【解析】选C。细节理解题。根据第一段的It is also the second most successful opening weekend of 2016, behind Marvel's Captain America 3: Civil War. 可知《美国队长3: 内战》是2016年周末首映票房最高的影片。
3. The underlined word"unseated"in Paragraph 1 probably means_______.
A. 不容纳 B. 剥夺......的地位
C. 不如 D. 拒绝
【解析】选B。词义猜测题。从Finding Dory has taken 136. 2m dollars(93. 3m pounds)on its opening weekend. . . The sequel to Finding Nemo has unseated Shrek the Third-which took 121. 6m dollars(83. 1m pounds)on its release in 2007. 可以看出, Finding Dory的发行量大于Shrek the Third。
A major development to self-driving cars may change the way we will drive in the future. Google, the leading company in self-driving technology, has changed its development plan. It had driverless cars built by car factories, but now will start building its own car.
Google has started to build some kinds of experimental electric self-driving cars that look like a Smart car. There is no steering wheel, gas pedal or brake. The only thing a human passenger controls is a red"e-stop"button for fear stops and a start button. The car's only"friendly"face is designed to make it help people accept self-driving technology.
Google workers took part in a long experiment, in which they used self-driving cars for their usual travel to work. No accident happened, but Google's leaders realized that depending on a human passenger to drive in an emergency wouldn't work because they may be reading, working, or sleeping. Now the self-driving car drives by itself if the driver takes his hands off the wheel for over ten seconds.
Google's self-driving cars are now limited to a speed of 25 miles per hour for safety reasons. The cars aren't allowed to drive on highways. However, a Google engineer said that once the cars are solved to run safely, we can drive at the speed of 50, even 80 miles an hour.
Google recently announced that its cars had covered 700, 000 miles of public roads, and they were now running in busy city streets. People who love self-driving cars say this will improve transport by making roads safer, cutting down accident, and making less pollution.
【语篇概述】本文是说明文。无人驾驶汽车将彻底改变人类未来的交通方式。本文主要讲述了在无人驾驶技术方面领先的谷歌完全修改其发展计划。此前, 谷歌计划让汽车制造商生产他们设计的汽车, 但现在他们想自行研发生产无人驾驶汽车。
4. What is Google's plan about driverless cars?
A. It will have driverless cars built by car factories.
B. It will give up its plan to make driverless cars.
C. It will help other companies to make cars.
D. It will start building its own driverless cars.
【解析】选D。细节理解题。根据第一段最后一句可知选D, 谷歌公司要研发自己的无人驾驶汽车。