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[研究生入学考试题库]考研英语(一)模拟105 Section Ⅰ Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET.  While coal production and use dropped significantly in America, in Europe we have some kind of golden age of coal, says Anne-Sophie Corbeau of the International Energy Agency. The amount of electricity 1 from coal is rising at an annual 2 of 50% in some European countries. Since coal is the 3 polluting source of electricity, with more greenhouse gas produced per KWH (千瓦时) than any other fossil fuel, this is 4 to European environmental aspirations. 5 did it happen?  As American utilities 6 into gas, American coal miners had to 7 for new markets. This happened when slowing Chinese demand was pushing down world coal prices, which make European utilities 8 buyers. Compared with the rock-bottom price of gas in America, coal is not 9 that cheap. But it is a 10 compared with the gas price in Europe. 11 gas can be carted around in liquid form, that is expensive and the infrastructure required is still patchy; for the most part, gas is shifted through pipelines, and tends to be used 12 to where it originates. So 13 coal has world-market prices, gas has regional prices, often 14 in one way or another to the oil price. Many European gas contracts were 15 years ago with the Russian gas giant, Gazprom, and gas prices have 16 high. Gazprom has said it will cut prices, but that may make little difference.  So coal is cheaper than gas in Europe and is 17 to remain so, partly because Europes domestic gas industry is many years 18 Americas and partly because it will take time for Europe to build an infrastructure to import 19 natural gas in large amounts. Power utilities in Germany were set, 20 , to lose 11.70 when they burned gas to make