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1、第一篇第一篇 FordFordFordFordAbandonsAbandonsAbandonsAbandons ElectricElectricElectricElectricVehiclesVehiclesVehiclesVehiclesThe Ford motor companys abandonment of electric cars effectively signals the endof the road for the technology，analysts sayGeneral Motors。and Hondaceased production of batterypower
2、ed cars in 1 999, tofocus on fuel cell and hybrid electric gasoline engines, which are more attractive tothe consumerFord has now announced it will do the sameThree years agothe company introduced the Think City twoseater car and a golfcart called the THINK, or Think Neighbor It hoped to sell 5， 000
3、 cars each year and10，000 cartsBut a lack of demand means only about l，000 of the cars have beenproduced，and less than 1。700 carts have been sold so far in 2002“The bottom line is we dont believe that this is the future of environment transportfor the mass market ”Tim Holmes of Ford Europe said on F
4、riday “Wefeel we havegiven electric our best shot”The Think City has a range of only about 53 miles and up to a six-hour batteryrecharge time General MotorsEVI electric vehicle also had a limited range。 of about100 milesThe very expensive batteries also mean electric cars cost much more thanpetrol-p
5、owered alternatives An electric ToyotRAV4 EV vehicle costs over$42， 000in the US, compared with just $17 ， 000 for the petrol version Toyota andNissanare now the only major automanufacturers to produce electric vehicles“There is a feeling that battery electric has been given its chanceFord now has t
6、omove on with its hybrid program“， and that is what we will be judging themon，”Roger Higman，a senior transport campaigner at UK Friends of the Earth，toldthe Environment News ServiceHybrid cars introduced by Toyota and Honda in the past few years have sold wellHybrid engines Offer Greater mileage tha
7、n petrolonly engines , and the batteriesrecharge themselves. Ford says it thinks such vehicles will help it meet planned newguidelines “on vehicle emissions” in the U.S.However, it is not yet clear exactly what those guidelines will permitIn June，General Motors and Daimler Chrysler won a court injun
8、ction，delaying by two yearsCalifornian legislation requiring carmakers to offer 100，000 zero-emission andother lowemission vehicles in the state by 2003Car manufacturers hope thelegislation will be rewritten to allow for more low-emission ， rather thanzeroemission， vehicles 1What have the Ford motor
9、 company General Motorsand Honda done concerning electric cars?A)They have started to produce electric carsB)They have done extensive researchon electric CarsC They have given up producing electric carsD)They have produced thousands ofelectric Cars2 According to Tim Holmes of Ford Europe，battery-pow
10、ered carsA)will be the main transportation vehicles in the futureB) will not be the main transportation vehicles in the futureC)will be good to the environment in the futureD)will replace petrolpowered vehicles in the future3. Which auto manufacturers are still producing electric vehicles?A)Toyota a
11、nd NissanB)General Motors and HondaC)Ford and ToyotaD)Honda and Toyota4According to the eighth paragraph，hybrid carsA)offer fewer mileage than petrol driven carsB)run faster than petrol driven carsC)run more miles than petrol driven carsD)offer more batteries than petrol driven cars5Which of the fol
12、lowing is true about the hope of car manufacturers according tothe last paragraph?A)Low-emission cars should be bannedB)Only zero-emission cars are allowed to run on motorwaysC)The legislation will encourage car makers to produce more electric carsD)The legislation will allow more 10wemission to be
13、produced2011年新增第二篇WorldWorld CrudeCrude OilOil ProductionProduction MayMay PeakPeaka a DecadeDecade EarlierEarlier ThanThan S Someome PredictPredictIn a finding that may speed efforts to conserve oil, scientists inKuwait predict that world conventional crude oil production will peakin 2014. This pre
14、diction is almost a decade earlier than some otherpredictionsTheir study is in ACS EnergyFuels1Ibrahim Nashawi and colleagues point out that rapid growth in globaloil consumption has sparked a growing interest in predicting “peak oil“Peak oil “is the point where oil production reaches a maximum and
15、thendeclines. Scientists have developed several models to forecast this point,and some put the date at 2020 or later. One of the most famous forecastmodels is called the Hubbert model2. It assumes that global oil productionwill follow a bell shaped curve3. A related concept is that4of “Peak Oil.“The
16、 term “Peal Oil“ indicates the moment in which world wide productionWill peak, afterwards to start on irreversible declineThe Hubbert model accurately predicted that oil production would peakin the United States in 1970. The model has since gained in popularityand has been used to forecast oil production worldwideHowever, recent studies show that the model is insufficient toaccount for5more complex oil production cycles of some countries
