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       Biomass energy(生物能), often forgotten as promising alternative to oil, received its day in the sun with the gathering of the Bio-Energy World Congress and Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia, late in April, 2007. Nearly 1700 scientists, businessmen and policy-makers, one-quarter from the foreign nations, gathered for a week to discuss various means of squeezing usable energy out of trees, crops, sea plants and urban waste. Biomass energy in the United States contributes 2.5 percent of the total supply, but this amount can be doubled by 2017 and then doubled again by the year 2027.

  Eight percent of Sweden’s energy supply, for example, is presently coming from wood and pulp(纸浆) remaining. Sweden intends to raise this percentage by more intensive harvesting of waste food lying around in forests, and through the planting of so-called energy forests of fast-growing trees such as willow.

  Brazil is frequently pointed to as a nation with a major successful investment in energy coming from grains: it presently runs 330,000 automobiles on a water and alcohol mixture, replacing 10 percent of its previous oil supply. Brazilian representatives at the conference said they wish to double this in five years, with a final goal of total replacement. Most of the cars are built at the factory to use the mixture, while older models are changed through low-cost government programs.

 

72.   Which of the following statements is supported by the passage?

     A. Nearly 1700 scientists attended the conference.

     B. A quarter of American businessmen were present at the conference.

     C. Foreign policy-makers accounted for a quarter.

     D. Three-quarters of the representatives were from the U.S.

73.   Of the total supply twenty years later, biomass energy in the U.S. will be      ________.

     A. 5%            B. 10%          C. 15%         D. 20%

74.   Which of the following is NOT regarded as biomass energy?

     A. Willow and sea plants.              B. Wood and grains.

     C. Water and alcohol mixture.        D. Crops and oil mixture.

 75.     A suitable title for this passage would be ____________.

       A. An Energy Conference                     B. Approval of Biomass Energy

       C. Bio-Energy for Automobiles              D. Keys to Energy Crisis

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Charles Dickens is often thought of as one of England’s greatest writers. Yet for many his language is old-fashioned and his story plots often improbable. Why, Dickens, out of so many other great English writers, has made the list? How then to explain Dickens’s enduring popularity?

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I don’t remember my father ever getting into a swimming pool. But he did love the water. Any kind of boat ride seemed to give him pleasure. And he loved to fish; sometimes he took me along.

But I never really liked being on the water, the way my father did. I liked being in the water, moving through it, having it all around me. I was not a strong swimmer, or one who learned to swim early, for I had my fears. But I loved being in the swimming pool close to my father’s office and spending those summer days with my father, who would come by on a break. I needed him to see what I could do. My father would stand there in his suit, the only person not in swimsuit.

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