全新版 大学英语 快速阅读第一册 Unit10(素文整理).docVIP

Unit 10 I. Directions: Read the following passages, and then select the best choice for each of the questions or incomplete statements. Passage 1 快速阅读自查表 阅读和练习应完成的时间：6分34秒 实际完成时间： 做对的练习题数记录： The world is running out of oil, and energy experts believe that there could be serious shortages in ten years time. Governments are searching for a suitable alternative, but so far it has been in vain. They are considering how they can make better use of the two other major fuels, coal and natural gas, but they have found that neither can take the place of oil in terms of economy. In recent years, there has been a growing concern for the environment and coal is not a popular fuel with environmentalists. Coal mines are ugly, and their development has a serious effect on animal and plant life; coal itself is a heavy pollutant. Natural gas, the purest of the three fuels, is also the most limited in supply. The answer would seem to lie in nuclear power stations. They need very little fuel to produce enormous amount of power and they do not pollute the atmosphere. Their dangers, however, are so great and the cost of building them is so high that some governments are unwilling to invest in them. Not only could one accident in a single nuclear power station spread as much radioactivity as a thousand Hiroshima (广岛) atom bombs, but the radioactive waste from these stations is extremely dangerous--for one hundred thousand years. So is there no possible alternative to nuclear power? Well, there are several, but none of them seems likely to satisfy future world energy demands. Scientists have recently turned their attention to natural sources of energy: the sun, the sea, the wind and hot springs. Of these the sun seems the most promising source for the future. Houses have already been built which are heated entirely by solar (太阳的) energy. However, solar energy can only be collected during daylight hours, and in countries where the weather is unreliable, an alternative h