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The arrival of the mass-produced car, just over a century ago, caused a(n)(1)_____ of business creation. First came the makers o
The arrival of the mass-produced car, just over a century ago, caused a(n)(1)_____ of business creation. First came the makers o
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The arrival of the mass-produced car, just over a century ago, caused a(n)(1)_____ of business creation. First came the makers of cars and. all the parts that go into them. Then came the garages, filling stations and all sorts of other car-dependent (2)_____: car parks, motels, out-of-town shopping centres.
Now another revolution on wheels is on the (3)_____: the driverless car. Nobody is sure when it will(4)_____. Google, which is testing a fleet of autonomous cars, thinks in maybe a decade, others reckon(5)_____. And, when it does, the self-driving car, like the ordinary kind, could bring(6)_____ change.
Just imagine. It could, for a start, save the motor industry(7)_____ stagnation. Carmakers are anxious about(8)_____ that smartphone-obsessed teenagers these days do not(9)_____ get a driving licence and buy their first car,(10)_____ their parents did. But(11)_____ they are spared the trouble and expense of taking lessons and (12)_____ a test, young adults might rediscover the joys of the open road. Another(13)_____ for the motor industry is that car use seems to be peaking in the most congested cities.(14)_____ automated cars would drive nose-to-tail, increasing the capacity of existing roads; and since they would be able to (15)_____ their passengers and drive away, the (16)_____ of parking spaces in town might not matter so much.
All these trends will(17)_____ the car business. But when mass-produced cars appeared, they had an impact on the whole of society. Electronics and software firms will be(18)_____ the winners: (19)_____ providing all the sensors and computing power that self-driving cars will need, they will enjoy strong demand for in-car entertainment systems, (20)_____ cars’ occupants will no longer need to keep their eyes on the road.
(1)
选项
A、explosion
B、caution
C、admiration
D、addiction
答案
A
解析
汽车的出现催生了大批相关行业的发展,比如第一段第三句提到的修车厂、加油站等等,这可谓是一种“爆发性增长”,用explosion。caution“小心”;admiration“羡慕”;addiction“上瘾”。
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