50.
This passage is mainly about _____.
A. the
Beijing Olympic
Games.
B. the
Beijing Green Olympics logo
C. the
meaning of creating the Beijing
Olympic logo
D. the
design of the Beijing
Olympic logo
D
Ten
students have stopped complaining about gas prices. Instead, they’re competing
in a nationwide contest to redesign the cars. Final competitors were chosen
from a field of 60 applicants.
"The
schools were selected to find technology that will help our country reach the
needs for energy sources, so we don’t have to depend on other countries to
provide fuel." Pickering
said. He is vice chairman of the US House of Representatives Energy and
Commerce Committee. The teams received $ 10,000 and a Chevrolet Equinox which
would be used as a starting place for modifications. Each team can also get $ 25,000 in parts and software
from GM and other sponsors. The cars will be taken to the GM proving grounds
for a national competition. It’s the finale(结束曲)of a three-year
competition.
In the
first year, students designed and worked out their plans. "At the end of
the first year, our plans for the hybrid(混合动力系统)were approved and
we received our own Chevrolet Equinox to begin construction.”said Amanda
McAlpin, leader of the outreach team.
In the
second year, the students, goal is for their hybrid to exceed the factory
Equinox’s fuel efficiency by 50 percent. "Our goal is to place in the top
five but increase in the areas we lacked in." McAlpin said. "If we
can maintain this strategy, we should be able to obtain our goal."
In the
final competition this year, GM technicians would examine the cars to approve
the safety and make sure they meet all contest rules. "We would like to be
in the top half of each event, but they are all different. Every team has their
own strategy to win." said a computer engineering major.
"By
hosting the competition, GM really gets the cream of the crop(优秀毕业生)from the top engineering
schools across the country." McAlpin said, "Many of our recent
graduates who have worked on the car have received jobs with GM." And Pickering agreed,
"Their brainpower will give us firepower and horsepower for the
future."