2013年6月英语六级听力原文短文1(沪江版)

　　2013年6月大学英语六级考试已结束，新东方在线第一时间收集整理试题及参考答案，以下是2013年6月英语六级听力原文短文1(沪江版)供考生参考。

　　2013年6月大学英语六级考试

　　Part III Listening Comprehension

　　听力P1原文

　　Passage 1

　　Would you trust a robot to park your car? The question will confront New Yorkers in February as the city's first robotic parking opens in Chinatown.

　　The technology has been successfully applied overseas, but the only other public robotic garage in the United States has been troublesome, dropping vehicles and trapping cars because of technical problems.

　　Nonetheless, the developers of the Chinatown garage are confident with the technology and are counting on it to squeeze 67 cars in an apartment-building basement that would otherwise fit only 24, accomplished by removing a maneuver space normally required.

　　A human-shaped robot won't be stepping into your car to drive it. Rather, the garage itself does the parking. The driver stops the car on a flat platform and gets out. The platform is lowered into the garage, and it is then transported to a vacant parking space by a computer-controlled device similar to an elevator that also runs sideways.

　　There is no human supervision, but an attendant will be on hand to accept cash and explain the system to newly users. Parking rates will be attracted about $400 monthly or $25 per day, according to Ari Milstein, the director of planning for Automation Parking Systems, which is the U.S. subsidiary of a German company. This company has built automated garages in several countries overseas and in the United States for residents of a Washington, D.C. apartment building.

　　Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　26. What do we learn about the robot parking in the U.S. so far?

　　27. What advantage does robotic parking have according to the developers?

　　28. What does the attendant do in the automated garage?

　　29. What does the company say about the parking rate?