Passage Seven Don’t try kicking the tires on a very modem and strange car developed by students at Coventry University. Not only does the car have no tires, it has no (1) wheel, either. The Coventry Concept Car, as it is called is a (2) new design that looks more like a snail (蜗牛) than an automobile. No working model, or functional form of the (3) exists yet, but its designers recently introduced a life-sized model and explained how a real one would work. Electric motors would move rapidly undulating pad (形成波浪状气垫) (4) the car; moving the vehicle in any direction at speeds up to 480 km per hour. The motion would be a much faster way of (5) , the way snails move. (Muscles in the bottom of a snail’s flat foot (6) in waves that push the snail along the ground.) Steering of the snail car would be (7) automatically by an onboard computer, which would receive signals from orbiting satellites. Those signals would help guide the snail car along a preprogrammed (8) . Even the car’s color could be computer-controlled, the student designer suggested. Instead of a painted-out (9) , the snail car would sport (显示) an electronically sensitive film that changes color according to its (10) .
A. underneathD. vehicleG. surroundingsJ. route M. substantially
B. steeringE. fastenedH. handled K. contract N. hostile
C. completelyF. logicalI. appearance L. crawling O. finding