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The United Nations Development Program says a billion and a half people have no electricity. A billion others have an undependable supply.
Professor DeBolt went on a study trip to rural Indonesia. He saw that there was very little waste in the use of agricultural products. Everything that farmers grew was used for something. Even the remains of fruit that people did not eat were fed to chickens.
Little waste meant there was little that could be used for fuel. Growing a separate fuel crop would take
land away from food crops. That was something Professor DeBolt did not want to do.
DeBOLT said, "The people at most risk with respect to energy poverty, typically they"re the same
people who have food insecurity issues as it is. And then any change in availability would be most
damaging to that group of people."
But he found one item that was in plentiful supply and would not create competition between food and
fuel. Coconut shells are generally thrown out. Yet Professor DeBolt says it has an "excellent" heating value. All someone needs is a way to release that energy.
DeBolt says he and his team see possibilities for coconut power. "Coconuts are growing here and these are the areas where there is possibility for energy poverty to be eased at least in part by these small-scale
production systems."
The researchers say these systems could provide as much as thirteen percent of the energy needs of a
country like Indonesia. Other tropical countries with large crops of coconuts and similar fruit could benefit, as well.
But DeBolt says this is not a perfect solution. There are technical questions, like how to safely deal with the dangerous waste produced in the process. And there needs to be money to get these projects started.
A. help farmers make full use of waste
B. seek certain materials to make electricity
C. persuade farmers to grow more coconuts
D. find a suitable place to carry out the experiment
2. DeBolt thought it was not a good idea to grow fuel crops because_____.
A. there are plenty of coconuts
B. local farmers have no interest in it
C. it would make food problems worse
D. fuel crop has little use for local farmers
3. The last two paragraphs mainly tell us that coconut power_____.
A. needs further experiments and efforts
B. can help solve energy problem perfectly
C. will cause technique and money problems
D. has drawn Indonesia"s government attention
4. What might be the best title for the passage?
A. Make Full Use Of Coconuts
B. Make Power From Coconuts
C. A Perfect Solution
D. Food And Energy Problems
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试题【阅读理解 Seth DeBolt is a plant scientist at the University of Kentucky US. He a】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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the Deathly Hallows" at the Natural History Museum in London, Friday July 20, 2007.
J.K. Rowling has been spotted at cafes in Scotland working on a detective novel, a British newspaper
reported Saturday.
The Sunday Times newspaper quoted Ian Rankin, a fellow author and neighbor of Rowling"s, as saying the creator of the "Harry Potter" books is turning to crime fiction.
"My wife spotted her writing her Edinburgh criminal detective novel," the newspaper quoted Rankin as
telling a reporter at an Edinburgh literary festival.
"It is great that she has not abandoned writing or Edinburgh cafes," said Rankin, who is known for his
own police novels set in the historic Scottish city.
Rowling famously wrote initial drafts of the Potter story in the Scottish city"s cafes. Back then, she was a struggling single mother who wrote in cafes to save on the heating bill at home.
Now she"s Britain"s richest woman - worth $1 billion, according to Forbes magazine - and her seven
Potter books have sold more than 335 million copies worldwide.
In an interview with The Associated Press last month, Rowling said she believed she was unlikely to
repeat the success of the Potter series, but confirmed she had plans to work on new books.
"I"ll do exactly what I did with Harry - I"ll write what I really want to write," Rowling said.
B. crime fiction
C. Harry Potter books
D. love stories
B. Most of the stories in his novels happened in the historic Scottish city.
C. It was Rankin himself who witnessed JK Rowing writing her Edinburgh criminal detective novels.
D. He told the British newspaper The Sunday Times about JK Rowling"s novels.
B. Because she was a single mother at that time and she wanted to find a husband there.
C. Because her children were so naughty at home and she had to go to a quiet place for her writing.
D. Because she thought that writing in a cafes could help her save some money.
B. JK Rowling had made enough money so she decided to stop writing.
C. Rowling planned to write new books because Harry Potter was not exactly what she wanted.
D. Ian Rankin and his wife earned money by telling reporters news about JK Rowling.
B. Ian Rankin, A Neighbour of JK Rowling
C. A Successful Woman JK Rowling
D. JK Rowling writing Detective Novels
when tested. But there is no sure way of telling how much you can drink before you reach this limit. It
varies with each person depending on your weight, your sex, and what sort of drinks you"ve had. Some
people might reach their limit after only about three standard drinks.
