题目内容
small box are six much smaller boxes. How many boxes
altogether?
—________.
B. Thirty-seven
C. Forty-three
D. Forty-two
Cows produce a lot of wastes. One cow can create 30 gallons of wastes each day. Now imagine the output of over 1,000 cows at Blue Farm. That’s really a big amount.
When farmers clean their barns, they put the wastes in a big heap, and spread some of them on their fields for fertilizer(肥料). But now places like Blue Spruce Farm have a new way of using cow wastes. They use them to produce electricity.
Here’s how it works: A big machine moves back and forth cleaning the barn floor. “The cows aren’t bothered,” says Marie Audet. “They are animals of habit; they get used to it, and just lift one foot and then another to let it go by.”
The machine pushes the manure into a big 600-gallon tank like a small swimming pool. The tank is called a digester (化粪池) because what happens there is just like what happens inside a cow: Bacteria(细菌) get to work and continue to digest the manure.
Methane gas (甲烷、沼气)in the atmosphere is known as a “greenhouse” gas because it keeps heat just like a greenhouse does, causing our planet to warm up. That’s an environmental concern. But the digester has a good result. Its gas is kept and used to power electric generators (发电机).
At Blue Farm, the generators make enough electricity to power 400 homes. The Audet family sells the extra electricity they can’t use themselves.
【小题1】We learn from the text that the Audet family is using cow wastes to ______.
| A.make electricity | B.produce fertilizer | C.build their farm | D.feed the cows |
| A.Marie Audet does the work | B.The job is done by machine |
| C.The cows lift the cow wastes | D.Bacteria get to work on them |
| A.The power of moving water. | B.The heat of burning coal. |
| C.The power of sunlight. | D.The heat of the methane gas |
| A.reducing | B.saving | C.recycling | D.changing |
| A.To introduce a new way of making electricity | B.To explain how a new energy works better |
| C.To show a new rebuilding plan for a big farm | D.To explain the reasons for green house effect |
Hotels can make a person’s stay away from home as restful as possible. Hotels provide warm beds to allow guests a peaceful night’s rest. Besides, some hotels offer guests special services such as newspapers to read in the morning, fresh coffee, and even breakfast. Hotel workers want their guests to feel warm and welcome when they stay in their hotel.
One hotel near the Arctic Circle, however, is different. This hotel gives its guests a cold welcome. The Ice Hotel, in Sweden, is all made of ice. The Ice Hotel might sound strange, but in some ways it is a special hotel. It has a front lobby where guests check into the hotel, plenty of rooms to sleep in, and even room service, which guests can use to have food delivered to their rooms. The Ice Hotel is different, though, because most of the items are made from ice.
It takes more than 30 tons of ice and snow to build the Ice Hotel. It melts(融化) in the summer and is rebuilt each winter. Different builders and artists create the Ice Hotel, so each winter this famous hotel has a new shape and design.
The effort of building the Ice Hotel is worth it, however. Walking into the Ice Hotel is like walking into a diamond. The walls reflect even the smallest bits of light. Ice pillars(柱子)support the roof. The floor below shines like glass. Almost every inch of this hotel sparkles inside. Visiting the Ice Hotel is truly an unusual experience.
Temperatures inside the Ice Hotel are usually below freezing. Guests wear warm jackets, hats, gloves, and thick boots. Even the owners of the Ice Hotel know that staying in a building with walls of ice four feet thick can be a bit cold. They have a solution though. The Ice Hotel has a sauna for its guests. A sauna is a room filled with steam, where guests can warm themselves. In a way, then, one could say that the Ice Hotel does give their guests a warm welcome after all.
【小题1】Why must the Ice Hotel be rebuilt each year ?
| A.Because the hotel melts during the summer. |
| B.Because guests suggest changes to the hotel. |
| C.Because the hotel is damaged by the sauna. |
| D.Because more rooms are needed at the hotel. |
| A.the Ice Hotel has temperatures below freezing but is warm inside |
| B.guests of the Ice Hotel check in at the front lobby |
| C.the Ice Hotel is like other hotels except that it is made of ice |
| D.guests of the Ice Hotel may order food that is delivered to their rooms |
| A.To describe the temperature inside a hotel. |
| B.To give information about an uncommon hotel. |
| C.To compare different kinds of hotels. |
| D.To encourage people to visit hotels. |