现代大学英语听力4 全册答案及原文(7)

A few weeks ago, the group claimed responsibility for burning several new homes in Mount Sinai, New York. It has also claimed responsibility for destructive acts in Colorado, Arizona, Oregon and Wisconsin.

Task 7:

【答案】

A.

renewable energy，the next ten years，1 percent，1,500 megawatts，past 20 years，38 cents，3 cents，a 90 percent drop，government support

B.

A number of people who live on or visit the Cape say Cape Cod is a national treasure should not be open to industry. They argue that building the windmills would hurt fish and birds in the area, and it would hurt tourism. They say the windmills will ruin the beauty of looking out to sea from the coast.

C.

1) T

2) F

【原文】

A study says wind power will lead the growth in the use of renewable energy in the United

States and Canada over the next ten years. Renewable energy also includes forms like power from the sun. Navigant Consulting in the United States carried out the study. Energy companies helped pay for much of the research.

The use of wind energy has grown in the United States, but remains less than one percent of

all the energy produced.

Lisa Frantzis led the study. She says the researchers expect additions of as much as

one-thousand-five-hundred megawatts from wind power projects each year. That is about equal to the energy production of one nuclear power station.

The study says there have been major improvements in the performance of all renewable

energy technologies in the past twenty years. For example, the study reports a ninety percent drop

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in the price of electricity produced from wind. In the nineteen-eighties a kilowatt hour of wind

power cost about thirty-eight cents. Now, a kilowatt hour is closer to three cents.

The study found that government support must continue and grow to permit renewable

energies to compete in the power industry.

However, some renewable energy companies face criticism. In fact, wind energy producers

usually have to deal with opposition from communities they try to enter.

Currently, a wind energy company is trying to set up business in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in

the northeastern United States. The Cape Wind company wants to place more than one-hundred windmills in nearby waters. The windmills are hundreds of meters tall. Cape Wind says the

project could provide Cape Cod with seventy-five percent of its electricity needs. And, it would not create pollution.

But, a number of people who live on or visit the Cape say they do not want the windmills.

They say Cape Cod is a national treasure that should not be open to industry. They argue that

building the windmills would hurt fish and birds in the area. And, they say it would hurt tourism. They say the windmills will ruin the beauty of looking out to sea from the coast.

Environmental groups, however, look at the situation differently. They ague that a source of

energy that does not cause pollution would protect natural environments like Cape Cod.

Task 8:

【答案】

A.

1) For him, pollution is the way environment is being misused, the actions which consume the environment, like the overuse of artificial fertilizers and over-cropping in developing agriculture. And the harmful substances like the waste from motor cars and factories are less important.

2) They see pollution as a social problem, and the root cause of pollution is the way we organize our society and the incredible waste of resources.

B.

1) Housewives can avoid buying things that they don't need.

2) They can also cut down on the amount of packaging and try not to buy dyed toilet paper to reduce water pollution.

3) People can avoid buying drinks in non-returnable bottles.

4) They can reduce consumption by making their own food instead of buying it.

【原文】

Matthew: Christopher, most countries now appear to become increasingly concerned with the

issue of pollution and its control. How do you see this problem?

Christopher: What I see as pollution is the way the environment is being mishandled. Um...

obviously there are certain waste products which are vomited out of motor cars or

out of factories, either into the sea or into the river ways and so on. But, you know,

they are what people say is pollution. More important things, I think, in terms of