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大学英语考试题Section CDirections: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions orunfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C andD. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on AnswerSheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.Dr. Donald Sadoway at MIT started his own battery company with the hope of changing the worldsenergy future. Its a dramatic endorsement for a technology most people think about only when theirsmartphone goes dark. But Sadoway isnt alone in trumpeting energy storage as a missing link to acleaner, more efficient, and more equitable energy future.Scientists and engineers have long believed in the promise of batteries to change the world.Advanced batteries are moving out of specialized markets and creeping into the mainstream, signaling atipping point for forward-looking technologies such as electric cars and rooftop solar propels.The ubiquitous (无所不在的) battery has already come a long way, of course. For better orworse, batteries make possible our mobile-first lifestyles, our screen culture, our increasinglyglobalized world. Still, as impressive as all this is, it may be trivial compared with what comes next.Having already enabled a communications revolution, the battery is now poised to transform just abouteverything else.The wireless age is expanding to include not just our phones, tablets, and laptops, but also ourcars, homes, and even whole communities. In emerging economies, rural communities are bypassingthe wires and wooden poles that spread power. Instead, some in Africa and Asia are seeing their firstlightbulbs illuminated by the power of sunlight stored in batteries.Today, energy storage is a $ 33 billion global industry that generates nearly 100 gigawatt-hours ofelectricity per year. By the end of the decade, its expected to be worth over $ 50 billion and generate160 gigawatt-hour