In fact, your driving ability can be affected by just one or two drinks. Even if you"re below the legal
limit, you could still be taken to court if a police officer thinks your driving has been affected by alcohol.
It takes hours for the body to get rid of the alcohol in one standard drink. So, if you have a heavy
drinking session in the evening, you might find that your driving ability is still affected the next morning,
or you could even find that you"re still over the legal limit. In addition, if you"ve had a few drinks at
lunchtime, another one or two drinks in the early evening may well put you over the legal limit till late
in the night.
In a test with professional drivers, the more alcoholic drinks they had had, the more certain they
were that they could drive a test course through a set of moveable posts and the less able they were
to do it! So the only way to be sure you"re safe is not to drink at all.
Alcohol is a major cause of road traffic accidents. One in three of the drivers killed in road accidents
have levels of alcohol which are over the legal limit, and road accidents after drinking are the biggest
cause of death among young men. More than half of the people stopped by the police to take a breath
analyzer test have a blood alcohol concentration of more than twice the legal limit.
It is important to remember that driving after you"ve been drinking doesn"t just affect you. If
you"re involved in an accident, it affects a lot of other people as well, not least the person you might kill or injure.
B. There is no sure way of telling how much you can drink before you reach the legal limit.
C. The legal limit for driving after drinking is 0.08g of alcohol in 100 milliliters of blood.
D. The amount of alcohol a person can drink before reaching legal limit is the same for different people.
B. the alcohol in our drink is likely to get out of our body
C. our body needs some time to get the alcohol out of our body
D. our body is sensitive to alcohol
B. will certainly pass through a
set of movable postsC. will hardly be confident of their ability to pass through a set of movable posts
D. will be absolutely capable of passing through a set of movable posts.
B. those who drink must be killed
C. more young men die in drink-related accidents than in any other way
D. one in three of the drivers often d
rinks a lotB. driving after drinking may put many lives at risk
C. safe dr
inking is impossibleD. the manner of drinking is meaningless
new stadium. The blast(爆破)from the falling building caused the earth to shake as if an earthquake had
happened.
Scientists placed more than 200 earthquake recorders in the earth to measure the movement. They
found which parts of the city shook the most. This information helped them know which parts of the city
would be damaged in a real earthquake at an early time.
A real earthquake happened on February 28, 2001 in Seattle. The Nisqually earthquake was 6.8 on
the Richter scale(里氏). It damaged the same parts of Seattle that scientists had predicted from the pulling down of the Kingdome. It was a plate quake. It started deep in the earth, 37 miles below the surface on
the Juan de Fuca Plate. Sometimes,huge plates under the earth cause earthquakes when the plates move
against each other suddenly.
Scientists have learned that deep earthquakes have very few aftershocks. The Nisqually earthquake
had only 4 ones. Another earthquake in California that was close to the surface had over 120 aftershocks. Scientists do not know why the deep earthquakes have fewer aftershocks.
Scientists plan to blast in the ground near Seattle with the purpose of testing the plate. The
shockwaves from the blast will jump off the plate and give them all idea of where the plate is and how it
is moving. This will give them more information in case another real earthquake hits the area.
B. There will be many aftershocks.
C. There will be little damage.
D. The Richter scale of the quakes will be 6.8 or more.
B. shockwave earthquakes
C. earthquakes more than 6.8 Richter scale
D. earthquakes close to the surface
B. find out how many plates there are in the ground there
C. learn where the plate is and how it is moving
D. know which places are likely to have the most damage
killed 66 people and resulted in 12 missing by 6:00 p.m. (Beijing time) on Sunday, according to the
Ministry of Civil Affairs. “Floods caused by heavy rains have affected about 294,800 hectares of crops,
completely destroying 53,000 hectares of them,” said an official with the ministry. The floods have torn
down 48,000 and damaged 94,000 houses in southern China, and forced about 591,000 people to move
from their homes, the official said.
