WIB · Listening — August 27, 2026

🎧 WIB Listening

World In Brief · Listening Comprehension

August 27, 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?

The history of the car industry How driverless cars can communicate with other road users The best places to drive in South Korea How to become a lorry driver

✅ B. The programme discusses how driverless cars interact with pedestrians, runners and cyclists on the road.

2. Why are coloured light rings better than animations for runners and cyclists?

Because runners and cyclists only have time for a quick glance Because animations are too expensive to make Because runners and cyclists like the colours more Because light rings are easier to see at night

✅ A. Professor Brewster said runners and cyclists have much less time to make decisions, so they do not see animations during a quick glance.

3. Which city was the first to have fully driverless robotaxis on the streets?

Philadelphia Phoenix San Francisco London

✅ B. Phoenix, Arizona, was the first city in the world to have self-driving cars without a human safety driver, starting 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. It's important to people to driverless cars.

✅ alert

4. They only have time for a .

✅ glance

5. In South Korea, for example, is illegal, whereas in the UK, you know, we tend to jaywalk a lot.

✅ jaywalking

📖 New Words Learn these words from the audio.

eye contact — looking directly into someone's eyes (眼神交流)
wave — to raise your hand and move it from side to side, often to say hello or to signal someone (挥手)
alert — to warn someone about a possible danger (提醒；警告)
jaywalking — crossing the road where it is not allowed or without taking care (乱穿马路)

World In Brief · Listening Comprehension

Generated on 2026-08-26