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Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 GRE双语阅读训练第十五弹 GRE双语阅读训练：GRE双语阅读训练第十五弹 GRE考试精品课程训练  Road Kill  内燃机之死  The internal combustion engine had a good run. But the end is in sight for the machine that changed the world  内燃机有着辉煌的过去。但是，对于这种改变了世界的机器来说，末日近在眼前。  这篇阅读材料还有 MP3 音频哦 !下载传送门  Human inventiveness … has still not found a mechanical process to replace horses as the propulsion for vehicles, lamented Le Petit Journal, a French newspaper, in December 1893.  人类的创新……至今仍未找到一种机械过程来取代马匹作为车辆的推力，1893 年 12 月，法国报纸《小巴黎人报》哀叹道。  Its answer was to organise the Paris-Rouen race for horseless carriages, held the following July.  它的答案是组织在来年 7 月举行的巴黎至鲁昂非马拉车大赛。  The 102 entrants included vehicles powered by steam, petrol, electricity, compressed air and hydraulics.  102 辆入围赛车包括了以蒸汽、汽油、电力、压缩空气和液压为动力的车辆。  Only 21 qualified for the 126km ( 78-mile ) race, which attracted huge crowds.  只有 21 辆车获得了资格参加这场吸引了大批观众的赛程为 126 公里 ( 合 78 英里 ) 的比赛。  The clear winner was the internal combustion engine.  大获全胜的赢家是内燃机。  Over the next century it would go on to power industry and change the world.  在下一个世纪中，它会继续推动工业前进并将改变世界。  But its days are numbered.  但是，它的日子已经屈指可数了。  Rapid gains in battery technology favour electric motors instead.  电池技术的飞速发展宠幸的是电动车。  In Paris in 1894 not a single electric car made it to the starting line, partly because they needed battery-replacement stations every 30km or so.  1984 年，在巴黎，没有一辆电动车出现在起跑线上，一部分原因在于它们每 30 公里左右就需要电池更换站。  Todays electric cars, powered by lithium-ion batteries, can do much better.  今天的电动汽车，以锂电池为动力，能够做得好得多。  The Chevy Bolt has a range of 383km; Tesla fans recently drove a Model S more than 1,000km on a single charge.  雪佛兰闪电 ( Chevy Bolt ) 有 382 公里的最大行程 ; 特斯拉的粉丝日前单独充了一次电，就让 Model S 跑了 1000 多公里。  UBS, a bank, reckons the total cost of ownership of an electric car will reach parity with a petrol one next year — albeit at a loss to i