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新东方网四六级频道 / 听力新闻原文 News Report 1 One of Googles self-driving cars crashed into a bus in California last month. There were no injuries. It is not the first time one of Googles famed self-driving cars has been involved in a crash, but it may be the first time it has caused one. On February 14th the self-driving car, traveling at 2mph (3km/h), pulled out in front of a public bus going 15mph (24km/h). The man in the Google vehicle reported that he assumed the bus would slow down to let the car out, and so he did not switch to the manual mode. In a statement, Google said: We clearly bear some responsibility, because if our car hadnt moved, there wouldnt have been a crash. That said, our test driver believed the bus was going to slow or stop to allow us to merge into the traffic, and that there would be sufficient space to do that.(1) The companys self-driving cars have done well over a million miles across various states in the US, and until now have only reported minor accidents.(2) Q1: According to Google, what was the cause of the accident? Q2: How have Google’s self-driving cars performed so far? News Report 2 Thousands of bees left a town after landing on the back of a car when their queen got stuck 新东方网四六级频道 / 新东方网四六级频道 / in its boot. Tom Moses who works at a nearby national park,(3) noticed a “brown patch”on the back of the car after the owner parked it to do some shopping. When he looked closer he realized it was a huge group of bees. Moses said: “I have never seen that many bees in one spot. It was very unusual. They were very close together and there was a lot of noise and movements,(4) it was interesting to see such a strange sight. But there were a lot of people around and I was a bit