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Unit 3 Life in the future Ⅰ.阅读理解(建议用时16′) A [2017·浙江联考]You know how much your telephone has changed over the past 10 years? Your car will change even more than that in the next 10 years. One of the biggest changes is that cars will drive themselves. Some day you may not need to drive a car. You will just tell the car where you want to go and it will drive itself. “We definitely have the technology for it now，” says Andrew Poliak of automotive technology supplier QNX. “We expect self-driving cars to be a mainstream(主流) thing between 2020 and 2025.” The American company Google has been working on a self-driving automobile for years. These cars are already on the roads in the United States, mainly in California. Google cars are truly self-driving. These cars have no steering wheels or pedals. Last week, police ordered one of Googles cars to stop for driving too slowly on a public road. The car was not disobeying any law, so no one was punished. But police did speak with the operators of the vehicle. According to Google, its self-driving cars have been driven nearly 2 million kilometers. That is equal to the distance the average person drives in 90 years. So far, no Google self-driving car has gotten a traffic ticket. Some of them have been in accidents when other cars hit them. Other companies are working on self-driving cars. Mercedes-Benz. Audi, BMW, Volvo and Toyota all have plans far such vehicles. A company BestMile called plans to operate self-driving buses in Switzerland next spring. The buses will hold up to nine people and will be tested for two years. Mercedes-Benz is developing large self-driving trucks for long trips. These trucks use drivers to control them. A company called Royal will have self-driving trucks at construction sites in Florida by the end of this year. No drivers are needed in these vehicles. 篇章导读：本文为说明文。随着科技的发展，无人驾驶技术更加成熟，越来越多的公司投入无人驾驶汽车的开发，不久的将来，对我们来说，拥有一辆无人驾驶汽车将成为可能。 1．What Andrew Poliak said suggests that ________. A．he took pride i