Bedrooms and cars are the most obvious examples, but you can also rent camping spaces in Sweden, fields in Australia and washing machines in France

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

And there are environmental benefits, too: renting a car when you need it, rather than owning one, means fewer cars are required and fewer resources must be devoted to making them

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

The same may happen with the sharing economy, which also provides new opportunities for enterprise, Some people have bought cars solely to rent them out, for example

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Sharing items such as cars does good to the environment

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Some independent thinkers have even produced cars that run on vegetable oil.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

Moving on to communications, very soon, cars will be linked to GPS satellites, so they'll do all the driving for you

出自-2013年6月听力原文

Advice on the purchase of cars.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

They can match conventional motor cars in performance and safety

出自-2013年6月听力原文

Well, I just bought my first car and I don't know anything about cars.

出自-2012年12月听力原文

A fourth of this year's U.S. grain harvest will go to fuel cars.

2016年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

Advocates of self-driving cars argue they will be safer than in cars driven by humans because they wouldn't get distracted or drive when tired.

2017年6月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

After new legislation demanded their removal from the roads, a low interest loan scheme was set up with three Egyptian banks so drivers could buy new cars.

2015年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

And there are so many cars.

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

As driverless cars improve, they will save lives.

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

As for the taxi drivers, most are delighted to be behind the wheel of new cars,although there have been a few complaints about switching from black and white to a plain white colour.

2015年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

Backing this up, recent data show that passenger cars in the UK emitted 69 million tons of CO2 in 2015.

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

But there are lots of other good cars out there, too.

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

By 1905, cars began to look like cars of today, with head lamps, windscreen, rubber tyres and number plates.

2016年6月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

College graduates, for example, are particularly interested in driverless cars compared with those who have less education: 59 percent of college graduates said they would like to use a driverless car compared with 38 percent of those with a high-school d

2016年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

Davida Herzl, Aclima's boss, says they have revealed pollution highs on days when San Francisco's transit workers went on strike and the city's inhabitants were forced to use their cars.

2018年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

He also believes they will be more likely to trust self-driving cars as they become more familiar with features such as automatic braking or parking.

2017年6月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

However, David Reay, professor of carbon management, argues that, although microwaves use a great deal of energy, their emissions are minor compared to those from cars.

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

In the UK alone, there are around 30 million cars.

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

It brought cars closer towards the reach of ordinary people.

2016年6月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

It is not the first time one of Google's famed self-driving cars has been involved in a crash, but it may be the first time it has caused one.

2017年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

Maintaining safe speeds and being electric, self-driving cars would drastically reduce pollution levels and dependency on non-renewable fuels.

2018年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

More people who lived in cities and suburbs said they wanted to try driverless cars than those who lived in rural areas.

2016年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

Now known as "New York's shared space for art and play," the island, which lies between Manhattan and Brooklyn in Upper New York Bay, is closed to cars but open to summer tourists who flock for festivals, picnics, adventures, as well as these "legal graff

2019年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

Older adults, especially those with limited mobility or difficulty driving on their own, are one of the classic use-cases for driverless cars.

2016年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

Once driverless cars are actually for sale, the early adopters will be the people who can afford to buy them.

2016年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

One example of Al is driverless cars.

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

One of Google's self-driving cars crashed into a bus in California last month.

2017年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

Perhaps there will be lessons to learn from driverless cars, but they are not super-intelligent beings.

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

Popping food into the microwave for a couple of minutes may seem utterly harmless, but Europe's stock of these quick-cooking ovens emit as much carbon as nearly 7 million cars, a new study has found.

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

Should the cars be programmed to avoid hitting a child running across the road, even if that will put their passengers at risk?

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

Soon airline tickets, hotel reservations and even cars and homes could be purchased online.

2017年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

The company's self-driving cars have done well over a million miles across various states in the U.S., and until now have only reported minor accidents.

2017年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

The early cars had two seats.

2016年6月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

The fact that attitudes toward self-driving cars appear to be so steady across generations suggests how transformative the shift to driverless cars could be.

2016年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

These cars emit more than all the microwaves in the EU.

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

They also have very good cars.

2016年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section B

They would be allowed to send groups of self-driving cars on cross- state road trips, and even set up on-demand fleets of self-driving cars, like the one General Motors and Lyft are building.

2019年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

When it comes to driverless cars, differences in attitude are more pronounced based on factors not related to age.

2016年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

When you look at attitudes toward driverless cars, there doesn't seem to be a clear generational divide.

2016年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

Whereas older generations are sometimes reluctant to adopt new technologies, driverless cars promise real value to these age groups in particular.

2016年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

While there's reason to believe that interest in self-driving cars is going up across the board, a person's age will have little to do with how self-driving cars can become mainstream.

2016年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

By 1973, domestic US sources of oil were peaking, and the nation was importing more of its oil, depending on a constant flow from abroad to keep cars on the road and machines running.

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General Motors sells as many cars in China as in America each month.

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For Group C cars is 6 pounds per day.

