1、1 综合填空 六、综合填空(共10空，计10分) 阅读短文，根据短文内容及首字母提示，在空白处填入一个适当的单词。 Every time we drive a car, we put our lives and the lives of others at risk. Selfdriving cars are designed to reduce those risks by letting technology control our vehicles. (1)A rates for selfdriving cars have been much (2)l than the rates fo
2、r humandriven cars. Googles selfdriving car has had (3)o 13 collisions(碰撞) after traveling 1. 8 million miles. As humans, we can make moral(道德的) (4)c in avoiding accidents. To avoid hitting a child, for example, human drivers might sharply turn a car away from the child (5)e if others might be injur
3、ed. But what moral choices can selfdriving cars make? Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(麻省理工学院), MIT, studied this problem. They have developed the Moral Machine website to help explore the choices selfdriving cars should make. You can use the Moral Machine to be the judge and
4、 help selfdriving cars decide (6)w to do in different driving situations. Then, see how your choices compare to those others have made. Moral Machine choices can help MIT researchers examine the decisions selfdriving cars should make. Users can also take part but not have their choices included in M
5、IT research. You are shown two (7)p traffic situations and you choose between them. In all situations, the brakes(刹车) have failed on the selfdriving car. The car will remain driving in the current direction or it will turn. An accident will take place. You choose how many living beings would be hurt
6、 or killed, and who those victims should be. In one situation there may be a female doctor, a child, two dogs and a homeless person who would be killed. In the (8)o situation, you might have two babies and a cat who would be killed. You choose who lives and who (9)d . The Moral Machine website has many situations and many possible results. When you click on the situation of your choice, it will be highlighted. Then the (10)n situation is shown. 2 参考答案 1Accident 2. lower 3. only 4. choices 5. even 6what 7. possible 8. other 9. dies 10. next
