is ultimately adopted. Two distinct types are on the drawing board. The first is a special-purpose lane system, in which certain lanes are reserved for automated vehicles. The second is a mixed traffic system: fully automated vehicles would share the road with partially automated or manually driven cars. A special-purpose land system would require more extensive physical modifications to existing highways, but it promises the greatest gains in freeway（高速公路）capacity.

Under either scheme, the driver would specify the desired destination, furnishing this information to a computer in the car at the beginning of the trip or perhaps just before reaching the automated highway. If a mixed traffic system was in place, automated driving could begin whenever the driver was on suitably equipped roads. If special-purpose lanes were available, the car could enter them and join existing traffic in two different ways. One method would use a special onramp（入口引道）. As the driver approached the point of entry for the highway, devices installed on the roadside would electronically check the vehicle to determine its destination and to ascertain that it had the proper automation equipment in good working order. Assuming it passed such tests, the driver would then be guided through a gate and toward an automated lane. In this case, the transition from manual to automated control would take place on the entrance ramp. An alternative technique could employ conventional lanes, which would be shared by automated and regular vehicles. The driver would steer onto the highway and move in normal fashion to a "transition" lane. The vehicle would then shift under computer control onto a lane reserved for automated traffic. (The limitation of these lanes to automated traffic would presumably be well respected, because all trespassers（非法进入者）could be swiftly identified by authorities.)

Either approach to joining a lane of automated traffic would harmonize the movement of newly entering vehicles with those already traveling. Automatic control here should allow for smooth merging, without the usual uncertainties and potential for accidents. and once a vehicle had settled into automated travel, the drive would be free to release the wheel, open the morning paper or just relax.

 

26. According to the author, the conventional notion of intelligence measured n terms of one's ability to read, write and compute _____________.

 A) is a widely held but wrong concept

 B) will help eliminate intellectual prejudice

 C) is the root of all mental distress

 D) will contribute to one's self-fulfillment

注：作者态度题，应该选负选项

 

27. It is implied in the passage that holding a university degree _____________.

 A) may result in one's inability to solve complex real-life problems

 B) does not indicate one's ability to write properly worded documents

 C) may make one mentally sick and physically weak

 D) does not meat that one is highly intelligent

 

28. The author thinks that an intelligent person knows _____________.

 A) how to put up with some very prevalent myths

 B) how to find the best way to achieve success in life

 C) how to avoid depression and make his life worthwhile

 D) how to persuade others to compromise

注：对应第二段第一句话

 

29. In the last paragraph, the author tells us that _____________.

 A) difficulties are but part of everyone's life

 B) depression and unhappiness are unavoidable in life反

 C) everybody should learn to avoid trying circumstances反

 D) good feelings can contribute to eventual academic excellence

 

30. According to the passage, what kind of people are rare?

A) Those who don't emphasize bookish excellence in their pursuit of happiness.

B) Those who are aware of difficulties in life but know how to avoid unhappiness.
C) Those who measure happiness by an absence of problems but seldom suffer form N. B. D.'s.

D) Those who are able to secure happiness though having to struggle against trying circumstances.

注：文章最后一句

 

Taking charge of yourself involves putting to rest some very prevalent myths. At the top of the list is the notion that intelligence is measured by your ability to solve complex problems; to read, write and compute at certain levels, and to resolve abstract equations quickly. This vision of intelligence asserts formal education and bookish excellence as the true measures of self-fulfillment. It encourages a kind of intellectual prejudice that has brought with it some discouraging results. We have come to believe that someone who has more educational merit badges, who is very good at some form of school discipline is "intelligent." Yet mental hospitals are filled with patients who have all of the properly lettered certificates. A truer indicator of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of every day.

If you are happy, if you live each moment for everything it's worth, then you are an intelligent person. Problem solving is a useful help to your happiness, but if you know that given your inability to resolve a particular concern you can still choose happiness for yourself, or at a minimum refuse to choose unhappiness, then you are intelligent. You are intelligent because you have the ultimate weapon against the big N. B. D-Nervous Break Down.

"Intelligent" people do not have N. B. D.'s because they are in charge of themselves. They know how to choose happiness over depression, because they know how go deal with the problems of their lives.

You can begin to think of yourself as truly intelligent on the basis of how you choose to feel in the face of trying circumstances. The life struggles are pretty much the same for each of us. Everyone who is involved with other human beings in any social context has similar difficulties. Disagreements, conflicts and compromises are a part of what it means to be human Similarly, money, growing old, sickness, deaths natural disasters and accidents are all events which present problems to virtually all human beings. But some people are able to make it, to avoid immobilizing depression and unhappiness despite such occurrences, while others collapse or have an N. B. D. Those who recognize problems as a human condition and don't measure happiness by an absence of problems are the most intelligent kind of humans we know; also, the most rare.

 

21. It can be inferred that Americans being approached too closely by Middle Easterners would most probably ______________.

 A) stand still

 B) jump aside

 C) step forward

 D) draw back

注：对应文章第二段

 

22. The author gives many examples to criticize Americans for their ___________.

 A) cultural self-centeredness

 B) casual manners

 C) indifference toward foreign visitors

 D) arrogance towards other cultures

注：对应文章第四段首句

 

23. In countries other than their own most Americans _______________.

 A) are isolated by the local people

 B) are not well informed due to the language barrier

 C) tend to get along well with the natives

 D) need interpreters in hotels and restaurants

注：对应文章第五段，inform对应information

 

24. According to the author, Americans' cultural blindness and linguistic ignorance will ____________.

 A) affect their image in the new era

 B) cut themselves off from the outside world

 C) limit their role in world affairs

 D) weaken the position of the US dollar

注：对应倒数第二段

 

25. The author's intention in writing this article is to make Americans realize that ________.

 A) it is dangerous to ignore their foreign friends

 B) it is important to maintain their leading role in world affairs

 C) it is necessary to use several languages in public places

 D) it is time to get acquainted with other cultures

注：B反了