四、热点素材阅读理解。(2025·江苏徐州调研)
These days, the robotaxi from Baidu’s Apollo Go becomes quite popular. People can call the taxi using an app on their phone called Luobo Kuaipao. There is no driver in the car, but it can take you anywhere you want to go.
Many people try the new way to travel around. They think it is cheap, comfortable and convenient(便利的). In order to let more people use its robotaxi, Luobo Kuaipao offers a great discount(折扣). For example, one person only paid 26.52 yuan for a 28-kilometre, 64-minute trip in Wuhan, as the app offered a discount of more than a hundred yuan. The low cost draws many people to the robotaxi.
▲ This has made some taxi drivers feel worried and they said that the car completely took their jobs. The number of their orders has greatly dropped. The robotaxi also brings about other problems. A video showed that a robotaxi in Wuhan stopped in front of a bag on the road, causing a traffic jam. In another video, two robotaxis were facing each other, not knowing what to do next. What’s worse, a robotaxi caused an accident because it didn’t see a person on the road. And even after the accident, people didn’t know who was responsible(负责任的) for it.
Robotaxi companies think it’s important to make roads safer, so they are working hard to improve their products and work out the problems.
()1. How can people take a robotaxi?
A. By being a driver.
B. By using a mobile app.
C. By waving(挥手) to it.
D. By buying one.
()2. Which sentence can be put in ▲?
A. Why do people think like that?
B. It’s the best way to get around.
C. Few people don’t agree with them.
D. However, the taxi also worries some people.
()3. What do we know about Luobo Kuaipao?
A. It helps people save much time.
B. Some taxi drivers don’t like it.
C. Rides in its robotaxis cost more than other taxis.
D. Most people worry that its robotaxis are not safe.
()4. Why does the writer talk about some videos in Paragraph 3?
A. To offer ideas of improving robotaxis.
B. To tell readers how the robotaxi works.
C. To teach people how to take a robotaxi.
D. To show robotaxis can cause problems.

1. B 【点拨】根据“People can call the taxi using an app on their phone called Luobo Kuaipao.”可知，人们可以使用手机应用程序乘坐出租车。故选 B。
2. D 【点拨】根据“Many people try the new way to travel around.”及“The robotaxi also brings about other problems.”可知，此处指这种新的旅行方式也有不好之处，故“然而，出租车也让一些人感到担忧”符合语境。故选 D。
3. B 【点拨】根据“This has made some taxi drivers feel worried and they said that the car completely took their jobs. The number of their orders has greatly dropped.”可推知，出租车司机不喜欢自动驾驶出租车。故选 B。
4. D 【点拨】根据“The robotaxi also brings about other problems.”可知，作者在第三段中谈到一些视频是为了说明自动驾驶出租车可能会导致问题。故选 D。

【分析】
这是一篇贴合现实热点的阅读理解题，解题时可以按照"先读题干划关键词，再回原文定位匹配信息"的思路推进：1. 第一题询问乘坐robotaxi的方式，直接定位第一段相关描述即可快速找到答案；2. 第二题是补全段落过渡句，需要兼顾上下文逻辑：前文两段都在介绍robotaxi受欢迎、性价比高的优势，后文开始讲它带来的各类问题，因此需要选带有转折逻辑、能引出负面内容的句子；3. 第三题需要逐个比对选项和原文内容，排除和原文不符的错误选项，选出表述正确的内容；4. 第四题询问举例的目的，定位第三段的段落主旨句，所有举例都是为了支撑该段提出的核心观点。
【解析】
1. 定位原文第一段"People can call the taxi using an app on their phone called Luobo Kuaipao"，可知人们通过手机应用呼叫自动驾驶出租车，A、C、D选项均无原文依据，因此选B。
2. 空格前的内容全部在介绍robotaxi的优势：出行方便、价格低廉吸引大量用户，空格后内容提到部分出租车司机担忧失业、robotaxi还带来了各类安全、责任判定相关的问题，前后是转折逻辑，只有D选项"然而，这款出租车也让一些人感到担忧"可以承上启下，符合语境，其余选项逻辑不匹配，因此选D。
3. 逐一核对选项：A选项原文没有提到它帮人们节省大量时间，无依据；B选项根据第三段"This has made some taxi drivers feel worried and they said that the car completely took their jobs. The number of their orders has greatly dropped"，可知部分出租车司机的订单大幅减少，担心被抢走工作，因此他们并不喜欢robotaxi，表述正确；C选项原文提到robotaxi有大额折扣，价格比普通出租车更低，和选项表述相反；D选项原文仅举例了几起事故，并没有说明大部分人担心它的安全性，表述不符合原文，因此选B。
4. 第三段的主旨句是"The robotaxi also brings about other problems"，后面列举的几个视频里的案例，都是为了佐证robotaxi会带来各类问题，对应D选项，其余选项均不是举例的目的，因此选D。
【答案】1. B 2. D 3. B 4. D
【知识点】细节理解，语篇过渡，推理判断
【点评】本题选取当下热门的自动驾驶出行作为素材，贴合现实生活，考点覆盖了初中英语阅读理解的常规核心题型，既考查学生快速定位原文细节的能力，也考查学生对上下文逻辑关系的梳理能力，提醒学生做这类题时不要脱离原文主观猜测，所有选项都要找到对应的原文依据再判定。
【难度系数】0.7