1997年9月英语高级口译考试笔试真题.docVIP

1997年9月英语高级口译考试笔试真题Today Im going to consider very briefly a problem concerned with the competition for land use, that is, whether crops should be used to produce food or should be used to _________(1) and in considering this problem I will look at? ________(2): the historical background to the problem, the economic involved in the competition for land use, some examples, and ________(3) to a potential problem. In considering the historical background we should ___________(4) of the 1970s due to the rapid trend in increasing oil prices. Many countries have looked for ____________(5) to make them independent of other countries _____________(6). Examples of alternative energy sources include such things as? solar power. the ____________(7), and also the production of biogas. Biogas is methane which is produced from _____________(8). A particularly interesting possibility for many developing countries has been the ___________(9) to alcohol. This is interesting because in many developing countries there is a ____________(10) and at the same time a small industrial sector and thus the ____________(11) the agricultural sector to produce fuel is of interest to those countries. Research is going on ___________(12), for example, from sugar and there are two main economic reasons for this. First of all, the world price of sugar _________(13) or the world price of? sugar has fallen in very real terms __________(14). This has caused a problem for those economics which are ____________(15) their sugar production, as it gives them an alternative possibility for ______________(16). And secondly sugar is the most efficient source of alcohol, therefore, it is __________(17) to make fuel by distilling alcohol from it.? In addition to sugar there are _______(18) that can be used to make alcohol, for example, ____________(19) such plants as the cassava plant and the sweet potato are good sources from which alcohol can be made and in non-tropical countries you have such things as _____