2014-2015学年高中英语选修8（人教版）《Unit 3　Inventors and inventions》课时作业（六）　Using Language Word版含答案.docVIP

课时作业(六)　Using Language Ⅰ.单词拼写 1．She has an ________ (电话分机)in the kitchen. 2．We are looking for ________ (充满活力的) persons to be salesmen. 3．This ladder isnt very ________ (稳固的)． 4．The companys main problem is the shortage of skilled ________ (人力资源)． 5．How did you come by that wound in the ________ (前额)? 6．No one doubts her ________ (能力)as a teacher. 7．Three men were lifted by ________ (直升机) from the burning ship. 8．He watched the train away until it was only a ________ (点) in the distance. 9．This dictionary is available in electronic ________ (版本)． 10．What do you ________ (联想；联系) with such a heavy snow? Ⅱ.阅读理解 A The name of Alexander Graham Bell strikes a “bell” as the inventor of the telephone.What most people do not know，however，is that this great scientist，engineer，inventor，and innovator was amongst the first advocates of renewable energy as a solution to the decreasing coal and oil resources.After his research in acoustics(声学) that led to the invention of the telephone in 1876，Alexander Graham Bell started to take a keen interest in the greenhouse effect. The history of renewable energy started long before Alexander Graham Bells time. Camphene (莰烯)，the most popular lamp fuel of the 1850s, sold for 50 cents a gallon.Alcohol-powered irons，coffee roasters，hot water heaters and stoves，and even alcohol-fueled cars were common in those days. The discovery of “rock oil” soon changed the scene.The lower costs of kerosene(煤油)，the tax benefits of kerosene，taxed at 10 cents a gallon as opposed to D|S 2 per gallon of camphene，and the marketing and expansion efforts of oil companies soon made gasoline and kerosene cheaper and easily available. Alexander Graham Bell was amongst the first to understand that increasing use of fossil fuels would harm the environment and that the day was not far away when the sources of such non-renewable forms of energy would dry up.He introduced the term “greenhouse effect” to explain the phenomenon of the world becoming warmer due to the burnin