WIB · Listening — August 22, 2026

🎧 WIB Listening

World In Brief · Listening Comprehension

August 22, 2026

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🎯 Instructions:

Listen to the audio track(s) below.
Complete the interactive exercises on this page.

🎧 Junior Listening

"Sharing the road with driverless cars"

7 min · british · standard

🎯 Gist Check Listen and choose the best answer.

1. What is the main topic of the programme?

How driverless cars can share the road safely with pedestrians and cyclists How to build a driverless car engine Why people do not like new technology The history of the car industry

✅ A. The programme focuses on how driverless cars communicate with other road users like pedestrians, runners, and cyclists.

2. Why are moving animations not good for runners and cyclists?

Runners and cyclists cannot see colours Runners and cyclists have very little time to decide, so a quick glance is not enough to see the animation Animations are only used at night Runners and cyclists prefer to make eye contact

✅ B. Professor Brewster says runners and cyclists have much less time to make decisions, and a quick glance does not show the animation.

3. Which city was the first in the world to have fully driverless robotaxis on public roads?

Philadelphia Phoenix San Francisco London

✅ B. Phoenix, Arizona, was the first city in the world to have self-driving cars operating on public roads without a human safety driver in 2017.

✍️ Fill the Gap Listen again and fill in the missing word.

1. Usually, a driver makes with me.

✅ eye contact

2. To means to raise your hand and move it from side to side.

✅ wave

3. If you someone, you warn them of potential danger.

✅ alert

4. An is a display made up of moving images.

✅ animation

5. A is a quick, brief look at something.

✅ glance

📖 New Words Learn these words from the audio.

eye contact — Looking directly into another person's eyes. (眼神交流；目光接触)
alert — To warn someone about possible danger. (警告；提醒)
animation — A picture or display made of moving images. (动画)
jaywalking — Crossing the road in a dangerous or illegal place. (乱穿马路)

World In Brief · Listening Comprehension

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