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常用短语用法复习知识点take one's time/take on/out take one's time 从容，慢慢干，不急；晚得或慢得离谱 例句Take your time,there's no rush. 你用多长时间都行，不着急。 Take your time packing, for we still have one and a half hour. 慢慢整理行李，我们还有一个半小时。 谷雨刷题王 速记英语单词方法 新概念英语青少版 take on 担任，担负；雇用；呈现；流行，时髦，受欢迎；装出(某种样子) 例句She took on greater responsibilities when she was promoted. 她得到了提升，也担负了更大的责任。 She was taken on as a graduate trainee. 她应聘为新毕业的实习生。 Her eyes took on a hurt expression. 她的眼里流露出受委屈的神情。 take out 取出；带出(散步等)；除去，切除 例句Take your hands out of your pockets. 把你的手从衣袋里拿出来。 Have you taken her out yet? 你带她出去过吗？ How many teeth did the dentist take out? 牙科医生给患者拔了几颗牙？ Earlier this week the online UK supermarket Ocado told its customers that it had “limited ability” to deliver ice ream. Why? Because the price of natural gas has increased greatly, which has hit the supply of CO2 in the UK. And that has led to a cut in the supply of dry ice that supermarkets use to keep food cool in their delivery vans (小型货车). So no ice cream. This mini crisis has been fairly quickly resolve, for now at least. However, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t worry. This incident serves as a timely reminder of just how reliant we are on fossil fuels. Despite our optimistic enthusiasm for wind and solar power, one way or another oil and gas use is shot through every part of our economic and social lives. That will be the case for many decades to come. In his recently updated book There is No Planet B. Mike Berners-Lee lays out the challenge When we talk about shifting from fossil fuels to clean energy of one kind or another, we aren’t discussing taking the amount of energy we use now and producing that amount in a different way. Instead, our target is always on the move. The more energy we can get our hands on, the more we use—even if our use of it becomes more efficient. Energy usage is going to keep rising, while energy transitions (转变) tend to both take a very long time and never actually end. We just pile new sources on top of old. The world still uses much the same amount of traditional biomass (wood etc) as it did 100 years ago. We are running to stand still. This will change. But not as fast as you might like to think. In 2019, 33 percent of our new power generation needs were met by renewable energy. That’s a start. But 40 percent were met by natural gas. There’s urgency here of course—which might speed things up. But there is something else that might slow us down. It didn’t take much to move people to fossil fuels—they are relatively easy to extract, relatively easy to transport, hugely energy dense and efficient and, of course, cheap. Until their externalities were understood, who could possibly have objected? Our current transition is different: people and companies will switch not because the new sources are easier to access, cheaper or more energy dense but because regulation mandates that they must. Either way, the truth is that whether we like it or not our energy transition involves long term reliance on fossil fuels. That means we should stop demolising them. Instead, we should focus on making their extraction cleaner and more efficient while we wait for the engineering challenges around a renewables-led future to be solved. If we don’t do this—if we allow ourselves to be beguiled by the idea that solar is so advanced that we no longer need filthy fuels to have ice cream, we, will find the future held back by needlessly expensive energy—and almost certainly ice-cream free. 31. What do the first two paragraphs mainly show? A. The necessity for traditional fuels. B. Our enthusiasm for clean energy. C. The seriousness of energy crisis. D. UK’s dependence on dry ice. 32. According to Mike Berners-Lee, ______. A. we have more types of energy on hand B. the use of energy becomes more efficient C. energy transition is far from being realized D. we are closer to the aim of replacing fossil fuels 33. The underlined word “demolising” in Paragraph 6 can be replaced by ______. A. wasting B. devaluing C. distributing D. justifying 34. What is the writer’s attitude toward the transition to the renewable energy? A. Indifferent. B. Defensive. C. Disapproving. D. Cautious. 【答案】31. A 32. C 33. A 34. D 【解析】 【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章主要讲述我们对化石燃料的依赖及能源转移的前景和缺点。 【31题详解】 主旨大意题。根据第二段“This incident serves as a timely reminder of just how reliant we are on fossil fuels. Despite our optimistic enthusiasm for wind and solar power, one way or another oil and gas use is shot through every part of our economic and social lives. That will be the case for many decades to come. (这一事件及时地提醒我们，我们是多么依赖化石燃料。尽管我们对风能和太阳能发电充满热情、抱有乐观的看法，但石油和天然气的使用以这种或那种方式贯穿于我们经济和社会生活的方方面面，今后几十年的情况也将如此。)”可知，石油和天然气这样的传统燃料对我们生活非常重要。故前两段主要讲传统燃料的重要性，故选A。 【32题详解】 推理判断题。根据第四段“Energy usage is going to keep rising, while energy transitions (转变) tend to both take a very long time and never actually end. We just pile new sources on top of old. The world still uses much the same amount of traditional biomass (wood etc) as it did 100 years ago. We are running to stand still. (能源使用量将继续上升，而能源转变往往需要很长时间，而且永远不会真正结束。我们只是在旧的资源之上堆积新的来源。世界仍然使用与100年前相同数量的传统生物量（木材等）。我们仍然一动不动，没有改变。)”可知，能源转变耗时长，不会真正结束，故推知能源转变很难实现，故选C。 【33题详解】 词义猜测题。根据第六段“Either way, the truth is that whether we like it or not our energy transition involves long term reliance on fossil fuels. (不管怎样，事实是，无论我们喜欢与否，我们的能源转型都需要长期依赖化石燃料。)”根据下文“ Instead, we should focus on making their extraction cleaner and more efficient while we wait for the engineering challenges around a renewables-led future to be solved.”（相反，在我们等待由可再生能源主导的未来的工程挑战被解决的同时，我们应该专注于使它们的开采更加清洁和高效。）可知，我们不能浪费化石燃料，故demolishing的意思是“浪费”，与wasting意义一致，故选A。 【34题详解】 推理判断题。根据第六段“Either way, the truth is that whether we like it or not our energy transition involves long term reliance on fossil fuels. (无论哪种方式，事实是，无论我们喜欢与否，我们的能源转转变都涉及对化石燃料的长期依赖。)”及最后一段“If we don’t do this—if we allow ourselves to be beguiled by the idea that solar is so advanced that we no longer need filthy fuels to have ice cream, we, will find the future held back by needlessly expensive energy—and almost certainly ice-cream free. (如果我们不这样做——如果我们允许自己被太阳能的先进所欺骗，以至于我们认为不再需要肮脏的燃料来生产淇淋，我们就会发现未来被不必要的昂贵能源所阻碍——几乎可以肯定的是，没有冰淇淋。)”可知，我们仍然长期依赖化石燃料。如果只是依赖可再生能源的转移，我们将被这些能源所阻碍，故推知，作者认为不能只是依赖可再生能源，对转变成可再生能源持小心谨慎的态度。故选D。 
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