1、成才之路 英语路漫漫其修远兮 吾将上下而求索外研版 必修4 Life in the FutureModule 1背 景 e 站 链 接无人驾驶的汽车真的会出现吗？各大汽车公司对未来的无人驾驶巡逻车的展望是什么样子的？他们推出的概念车又是什么样子的呢？Selfdriving cars are barely on the road yet,but designers apparently think theyll be the future of police work.At the Los Angeles Car Shows annual design challenge,car compani
2、es were asked to predict the highway patrol1 vehicle of 2025.As TheNew York Times reports,several of the concepts were autonomous2,designed either to be completely unmanned or to help officers monitor3 the area.BMWs(宝马)EPatrol,for example,would include both“unicyclelike”robot vehicles and a flying u
3、nmanned machine that could be deployed4 by police to disable cars with an electromagnetic pulse(电磁脉冲).In the same time,Hondas(本田)speculative CHP Drone Squad includes twoand fourwheeled autonomous vehicles.The more conservative5 Subaru(斯巴鲁)merely imagined a selfdriving car that would work in water.GM
4、(通用汽车公司)created a concept that would run on an updated6 version of the Chevrolet Volts hybrid propulsion system(雪弗兰两用车推进系统)As one can tell from the concept art gallery,the designs are a bit tongueincheek,_built more for Hollywood than a real police force.Even so,they show that autonomous vehicles ha
5、ve very much entered the public imagination.And,if anything,the actionmovie feel of most of them is a little unsettling,especially in light of the very real debates over militarization7 of the police force.知识点击1patrol n巡逻 2.autonomous adj.自动的；自主的；自治的3monitor v监控4.deploy v部署；调动5conservative adj.保守的6.updated adj.更新的7militarization n军事化自主探究1Who are the concepts designed for?(no more than 2 words)_2Whats the meaning of the underlined word in the last paragraph?(no more than 2 words)_3How many concepts are introduced in the passage?(no more than 2 words)_答案：1.Future police.2.Not serious.3.Four.
