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1、2009年12月英语六级考试快速阅读模拟题(4)9700字 为提高广大考生快速阅读能力，毕业精选了以下快速阅读模拟题。 Unit 4 思想汇报 /sixianghuibao/ Part Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) 毕业论文(15 minutes) 总结大全 /html/zongjie/Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet1.
2、思想汇报 /sixianghuibao/Seven way to Save the World 论文代写Forget the old idea that conserving energy is a form of self-denialriding bicycles, dimming the lights, and taking fewer showers. These days conservation is all about efficiency: getting the sameor betterresults from just a fraction of the energy.
3、When a slump in business travel forced Ulrich Ramer to cut costs at his familyowned hotel in Germany, he replaced hundreds of the hotels wasteful light bulbs, getting the same light for 80 percent less power. He bought a new water boiler with a digitally controlled pump, and wrapped insulation aroun
4、d the pipes. Spending about 100,000 on these and other improvements, he slashed his 90,000 fuel and power bill by 60,000. As a bonus, the hotels lower energy needs have reduced its annual carbon emissions by more than 200 metric tons. “For us, saving energy has been very, very profitable,” he says.
5、“And most importantly, were not giving up a single comfort for our guests.”Efficiency is also a great way to lower carbon emissions and help slow global warming. But the best argument for efficiency is its costor, more precisely, its profitability. Thats because quickly growing energy demand require
6、s immense investment in new supply, not to mention the drain of rising energy prices.No wonder efficiency has moved to the top of the political agenda. On Jan. 10, the European Union unveiled a plan to cut energy use across the continent by 20 percent by 2020. Last March, China imposed a 20 percent
7、increase in energy efficiency by 2020. Even George W. Bush, the Texas oilman, is expected to talk about energy conservation in his State of the Union speech this week. 论文代写The good news is that the world is full of proven, cheap ways to save energy. Here are the seven that could have the biggest imp
8、act. 毕业论文Insulate 开题报告 /html/lunwenzhidao/kaitibaogao/Space heating and cooling eats up 36 percent of all the worlds energy. Theres virtually no limit to how much of that can be saved, as prototype “zero-energy homes” in Switzerland and Germany have shown. Theres been a surge in new ways of keeping
9、heat in and cold out (or vice versa). The most advanced insulation follows the law of increasing returns: if you add enough you can scale down or even eliminate heating and air-conditioning equipment, lowering costs even before you start saving on utility bills. Studies have shown that green workpla
10、ces (ones that dont constantly need to have the heat or air-conditioner running) have higher worker productivity and lower sick rates. 简历大全 /html/jianli/Change BulbsLighting eats up 20 percent of the worlds electricity, or the equivalent of roughly 600,000 tons of coal a day. Forty percent of that p
11、owers old-fashioned incandescent light bulbsa 19th-century technology that wastes most of the power it consumes on unwanted heat. 思想汇报 /sixianghuibao/Compact fluorescent lamps, or CFLS, not only use 75 to 80 percent less electricity than incandescent bulbs to generate the same amount of light, but they also last 10 times longer. Phasing old bulbs out by 2030 would save the output of 650 power plants and avoid the release of 700 million tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year. 总结大全 /html/zongjie/