From Wednesday to Saturday, continuous torrential rains, mudslid
es and floods hit Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Jiangxi and Fujian, affecting more than 8.97 million people. The disasters
have caused an overall economic loss of more than 2.9 billion yuan, according to the ministry. The ministry has sent rescue teams to the disaster areas to assist relief work. In Guangdong, heavy rains have killed 18 people and left four missing by 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, according to
local authorities. A total of 1.72 million people were affected in the province.Floods have damaged 49 roads in the seriously affected Meizhou City, of which 29 remained closed to traffic by 7:00 p.m. The number of people who died in floods in Guangxi has reached 13 and one remained missing by Sunday, according to local civil affairs authority. More than 1.97 million people have been
affected after the floods caused by continuous heavy rains hit some 40 counties since Wednesday.
According to the local civil affairs bureau, 9,200 houses were knocked down and 75,181 hectares of cro
ps were affected, resulting in 529 million yuan in direct economic losses. There are fewer rainstorms and the rain belt is moving out of Guangxi, but the water levels in major rivers will keep rising in next few
days, according to the latest forecast of the region’s meteorological bureau on Sunday afternoon.
1. The underlined phrase “torn down” (para. 1) is closest in meaning to __________.
A. knocked down
B. placed down
C. set down
D. torn open
2. In Meizhou city, 49 roads were damaged and by 7:00 p.m. only __________ roads can be used again after the repair work.
A. 66.
B. 29.
C. 20.
D. 19
3. Which of the following statements is true according to the news?
A. Hubei is one of the provinces struck by the torrential rains.
B. The floods have caused a total loss of nearly 3 billion yuan.
C. 13 people died in Guangdong province as a result of the floods.
D. The rain belt will remain in Guangxi in the next few days.
4. What’s the best title for this news story?
A. A Disaster.
B. Heavy rains.
C. A Flood.
D. Heavy rains in Southern China.
5. What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A. The rainstorms are becoming stronger.
B. The water levels in major rivers are to go down soon.
C. The rainstorms are becoming less powerful.
D. In the next few days, rainstorms will stay in Guangxi.
education on the Chinese mainland.
According to official Chinese figures, the number of Taiwanese students admitted into college and
postgraduate programmes on the mainland totaled 461 in 1996, 928 in 1997 and 839 in 1998. Although
no latest official numbers were available, Netbig.com said this number had risen between 30 to 50 per cent
annually in the past two years with well over 1,000 entering mainland campuses last year.
The Internet site, based in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, provides education service and information on
Chinese mainland colleges and universities. "Many Taiwanese believe a Chinese education giving more
knowledge about the people and culture in the mainland will increase their chances in the Chinese job
market," Netbig.com vice-president Ingrid Huang said. "I believe it will give me hands-on experience in the business field in the Chinese mainland and a better understanding of the Chinese mainland people," said
Lydia Chang, a 19-year-old majoring in journalism at Shi Shin University. Chang plans to go on to get a
master"s degree in business administration in Shanghai, which she says offers the best environment for such
studies.
A journalism graduate student, Lin, at the National Taiwan University said he would like to study law
on the Chinese mainland since "there will be better career prospects for me now that more Taiwanese
companies are going there".
Some business executives were sending their children to study in the Chinese mainland. "They hope the
children could build up connections which could later become useful in their business operations," said
Yang Chingyao, professor of the Chinese mainland studies.
A Netbig.com survey showed the campuses favoured by Taiwanese students included Beijing,
Qinghua and Renmin universities in Beijing, and Jinan and Zhongshan universities in Guangzhou. The most
popular studies were law, business and Chinese medicine.
At present, Chinese Taibei doesn"t recognize diplomas earned in the Chinese mainland nor help with
any inquiries about studying there. But recognizing the trend, education authorities are giving a final form
to a policy accepting certificates (iiE45) from selected universities.
B. the fees asked for are lower than those of Taiwan
C. what they have learned on the mainland will bring them a bright future
D. there are many famous universities for them to choose
children _____.
B. could learn more about the policy there
C. could do well in their business operations
D. could make more friends there
C. the Chinese job market D. the university
B. Taiwanese companies are coming to the Chinese mainland because the law there is perfect
C. more Taiwanese companies coming to the mainland makes it better to learn laws
D. the mainland is short of lawyers for the Taiwanese companies
The author wrote the article to tell us _____. year
B. more Taiwanese students are studying on the mainland
C. education on the mainland is more attractive compared with that of Taiwan
D. Taiwan and the mainland should co-operate with each other in every field.
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