2019年6月大学英语四级考试真题练习
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The center of American automobile innovation has in the past decade moved 2,000 miles away. It Has 26 from Detroit to Silicon Valley, where lf-driving vehicles are coming to life.
In a 27 to take production back to Detroit, Michigan lawmakers have introduced 28 that could make their state the best place in the country, if not the world, to develop lf- driving vehicles and put them on the road.
“Michigan's 29 in auto rearch and development is under attack from veral states and countries which desire to 30 our leadership in transportation. We can't let that happen," says Senator Mike Kowall,the lead 31 of four bills recently introduced.
If all four bills pass as written, they would 32 a substantial update of Michigan's 2013 law th
at allowed the testing of lf-driving vehicles in limited conditions. Manufacturers would have nearly total freedom to test their lf-driving technology on public roads. They would be allowed to nd groups of lf-driving cars on cross-state road trips, and even t up on-demand 33 of lf-driving cars, like the one General Motors and Lyft are building.
Lawmakers in Michigan clearly want to make the state ready for the commercial application of lf-driving technology. In 34 ，California, home of Silicon Valley, recently propod far more 35 rules that would require human drivers be ready to take the wheel, and ban commercial u of lf-driving technology.
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二、How Work Will Change When Most of Us Live to 100
[A] Today in the United States there are 72,000 centenarians (百岁老人) . Worldwide, probably 450,000.If current trends continue, then by 2050 there will be more than a million in the US alone. According to the work of demographer Professor James Vaupel and his co-rearchers, 50% of babies born in the US in 2007 have a life expectancy of 104 or more. Broadly the same holds for the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Canada and for Japan 50% of 2007 babies can expect to live to 107.
[B] Understandably, there are concerns about what this means for public finances given the associated health and pension challenges. The challenges are real, and society urgently needs to address them. But it is also important to look at the wider picture of what happens when so many people live for 100 years. It is a mistake to simply equate longevity(长寿) with issues of old age. Longer lives have implications for all of life, not just the end of it.
[C] Our view is that if many people are living for longer, and are healthier for longer, then this will result in an inevitable redesign of work and life. When people live longer, they are not only older for longer, but also younger for longer. There is some truth in the saying that “70 is the new 60”or“40 the new 30”. If you age more slowly over a longer time period, then you are in some n younger for longer.
[D] But the changes go further than that. Take, for instance, the age at which people make commitments such as buying a hou, getting married, having children, or starting a career. The are all fundamental commitments that are now occurring later in life. In 1962, 50% of Americans were married by age 21. By 2014, that milestone (里程碑) had shifted to age 29.
[E] While there are numerous factors behind the shifts, one factor is surely a growing realization for the young that they are going to live longer. Options are more valuable the longer they can be held. So if you believe you will live longer, then options become more valuable, and early commitment becomes less .attractive. The result is that the commitm
ents that previously characterized the beginning of adulthood are now being delayed, and new patterns of behavior and a new stage of life are emerging for tho in their twenties.
