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Narrator Listen to part of a lecture on New-Age Transport. Now get ready to answer the questions. You may use your notes to help
Narrator Listen to part of a lecture on New-Age Transport. Now get ready to answer the questions. You may use your notes to help
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2013-08-12
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Narrator
Listen to part of a lecture on New-Age Transport.
Now get ready to answer the questions. You may use your notes to help you answer.
How did Renault test the Racoon?
Narrator
Listen to part of a lecture on New-age Transport.
Professor
Computerized design, advanced materials and new technologies are being used to produce machines of a type never seen before.
It looks as if it came straight from the set of Star Wars. It has four-wheel drive and rises above rocky surfaces. It lowers and raises its nose when going up and down hills. And when it comes to a river, it turns amphibious; two hydrojets power it along by blasting water under its body. There is room for two passengers and a driver, who sit inside a glass bubble operating electronic, aircraft-type controls. A vehicle so daring on land and water needs windscreen wipers —but it doesn’t have any. Water molecules are disintegrated on the screen’s surface by ultrasonic sensors.
This unusual vehicle is the Racoon. It is an invention not of Hollywood but of Renault, a rather conservative French state-owned carmaker, better known for its family hatchbacks. Renault built the Racoon to explore new freedoms for designers and engineers created by advances in materials and manufacturing progresses. Renault is thinking about startlingly different cars: other producers have radical new ideas for trains, boats and aeroplanes.
The first of the new freedoms is in design. Powerful computer-aided design(CAD)systems can replace with a click of a computer mouse hours of laborious work done on thousands of drawing boards, so new products, no matter how complicated, can be developed much faster. For the first time, Boeing will not have to build a giant replica of its new airliner, the 777, to make sure all the bits fit together. Its CAD system will take care of that.
But Renault is taking CAD further. It claims the Racoon is the world’s first vehicle to be designed within the digitized world of virtual reality. Complex programs were used to simulate the vehicle and the terrain that it was expected to cross. This allowed a team led by Patrick le Quement, Renault’s industrial-design director, to "drive" it long before a prototype existed.
Renault is not alone in thinking that virtual reality will transform automotive design. In Detroit, Ford is also investigating its potential. Jack Telnack, the firm’s former head of design, would like designers in different parts of the world to work more closely together, linked by computers. They would do more than style cars. Virtual reality will allow engineers to peer inside the working parts of a vehicle. Designers will watch bearings move, oil flow, gears mesh and hydraulics pump. As these techniques catch on, even stranger vehicles are likely to come along.
Transforming these creations from virtual reality to actual reality will also become easier, especially with advances in materials. Firms that once bashed everything out of steel now find that new alloys of composite materials are changing the rules of manufacturing. At the same time, old materials keep getting better, as their producers try to secure their place in the factory of the future. This competition is increasing the pace of development of all materials.
Again, the Racoon reflects this race between the old and the new. It uses conventional steel and what Renault describes as new "high-limit elastic steel" in its chassis. This steel is 30% lighter than the usual kind. The Racoon also has parts made from composites. Renault plans to replace the petrol engine with a small gas turbine, which could be made from heat resisting ceramics, and use it to run a generator that would provide power for electric motors at each wheel.
With composites, it is possible to build many different parts into a single component. Fiat, Italy’s helped to design for General Motors, uses a two-stroke engine in a "power pod" at the rear of the vehicle. The engine has been developed from an East German design and weighs 40% less than a conventional engine but produces as much power. It is expected to run clearly enough to quality as an ultra-low emissions vehicle under California’s tough new rules.
Now get ready to answer the questions. You may use your notes to help you answer.
18. What is Renault most famous for?
19. Why will Boeing not need a replica of the 777?
20. How did Renault test the Racoon?
Listen again to part of the lecture. Then answer the question.
Professor
For the first time, Boeing will not have to build a giant replica of its new airliner, the 777, to make sure all the bits fit together. Its CAD system will take care of that. But Renault is taking CAD further.
21. What does the professor imply when she says this?
Professor
But Renault is taking CAD further.
22. Why does the professor say this?
Professor
Renault is not alone in thinking that virtual reality will transform automotive design.
23. Which of the following is mentioned as an ingredient of a composite?
选项
A、Over rocky terrain.
B、In actual reality.
C、Over French country roads.
D、In virtual reality.
答案
D
解析
本题为细节题。题目问:雷诺汽车公司是如何检测Racoon的?考生如果听懂了文中第五段第二句“It claims the Racoon is the world’s first vehicle to be designed within the digitizedworld of virtual reality”,可知Racoon是在一个虚拟的现实环境下研发的汽车。因此,选项D是正确答案,其他选项都是干扰项。
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