One-room schoolhouses can still be found in _____ areas where there are no other schools for many miles. A.disposed B. deserted C. isolated D. abandoned 答案:C 解析: isolated 孤立的。Deserted被遗弃的;空无一人的;abandoned丢弃的,如;abandoned cars(因报废而丢弃的汽车)。Dispose of sth. 处理掉某物:He disposed of his old car .(他把旧的汽车处理掉了。)意为卖掉或扔掉等。5、"Have you ever been out on a boat and felt it
lifted up by a wave? Or have you jumped in the water and felt the rush of
energy as waves came over you?" asked Jamie Taylor of the Wave Energy
Group at the University of Edinburgh."There is
certainly a lot of energy in waves," he said.
Scientists are working to use that
energy to make electricity.Most waves are created when winds blow across the ocean."The wind starts out by making little ripples (涟漪), but if they keep on blowing, those ripples get bigger and bigger
and turn into waves," Taylor said. "Waves are one of nature's ways of
picking up energy and then sending it off on a journey."
When waves come toward the shore,
people can set up darns to block the water and send it through a large wheel
called a turbine (涡轮机).The
turbine can then power an electrical generator to produce electricity.
"The resource is huge,"
said Janet Swain of the World Watch Institute."We will never run out of wave power."Besides, wave energy does not create the same
pollution as other energy sources,
such as oil or coal.Oceans
cover three-quarters of the Earth's surface that would make wave power seem
ideal for creating energy throughout the world, though there are some weak
points yet to overcome.
Swain said that
wave power still costs too much money.She also said that its effects on sea animals are still unknown.What is more, wave power could affect fishing and boat traffic.
Traditional
sources of energy like oil and gas may someday run out."Demand for energy to power our
TVs and computers, drive our cars, and heat and cool our homes is rising
rapidly throughout the world," Swain said. In the future when you turn on
a light, an ocean wave could be providing the electricity!
1.The writer uses the two questions at the beginning of
the passage to ____.
A.test the readers' knowledge about waves
B.draw the readers' attention to the
topic
C.show Jamie Taylor's importance
D.invite the readers to answer them
2.The underlined phrase "picking up" (paragraph 2) is closest in meaning to ____.
A.starting again
B.speeding up
C.gathering
D.improving
3.We can make better use of wave energy if we ____.
A.shorten its journey to
thousands of homes
B.build more small power stations on
the oceans
C.reduce the cost of turning it into
electric power
D.quicken the steps of producing
electricity
4.It can be inferred that some day we might not worry
about ____.
A.air
pollution
B.our boat traffic
C.our power
supply
D.our supply of sea fish