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（1）江苏省启东中学2020-2021学年度九月第一学期期初考试之C篇 Beforethe end oftheyear,employees at UbiquitousEnergy,a company in Redwood City,Calif,will gather in awindow-lined conferenceroomto staretowardthe future.That’sbecausetheir new glasswindowswill offermore than an amazing view of the North California landscape. They will also be able to power the company’s lights, computersandair conditioners. Several years in the making, Ubiquitous’energy-producing glass is a remarkable technological achievement. Its power lies in the layers of organic polymers (聚合物) between sheets of glass.As light enters the window,the flow of electronsbetween thepolymer layers createsan electric current,which isthen collectedby tiny wiresin the glass. “It’s sort of like a transparent computer display run in reverse (反过来),” says Veeral Hardev, director of business development at Ubiquitous Energy.“Instead of electricity being shuttled to different points in a display to light themup,light isproducingelectricity tobeshuttledout ofdifferentpointsin thewindow.” Right now the windows produce about a third as much electricity from a given amount of sunlight as the 板 typical solar cells used in roof panels ( ).These windows, about half as transparent as ordinary glass, don’t work aswell astransparent ones.Hardev saysthe company islikely to improvethe transparency significantly.As for the lower output of electricity,he notes that windows can cover a much greater surface area than a roof, so numerous windows will produce a surprisingly larger amount of electricity than the production from a rooftop full of higher-efficiency solar panels. “You could do both.” says Hardev. “But you’ll get more from the windows. The biggest challenge, he adds, is increasing the windows from less than two square feet currently to about 50 square feet.” 28.What makesthenew glasswindowsspecial? A.They can offer an amazingview.