【正文】 Card Pet Tracker records your dog?s information D. Pet First Aid users can find the nearest hospital easily B Your next ca might drive itself. After years of trials on city streets, driverless vehicles are now nearing the live phase. Last moth, a driverless bus began carrying passengers through Lyon, France, Most in the automobile industry think selfdriving vehicles will be on the road by 2020 or before. Driverless cars will at first be huddled with humandriven cars. But the first places where they will bee dominant（統(tǒng)治的） are dense urban areas — precisely the spots most damaged by the automobile age. Many advanced cities are already reducing the role of humandriven cargo. Driverless cars will quicken that process and will bring us enormous benefits. Driverless cars will reduce accidents by around 90 percent. That?s big— the annual death toll on the world?s roads is about million a year. Pollution and carbon emissions will drop, because urban driverless cars will be electric. The old, otherwise they would stay at home most of the time and the disabled and teenagers will suddenly gain mobility. On the other hand, driverless cars will bring catastrophe. The best thing about the automobile age was that it employed tens of millions of people to make, market, insure and drive vehicles. Over the next 20 years, the mostly lowskilled men who now drive trucks, taxis and buses will see their jobs reduced. Carmakers are especially scared. The few cars of the future might be made by tech panies such as Apple, Baidu and Google. Imaging the impact on Germany, where the automotive sector is the largest industry. Dramatic change is ing, and driverless cars could arrive by 2020. But governments have barely begun thinking about it. Only 6 percent of the biggest US cities have factored them into their longterm planning. A decade ago anyone hardly saw the Smartphone ing. It has bought an epidemic of mass addiction. Let?s hope we do a better job of handling the driverless car. 25. The underlined words “be huddled with” in Paragraph 2 can be replaced by “ “. A. show up B. exist together C. get rid of D. take the place of 26. Why can driverless cars reduce pollution and carbon emissions? A. Driverless cars reduce the number of cars. B. Driverless cars will be powered by electricity. C. Driverless cars save fuel by driving themselves. D. Driverless cars will reduce too many accidents. 27. What?s the author?s attitude toward driverless cars? A. Doubtful. B. Negative. C. Objective. D. Worried. 28. What can we know about driverless cars? A. They will not hit the road until 2020. B. They will only be used in urban areas. C. They will not cause any road accident. D. They aren?t still seriously taken by leaders. C Aerial performer Jennifer Bricker was born without legs, but she never let it stop her. Wrapped in a loop of red silk hung from the ceiling Jennifer Bricker climbs and twists to the music. Her head hangs down and her strong arms let go as she balances on her back, high above the ground a move that?s all the more daring because she has no legs. Jennifer was a few months old when she was adopted by Sharon and Gerald Bricker. She had big brown eyes, a bright smile, and huge amounts of energy. When a doctor advised her adoptive parents to carry her around in a kind of bucket, they refused. Jennifer soon learned to walk — and run — on her hands and bottom, and grew up fearlessly climbing trees and bouncing on the trampoline（蹦床） with her three older brothers. “My parents didn?t treat me differently so I didn?t grasp the concept that I was different. I knew I didn?t have legs but that wasn?t stopping me from doing the things I wanted to do.” At the age of three she was fitted with artificial legs, but she never really took to them — she moved more freely without. In 1996 the Olympic Games took place in Atlanta. Jennifer loved to watch the women?s gymnastics team, and especially adored the 14yearold Dominique Moceanu who peted for the US. When Moceanu and the women?s team won gold, Jennifer decided she was going to be a gymnast, too. She took up power tumbling, which involves performing floor exercises down a runway. But Jennifer did not want any allowances to be made for her disability. At the age of 10 she took part in the Junior Olympics and by age 11 she was tumbling champion for the state of Illinois. Jennifer now travels the world as an inspirational speaker and acts as an aerial performer. 29. Why did Jennifer determine