出自-2014年6月听力原文

The technology has been successfully applied overseas, but the only other public robotic garage in the United States has been troublesome, dropping vehicles and trapping cars because of technical problems.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

Nonetheless, the developers of the Chinatown garage are confident with the technology and are counting on it to squeeze 67 cars in an apartment-building basement that would otherwise fit only 24, accomplished by removing a maneuver space normally required

出自-2013年6月听力原文

According to a report, Google's self-driving cars clocked 1, 023, 3 km, and required human intervention 124 times.

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

An analysis of car sales in Germany found that cars with gills that were upturned like smiles sold best.

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

As part of the upgrading of its rail yard, Kasselman, who is an inventor and self-proclaimed "steam visionary", is campaigning for a new steam train that runs without any fire and could run on an existing ten- kilometer line, driving tourists and perhaps

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

Big, complicated systems on which much public safety depends, like driverless cars, should be built, programmed and sold by manufacturers who take responsibility for ensuring safety and are liable for accidents.

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

Effectively, the ban will include the registration of new cars in the country as they will not allow any gasoline powered vehicle to be registered after 2030.

2017年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

In the beginning of the movie I, Robot, a robot has to decide whom to save after two cars plunge into the water— Del Spooner or a child.

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

similarly, people rated cars, clocks, and watches with wide faces as more dominant-looking than narrow-faced ones, and preferred them—especially in competitive situations.

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

The combination of computational power and engineering advances will eventually enable lower-cost in-home care for the disabled, widespread use of driverless cars that may reduce drunk- and distracted-driving accidents and countless home and service-indus

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

The country is still hopeful that it will meet its emissions goals, like reducing emissions by 40% by 2020, but the acceptance of electric cars in the country has not occurred as fast as expected.

2017年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

The train cars were filled with groans because many of the passengers were travelling without cash.

2017年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

The wireless age is expanding to include not just our phones, tablets, and laptops, but also our cars, homes, and even whole communities.

2016年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

There are currently around 155, 000 registered hybrid and electric vehicles on German roads, dwarfed by the million gasoline and diesel cars driving there now.

2017年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

Traffic has become synonymous with air pollution, and many countries intend to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in the next two decades.

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

When you hear people speaking of making a rapid transition toward any type of energy, whether it is a switch from coal to nuclear power, or a switch from gasoline -powered cars to electric cars, or even a switch from an incandescent to a fluorescent light

2015年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

with such progress, Google's cars will easily surpass my own driving ability later this year.

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

According to the author, attention should be paid to how driverless cars can help deal with transportation-related problems.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 题设

According to US government reports, emissions (排放) from cars and trucks have dropped from 10.

2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

An assumption behind UK insurance for driverless cars, introduced earlier this year, insists that a human "be watchful and monitoring the road" at every moment.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

As for driverless cars, what is the author's major concern?

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 题设

But that is not what many people have in mind when thinking of driverless cars.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Cars and horses couldn't travel on the snowy roads.

2016年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文

Driverless cars may end up being a form of public transport rather than vehicles you own, says ryan calo at stanford university, California.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Inventors have been trying to make flying cars since the 1930s, according to Robert Mann, an airline industry expert.

2017年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

It will put fully driverless cars on an equal legal footing to human drivers, he says.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

It's hard to predict when driverless cars will be everywhere on our roads.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Only eleven cars were produced the next month.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Rani, my faceless agent whom I'd never met in person, got me rock-bottom prices on airfares, cars, and hotels.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 完形填空 原文

The California department of motor vehicles began giving permits in April for companies to test truly self-driving cars on public roads.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

The cars that drove the American dream have helped to create a global ecological disaster.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The first commercially available driverless cars will almost certainly be fielded by ride-hailing services, considering the cost of self-driving technology as well as liability and maintenance issues.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

The possibility of self-driving robot cars has often seemed like a futurist's dream, years away from materializing in the real world.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

The proposal attempts to deal with what some call the "death valley" of autonomous vehicles: the grey area between semi-autonomous and fully driverless cars that could delay the driverless future.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The road novel, the road movie, these are the most typical American ideas, born of abundant petrol, cheap cars and a never-ending interstate highway system.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The state also cleared the way for companies to sell or rent out self-driving cars, and for companies to operate driverless taxi services.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

They replaced their beloved old car with expensive new sports cars.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 完形填空 原文

They would define the driver's role in such cars and govern how such cars perform in crashes where lives might be lost.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Although electric cars are still a rarity on roads now, this massive investment could change the picture rapidly in coming years.

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Fantasies of great wealth often involve visions of fancy cars and extravagant homes.

2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Madrid was hailed as a public health beacon last November when it rolled out ambitious restrictions on the most polluting cars.

2020年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Restrictions that keep highly polluting cars out of certain areas - city centers, school streets", even individual roads - are a response to the absence of a larger effort to properly enforce existing regulations and require auto companies to bring their

2020年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

We're doing everything but insist that manufacturers clean up their cars.

2020年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